samaus123456789 said:

Yeh I tried on a different browser not logged in, and nothing came up so I assume it takes some time to show up to others.

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Yes, I can't see it yet .. maybe a permission problem still? Anyway, looking forward to reading it Be blessed .. !

Dan Perez said:

Glad to see you DAVE ~~

In. Eph. 1 :4 we were CHOSEN , BEFORD //. PRO. is a PREPOSTION

THE FOUNDATION //. KATABOLE , is in the GENITIVE CASE , IN. THE SIGNULAR and. the SIGNULAR means ONLY

CHOSEN ONE TIME ONLY

of the WORLD //. KOSMOS. and also in. the GENITIVE CASE also. in. the SINGULAR.

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In Him...We were chosen in Him. One time was Jesus chosen. When we are in Him we are chosen with Him.

Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – left his throne in heaven, came to earth, and took on human flesh in being born as a baby to a virgin woman, but conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. So he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And while he lived on the earth he was fully human and fully God (God incarnate), and he never sinned. And at the age of 30 he began his earthly ministry. And so he called 12 men to be his disciples and to work alongside him in ministry.

During his 3 to 3 ½ years of ministry on the earth, he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, comforted the sorrowful, and he performed many miracles. He also taught the critical importance of repentance for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. And repentance, which is gifted to us by God along with our salvation and the faith to believe in Jesus, is a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior away from sin to obedience to our God.

There were many people who followed Jesus for a period of time, but many of them deserted him later on when his teachings became too hard for them to accept. For they were mostly following him because of the miracles he performed. But the religious rulers and people of influence in the temple of God mostly rejected him and fought against him, and tried to find ways to trip him up with his words so they would have cause to accuse him of wrong. And eventually they had him put to death on a cross, hoping to end him.

But it was God’s will and purpose that Jesus Christ should suffer and die on that cross. For in his death, he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands, by the Spirit. For in his death and resurrection he rendered powerless him who had the power of death, that is the devil, in order to free us from our addiction to sin so that we will serve God with our lives, living holy lives pleasing to him.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 17:25; John 1:1-36; John 6:35-58; John 8:24,58; John 10:27-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; Hebrews 2:14-15; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

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).

And this is the truth of the gospel message taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, which we can discover for ourselves if we read the Scriptures in their appropriate biblical context, and if we do not rely on other humans to tell us the truth. For many are they who are teaching lies in the name of Jesus, and in the name of the gospel of our salvation, who are teaching that all we have to do is to make a verbal confession of Christ as Lord, and now all our sins are forgiven and heaven is secured us for eternity.

But 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).

So, please be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context, and who believe the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles, and who do not rely on other humans and on social media and on preachers to tell you the truth. For many speak lies, either willfully with the intent to deceive, or unknowingly out of biblical ignorance. And please know that the Scriptures teach that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[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]

Who Believes?

Based off Isaiah 53
An Original Work / October 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gospel message, who believes?
Jesus Christ died on a tree,
Saving us from all our sin,
So we might be cleansed within.

Had no beauty found in Him,
That we should desire Him.
Man of sorrows, suffering;
Crushed for our iniquities.

Surely He has borne our griefs;
From our sadness, brings relief.
Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,
So forgiven we might be.

We, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us turned his own way.
Jesus calls, “Repent today;
My commandments, now obey.”

Jesus said, to come to him,
We must die to all our sin.
Crucified with Him, we live,
Walking in His righteousness.

Suff’ring servants, we will be,
Taking His identity on us,
When confessing Him
As our Savior, Lord and King.

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Freeing Us From Slavery to Sin
An Original Work / December 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Actually non citizens have a lower crime rate than U.S. citizens including the number of rapes per 100K. So if you were to ship all non-citizens out of America the rape rate per 100,000 people would go up not down.
Here is what google AI suggests on the rape rate between non-citizens and U.S. citizens in America.

Research consistently shows that
non-citizens have lower crime and incarceration rates for various offenses, including rape and other violent crimes, compared to U.S.-born citizens.

Key Findings:

• Lower Incarceration Rates: Multiple national studies, including one by the National Bureau of Economic Research, have found that immigrants (of all legal statuses) are significantly less likely to be incarcerated than native-born individuals.
• Lower Felony and Violent Crime Arrest Rates: Immigrants have lower felony arrest rates and are roughly half as likely to be arrested for violent crimes as U.S.-born residents.
• Specific to Rape/Sexual Assault:
  • State-level studies, such as an analysis of data for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., found that increased concentrations of undocumented immigrants were associated with lower rates of reported rape.
  • Texas-specific data from the Cato Institute found that undocumented immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime overall than U.S.-born citizens.
  • • One study noted that U.S.-born citizens were five times more likely than immigrants to be incarcerated for violent offenses.

Of course, the USA should ship out or jail all known non-citizen criminals. But to lower overall rape rates, the citizen crime rate for rape would need to go down.

Welcome to CF!

PloverWing said:

I think that the abortion question is a difficult balance between the rights of the embryo which (if all goes well) will develop into a healthy child, and the rights of the person who carries that embryo inside her body. It is further complicated by the many ways that pregnancy can go wrong.

Once viability has been reached, in late pregnancy, every effort should be made to save the child, delivering early if need be to save the child and also protect the mother's health. Earlier than that, I see it as varying shades of moral gray.

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I don't see viability as a variable. Sure, the more viable the fetus is, the more tragic an abortion is, but viability is achieved years after birth.

jonojim1337 said:

While the southern to northern border is outlined as Nile to the Euphrates, can you tell me where the east to west border is?

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For the boarder's that Israel will eventually be again?

Numbers 34:6 (NIV): "Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west."
Exodus 23:31 (NIV): "I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines..."
Genesis 15:18 (NIV): "On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.'"
Numbers 34:10-12 (NIV): The eastern border is described as running from Hazar-enan south to Shepham, continuing along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee (Chinnereth), and then running along the Jordan River to the Salt Sea (the Dead Sea).

Great gift by the Dell's. It is a decent program though I have some reservations. First, the government portion is given with borrowed money, except for the Dell's money. So more government debt but still a good program. The second reservation I have is whether it will be counted as assets by those applying for financial aid. If so, then the money plus any earnings could reduce future financial aid for those going to college. It is billed as a retirement account but says it can be used for college. Lastly, a quote from article:

"Private contributions will first be able to be made on July 4, 2026. The accounts will allow for private contributions of up to $5,000 a year. Employers can contribute up to $2,500 of that amount."

I edited this because it is in the Big Beautiful Bill and from what ai tells me there are no thresholds. So clearly the higher the income the great chance at maxing the savings.

If I were an employer I would offer to fund the 2.500 a year instead of giving raises for a year or two. That way I would not have to pay my portion of FICA taxes and it still could count as an expense, I would assume for the business.

An example from my brief study. I used an investment calculator. https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/compound-interest-calculator
First for the first 18 years, then that sum for an additional 40 years at a assumed interest rate of 7% which is very conservative.

A child of a family maxing the account, gets the 1000, but the family or employer can also provide up to 5000 a year to the account.
If you maxed it for 18 years. that is 91K plus the investment earnings. Assume 7% growth from inception, with payments of 400 a month for 18 years, and the child would have roughly 166k. At 9% they would have just over 200k.

Meanwhile a child whose folks or single parent is poor, would likely have little help except from the government so they fund the 1000 and at the end of 18 years they have 3,379 dollars.

Making the divergence even more pronounced, the fully funded account might go ahead and keep the account tax deferred. So lets assume they funded the account to the max for 18 years and had 166k, if you compound that for 40 years you would get 2.5 million. Here I assume that no more contributions are paid after the 18 years.

That is a great retirement for those who can max the account out. The poor would have 49K if they left their 3k plus in until they are 58.
The poor get a fair deal, it is better than nothing. Of course there are already tax deferred savings accounts for college. This however can be used for a home purchase or retirement.

I would conclude that this tax free account and baby bond money is tiled towards those that can afford to fund it.

Dan Perez said:

And Paul was not part of Israel. , PERIOD.

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Phil 3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, ofthe tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

I am aware of your opinion on Paul and completely disagree with it. No point in engaging.

partinobodycular said:

May I ask you two simple questions?

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Yes, after you've answered my two simple questions.

A Devil's Advocate said:

Titus 2:12, Galatians 1:4, Matthew 12:32, Mark 10:30, and Ephesians 1:21 all indicate a present age and an age yet to come.

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I see, so you don't recognize a "time past" that Paul mentioned in places like Ephesians 2:11-12?

Michie said:

Nobody is a parasite. We can always add the men that can’t keep it in their pants.

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They should go extinct too.

Hans Blaster said:

Not if tendered at the cash register.

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That depends on which cash register is chosen.

10% over spot seems like a pretty good deal to me.

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This is but one example of these food stores that I've seen that trade in constitutional money.

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For me it all started with. Kid’s show, Tales of the Riverbank. The theme song was nice and I found out later was a version of Maurio Giuliani’ Andante

Rev 13, and last kingdom of Dan 2,7 are still future. Sounds like the first beast in Rev 13 which is a person will survive an assassination attempt.

Here is the explanation of Rev 13


Interestingly enough spiritually satanic leaven of the Pharisees "Israel" had a deadly would 70 AD when God used the Romans to destroy it, and kill the people that killed Jesus but now since the 1900s that deadly wound has healed however that is not what it means as I stated above.

The real Donald Trump?

Remember When Trump Tried to Bulldoze a Widow’s Home to Make a Parking Lot for Limos?​

(Donald Trump) has spent two decades trying to evict the Scots who live next to his luxury golf course.
For almost two decades, a small band of Scots has resisted The Trump Organization’s efforts to turn their land into a playground for the super-rich. First he tried to buy them out, and then he tried to intimidate them—but they refused to uproot themselves for the sake of a billionaire’s bank account.

James alleged the non-profit failed to meet as a corporate board, failed to conduct any relevant oversight regarding grants issued and also failed to implement any policy whatsoever which might have protected the charity's funds from being skimmed by the Trump clan.

"In this vacuum of oversight and diligence, Mr. Trump caused the foundation to enter repeatedly into self-dealing transactions and to coordinate unlawfully with his presidential campaign," James said in her filing with the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Relatively amusingly, James also noted that Trump personally ordered his charity to spend $100,000 in order to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Last December, the Trump Foundation agreed to dissolve under judicial supervision due to Underwood's initial lawsuit.

Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M​

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge on Friday approved an agreement for President Donald Trump to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over his now-defunct Trump University, ending nearly seven years of legal battles with customers who claimed they were misled by failed promises to teach success in real estate.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said the agreement represents an “extraordinary amount” of money for customers to recover. Plaintiff attorneys say about 3,730 people will get at least 90 percent of their money back.

Meet the (Many) Small Business Owners Stiffed by Donald Trump​

It's not just whatever he was doing with Epstein; he's got a long history of behavior.

BCP1928 said:

Yes, the Democrats won't vote for a policy they are vehemently opposed to so the Republicans shut down the Government. Whose "fault" is that?

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Delvianna said:

BOTH sides.

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No. "If you don't do what I say, I'll (hold my breath till I turn blue, shut down the government, throw a tantrum)" is not the fault of the person who elects not to cave to the tantrum.

Michie said:

Flowers of the Madonna | EWTN

EWTN is a global, Catholic Television, Catholic Radio, and Catholic News Network that provides catholic programming and news coverage from around the world.

www.ewtn.com

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It's an interesting article, thank you.

Factotum said:

I am an Evangelical Christian looking to love the respectful, beautiful exchange of ideas here.
I heard nice things about this community. I have no expectations, I have no gripes. All I have is compassion for everyone.
And I thank yall, in advance, if yall plan to revere those things about me.

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I think I heard the angels sing upon your arrival. Welcome!

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

You’re debating a phrase in a verse- one verse says some people didn’t hear the voice, and then 23 years later, when Paul recounts the event, he says they heard the voice but didn’t see the man.

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Where did Luke hear the story? This isn't Paul recounting the story. This is Luke recounting the story. We don't know how long it took him to write from chapter 9 to chapter 22 but it wasn't 23 years. We don't know if Luke made the mistake or someone who copied the book. We don't have an original.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

Is this why you claim the Bible is full of errors?

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Can you actually read my posts and show where I stated that the Bible is "full of errors"?

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

Discrepancies like these can be found throughout all four gospels.

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Okay, but I didn't even say that many. Some can be explained.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

I'm sorry, but it seems you're more focused on proving your point, even if that means you consider the Bible to be full of errors.

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What do you think my point is? You've been incorrect thus far.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

Have a nice day.

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You too.

You may be right Mari17. The narcissism could be some of the ocd. As far as the pain meds I feel I began to use them for the wrong reason. Sure I would have a surgery and need them but I would continue to use them for psychological reasons and not for pain. I felt I was was choosing my flesh over what God wanted or expected. I feel that I hardened my heart through that and God had just had enough and it put me beyond repentance. I wonder if choosing my flesh was rejecting Christ. I never felt I was but the more I read I wonder if Jesus looked at it that way. No one really knows but God.