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According to the info I read, Therians in general don't have an appearance that distinguishes them as such.Don't give it too much relevance. Tiktok and social media can amplify unusual beliefs or attitudes in ways that aren't helpful, or actually reflective of the real world. Furthermore, some people subconsciously or conscious are using Tiktok to get attention. Attention, positive or negative, gets monetized on these platforms.
I've seen alot of purple haired types at my local coffee shop, with more nose rings than my shower curtain, but, I've never met one of these "therians".
No you didn’t. You know I’m a massive big brain.I was wondering if you did.
I’ve never liked that supposed conundrum; the correct answer is ‘no’.The title reminds me of that old joke question...did you stop beating your wife?
The first/natural waters destroyed the natural man. Per plan. The natural man has always been fated for (eventual) termination.Genesis 9:8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
The wording of your link says that the car was the cargo ("dummy payload") on board a space rocket:
Why would you think I am saying that John?You seem to be saying that the Jews before the Sadducees did believe in Heaven and Hell but I don't think the Bible supports that.
You said:I was wondering why they didn't believe in the afterlife.
The Bible says that God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and Sulphur.My point was that the novel about Titan seemed to get a lot of things right, similar to your Persia, etc, example. Yet people would just believe it is a coincidence.
My quote is about apparent supernatural phenomena and God. It isn't really related to the flat earth. I've asked some atheists about the Persia/Babylon prophecies and I'll see what they say.
I didn't read about them.BTW what do you think about my upside down Bible and Connect 4 stories? Do you think they were coincidences and had nothing to do with some kind of God? I think their likelihood is extremely low.
In this context, I simply mean that God is God regardless of human opinions about God. What is true of Him persists regardless of how we understand Him.What do you mean by "God remains the same"? this could suggest some kind of platonic metaphysics that I don't think captures the relational, dynamic nature of the Trinitarian God.
Yes, I also oppose the Platonic idea of God's impassivity. That is not what I was getting at with my contention that God is objective.The story of the Syrophoenician woman and Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well are good examples of the dynamic I am speaking of. God isn't a unity without distinctions, but a communion of Persons, each involved in perichoeretic movement. Perichoresis means "to make space for others", a kind of "dance", which suggests movement and dynamism, not Platonic stasis.
I am sorry to hear about your step-daughter. The fault in the lack of help was not the building's, but the membership of the church. Please don't imagine that all churches are the same. All the local churches of which I have been a member in my 50-plus years as a Christian had members who showed great care for one another. But I stress that none of this has anything to do with whether a particular church has its own brick and mortar building, or meets for worship in a hired hall, a private home, or even in the open air.1. May I express that I once was a "church going christian" for years and years and years.
2. I need no excuse to say I no longer attend a brick and mortar building called a "church." That does not mean I am "taking the easy way." Nothing about the Christian life is "easy."
3. As for work, I was a nursery worker in church, Sunday School Teacher, member of many Bible Studies, took my children every Sunday, Wednesday and brought them up in knowledge of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Jesus is concerned with our Hearts/Souls and not how regularly we "work."
4. The "narrow door" is not the church building but believing in the the Lord Jesus Christ, giving Him our total trust and living as best we can by following His Way. The Pharisees and other "workers, strict followers of the Law" thought they had it down pat too.
5. I did not stop going to that building because of "frustration, etc" but I stopped going to that building whenever my step daughter (my husband's only daughter) committed suicide and NOT ONE PASTOR, LAY PERSON, came to our door to give my husband one bit of help.
The "church" is not that building, whether or not it is a big building, little building but the "church" is the Body of Christ believers.
I considered myself a partial preterist and I never thought that. Rather it is John's baptists preaching of the wrath that was coming to those under the law, which began in 70 ad. Faith in Christ was the a way of escape...N. T. Wright is a partial Preterist so in his view a lot of Bible focus sort of stops at 70 AD - destruction of Jerusalem (I think some Preterists call that the second coming but Wright does not apparently).
Paul speaks here of Gentiles vs Jew's. Jew's are judged by the law, And thee wrath and curse they were under was coming...I think that a straight forward reading of the Bible supports pre-millennial positions make more sense than the preterism.
Gentiles were being persuaded to become Jew's for a reason? Paul was addressing this....Paul was an evangelist focused on outreach to gentiles - and there is no way that letters to gentiles were going to focus on non-Christian Jews in Jerusalem as the main point.
Wrath and cursing are prophesied in the law to Jew's under the law. It was coming.Phil 3 focus - is pretty obvious to a gentile believer -
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
1 Thess 4:13-18 is the focus for every funeral according to Paul - and is not talking about non-Christian Jews dying in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
I dont believe thats how class action suits are supposed to work.Let me quote it again for you.
I've related this before but when I was still a new Christian and getting to know the pastor, he told me about an episode in his own church. This would be 40 or so years ago now.It obviously depends on the context.
Capone famously did hang out in St. Paul when things got hot, but I think I should have said it was Karpis and Barker who robbed the Northwestern National Bank. That bank was hit MANY times. It was a way too easy target. The MO was to hit the bank on the east bank of the Mississippi still in Minneapolis and drive east into St. Paul about a mile away through my old neighborhood to St. Paul. St. Paul was a refuge when things got too hot for the gangstas in Chicago, and they didn't allow Minneapolis police in St. Paul.What? I didn’t know that Al Capone was a bank robber!?