Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen

Fervent said:

I'm not sure how tax burdens are determined, quarterly?

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You file taxes quarterly? (and we're not talking about any tax burden. Just an annual form of accounts.

Fervent said:

It has an inhibitory effect that could easily qualify as a restriction on free exercise.

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It isn't.

boughtwithaprice said:

Forgive me, I do not wish to make your thinking an amusement. I want to understand what you are saying.
Acts 20:29 does say that savage wolves will come in, and we can see it going on even today, but the verse does not say that the Apostles would become wolves themselves.
Would it not make sense for us, almost 2000 yrs later, to attempt to discern Apostolic teaching?

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Your right on track, it would indeed make such sense. I should have worded more accurately, Apostle's prophetic soon-coming attack of wolves.

boughtwithaprice said:

I like that you rely on the word of God and not necessarily the words of men. Scripture says we are to study to show ourselves approved, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

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As you say later on, the word itself commenting on words and traditions of men and ''every wind of doctrine''. How much the commonwealth of the Church has taken on so much baggage soundly has ''turned aside''.

boughtwithaprice said:

I came across a second century work by Iraneus, who was taught by Polycarp, who directly knew John the Apostle. It is called Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching. Are you familiar with it?
I believe that it is worth the read in light of today’s many hermeneutics.

What I got from it is that it is not outward appearances that count, but the complete denial of ourselves in following in Christs footsteps

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Facinating!! No, un-familiar with that work. Only vaguely familiar with Iraneus, but not Polycarp. Did he have freedom to visit John on Patmos? Well yes, as the Gospel narrative of self-denial is repeated several times short of the Spirit's compelling remark for self-preservation, , (1Cor 11:22)

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I like the Assemblies of God in that they believe signs and wonders should follow those that believe. The Gospel is not proclaimed by logic alone. The problem I have is that signs and wonders alone can be deceiving. Scripture tells us that Antichrist will come with signs and wonders and be so convincing as to deceive the very elect. How are we to tell the difference and have proper discernment?

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Right! SO-glad to hear. Now you do recall the Apostle John did instruct to ''test the spirits to see whether they be of God''. Now that test it goes on is in the spirit's confession. I like how Jesus put it, we know them ''by their fruits'', not just by their spoken words. Almost all our teachers of renown will remark that false teachers will consistently stray from glorifying the risen Christ. I might add what Paul said of Satan's preacher's 'righteous' over-shot from the pulpit. (2Cor 11:15).

boughtwithaprice said:

Blessings and peace to you form Our Lord Jesus Christ, and great topic for a thread. I would hope to continue a pleasant discussion with you

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My-yes! Peace be multiplied to you and your's in that matchless name of Jesus Christ, to whom all glory rest. Eager to do the same. I may be a space receiving any additional as I know others as well as you do too. But thank you very much and God bless!

Michie said:

The ‘ultimate multitaskers’ are pretty ambidextrous.

A MATING PAIR OF WILD OCTOPUS AMERICANUS, ONE DISPLAYING THE ARM

With three hearts, blue blood, and eight arms that seem to have a mind of their own, octopuses are among the ocean’s most fascinating creatures. Their signature limbs and complex nervous system help them explore, communicate, capture prey, and mate in many marine habitats. Now, scientists are unlocking some of the secrets embedded in these arms, namely whether they have some degree of “handedness.”

A new study of octopuses in the wild found that all eight arms can do multiple actions, but their front arms are primarily used for movement and exploration, while the back arms are used to support movement. The findings are published today in the journal Scientific Reports.

“Octopuses are ultimate multitaskers–all arms are capable of all arm behaviors and all arm deformations,” Chelsea Bennice, study co-author and a marine biologist at Florida Atlantic University, tells Popular Science. “They can even use multiple arm actions on a single arm and on several arms at the same time.”

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Octopus arms are the animal kingdom's most flexible

The ‘ultimate multitaskers’ are pretty ambidextrous.

www.popsci.com

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They are also delicious.

Always in His Presence said:

No, it’s the truth. Anyone who thinks they can speak for an entire people group, let alone three is either delusional or a megalomaniac

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Thank you, I think, for calling me either delusional or megalomaniacal. Or did I misread you?

Always in His Presence said:

I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church. Still have my scapula and Bible. My dad was a seminarian before he met my mother. I can still sing Christmas carols in Latin.

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None of which impresses me at all. Sorry. Plenty of people can sing Adestes Fidelis in Latin even if they are not Catholic.

Always in His Presence said:

We prayed for the dead because that is what tradition told us to do. I can only speak for myself

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Thank you for that answer. Kind of what I expected.

Always in His Presence said:

Can I ask a favor. Please stop treating me as an enemy or someone attacking you or your religion. Asking questions is how we learn.

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Asking questions to learn is fine. Did you really learn anything in all of these posts or was your conclusion predetermined? My hunch is that you asked the question as you did to get a predetermined answer. The word 'purgatory' isn't in the Bible, so you could be comfortable in concluding the whole thing is 'extra-Biblical'. Leaving no need to even address the issue of why Jews and the Orthodox and the Catholics bothered to pray for their dead. Except that's what tradition told them to do, as you now say.

I guess you could convince me that your thread was not intended as an attack on the Catholic Church. It would be a little bit of an uphill slog though to convince me.

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California voters established an independent redistricting commission in 2010 to prevent gerrymandering. Newsom’s plan would override this process temporarily, using a constitutional amendment and a special election scheduled for November 4.​

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Unlike Texas, where the Legislature determines congressional lines, California voters in 2010 gave that power to a bipartisan citizen commission. The commission draws a new map once each decade, after the U.S. Census, to ensure each congressional district has roughly an equal number of people. It last did so in 2021.​

The Governor want to remove that power from the voters and place it under his authority - a direct move against the Democratic Process.

Newsom is proposing to temporarily override the commission and create districts more favorable to Democrats until after the 2030 Census. That requires going to the voters for their approval.
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Sure looks like a direct attack on the Democratic process to make political appointment without voters consent.

A Politico poll found that nearly two-thirds of California voters prefer retaining the state’s independent redistricting commission over returning authority to the Legislature to draw congressional lines.

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It is sad that action by Texas, North Carolina, Utah and other states to deny representation to their progressive citizens through chicanery and gerrymandering has forced governors like Newsome to take a step back form redistricting commissions---in order to make sure that the majority of their citizens, and progressives in other states, would have a voice.

Republican attacks on democracy have reached such a fever pitch that if principled leaders like Newsome failed to take a stand we wouldn't have a democracy by 2028.

ThatRobGuy said:

I've considered the congressional aspect you mentioned, but I don't think it solves the problem (at least in terms of a replacement), and I'll tell you why...


1) It's still going to be employed in a partisan fashion. No Democratic partisan congress is going to make a motion to pardon a well known Republican figure, and no Republican controlled congress is ever going to make a motion to pardon a well known Democratic figure.

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Given that Democratic partisan presidents aren't much in the habit of pardoning well known Republican figures*, and vice versa, I don't see how this is particularly different. And before anyone says "well, what about Biden's preemptive pardons of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger?" Well, (1) those pardons were not specific to them, but applied to the the entire January 6 Select Committee, and (2) both had effectively exited the Republican Party by that point (they endorsed Kamala Harris!), so I would say they no longer count as "well known Republican figures".

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2) If it's a collaborative solution (where a president has to do it with the approval of congress), it's going to be viewed as obstructionist when the congress is not on the same team as the Pres, and viewed as a farcical formality ("rubber stamp") when congress is on the same side as the Pres.

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I don't think it would be as much of a rubber stamp as people think it is. There's a reason why Presidents normally wait until the end of their terms to issue controversial pardons: Doing so is unpopular and one should try to do it at a time when it is unlikely to rebound either upon you or your party. But people in congress have much less luxury in regards to this. They have to worry about their next elections, particularly if they live in a swing state or swing district. Trump doesn't care if he takes heat for the current pardons he's doing or for the inevitable end-of-term-preemptive-pardons-of-every-member-of-his-family-and-staff that he's almost certainly going to issue just like Biden did. But if a congressman votes for those pardons, then they're going to have to explain to the voters next election "yeah, so here's why I did that." That demands greater accountability. Yes, I'm sure partisan politics will make congress much more subservient to what the President wants if the President is of their party, but there's still limits to that. As we've seen, even Trump has limits in getting the entire Republican congress to go along with something.

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So all of the same challenges and perceptions of partisan bias will still be in full swing (just with extra steps)

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it would, at least, appear to stop the particularly egregious pardons.

ThatRobGuy said:

Now, I have heard an option that I've heard described that I've liked (though I don't know how practical it is) that still has a multi-branch collaboration element.

There's a pardon board (similar to a parole board) comprised of 7 members.
3 appointed by the Senate Majority leader
3 appointed by the Senate Minority leader
1 appointed by the Senate Parliamentarian

(and each of those positions has to be confirmed through the same process as cabinet appointments)

The president has the power to send pardon referrals to that panel, but it needs a 4-3 vote in favor to "pass".

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This seems like it has multiple problems. The Senate Parliamentarian seems a position so far removed from anything like this that suddenly making them a kingmaker on something like this is problematic given it has nothing to do with their actual job;one might as well give the power to a bailiff of the Supreme Court. Further, the Senate Parliamentarian serves at the pleasure of the Senate Majority leader, who can just remove them at any time, meaning this functionally is a 4/3 in favor of the Senate majority.

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Ultimately, this is a sticky wicket because of the fact that the founders (despite having many awesome ideas about checks and balances), didn't have a great solution or remediation element to the fact that the judicial branch has an outsized amount of power compared to the other 2.

And the judicial branch is the only one for which there's no rigid tangible standard by which to "un-do" what they do. (outside the branch itself)

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But it isn't the "judicial branch" that actually convicts people. It's the jury, taken from the general public. I suppose someone could say a jury becomes part of the judicial branch, but it's on such a temporary basis I find that questionable. In any event, this might be an argument against removing any ability to ever pardon a guilty person, but again that's not the argument. The suggestion is to remove the pardoning power from the President and leave it to Congress, subject to the President's veto power. Congress, as far as I understand, already has that power (and if it doesn't, the same amendment process removing it from the President can give it to them).

And there are indeed ways to undo what the judicial branch does from outside. Some of them are roundabout (bringing in new judges to undo a decision, or in the case of convictions amending the law), but they're there.

In contrast, there is nothing that can presently undo a pardon. Nothing. Once the President issues it, it's done. There is some question as to whether preemptive pardons are constitutional (they haven't been tested in court, in large part because I think prior to Biden only one preemptive pardon had ever been issued, namely Ford's pardon of Nixon, who subsequent Presidents didn't have interest in going after), but even if we restrict ourselves to pardons of crimes convicted, once it's done it's done. No one can undo that pardon--not another branch, not even a different President. Even if a President gets impeached over corrupt pardons and kicked out of office, the pardons stick. Heck, if the impeachment process starts and it's certain the President will be kicked out, they can go on a pardoning spree before Congress can actually do their vote to kick them out. It strikes me as very odd in a system of checks and balance to give a power that cannot be stopped or undone and is completely under the control of just one person who can do it at any time. So having pardons be passed like regular laws would actually be fixing the checks and balances system by having such an undoable power require two branches (Congress could do it by themselves if they have a veto proof majority).

ThatRobGuy said:

Plus, the branch is unique in that the "Supremacy Clause" doesn't fully apply.

A state level judge technically has the power to say "I deem this federal law to be unconstitutional, so this state won't be enforcing it for the time being"


No such dynamic exists in the other two branches.

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And then that judge can be overruled by a higher court. However, even if we grant this as a problem, how does the President have unilateral power to pardon solve it? The pardon power isn't about constitutional violations, but convictions. It's like saying "the justice system is too harsh on drug crimes so we should limit their power by increasing speed limits to make it harder to arrest people for speeding."

More than 2,200 anti-Christian crimes in Europe last year: OIDAC Europe

Violent attacks or threats against Christians and arson attacks against churches in Europe spiked sharply in 2024, according to a new report released Monday by the watchdog group Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe).

The report, which the Vienna-based watchdog group officially launched Tuesday, noted the 2,211 hate crimes targeting Christians recorded across the continent in 2024 marked a drop from the number of incidents in 2023, but that the nature of the crimes had grown more violent.

Physical attacks against Christian individuals rose from 232 cases in 2023 to 274 cases in 2024, while arson attacks on churches and Christian properties reached 94, which was nearly twice the previous year's figure. The report noted that data regarding personal attacks was not available from France and the U.K. for 2024.

The report also noted that the highest numbers of anti-Christian incidents overall were in France, the U.K., Germany, Spain and Austria.

Among the violent incidents, OIDAC Europe highlighted the murder of a 76-year-old Catholic friar who was killed in November 2024 by a man who stormed the Friary of Santo Espiritu del Monte in Spain while screaming, "I am Jesus Christ!"

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Calling it one of the largest child-recovery operations in U.S. history, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that 122 children were rescued from child predators and abusers in a U.S. Marshals-led statewide operation billed “Operation Home for the Holidays.”

“We're excited to announce this rescue effort [of] 122 kids that were reported missing. They're now back in our custody,” Uthmeier said during a press conference Monday. “Many have been through the unthinkable. They've been trafficked. They've been exploited. They've been abused. They need our help now more than ever.”

Authorities said the rescued children range in age from 2 to 17. Six adults have also been arrested in connection with the operation so far and more are expected. The adults are facing charges ranging from lewd and lascivious behavior to multiple sexual batteries.

Fifty-seven children were rescued in Tampa, 29 in Fort Myers, 22 in Jacksonville, 14 in Orlando, and 13 others were recovered outside the state of Florida. Two of the 13 children were rescued from Mexico and Guatemala.

Florida officials said Operation Home for the Holidays surpassed the scale and success of Operation Dragon Eye, conducted earlier this year.

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rambot said:

On other topics you already claim he isn't guilty of what he's been proven guilty of in a court of law.

Why would anyone further this discussion here?

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Perhaps, one day, liberals will accept the reality of weaponized lawfare.

Valletta said:

Trump had money before he became president, Nancy Pelosi made her fortune while she was in the government.

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I'll allow that you haven't read any media or watched any TV since the election so I'll class that as a statement based on ignorance of what Trump has been doing. Allow me to fill in the gaps in your knowledge.

From here: Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Presidency

'His primary vehicle for enrichment: cryptocurrency, an asset class full of hype and vulnerable to regulators. Teaming up with his three sons, Trump announced a crypto venture in September 2024 named World Liberty Financial, which initially struggled to gain traction. Then he won the White House.

His primary vehicle for enrichment: cryptocurrency, an asset class full of hype and vulnerable to regulators. Teaming up with his three sons, Trump announced a crypto venture in September 2024 named World Liberty Financial, which initially struggled to gain traction. Then he won the White House.

In office, Trump rolled back regulatory enforcement of crypto and signed legislation favorable to the industry, ensuring he would personally benefit from conflicts of interest. His memecoins, initially tied up for three months, now unlock daily, freeing tens of millions per week. World Liberty Financial, meanwhile, has continued selling tokens, including to opaque buyers, generating an estimated $1.4 billion so far. A Trump family entity receives a roughly 75% cut of those sales, amounting to more than $1 billion.'

Now you know. Yeah, I was just as shocked as you must be now.

probinson said:

Then why include all the language about "responding" to and "neutralizing" Texas?

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Because they wanted to state the reason for the change.

Hentenza said:

Raiding private businesses without probable cause can be oppression. The 4th amendment protects ALL against unreasonable searches.

I do.

This is irrelevant to our convo.

The 4th amendment should work the same way.

Again, what does an illegal look like? Is the color of their skin sufficient probable cause?

I am not attacking ICE but I expect for them to work within the legal constitutional framework.

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No you expect them to be constrained and prevented from ever thinking that the law needs to be enforced


Presence in the US without authorization is a civil offense

Re-entry after deportation is criminal. Entering through a non designated point of entry is criminal

Even if your argument is merely civil offenses, the civil penalty for unauthorized presence is deportation. Deporting for civil offenses is not unreasonable, criminal acts involve jail time and imprisonment. ICE is deporting, not imprisoning unless there is also concurrent criminal offenses.

Here illegally? Expect to be civilly deported. The government is even offering a free plane ticket and a thousand dollars for those who choose to self deport

Keeping ICE from enforcing the law does nothing to elevate Latino dignity. It even lowers it by giving the perception that as a group of people, they are exempt from the law. No society functions like that just because you call it racist

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Furthermore, is this why Catholics confess to priests?

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Sort of. The Priest stands in as a representative of the faithful so James 5:16 is fulfilled.

Also, at Mass the following prayer is recited by all, which also fulfills James 5:16

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do; through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Tim and Delvianna have given you good things to pray about and be honest with God about these things they have shared. What I offer below is not meant to disagree with what they have said.

JohnB445 said:

I have only gambled very small amount of money $2, the excitement of the chance to win big was there,

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Ok, so it can look, here, like you are saying you would like to be rich. Beware >

"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition." (1 Timothy 6:9)

"be content with such things as you have" > in Hebrews 13:5.

I think now of this > maybe > perhaps > by being more or less interested in using money to get a lot of money, you could be cutting yourself short. You can do better to develop in your ability to do good things which money is not enough to get. So, I mean, by giving such attention to what money could do, you could be short-circuiting your attention from what God is able to do in you as a younger child of God who needs to mature more to discover and appreciate what God and His love in you can make you ***creative*** to do.

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I wasn't really disappointed it was $2 not enough to buy a bag of chips these days.

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You mention chips, which can be a weight gainer and a money user-upper And yes food can be a substitute for the satisfaction of learning how to relate in God's love with various people. So, yes you can discover doing with God what money and enjoyment of food can not do. However, God's word does say God "gives us richly all things to enjoy," in 1 Timothy 6:17. So, I do not mean you must not enjoy certain nice things and the money to get them; however - - - learning how to love, with Jesus and His example and word, is the most fulfilling education and adventure and accomplishment that there is.

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I figured i'm not lucky and moved on.

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How social is it? I suspect you do this by yourself. At least, get into some cheap-prize bingo, maybe. Even get some socially needy people together for some gaming which has no prize but that they are sharing with one another.

JohnB445 said:

I can see how it can develop into a problem with people gambling excessive amounts of money, and they are devastated. But what about gambling such small amount of money it has no effect at all to the person who lost?

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It depends. Our Apostle Paul says >

"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any." (1 Corinthians 6:17)

If you are depending on it for excitement . . . this can mean you are under its power . . . including its power to affect where your attention is going. So, we need more prayer, with attention to God and God guiding our attention, then discovering.

If ones are isolating with things they like . . . Jesus wants us to get into how God has us loving >

"if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" (in Matthew 5:46)

The Bible says various things about how to relate with one another as God's children and how to relate with ones who are not God's children. You need to invest your time - - - your **attention** - - - in God's word, including about how to relate with one another as His family. And spend time with Jesus people who are good examples of this. Feed on their example, enjoy the chips

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Could a Christian also ever be involved in the gambling business?

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There is always risk in loving. But with God so creative we can create His good in spite of however others do us wrong . . . even using what anti-love people do - - - using their evil to bring about God's all-loving results. Have you read and fed on how God did this with Joseph? > this is in Genesis 37-50.

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Although some people move on, for others it destroys lives and they wished they never gambled. or is gambling seen as a legitimate business just like farmers?

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We could have quite a debate about this. You could say gambling ruins lives, and I could argue that farmers produce food which people abuse so they are overweight and dying of diabetes and heart attacks. But I rule in favor of what Delvianna and Tim have said > my argument might be clever . . . but not really relevant!!

Among other things > it can be the farmer has learned many skills and has been providing for his family and bringing up his children to have character and the right kind of work ethic and to know how to love and relate as family. There is much investment, so more than gaining money, in so laboring. I suspect that a gambling business might not be so useable, like farming can be. Where would your children be, what would they be learning??

You can grow in Jesus to discover what God can do with you. What you can think about now can evaporate as you mature with . . . us.

Righteousness obtained thru FAITH
Rom 3:22 This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ for all those [Jew or Gentile] who believe [and trust in Him and acknowledge Him as God’s Son]. There is no distinction,


Justified thru FAITH
23 since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God,

24 and are being justified [declared free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted eternal life] as a gift by His [precious, undeserved] grace, through the redemption [the payment for our sin] which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,

25 whom God displayed publicly [before the eyes of the world] as a [life-giving] sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood [to be received] through faith.


Saved thru FAITH
Rom 5:
1 Therefore, since we have been justified [that is, acquitted of sin, declared blameless before God] by faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have peace with God [and the joy of reconciliation with Him] through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).

2 Through Him we also have access by faith into this [remarkable state of] grace in which we [firmly and safely and securely] stand. Let us rejoice in our hope and the confident assurance of [experiencing and enjoying] the glory of [our great] God [the manifestation of His excellence and power].

9 Therefore, since we have now been justified [declared free of the guilt of sin] by His blood, [how much more certain is it that] we will be saved from the wrath of God through Him.


Eph 2:
8 For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God;

9 not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].


FAITH placed in Jesus sin atoning work unlocks salvations door
Rom 10:
8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word [the message, the basis] of faith which we preach—

9 because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

10 For with the heart a person believes [in Christ as Savior] resulting in his justification [that is, being made righteous—being freed of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God]; and with the mouth he acknowledges and confesses [his faith openly], resulting in and confirming [his] salvation.

Fervent said:

who are these mythical fiscal conservatives?

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Why don't you ask the one who brought it up:

rjs330 said:

When did liberals become fiscal conservatives?

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Rescued One said:

Friends and relatives pass away; old age is for the birds!

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May the Lord be your strength and support in your time in need, and in his holy name, I pray! Amen!

Spiritual Jew said:

In the rest of James 2, it's clear that he said we are justified by faith, but what kind of faith someone has is revealed by their works.

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So you are saying the same as me, "When I said works are required to show faith, that is not the same as saying one is "saved by their works".

You are agreeing with me about the role of works in the gospel of the kingdom.

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Yes, that would be nice, but it's not the Decalogue that saves, it was used to show the Jews their wrongs and sins.

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You are right that the law cannot save, it shows us our sins, not just the Jews. So we know God's standard of right and wrong (righteousness) so we are not depending on our own or covering our sins, where one does not receive mercy Pro28:13 Heb10:26-30. The law shows us we are sinner and our need for Jesus to save us from our sins Mat1:21 (not in them), we need to be willing to come to Him and repent, which means a change of heart and in direction, turning from what is wrong and doing what is right through love and faith. John14:15 Exo20:6


This is New Covenant teaching ....

1 John3:4 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
James 2:11 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law

Landon Caeli said:

I don't think the Force of air molecules could ever provide enough Power for the Work involved in the movement of larger parts, such as human-sized things like an engine or a generator... If I'm understanding this correctly.

...Not enough oomph.

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I have to give you credit for thinking in the right direction.

You could if you can convert oscillating Brownian motion into electricity (link below) via huge numbers of nanoscale generator units and somehow able to consolidate all those tiny voltages and current.

This approach looks VERY expensive though. The concept nanoscale units approaches that of computer CPU or GPU microprocessor chips in complexity. You only have few such microprocessor chips in a computer but to power the computer itself, you'll need a hundred thousand of such "energy chips"!! Other concepts are similar in theory and similarly expensive! Even if you can reduce price to $1 per chip (which is unlikely), you still have to pay $100,000 for a power unit that can power a laptop computer!!

My concept is totally different. It directly exploits macroscopic fluid dynamics and can have the power density of a turbocharged car engine. It's far less sophisticated in tech, many orders of magnitude cheaper, and all the tech needed to build my concept engine is already available in the early19th century. You could in fact build it in your garage if you have a small but good quality CNC.

CBP seems to be performing operations well beyond its operational jurisdiction, as Charlotte is about 125 miles from the nearest border.