The Liturgist said:

It’s not a false accusation; I’m not accusing you of anything, I am trying to understand why you posted what you did.



If you did not intend to deny that the fingers of Christ are the fingers of God, then why did you post the above in a response to my post where I said the same fingers that etched the Decalogue gleaned wheat on the Sabbath?

Click to expand...

Where did Jesus glean wheat on the Sabbath, verse please.

I didn't see that in any Australian outlet. Just to note that we have reached a point when 'Court finds yet again that US President sexually assaulted woman' isn't deemed newsworthy.

Always in His Presence said:

When if's and but's become candy and nuts - every day will be Christmas

Click to expand...

From here: Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness

'Suspending the shipment of military aid to Ukraine was a unilateral step by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to three congressional aides and a former U.S. official familiar with the matter. It was the third time Hegseth on his own has stopped shipments of aid to Ukraine, the sources said. In the two previous cases, in February and in May, his actions were reversed days later.'

We know it wasn't Trump because he didn't even know it had happened. If the Defence Secretary unilaterally decided to stop sending arms to Ukraine without telling Trump, then you have a big problem. If you are suggesting that Hegseth didn't do it and someone else made the call without telling either of them, then you have a huge problem.

Which do you prefer?

Fantine said:

Wow. So Republicans are better at recognizing weed plants than Democrats are?
Wonder how that happened?

Click to expand...

??? what ???

Godcrazy said:

I was told by a non believer that I should not be "so meek".
Someone I was talking to like a friend, that we shared issues with, trying to assist another.
End up as someone trying to control and I stood up setting boundaries to which they did NOT like.
Ended there. But she said early on " I shouldn`t be so meek" not explaining, but I am in the understanding how Jesus wants us to be, as one that does not flare up but patience in God and a gentle soul.
It just shocked me that she said that I was like what how can you speak against the Lord how He wants me to be

Click to expand...

The meek are blessed for they will inherit the earth. The non believer does not want you to inherit the earth so they are trying to control and alter your behavior to have you conform to a way that is less advantageous to yourself.

One of your posts also mentions attachment styles. In these worldly teachings people are victim to circumstances of how they were raised to either be securely attached or anxious/avoidant who are victims of abuse or neglect.

If you want to heal from trauma to have the secure attachment you would have to essentially be born again, you would have to start life over to have a good life and the secure upbringing. I believe this is why God has believers become born again or at least partly why. I believe that God will never abandon people and this is how I have a secure attachment (Deuteronomy 31:8)

I was abandoned as a child and often left to fend for myself there was a lot of cruelty, I also had seen others who had been adandoned even being left in a dumpster as a newborn child. Before knowing God I would always be so angry at being abandoned but God never abandons.

If God is your primary source of care then it would mean that you will have a secure attachment because you have 0% chance of ever being abandoned, God will never abandon us, only we abandon God.

Michie said:

N.B.: the term "Christian" in this story actually means "Catholic,"--whether Roman or an Orthodox sister-church. That translation applies to almost all news reports from the Middle East.






Netanyahu's war on Catholics is not a new thing for Israel; it is merely a continuation of a decades-old policy whereby long-settled Catholic communities are systematically eradicated by Jewish "settlers" who lay claim to land--and then find ways to 'remove' the original inhabitants. (Yes, it is a replication of the wars on Indians in the USA.)

Continued below.

Netanyahu's War on Catholics

dad29.blogspot.com

Click to expand...

Quite surprised you posted this. Good for you.Truth.
Blessings

If we keep letting them have their way, making new law,s added forms and regulations and increased problems, the whole system's just going to come to a grinding halt at some point.

Why even have business in Minnesota, or in this country even, if it's just better in every way to do it somewhere else? Or else, where you can give in and reduce work, just for your own good.

It's a bad trend. How about we reverse it, instead, and make things easier. People, I'm sure would rather try that - that's why these people are losing their grip in large parts of the country - people see where it's going. Downhill.

The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, after consultation with his boyars, Russian leader Vladimir the Great sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. The result is described by the chronicler Nestor. Of the Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga the envoys reported there is no gladness among them, only sorrow and a great stench. He also reported that Islam was undesirable due to its taboo against alcoholic beverages and pork. Vladimir remarked on the occasion: "Drinking is the joy of all Rus'. We cannot exist without that pleasure." Ukrainian and Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys, and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it as well, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence that they had been abandoned by God. His emissaries also visited Roman Catholic and Orthodox missionaries. Ultimately Vladimir settled on Orthodox Christianity. In the churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty; but at Constantinople, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: "We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth," they reported, describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, "nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it."

ralliann said:

Are you writing Palestinian election law here. LOL

Click to expand...

Dictatorships aren’t really into that kind of thing.

Hoping2 said:

As real Christianity is the smallest minority on earth right now, how else would you expect the media/majority to perceive them ?
Just be aware, not all who use the label "Christian" are really servants of God.

Click to expand...

To add to this there is a Bible verse Matthew 7:21 that says this.

Clare73 said:

Depends on your point of view. . .

Click to expand...

Do you have a point of view that you are willing to reveal?

"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7)

tdidymas said:

All this sounds nice, but to claim God is not angry "sitting on a high mountain" is a straw man. God is most certainly angry at sinners, since it clearly says, "he who does not believe will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." So the one who refuses to believe in Christ remains in disobedience and under God's wrath.

This is critically important in communicating the gospel to the ungodly, because most unbelievers don't think they are wicked in God's sight, and so they have no incentive to seek to be saved from their sinful nature. Most people I've met and heard a response concerning their state of spiritual affairs claim to be "a good person." So people have to be told they are sinners under God's wrath, because they simply don't believe they are, and so they don't have a healthy fear of God. On that, Jesus said, "fear Him who can destroy your body and soul in gehenna."

The good news is that the grace of God (that is, the power of the Spirit in redemption) overcomes unbelief and fear, and induces hope that Christ will save. So it is through the fear of God, that eternal punishment is deserved for every sinner, that the love of God is known and appreciated, by recognizing Christ substituting Himself in the punishment we deserved.

The belief in this doctrine begins a personal relationship with God, in which the individual starts trusting in God's divine help to do all that which pleases God. This relationship strengthens with knowledge, experience, etc., and the testimony from God that He is pleased. Is not that something to rejoice about?

Click to expand...

I am reminded of Dr. Luther's sermon wherein he says, "He who sees God as angry, does not see God rightly; but is as a dark storm cloud has covered His face" We need to be very careful when talking about God's wrath. Wrath is what I behold when I see God hidden behind the dark storm cloud of His righteous glory and holiness; not when I see God revealed and shown to us face-to-face in the Incarnate Person of Jesus Christ, in particular, at the Cross.

Law and Gospel; Deus Absconditus and Deus Revelatus; these are incredibly important concepts that we need to understand exist in dichotomy.

It's not about God being angry, it's about God being holy.
It's not about God being angry, it's about us being sinful.

That's what the wrath of God is: to behold the Holy God as unholy sinners. Because the message we proclaim isn't that God is going to send people to hell unless they get their ducks in a row (and having the right religious program would be one such duck); the message we proclaim is that we are the enemies of God because of our sin. The animosity is a one way street: We hate God, God doesn't hate us. Wrath is about the truth of our condition as utterly sinful as we approach the blinding glory of the Holy God--because we can't. It is entirely too dreadful, as it is written, "It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God" not because God is angry, but because God is Holy.

-CryptoLutheran

essentialsaltes said:

“I go to Hooters. I eat rare steaks. I lift extremely heavy weights. I read the Bible every night. I am pursued by copious amounts of women. I am wildly successful. I have the physique of a Greek God. I have an IQ over 180. I am extremely charismatic. They hate this.”

Click to expand...

Hmm. I only got one out of nine there.

essentialsaltes said:

[He] was born in Sydney, Australia, ​

Click to expand...

And you are most definitely welcome to him. And a Greek God? Dionysus perhaps.

essentialsaltes said:

Their writer explicitly warned against such. Wired provided some facts. It can't be helped if some people see something as ordinary as a contrail and have to put a tinfoil hat on.

Click to expand...

They're so persistent in grasping at straws, they have to add a disclaimer to their own articles, advising people not to take their material seriously.

Why even publish it?

dlamberth said:

I'm also impressed that they are able to get laser pulses that are a fraction of a billionth of a second long.

Click to expand...

More precisely, these pulses were one ten millionth of a billionth of a second long. That's pretty short.

The Coming Solar Maximum: A Perfect Storm Brewing:
Here's what keeps space weather experts awake at night: we're not even at the peak yet. While big, these current storms are not the extent of what we can expect to face in the coming decades—or perhaps much sooner as the sun goes toward the peak of its 11-year activity cycle in 2025/26.

SWPC experts suggested the CME is part of a significant uptick in geomagnetic storm activity it has monitored as part of the current solar cycle, Solar Cycle 25. Solar flares in May 2024 prompted the most intense solar storms in more than two decades, reaching G5 levels and causing widespread GPS disruptions and some stress to power grids.

The statistics are alarming: Since the end of 2019, the ongoing cycle has already produced at least 50 X-class flares—major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms—with 46 of them occurring this year alone. We're essentially sitting on a powder keg waiting for the match.
The clock is ticking, and our window for preparation is rapidly closing.

What would happen if your smartphone suddenly couldn't find its location, your power went out for days, and satellites started falling from the sky all at once? Ref; Climate Cosmos. July 2025

But we who study and take to heart what the Bible Prophets have told us, know that the Lord will use an earth directed Coronal Mass Ejection of an unprecedented magnitude to literally fulfil all the graphically stated Prophesies about the terrible Day of the Lord’s fiery wrath. Isaiah 66:15-17, Hebrews 10:27
‘Satellites falling from the sky!’ Just what Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:13 tell us.

We are also told what will cause the Lord to take action, the result of it and what will happen afterwards.
Psalms 7:12-16, Ezekiel 7:14, Isaiah 21:2, Jeremiah 49:35, Zephaniah 1:14-18, 2 Peter 3:7, Revelation 6:12-17 & 14:18-20
Soon after – Ezekiel 34:11-16, Isaiah 35:1-10, Jeremiah 31:1-40, Romans 9:24-26

SimplyMe said:

your family,

Click to expand...

All people who have been arrested are not entitled to contact with family. At least not until they have appeared before a court.

ozso said:

Where's his birth certificate?

Click to expand...

Well, since Krypton was blown to pieces in a hurry, Trump's maternal parents wouldn't have had time to pack it in his diaper bag. So any birth certificate presented could certainly be seen as a forgery, by the left, which would add felony counts of falsified federal and stste documents, as well as treason towards impending articles of impeachment.

Where is Fani Willis when we really need her!?

Studyman said:

Gen. 17: 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Ex. 12: 43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 "One law" shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

These are the exact same Covenant.

Click to expand...

These are? What do you mean? Passover is a fulfillment of the covenant made with Abraham One covenant is in operation here....
Exocus 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: {the LORD: or, JEHOVAH }
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Unleavened bread is a memorial feast of this fulfillment of what was promised Abraham in Genesis 15.
Not because it of Moses, but the fathers......
Joh 7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Studyman said:

And it doesn't create a Wall of Separation based on DNA, like you and Bob and "many" who come in Christ's Name try to convince others Paul is teaching in Eph. 2. Some, who profess to know God, try and convince me Abraham didn't know about the Christ being the Lamb of God.

Click to expand...

What on earth is this about?

This is one of those incidents where people just need to concede to common sense. (even if it means :gasp: letting the other side win in certain circumstances)

While marijuana is legal in most states now (which I feel is a good thing btw)

Employing underaged, undocumented people to work in in that field, is not.


This is one of those "pick your battles" situations (at least if you want objections to be taken seriously)

Gun stores are also legal in most states, if a gun store owner was employing underaged people (against the law) to process gun sale transactions, the "it's no big deal" people for this story, would think it was a much bigger deal.

My advice to more liberal people on this one is "don't take the bait".

Don't advocate for a position that's objectively stupid just so you can "oppose the Trump administration", this is exactly the kind of ammo they want to use against you.


Any legitimate gripes you may have with Trump's ICE policies are now going to be immediately met with "Yeah? You're the same people who defended 14 year olds working at pot farms so what value does your opinion have?"

essentialsaltes said:

Iunno. You're the one focused on the past. This thread about Trump ending the program. Nobody gets no money no more. And some of the money already granted is being clawed back, leaving local governments to foot the bill.

Click to expand...

No one was getting money because the BIDEN administration didn't do anything about it. Trump ended the program FIVE years after he instituted it. Who was in charge from 2021 to 2025?

Pay close attention:

This Texas county asked for disaster resilience help. The flood came first.​

No - the funds were available in 2020 -

From the link:

Did you catch that? the funds were available from 2020 until April 2025 - and nothing was done with them. What could have happened in the last 90 days, that was not done in the last five and a half years?

Trump had an effect on the fund for the last 90 days - the Biden administration had control of the funds for four years and you are blaming Trump? Such foolishness.