NxNW said:

It might be. According to your previous posts, we should now expect a downturn.

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I'm not so optimistic as to expect the printing presses to stop rolling.

BCP1928 said:

So it's about sex. But you are right. If women get to decide for themselves who to go to bed with and when some men might not get any. Boo Hoo.

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Lol I think you said something similar before about it all being about sex. I am pretty sure the womens movement was much more than sex. In fact it was gender and not sex. The civil rights revolution was about race. The culture wars are now about identities of all sorts. Its much more than sex.

The breakdown of the family is not just about sex. Though sex is a big part and thats just a natural and core aspect of being human. If sex is part of marriage and relationships and thats part of the family.

But if progressive ideas around sex which relate to marriage and the family contribute to the break down of society and poor outcomes for every one. Then yes the progressive beliefs and ideas around sex have destroyed society.

The point is while you macke a mockery and conflation that its all about men missing out on sex. Which only makes my point that sex itself is what has been perverted and reimagined within the Godless ideologies where men and women are the gods of sex. This is the very problem that is destroying society.

The lies that women or men are the gods of their own bodies and over when and where and who they can have sex. This leads to many, many further pproblems and we are seeing the end results of a few decades now of progressive counter culture. And its not a pretty picture. The ideas of freedom and happiness and liberation have turned out to be lonliness, depression, anxiety and dispair.

I am praying for Sarah Beckstom's family. It's so sad that she passed away! Let's keep praying for Andrew Wolfe.

Ophiolite said:

I shall accept that kangaroos have the most limited of nautical skills, but the same constraints should not be automatically applied to homo sapiens.

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It brings in the idea of whether the creatures originated from a central common location and then found their way to distant lands. Or the similar environments led to the similar phenotypes. .

Did you know that a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, by itself, is not sufficient to bring about salvation from sin resulting in eternal life with God? For Jesus taught that not everyone who calls him, “Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones doing (obeying) the will of God. Therefore, we are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23).

And this is why this passage of Scripture in 2 Peter 3 teaches us that we need to be people who live in holy conduct and godliness, because our Lord is going to visit this world we live in with judgment, and all who are living in sin and in disobedience to our Lord, in deliberate and habitual practice, will not enter the kingdom of heaven because of their disobedience. And it won’t matter if they made professions of faith in the Lord, because they did not live the faith that they professed to have. For they loved their sin and not the commands of God. So, love God, forsake your sins, and obey God!

So, what does it look like for us to be in holy conduct and godliness? Well, to be holy is to be separate (unlike, different) from the world, because we are being conformed by God to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, as we cooperate fully with God’s work of grace in our lives. For his grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. And to live godly lives is to follow after the example of Christ Jesus and how he lived when he lived on this earth, in God’s power.

And then it says here that, according to His promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. And I find this subject a little difficult to comprehend, but basically when Jesus comes to judge and to destroy the universe, as we have come to know it, he will provide a new dwelling place for us who are his followers, in which righteousness (and not sin) dwells. There will be no more sin, no more evil, no more sickness, no more death, no more sadness, and no more tears. And we will be with our Lord for eternity. And there will be much rejoicing!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Walking in The Light

Based off 1 John 1-2
An Original Work / November 16, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and
Sing praise unto God,
I will fellowship with my
Lord and Savior, King.
In Him there is no darkness.
He is in the light of truth.
If we walk in His light,
From sin He purifies.

If we repent of our sins,
He’ll forgive us now,
When we humble ourselves, and
Before Jesus bow.
The man who says, “I know Him,”
But does not obey His truth,
There is no truth in him.
In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin,
For it is hell bound.
If you follow the world, you’ll
Not in Christ be found.
The world and its desires
Will not last; they’ll expire.
The one who does God’s will,
Receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from
Christ remains in you.
Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and
In His Father, too.
This is what He promised us –
His eternal life with God.
So, continue in Him, and
You’ll receive a crown.

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In Holy Conduct and Godliness
An Original Work / November 30, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

@Bob Crowley Bob, expanding on your experience as you did in your latest post demonstrates what I have already acknowledged to be the case: this event was, and remains, very important to you. Thank you for sharing it.
Since you have made it clear, ("Crystal clear!", to echo Jack Nicholson) that you are not interested in my opinion, there is nothing I can add.

Nithavela said:

You're thinking to small. From Venezuela, you could start land grabbing the entire subcontinent of South America. It's easy to conquer and hold, with only a connection to North Africa and Central America, and you'll get two additional reinforcements per turn.

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Australia is better, same reinforcements only one way to invade.

elytron said:

I used to highlight my Bible like crazy and also with little sticky bookmarks. Now I prefer to keep it clean and mark free. The Psalms are amazing, I really need to read more its been a long time.

Welcome to Christian Forums.

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Thank you

David Lamb said:

"Straitened" not "straightened." "Straitened" means "made narrow." Nothing to do with curves!

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If they had been straightened, they would have been curved to begin with.

rjs330 said:

No they haven't. And of course they dont believe because they have been taught otherwise by those who have a particular social/political agenda.

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Are you planning on putting forth something other than your assertion?

rjs330 said:

Yes they are. The fact that you cannot use the term gender for anything that I can't use the word sex for and have it mean the same thing is the evidence for that.

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They don't mean the same thing. The two concepts of gender identity and sex identity are distinct for a lot of people. If you use sex identity with qualifiers to make it clear that you are talking about it in a cultural sense what have you gained instead of saying gender identity? Nothing would change for trans people. Instead of saying that there is an incongruence between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth, they would say that there is an incongruence between their psychological/social/cultural aspects of their sex identity and the sex they were assigned at birth. Why not use a perfectly good word for it, if you have it.

That is in fact how it was done in Swedish, we created a new noun "könsidentitet" (it is just a compound word of sex-kön and identity-identitet). But there is still trans people.

rjs330 said:

You just think you used it differently. However I was able to use the word sex and there was no difference in the meaning.

You can use them that way if you want. But that doesn't mean they aren't the same thing. This is why transgendered people say they are the opposite of their biological sex. And the only way to squre that is to claim sex is not the same thing. They are female inside and male outside. But that is impossible. Because there is no strict interior maleness or strict femaleness and there is no way to strictly define it.

You will be able to tell by the context.

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Good, if I'm uncertain I'll ask.

Nithavela said:

He'll just have the DOJ throw anyone into the slammer that he pleases and there's nothing you can do about it.

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Yeah, like that's been happening.

DaisyDay said:

the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States.​

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Any behaviour we don’t like is secretly racism.

DaisyDay said:

This is deliberately provocative to stimulate conversation about racism.

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The left never shuts up about racism. We don’t need to “stimulate conversation”.

Emily, welcome aboard.

Hoping you find your times were rewarding.

PloverWing said:

Our town's street preacher does this each year at the town's pride festival. He picks I Corinthians 6:9-10 for his sign,

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Nice one

And why did they steal God's rainbow ?

Water too drink.

Dan1988 said:

Where does it say "God wants to save everyone"???? Answer Nowhere!!!!. You will have to try harder than that. Back to class you go

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3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2 3-4 NIV

When Jesus Christ lived on the earth, he told his disciples that he was going to be leaving them, and that he was going to prepare a place for them, but that one day he would come back and he would take all his followers (his faithful bride) to be with him for eternity. And that was nearly 2000 years ago. And so there are people who doubt his words, since he has yet to return and to take his faithful ones to be with him for eternity. But just because it has not yet happened, it does not mean that it will not happen.

One day Jesus will return for his faithful bride, and he will take us to be with him for eternity. And the world as we know it will be destroyed with fire, along with all who are ungodly. And who are the ungodly? They are not just all who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are all who are living ungodly lives in deliberate and habitual sin against God and in willful and habitual disobedience to his commands. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones DOING the will of God.

But just because our Lord has not yet returned, it is not a sign that he will not do what he said he would do, for his timing is not the same as ours. And the reason for his delay is that he is not wishing (willing, wanting) that anyone should perish in their sins, but that all would come to repentance. And repentance is a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. For it means we die to our old lives of living in sin so that we can now serve our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, in his power.

So, this is not just about confessing our sins and asking God for forgiveness, but this is us turning away from our sins to now follow Jesus in obedience. And to confess our sins is not just a verbal acknowledgement of sin, but it is agreeing with God about our sin, not just that we sinned, but that Jesus Christ died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him, we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands (see 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6).

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Send a Revival

An Original Work / June 25, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Send a revival to this nation, Lord, I pray.
Bring us to our knees, Lord, humbly today.
Teach us to daily walk in your footsteps.
Guide us in your truth, and may we find rest.
Send a revival to this nation, Lord, I pray.
Bring us to our knees, Lord, humbly today.

Be our desire and our hearts’ pure devotion, Lord.
Make us a people who walk close to you.
Change our hearts to conform to your likeness.
May we love others who are in distress.
Be our desire and our hearts’ pure devotion, Lord.
Make us a people who walk close to you.

Teach us to be an example of your love, Lord.
May we serve others as though serving you.
Keep us in fellowship with you, I pray.
May we obey you in all things today.
Teach us to be an example of your love, Lord.
May we serve others as though serving you.

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But for All to Come to Repentance
An Original Work / November 30, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Brightfame52 said:

This post is about the saving effects of the death of Christ.

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If that were true, everyone would be saved.