wing2000 said:

Oil futures rose yesterday after news of the ship's seizure was announced.

"This is just yet another geopolitical/sanctions headwind hammering spot supply availability," Rory Johnston, an analyst with Commodity Context, said.

Good job Donald. It's almost as though he wants to increase the price oil. Shell oil, who ships 150,000 barrels per day to the US from Venezuela, should be happy with higher prices though.

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CLEEB said:

Before anyone becomes a Christian they are “in the world“ , they are unconverted and still in their sins. The scripture says all have sinned, just what is it that determines this ? What is that we have done that makes us sinners ? Scripture says we need Jesus to have these sins forgiven, so we need Jesus to take away whatever it is that says we are sinners. I know we are saved from our sins but what is it that calls us sinners
because that is what we need saved from. All people need saved from whatever it is that calls us sinners. People in the past, the present and the future all need saved from whatever it is that says we are sinners.
Sure, we need saved from sin but sin is the result of whatever it is that defines what sin is. What is it ?

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Adam, and Eve the first sinners. God created everything good and very good so no disease or pain or death but they broke Gods one command to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good, and evil so God cursed the world in Genesis 3. All humans after them have 'sinned'. Creation was around 5500 BC. Creation . com and answers in genesis have articles about creation vs evolution biology fossils etc if someone has not looked into that already.

Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

So apparently Gods perfect law involves sacrificing animals on a temple mount temple in Judea, not wearing mixed fabrics, stoning other people to death, not eating shellfish, not once lying. So everyone has broken those laws. And it was saying even if someone followed all it still doesn't make them righteous only belief in Jesus death burial resurrection does. Eventually in Revelation 20-22 in the future in the new Jerusalem there is no more curse from Genesis 3. Believers have glorified bodies not ones that get sick and worn out like on earth, and believers life forever with God Jesus angels etc.

1 Corinthians 2 9 No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him

1. The Origin of Human Sin — Adam’s Fall​

Genesis 3 (the entire chapter)​

Human sin begins when Adam and Eve disobey God.

Specific verse describing the consequence:

Genesis 3:6​

“The woman took of the fruit… and ate; she also gave to her husband… and he ate.”

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This act introduces sin and death into human history.

Genesis 3:17​

“Because you have eaten… cursed is the ground because of you.”

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2. All Humans Inherit a Sinful Nature​

Psalm 51:5​

“Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.”

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Shows sin is not just actions — it’s a condition.

Job 14:4​

“Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.”

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This describes inherited impurity.

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⚖️ 3. All People Commit Sin​

Romans 3:23​

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

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This is the clearest universal statement.

1 Kings 8:46​

“There is no one who does not sin.”

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Even the Old Testament states universal sinfulness.

Ecclesiastes 7:20​

“Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.”

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4. Adam as the Source of Human Sin​

Paul’s theology directly connects all human sin to Adam’s act.

Romans 5:12​

“Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.”

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Romans 5:19​

“Through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners.”

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This explains why we are sinners — we inherited Adam’s fallen condition.

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5. Sin is Universal in the Human Heart​

Jeremiah 17:9​

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”

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Mark 7:21–23​

Jesus explains sin comes from within:

“From within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts… All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

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6. Humans Cannot Attain Righteousness on Their Own​

Isaiah 64:6​

“All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.”

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Even our best deeds cannot erase our sinfulness.

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⭐ Summary: Why Humans Are Sinners (Biblical Teaching)​

1. Adam’s original rebellion brought sin into the human race (Rom. 5:12).
2. All humans inherit a sinful nature (Ps. 51:5).
3. All commit personal sins (Rom. 3:23).
4. The human heart is corrupted and produces evil (Jer. 17:9; Mark 7:21).
5. No one is righteous by themselves (Eccl. 7:20; Isa. 64:6).

Put together:

We are sinners both by inheritance and by personal choice.

Consider, the wisdom of God, with which all creation was made, included mathematics, which had always been in the wisdom of God. It was necessarily present in God's wisdom, as God is triune in being. If God was not triune but solitary in being, there would be nothing of mathematics from that, as there would be nothing but solitary unity, everything would be just a value of one, and no other numbers. Love God has requires more than one, and creation would not come with no number but one. God's creation is possible as it comes from love that God has, and has without limit.

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This is a long discussion/explanation and requires academic readings. But in short Chat GPT is correct; The term "yehudi/Jew" comes from the Southern kingdom of "Judah" vs The Northern kingdom of "Israel".

It becomes way more complicated when using the term "JUDAISM" and Chat GPT does do a decent job explaining that term because pre-70 AD it was not used as a term for a religious system. A better translation back then would be "the way of the Judeans" and not Judaism.

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yep thanks for the comment. I don't use the word judaism or jew-ish due to the confusion it causes. If i say jews I say OT Jews or OT jews at Jesus time to put it in historical context. The word jew jewish judaism appears zero times in the dead sea scrolls of enoch, jubilees, test of the 12, war scroll, damascus document, community rule, temple scroll, and every single other non protestant OT scroll. it does appear in Isaiah once in the DSS. ofc if someone reads about the dss the authors say jews wrote them and a jewish community and judaism blah blah blah... the words are thrown around really loosely and just wrongly

It gets very confusing with all the different religions and claims that this or that belief or ideas from various movements that they have the path that leads to God, so is it. But when you hear a Christian religious leader or teacher claim that all religions lead on a path to God, that raises questions. Scripture is clear that is not the case. We find it in John 14...

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus declares that the only way to God is through Him.

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My 4-yr.-old great granddaughter wants a Christmas card so I ordered one plus three for her siblings. I don't know if they'll arrive in time for Christmas.

Femininity is a gift given to us by God. It’s not toxic, and it’s not a problem. In fact, we need femininity. Women are the heart of society, and a weak heart will beget a dying culture. As Anthony Esolen wrote in his book No Apologies, “The masculine and feminine stand and fall together.”

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The Baptist, then, was not standing at the crossroads warmly greeting the pilgrims, saying, “All you need is faith alone, and you are saved! All are welcome! Have a nice time in Jerusalem!” No, he didn’t say that because merely being a member of a particular race of people, even the race chosen by God, was not good enough.

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From our morning coffee routine to scientific research, we are a bundle of habits. Good habits are virtues; bad habits are vices. Whether good or bad, our habits govern the faculties of our souls and shape our emotions. At times, vices intermingle with virtues like poison ivy hidden among flourishing foliage. Healthy introspection, aided by God’s grace, helps us identify and distinguish our virtues from our vices. The classic teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, rooted in the wisdom of the great pagan philosophers, provide a stable framework for self-understanding.

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Homily Friday, December 12 2025



Isaiah 48:17-19

“Your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea.”



By allowing the Lord to live within us and receive his grace, we open a window of possibilities.



Matthew 11:16-19

“We played the flute for you, but you did not dance.”



Sometimes we are ingenious in seeking all sorts of ways to reach people, but in our experience, this doesn't work. The shortest path is to lead the person into God’s heart to notice and receive his grace.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

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12/11/25 Day 8

O St. Lucy, whose name proclaims the radiance of light, we approach you with humble confidence to seek your holy intercession. Obtain for us, through your prayers, that sacred illumination which guides our souls away from the shadows of sin and leads us toward the brightness of virtue.

Obtain for us also these petitions which we offer to you in this novena:

[Mention your petitions now]

We beseech you, St. Lucy, through your powerful advocacy before the throne of the Lamb, the protection of our eye sight, and for the grace to employ our eyes always in service of God’s glory and never for that which offends His divine majesty.

Help us to perceive with clarity the truths of our faith and the needs of our neighbor, that we may walk steadfastly in the light of Christ and labor earnestly for the salvation of souls.

Pray for us, St. Lucy, that having honored you as our advocate in this earthly pilgrimage, we may one day behold with you the eternal splendor of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose divine light all shadows flee away forever. Amen.

samaus123456789 said:

chat GPT

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Thank you, samaus 1-9, for these information

“Martin Luther King was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.”
- Charlie Kirk

Where was the moral outrage from our conservative counterparts when Kirk went out of his way to trash the reputation of the late Martin Luther King - who himself had been assassinated!

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Ivan Hlavanda said:

1 Cor 15:45 says otherwise "So it is written: 'The first man Adam became a living being'; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit".

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Descriptions of the antediluvian world are hard to comprehend even for people that have spent a lifetime of formal study on the topic. Ascribing history level precision to every line of Moses' poems isn't something high level Christian academics do. Just a few chapters later you have the "table of nations" where fathers and sons are representing large groups of people.

With a modern(or at the very least post classical) creationist interpretation there are obvious things that don't fit the literal timeline of the early genesis chapters. Noah's flood according to western Christianity falls into recorded history that's backed with archeology findings(whole cities and temples with writing founded by Pharoahs), synced with astronomical observations and carbon dated for good measure. There's just not a good way to assign fixed dates for antediluvian times in the bible.

My suspicion is the story of Adam is much older, people "toiled"(Genesis 3:17) for 1000s of years before the kept harvest records and hundreds more before harvest records became writing. There was historically a first person to work a field, this is who I ID as Adam. He would be the first man in a lot of people's eyes even if he wasn't physically the first. Mostly because of his works. Of the 8 billion or so people alive today only a handful, less than 10k people can truly say they are from a time before Adam and separated from Adam. The 7.99999 Bilion others live the life of Adam everyday in some form or another.

I want to be cautious in what I say since I am only going by impressions. Her preaching sounds like an echo of a corrupt strain that manifests itself in examples like Chic tracts or ( worse) Westboro Baptist expression. This strain seems to condemn any Christian ( Orthodox, Catholic, most Protestants) who would say ( for ex.) that the Lord wants us to give alms & pray ( Matthew 6:1-13) as “works based” salvation. It reads a chapter like Romans 5:1-24 in which the individual aspect of hope ( verses 2, 4, & 5) seems to be discarded and grace, faith & justification becomes like an entitlement. Any aspect of nuance in our relationship with God by Jesus Christ via the commandments ( Matthew 22:36-40), the golden rule ( Matthew 7:1-12), John 14:15-18 etc. is lost to some sense of self justification.

FutureAndAHope said:

I know I am going to step on a lot of toes by saying this. But as Christians are we not supposed to be subject to the ordinances of man. The whole COVID rebellion in my opinion makes Christians look bad in the eyes of the world and makes people mistrust Christians.

Rom 13:1-2 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

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According to your statement, in atheistic China, all Christians should submit to the communist party. In Nazi Germany, all Christians should submit to the National Socialist party. Do they make any sense??

No.
So is the COVID rebellion necessarily bad? Not necessarily.

truthuprootsevil said:

Nuclear weaponry most definitely

Zechariah 14:12

And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the people that have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh still consume away while they stand on their feet, their eyes will consume away in their holes, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouths.

Sounds like the immediate effects of nuclear weaponry. And I noticed that some of the newer translations use the word rot, and there is a difference in rot and being consumed away while you stand on your feet, while standing on your feet means immediate action.

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But it is the Lord Who is said in Zechariah 14:12. Are you saying that God "most definitely" uses nuclear weapons?

I am not intending today, in this writing, to go into the full story of Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, and of Jesus’ false arrest, his mock trial, his beatings, and his ultimate death on a cross to take away our sins and to give us the hope of eternal life with God. You can read all the details of that in the gospels, if you would like. For what I believe the Lord is leading me to do today is to look at the subject of betrayal in our world and in the church today, at the hands of those who are deliberately betraying both Christ and his followers.

So, I Googled a definition of what it means to betray someone, and I believe this covers the subject well. This is what Google’s AI rendered:


So, who are some of those who betray Jesus Christ and those of us who are followers of Christ today? Some (or many) of them are pastors of churches (or what are falsely called “churches”), while some (or many) others are politicians and government heads. Others are those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, who claim to know him as their Savior and Lord, but who betray both Christ and the body of Christ through lies, deceptions, disloyalty, infidelity, and false claims of living righteous and holy lives, pleasing to God.

When they want to make a good impression on someone of faith, they might put on a performance of godliness and holiness, as though they are living the life that God has designed for them to live, but while, in truth, they are living the opposite of that, in practice. They are like the Pharisees who put on a good show outwardly but while inwardly they are full of all kinds of evil and wicked deeds. For they want to be thought well of by those who don’t know the difference. But their performance does not match their actions.

But there is another way in which this betrayal is taking place in the world and in the church today, and it is deadly. And it is through people taking Scriptures out of context, and twisting them to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context, and by them teaching a twisted and altered “gospel” message which makes no requirements of sinners to repent of (turn from) their sins to now follow Jesus in surrender to his will in walks of obedience to his commands, but while promising them life in heaven.

They are not only lying to the people, but they are betraying their trust by teaching them lies and while (willfully and deliberately, in many cases) they ignore the truth in the Scriptures which teach what they do not want to hear, and what they will not accept. Thus, many people are professing faith in Jesus Christ, believing that their sins are forgiven and heaven is their eternal destiny, but who never deny self, die to sin, or follow Jesus Christ in walks of obedience to his commands, living to please God with their lives.

And 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).

So, we need to be discerning people who are not gullible and easily persuaded by others who call themselves “Christians” or “Pastors.” For not everyone is who they say they are, doing what they say they are doing, or not doing. Liars, and those who willfully deceive others, abound. And we should be students of the Scriptures who study them for ourselves, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, who do not rely on others to tell us the truth. For many teach lies, and many betray, and not all can be trusted.

[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]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Those Who Betray
An Original Work / December 11, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Aftermath of Saturday's eruptive episode:



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