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My son Jakeb has a doctor appointment tomorrow. He is not doing well mentally at all. Please pray for God's healing love and to protect him. Please pray that God keeps him safe tonight. Calms his mind and no bad thoughts please. A mother's greatest fear is to lose her child. Please pray that won't happen. That God will get him through this and guide us and his doctors. Please ask God to give him some joy and keep him safe. He's crying. Please Dear God give him some happiness. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you.

The christian baptism

Hello everyone

John told the difference between his own baptism, in water, and this of Jesus in spirit and fire

I make the hypothesis part of Jesus's consists in admitting the powerful Messiah could be defeated, and his life depend on men's good will.

According to this hypothesis, the first Jesus baptized would have been John the Baptist, when the latter, after opposition, finally consents to baptize Jesus. Then, the Holy spirit appears, a voice is heard, from God, and John is made able to bear testimony to Jesus.

Indeed,
JB thought and told it was him, JB, that was in need of the christian baptism, and not Jesus of his.
May be was JB in search of a Messiah that wouldn't be in need of him, JB
Because, actually, a Messiah in need of men wasn't fitted to be a Messiah, they thought.

Yes, may be, but
what do they think of a Messiah that'd let men think He is, or He's got the solution of their problems ?

However unbearable might be the question, i wonder yet whether such a Messiah wouldn't mean conforting men into demobilizing themselves ?


It's a deed JB will not follow Jesus, nor will the latter let JB follow him : After Jesus' baptism, JB still looks mobilized with his baptizings in water. Nothing new for him : An ordinary man, diminishing as he himself foretold ; Still no miracle happens through him ; as first baptized and convert (according to my hypothesis), the so called greater of prophets by Jesus will end up preceeding Jesus in death, beheaded, escaping to fall in oblivion in Herod 's prison thanks to Jesus' resurrection. The latter king whose name is only famous thanks to him, John..

Similarly to JB's unwillingness, they could analyse Simon's reproaches to Jesus as Jesus announces his death on the cross, and go on with this analyse up to the coming of the Holy Spirit in the Acts, that looks a bit like the coming of the Holy Spirit at Jesus baptism.


Finally, to conclude
the valuable questions of this thread are :

Is admitting one's oblivion by the world the mark they are true christians (see the anonymous diminishing of JB, from his not following Jesus up to Herod's prison ; see also the pagan share of Jesus' last stuff (his clothes), through their gambling, anonymous as well) ?

Might it be as well, the mark of a frustration of the world ? (chatgpt's answer admitted ;))

I hold a view similar to the Open View of God.

Which is it? A or B?

A. I have a choice whether to follow God.
B. God already knows whether I will choose to follow him or not.

C. You will choose because you must. You cannot avoid it. And God knows what you will choose— knew it before the foundation of the world. Argue against the Bible, if you will: Have you not heard of the Biblical term, "the elect"? Do you think the "Bride of Christ" is a haphazard compilation of indeterminate members?

Actually your (C) answer is actually choice (B), which makes sense because we established your belief that God causes sin, and you admit again I choose because I must, cannot avoid it, and God knows what I will choose, which negates (A).
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Earliest denial of sons of God meaning angels

Angels were not given the capability to procreate ... if they were what stopped or is stopping them from doing it now? No such thing as a angel/human hybrid.

Genesis 6

1Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

It states here they were MEN (mankind) men/man not angels.
The offspring were men in the scripture you quoted, not the sons of God
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Anyone up for a chat thread?

For Brisbane prediction is 34 Celsius today (getting on for 95 Fahrenheit), witih humidity about 63%.

The next few days will be a bit cooler, but then it will start to heat up again.

No surprise - it's usually warm or hot at this time of year and doesn't start to cool down till March.

Our winters are balmy, but our summers are too hot.

I remember just flipping the TV when one of those shows where people are looking for a new home happened to be on.

One couple were in Cornwall, England (I think) but it happened they also lived in Brisbane, Australia, which prompted me to watch for a few minutes as I'm generally not interested in those sorts of shows (or cooking shows, or Big Brother garbage). Being from the Brisbane area myself I was mildly interested in their reasons.

They made the comment that Brisbane was hot and humid in summer but great in winter. They were looking for a summer retreat in a cooler climate. He was a builder so I suppose they could afford to do it.
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B flat B♭

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Denaturalization

Citizenship in Judaism is by religious practice. What makes a person a Jew? You can't fell Jew's to denounce they ARE Jews. And you cannot tell Israel as a country they cannot consider foreign born Jews as Jews. You can be all kinds of nationalities in Islam. Circumcision does not make you automatically Saudi Arabian.
Why are you bringing circumcision into a discussion on Trump's wanting to end dual citizenship in America? If dual citizenship were to be barred by law here with having another citizenship would get you American citizenship revoked. My question is if Jews would be the sole exception. You seem to be arguing in favor that they would be.
Because it matters to Jews. It is their religion. What is the exception? They do not need one. And you cannot tell Israel they cannot consider them Jews either. Now they have reclaimed their homeland. Just leave them alone.
No one would be removing the Israeli citizenship, just the American one should this not be the exception. This isn't about Israel, this is about the American president wanting to forbid dual citizenship - American only. Jews would be free to choose to remain American and forfeit their Israeli citizenship or they can claim Israeli citizenship and forfeit their American one - unless there is a special condition just for them.
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Is there a Christian political philosophy?

Perhaps one would enjoy starting a new thread in the Conspiracy Theories subforum to discuss their loyalty to dead governments. I simply believe that a functioning Christian political philosophy must function in terms of living governments and active authorities, rather than dead ones.

Have a good day.
Not if they steal from Caesar.
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Why we are not supposed to keep the Sabbath

Historical context. The mosaic law was given 430 years after Abraham.

“Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as one would in referring to many, but rather as in referring to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ. What I am saying is this: the Law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

This is just poor translation. It is talking about the covenant of the promise (better translations include “in Christ”) and not the covenant of circumcision/blood oath through animals.

Hebrews 8:13
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Trump dispenses with trials, orders military strike on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat (Now up to 2, 3, 4...)

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Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says

I've said my piece. You've said yours. Unless you have any credible evidence to add to the discussion; I'll leave discernment, on what has been presented, up to the readers.
Let the record show that HARK failed to show how two numbers can fail to be part of the ten- year average for the 30s as reported on the chart.
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Is Europe facing civilizational erasure?

I am not an atheist and shallow and broken spirituality is the root cause of Europe's problems. We are materially rich but hollow shells because of the crisis of faith that has emptied out the heart of Europe and denuded it of all power.
Which problems are these? I live in the UK and I don’t see anything different. Exactly what problems are you referring to?
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