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anyone know anything about Gematria?

The word kurios corresponds to the tetragrammaton YHVH with the gematria 26.

The 26th Fibonacci number has 6 digits

f26 =
121393

Fittingly, the number 26 appears in both π and the 3168th Fibonacci number in the 6th position!


f3168=
5288826

The number 26 in the 3168th Fibonacci number is preceded by the 3 numbers 888, the isopsephy value of Iésous! The Greeks used the word isopsephy for gematria

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The number 26 appears a second time shortly afterwards.

f3168 =
52888263726

The sequence of numbers

f3168 =
...263726

again gives the sum 26!

The verse

Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. Ps 111:1
הַ֥לְלוּ יָ֨הּ אוֹדֶ֣ה יְ֭הוָה בְּכָל־לֵבָ֑ב בְּס֖וֹד יְשָׁרִ֣ים וְעֵדָֽה

has a gematria of 931

Total = 931
Original Text
Hebrew Value Inc
הללו 71
יה 15
אודה 16
יהוה 26
בכל 52
לבב 34
בסוד 72
שרים 560
ועדה 85

931 = 72*19

931 is the 772nd composite number.

The sum of the first 772 composite numbers is 367,382 (three hundred and sixty-seven thousand, three hundred and eighty-two).

At the 367,382nd position in Φ, starting with the first decimal place, the 3 digits are 888!

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Regarding the second coming of Christ, the prophet Malachi writes

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, Mal 4:2a
וְזָרְחָ֨ה לָכֶ֜ם יִרְאֵ֤י שְׁמִי֙ שֶׁ֣מֶשׁ צְדָקָ֔ה וּמַרְפֵּ֖א בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָ

Total = 2220
Original Text
Hebrew Value Inc
וזרחה 226
לכם 90
יראי 221
שמי 350
שמש 640
צדקה 199
ומרפא 327
בכנפיה 167

The verse has the gematria 2220!

In the 2220th Fibonacci number, the number 888 appears twice,

f2220 =
4009371997129951342825430796402581327869102699895698839012750064579809639792128854301830807134613648
8318907294003029681178901445803007071082556952959151583518368984688857558701923138459932501931369906
5077375330717961525911361858342660934545640653900945780960334366299216431822263421304512354529724887
7987136901701140958314424326278825163732481734311351418883943716832232408738330421815222200437386656
5000523266273524751967934587472021616779226794319285179148929040

once in 166th place, another time in 355th place.

166 is the gematria of elyown, meaning the Most High (G-d), and 355 is the verse number in which this expression is first mentioned

Number of verses per chapter Genesis 1 to 14:18
31+25+24+26+32+22+24+22+29+32+32+20+18+18 = 355

eloywn (Most High)
עֶלְיוֹן
16. ע Ayin 70
12. ל Lamed 30
10. י Yud 10
6. ו Vav 6
14. נ Nun 50
166

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high G-d. Gen 14:18
ומלכיצדק מלך שלם הוציא לחם ויין והוא כהן לאל
עליון


The two numbers 888, including all numbers in between

f2220 =
400937199712995134282543079640258132786910269989569883901275006457980963979212885430183080713461364 8
831890729400302968117890144580300707108255695295915158351836898468885755870192313845993250193136990 6
507737533071796152591136185834266093454564065390094578096033436629921643182226342130451235452972488 7
798713690170114095831442432627882516373248173431135141
888394371683223240873833042181522220043738665 6
5000523266273524751967934587472021616779226794319285179148929040

add up to a total of 839.

The expression

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall! Mal.4:2
וְזָרְחָ֨ה לָכֶ֜ם יִרְאֵ֤י שְׁמִי֙ שֶׁ֣מֶשׁ צְדָקָ֔ה וּמַרְפֵּ֖א בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָ וִֽיצָאתֶ֥ם וּפִשְׁתֶּ֖ם כְּעֶגְלֵ֥י מַרְבֵּֽק

has a gematria of 839!

Total = 839
Original Text
Hebrew Value Inc
שמש 640
צדקה 199
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Can not being in the correct denomination cause someone to not be saved?

In today's world, let alone in history, we have a perfect example of how narcissism can taint good intentions.
Conscience is not ‘good intentions’ but we are all capable of deforming our consciences over time.
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Why Democracies Prefer Docile Secularists

Why Democracies Prefer Docile Secularists by Jeb Smith

...The authorities ensure the populace has the worldview and mindset enabling the maximum accumulation of power to itself and providing the least resistance to its expansion of control. Despite what American conservatives tell you, propaganda is not a modern, liberal, or Marxist development, it arose as soon as parliamentary forms of governance began....

Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and demonic attack: Does he deserve the backlash?

Never heard of Nick Fuentes until the Tucker uproar started coming through my feed.
This Fuentes kid, yes aware he's 27, sounds like an unbeliever in need of salvation.
From the little I've heard from him I'm not impressed.
Same. He sounds like a very angry, spiteful person.
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Judging Others: Sermon on the Mount Series - Devotional Saturday

This is a crucial topic that Christians must approach with divine wisdom and insight. Jesus taught about several godly principles from Matthew chapters 5 to 8. Jesus rebuked the hypocrisy of the Pharasees and today we are also commanded not to be judgmental. If you know you are a fornicator, drunkard, liar etc, fixed them before you point hands on others doing them. However, it doesn't mean we can't talk against sin. The Bible says the Word of God is for training, correction and reprimanding to bring one to righteousness. The one who preaches must strive to be blameless...
"Judge not lest ye be judge!" Oh, if you're an evangelist, you've heard that one too many times, but what is Jesus actually mean when He says judge not? In today's series we'll see what Jesus said and what's he actually mean!
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Street Preaching

Now that I'm no longer in a city I never really run into them. It has been literally years since I saw a street preacher.

But, I did see a few. Ones that were effective and ones that were not.

One going back many years to my university days still sticks with me.

He was a somewhat chubby man, mid to late 40's. Preaching / Yelling with zeal in the middle of the campus square during the school flea market.

The crowd was honestly respectful, most passed by, a few were listening but none were heckling.

In an effort to reach the young men in the crowd, he began preaching / yelling about how God would give you not just spiritual strength but physical strength. He went on to claim that through God he could do more push-ups than anyone in attendance. Going as far as to call the young men listening spiritual and physical weaklings.

A young college athlete stepped forward to take him up on his offer. The street preacher tried to back down, tried to deflect, etc. But, the young man would have none of it. He, called the preacher a coward and asked him to prove what he just claimed or go home because he was just full of hot air.

The portly, middle aged preacher said a prayer then and he and the young athlete had a push-up contest.

The street preacher lost. Not just lost by a little. He lost badly. The young man was still doing pushups like a machine when the preacher gave up in a red faced, huffing and puffing heap.

The crowd laughed and left, the preacher gathered up his stuff and left.

Obviously lessons were learned that day. Likely not the ones the preacher intended, but perhaps one he needed.

If you street preach, be sure you are called, be sure you are prepared, be sure you do not stray from the Word into self...
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Kiwi in Tokyo – what’s the view from your window this morning?

Ah, you're lucky then, because I don't get that. Notice that I mentioned windswept, which means that the snow blows across those miles and miles of wide open fields until it encounters some type of windbreak where it forms a sort of white concrete around anything unlucky enough to be more than three feet high.



Ah, now you're speaking my language. Outsiders think that you're crazy if you tell them that what we need to dry the ground out is a nice warm rain. They're like... how does rain dry the ground out? Because until it rains the ground is frozen, so all that melting snow has nowhere to go. Then the rain thaws out the ground, and what was nothing but a lake one day is gone the next. It just magically disappears.

Then the spring comes and the northwesterly winds turn into southwesterly winds and rain. Everything turns green, and eventually the rains stop. At which point everything is beautiful for about two weeks, and then the bugs come.

Yeah, life in the Upper Midwest, it's so much fun!
MidWest eh? Nice! I've always wondered what that part of the US looks like.

I'm really surprised you guys don't have windbreaks. In the canadian prairies they were installed in the "dirty 30s" to stop soil loss. Did you guys not do it up there?
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Grand juries weighing criminal charges for Tish James, Adam Schiff: sources

Am I reading this right? This probe sounds independent, very off-brand for this administration. I fear heads will roll.
It does seem strange. Bish wanted to dish on Schiff, but instead...

Bish said she kept trying to return to the Schiff allegations, but that the officials “are trying to, in my opinion, investigate the investigators.”

The AP story notes one of the people who may or may not have impersonated a federal agent is Robert Bowes, a Trump 1.0 official.
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nessie and cryptozoology

Evidence please!
All on youtube...check it out..tons from reliable site....




These are the only ones i follow...
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Blood Type & Christianity

Given that transubstantiation is a miracle, I'm not sure that blood typing restrictions would necessarily apply. It's not a transfusion or an ordinary medical procedure, so the miracle can be wrought even if it doesn't physically "make sense" for it to have such effects.
I agree with that. Still, I would like to know Jesus' blood type, and O negative makes the most sense to me, spiritually, symbolically, physically.
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What happens if someone dies before they became a believer, is it their fault?

That is not what the Bible teaches.
It teaches not to put our will ahead of the Will of God. Both elohim and man failed to obey. To force either to have done so would have eliminated our usefulness as servants if we no longer had the freedom to be creative in fulfilling our appointed tasks. For instance Adam would have named everything the same name, not having the ability to think beyond instinct.

God did give us a choice in the matter when it came to the tree of knowledge, yet scripture just says don't or else, rather than give understanding as to why. This, no doubt, was because man in their state of mind at the time without the knowledge could not comprehend the reasons for being told not to eat of the wrong tree anyway. Now we can, not only having the knowledge, but also the results of failure to do so in the entire Bible, and are again given a choice to repent or not, this time having an understanding why putting our will ahead of the Will of God will lead to death..
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The Return of Latin and Why It Matters

That's great for you, but there are many others like me who have to try and translate Latin into English in their minds.
It removes them from prayer. Some are not capable of translating the words. We're supposed to serve the least of our
brothers and sisters.
Thanks for the input! That makes sense.
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I hate being homosexual. It's an awful life

I've been struggling with this for many years despite so many prayers, reading the Bible, etc. It's a horrible, sexualized community with no substance. I try to keep to myself and not bother anyone, yet people in the homosexual world keep coming into my life causing turmoil. Please pray for me.
Praying for you my friend. May God continue to give you strength

1 Pet 4:1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. 4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

1 Pet 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; 13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

Romans 8:7 states that the "carnal mind" is hostile to God and cannot submit to His law.

You say that the "us" is "we humans", but that's dead wrong as the verse above clearly shows.
That is why they are commanded to repent. We all have that choice while alive.
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Time and Timelessness Becoming One

First let us consider what time consists of. Time is made of before and after. You can also say it consists of the present, which should be before and after some time as well. So, time is made of before and after.

Now let us consider the planck time. Which tells us that time has a minimum, called the planck time.That would mean that at some point in time, before and after ceases to exist.

Some might say, poetically, that at some point time and timelessness become one and make a child. Meaning making confusion. Confusion being the logical response to the coming together of time and timelessness.

P.S. If what I am saying doesn't sound familiar or easily comprehendible. I suggest reading about Zeno's paradox about time and the planck time. That should make it more comprehensive.

What would have happened to Adam and Eve and Cain after death?

I get the impression that there are different versions of the afterlife throughout the Bible but I guess Christians would view it in a way that makes sure it is consistent and logical.
I think some people who identify as Christian believe this.
However, if you like we can examine the verses where you see different version, and see if we can establish if there are different, or the same.
In my research, there are the same in the "OT", but there is one difference in the "NT"

Though the Sadducees (who were Jews) apparently didn't believe in the afterlife. I'm not sure eternal torment is in the Old Testament.
I haven't seen it, but people say they believe it's there.
God said "They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter my mind / heart." Jeremiah 7:31
We can look at that a little closer, as well.
Hopefully more persons will respond to your questions, and any presented scriptures.

Anyway I'm interested in that kind of thing. I guess it also is about God's mercy for people in the Old Testament.
That is a good question.
What do you think of Jesus; words here... Matthew 12:41, 42; Luke 10:13-15; Luke 11:31, 32
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My Introduction

Welcome to CF...I'm a bit suspicious of your project, truth be told. I simply don't see how we could construct an unbiased method for investigating testimonial evidence in a consistent fashion because there is far too much that goes into the calculus of it all. It seems similarly foolhardy as Bayesian analysis, for many of the same reasons mostly involving determining background probabilities and burdens. We may be able to establish some agent-centered competences such as seat, shape, and situation but doing so reliably after the fact is highly unlikely.
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Enter Your Birthdate Here to Find Out What Was Happening the Day You Were Born...

I was wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when I was born, and decided to create this website for fun. The purpose is to show people what was going on when they were born. With this website I've found out that it was a pretty slow news day on my birthday, but I bet it would feel cool to know a historical event happened on your birthday.

The data used in this project is provided by the New York Times API. They have by far the best API I was able to find, with articles dating back to the 1950s. There weren't any other major newspapers that had an API with close to as much data. The closest was the Guardian API, but theirs only went back to the 1990s. I decided to only use articles from the New York Times because their API was by far the best. This tool works if you have a birthday after the 1950s or so.

Some important dates in history I'd recommend looking up on this website are:

Continued below.
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Who then can be saved?

2 Thess is speaking about people like you, who do not obey the gospel of the Lord Jesus. all you have done so far is reject the gospel and make false accusations.
All I have done is proclaim thew gospel and you respond with slander. You have never identified a single error in my theology, so you just resort to making false accusations.

If you had something to offer, you would correct me, but it's obvious you have nothing to offer.

Wow, you don't even know what theology means. And you believe there are many gods, so we are worlds apart. You can have your religion all to yourself, it is an abomination to me.
It's almost amusing. You don't even attempt to perform the due diglence required in order to find out the truth for yourself, and then still endeavor to take the moral high ground like some kind of priggish Pharisee, while accusing me of your own fault.

Again, Insitutes is theology, systematic theology, and 2 Thess 1:8-10 specifically states, over and against your position, that those in hell will be "shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed."

Oh well, this discussion has descended into one of those rare moments when I'll express my distaste with the ignore button.
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