I never believed in a God, and people always felt I was a little arrogent when it comes to other people`s problems. I never had a personal problem, and everything I solved just by doing hard work. But, there was always a side of me that had a soft spot for them, I lost empathy a little over the years because they always made me suffer, and I felt it a little degrading to be in a society. I prayed sometimes, though I never got heard in the sense that Jesus talked to me, or something changed. So many years now I have focused on making life better for everyone, you can`t expect life to be good if you don`t go through the hardships, but I didn`t want to be too judging. Why people have problems, I don`t know, I just wanted us to be together and have fun. For the first time, I feel Jesus don`t have an answer for me, we don`t mix me and society. I feel sad that people follow the gouverment and wants to be enslaved

If God is not in control of everything, how can he make the promise of Eternal life? How can he go a step further than eternal life but also promise that sin itself will never happen again? Think about it, if humans had free will as it is understood today how is it that they can live forever if the requirement to be in the very presence of God is eternal sinless perfection? What is stopping another human, angel, or other potential creation of God from rebelling against God again if God is not in complete control of all things? What caused lucifer and humanity to fall? Two creations from God who by the way, were created perfect in every way and at one point in time probably thought that they would never fall. Yet, they did and they chose evil. Why? If it was not in God's will for these to happen and they all had the free will to do whatever it is that they wanted how and why did they fall? There are two arguments that i can think of that can be made to explain this conundrum.

1. Lucifer, Adam, and Eve chose to fall and God had to make a backup plan for how to redeem mankind and how to deal with Lucifers rebellion. But this argument doesn't explain how exactly God is going to keep humanity, the angels, and other creation of God from ever sinning again. It doesn't match up with the scriptures that say that God planned from before he created the world to redeem his Elect, it denies Gods omnipotence as a God that knows all and does whatever he pleases yet never sins because he is God and none are greater than him.

2. The fall was part of God's plan from the beginning and this fits in with God's complete sovereignty and this explains how he can promise that sin will never again enter the world nor will we, God's chosen children ever sin against God again. It also explains why God created lucifer and sin entered the world in the first place, another brain teaser.

The second argument seems to answer what really happened and how a fall will never happen again. Because the fall was part of God's plan and the rest of God's plan is that it will never, ever, happen again whatever God decrees it comes to pass. It argues that God knew from the very beginning and the very end of time that the fall was going to happen and that he not only let it happen, but predestined it to happen as part of his eternal and divine plan.

And all of Nigeria...

Christian pastor Rotimi Obajimi has escaped from terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria after nearly 10 months in captivity and has been brought back to his church, reports said.

"We were so amazed to see him because we have been praying earnestly for a long time trusting Jesus that He would surely come back, but lo and behold he was brought to our headquarters in Maiduguri by the military," a pastor at Redeem Church in Maiduguri told SaharaReporters.


Obajimi, who led the church in the rural area of Borno/Yobe province, was kidnapped by Islamic militants on Jan. 6. He was then taken to Sambisa Forest, where he was tied down for months, before being moved to an unknown destination and brought back to Sambisa once again.

The pastor revealed that he managed to escape thanks to a heavy downpour that led to large floods in the area, forcing his captors to leave him. Obajim wondered for days through the forest, before finally arriving to a village, where the Nigerian military picked him up.

He was treated at Maimallari Hospital and debriefed by the military before being allowed to return to Maiduguri.

Boko Haram, who have been waging war on the Nigerian government for over five years now, have slaughtered Christian pastors and entire congregations in their mission to establish Islamic rule over the nation.

Earlier this week the militants beheaded seven villagers in the northeast town of Ngamdu, apparently as revenge attacks against locals who have aided Nigeria's military or have formed vigilante groups to fight back against Boko Haram.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed claims that he had been killed in a video last week, and said that he is implementing strict Sharia law on towns in Nigeria that have been captured.

"Nothing will kill me until my days are over. ... I'm still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah," Shekau said in the video.

We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Quran. ... We now practice the injunctions of the Quran in the land of Allah," he added.

The militants made international headlines in April after they kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok.

There are fears many of the schoolgirls have been sold off as child brides, sparking international outrage. In July, prayer rallies and vigils in support of the girls marked 100 days since their kidnapping.

Initial hopes in September that the girls had been rescued were dashed after the Nigerian army clarified it had rescued some girls from the militants, but not those from Chibok. Boko Haram fighters have reportedly killed at least 11 parents of the schoolgirls in separate raids near Chibok.

please pray for sleep and for a toxic 'friend' to be kept at a distance from myself and other non-toxic friends in Jesus Name.
thank you for praying

Considering that we are dealing with “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” in the last book of the Bible, the fifth seal can only be rendered as the last judgment of the Church. Christ is not the mediator of the Old Covenant (Hebrews 12:22-24). Futurists and Preterists are only fooling themselves that the seven seals pertain to the Old Covenant people. The martyrs in the fifth seal are “slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held,” which refers to the Church, not the Jews that rejected Christ.

Revelation 4-5 mirror the judgment scene in Daniel 7 and represents the antitypical seventh month in the Hebraic cultus calendar, which is concomitant with what is revealed to the martyrs in response to their enquire,


The response is that the saints must endure a final judgment before judgment is meted out upon “them that obey not the gospel of God” (1 Peter 4:17). Again, futurists and Preterists are only fooling themselves; the seven seals pertain to the final judgment upon the Church, not the Old Covenant people.

The point is that the NT affirms there is a great falling away in the last days, and apostasy calls for judgment upon the Church in the last days,


Again, the house of God that Peter addresses the Church, not strictly the biological descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob under the Old Covenant.


No argument prevails against the truth that the Church is judged for its apostasy in the last days. Amos affirms Revelation prophesies about that judgment because “GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”

Just a little bit after having gotten a company to post his bond for the bit over 90 million to be able to appeal, it's possible that Trump managed to open himself up for a new lawsuit by Carroll for defamation. Not sure if it'll affect his appeal, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable about how it works can tell.


At a rally, Trump complained about having to post 91 million bond for the appeal and called Carrolls words "a fake story, a totally made-up story." And while not in the link, on a clip from YouTube of the rally, I believe he called her a horseface and claimed again that he didn't know her. Claims that led him to the current 91 million judgement to begin with.

BUDAPEST, March 4 (Reuters) - Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet former U.S. President Donald Trump this coming Friday in Florida, shortly after he openly endorsed his long-time ally's bid to return to the U.S. presidency this year.
The right-wing Orban, who has regularly been at loggerheads with the EU over his anti-immigration campaigns and moves to put the judiciary, NGOs, and media under more state control, has been described by Trump as a "great leader".

Orban's conservative family policies have also earned praise among populist figures in the United States, and Hungary has hosted meetings of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in the past years.

Hi,

Paul was a missionary and did the will of God,despite this, he had to suffer persecution sometimes, I sometimes ask , why didnt God protect him always ?

Br,

I've been having some suicidal thoughts or feelings swirling in my head lately. I didn't marry my girlfriend when I was twenty, so I didn't have kids. , now forties. No children, no marriage, I constantly questioned the value of my existence. Not having kids is probably the biggest reason why I question my purpose in life most of the time. Not very good. There will be no funeral services for next of kin. To make matters worse, I recently suffered from schizophrenia and other illnesses. I would hallucinate and have voices speaking to me. Thank God, schizophrenia can be cured through medication. I did attempt suicide on the high seas ,200 meters off the coast. I miraculously survived after hearing a supernatural voice speak to me, again I assumed it was a hallucination, an angelic voice spoke to me, taught me and reminded me of my time in the Navy, taught me How to swim and miraculously make it back to shore. I have been unemployed for several years. While I still had some savings, I felt like I was going to be a plane out of fuel sooner or later. My life was ultimately doomed. I think my biggest regret and fear is probably that I didn’t get married and have a few kids in the past. Children symbolize hope. I just don’t know how to stop these pessimistic views on life.

'He was an illegal alien, he was an illegal immigrant, he was an illegal migrant and he should have never been in this country and he wouldn't have been under Trump's policies,' the former president insisted.
He added that Biden has 'no remorse, no regret' and 'should be apologizing for apologizing to this killer.'
Meanwhile, Biden appeared just an hour down the road for a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia right before Trump came on stage.

The invasion has to stop.

I'm early to bed and early to rise.. to be healthy, wealthy and wise. -Benjamin Franklin

Hello to all. I joined for fellowship, and sharing God's Word and growing together in Him.

This is your clues

LORD OF THE RINGS

How many people have a form of godliness on the forum, talking about anything else other than Jesus Christ, reveals they have a form of godliness but no actual godliness.


2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.



When Jesus testified against the Jews of Israel they killed Him for it, and apostle also they bound as an evil doer as he testified, but shows the word of God is not bound.


Even though a forum may pretend it is Christianity, as the Jews of Israel feigned belief in God and put God to death, they all are releasing the truth by their attempted unjust actions...



2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

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Now, in an important advance supporting this RNA World theory, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., have carried out a small but essential part of the story. In test tubes, they developed an RNA molecule that was able to make accurate copies of a different type of RNA.

The work, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, gets them closer to the grand goal of growing an RNA molecule that makes accurate copies of itself.

To reach this point, the scientists overcame perhaps the greatest barrier to the plausibility of the RNA World theory. Up to now, no RNA molecule in the lab had succeeded in making copies of another RNA that were both sufficiently accurate and functional.

To show that their RNA was getting better at copying, the Salk team tested a 71st-generation version against one of its distant ancestors. The newer generation outperformed its ancestor when it came to making accurate copies.

In Christian churches all over the globe, we have a mixture.

All of the attendants claim to be believers, but only a tiny few are really His flock, truly born again.

The only pure church we have seen was at the very start of the church in the book of Acts.

Satan's attack, was indeed, this mixture. For the mixture, was like adding leaven, for the TWO CAN NOT fellowship (which is a Spiritual dynamic, not just physical) with one another, and neither does God move in the same kind of power with this mixture present.

Yet one more time on this earth, Jesus will make His church (Ecclesia) pure. This imho will be like a Goshen event were THEY are separated and gathered together, in one place, and there may be many of these places across the planet.

Hitler did try, he wanted certain species to be revived. But, the problem is that DNA is just the body, and when a soul is gone, the species is gone for good too. The soul is created differently from the start, not from DNA, transferred from being to being. Therefore, it will never be possible to clone completely, or to revive extinct species. And then it is also impossible to live forever, since the soul ages. The normal way of thinking is that the body ages, but that applies mostly to people who are part of society, who hold on to things mentally. A normal person will look the same all his life, with a body of normal function, but people in society will have a body that ages then, unpleasant death also since the body gives in first. It is an old wisdom actually that the body is not from DNA but is passed on from life to life, it's just the time we live in now where the cynical decide what others will think, but they never manage to figure out how to live forever even , they just go in their own thoughts, and try to make others think the same

Good day, I'm asking for prayer for the salvation of the people of Tranz Homos DZ, Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, Bisi Alimi Foundation, Intersex South Africa, Shams, Sexual Minorities Uganda, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-sexuals, and Gays, Accord Alliance, ACT UP, Advocates for Informed Choice,Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families & Friends, Against Equality, American Foundation for Equal Rights, American Veterans for Equal Rights and Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy and their families. Thank you for all your prayer.

The hammer was discovered Friday when 33-year-old Christopher Snow was going through security at the Capitol Visitor Center, according to Capitol Police.

An officer discovered the hammer inside the man's backpack as it went through an X-ray machine, but the man "attempted to grab the bag and became combative" when the officer tried to look inside the bag, USCP said in a press release.

I don't care if no one believes me, i don't want to displease God by not giving testimony.

I suffered spiritual attacks for years after being attacked by witchcraft, i was weak in the faith, and ignoring a lot of this could exist, and i was scared and very naive, and i absorbed all those attacks, i'm still in the process of being free totally.

The soul has a layer of protection i describe it as 'spiritual rubber', so witches do these voodoo rituals
and if you for some reason are weak in the faith, or ignorant and don't defend yourself with the weapons God has given us.
You could end in trouble, this voodoo binds this natural spiritual protection, and your soul gets almost naked to spiritual harassment.
It passed years of suffering, but today after coming from church, God freed me of those.
When you have this spiritual protection healthy is like being under a good roof from the rain, you don't notice the rain, but if you are exposed you feel all kind of spiritual annoyances.
This sound like some horror stuff, and it is, is horrible.

I think the closer you get to God, the more devils you are going to see, if not for the spiritual discernment He gives you, is going to be because of attacks they are going to try. In my case i could not defend myself properly for being in a bad place, it doesn't need to be this way however.

This was tweeted by our correspondent Colm Flynn about 40mins ago.

Pope Francis: “Ukraine must have the courage to raise the white flag and negotiate”... In an interview with Swiss television the Pope said: "You are ashamed, but with how many deaths will it end? Negotiate in time, look for some country to act as a mediator... Don't be ashamed to negotiate before things get worse."

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Methinks this won’t go over well…

A former South Carolina church youth volunteer will avoid prison but must register as a sex offender and wear a GPS ankle monitor for life after admitting to illegally touching children in crimes that spanned years, according to York County court records and lawyers in the case.

William Pinckney Carpenter III, 64, of Chester, pleaded guilty Wednesday to four felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child in a hearing at the Moss Justice Center in York for crimes that went from 2011 to 2021, documents show.

The crimes happened when Carpenter was a church volunteer at two Baptist churches in Rock Hill and York, at a private home, and aboard a bus during a church activity, Shelton said.

[Only two months left in #notadragqueen]

In 2020, Shelley Luther made national headlines after she was arrested for criminal contempt of court and sentenced to a week in jail after reopening her hair salon in Dallas despite Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home order.

Luther served at least a day in prison, although she was released early, and Abbott eventually changed his orders so that no one else could be imprisoned for violating those orders.

[She then went into politics and lost a 2020 race for state senate. Then in 2022, she lost to incumbent Texas House Rep Reggie Smith. And now the rematch.]

This time, she defeated Smith by more than 2,000 votes and will now face Democratic candidate Tiffany Drake in the general election.

Despite toeing the party line on border security, abortion and the Second Amendment, Smith may have run afoul of his voters when he voted to impeach fellow Republican and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last May.

Paxton was later acquitted by the state Senate, and many state lawmakers who tried to oust him were themselves ousted in this year’s primary election.

[As Paxton and his allies have prosecuted an intraparty loyalty purge.]

ETA: speaking of purges

The Texas GOP purge and other below-the-radar Super Tuesday nuggets​

As the Republican Party continues to shape its identity in the Trump era, the events in Texas shouldn’t escape notice.

Tuesday featured a very successful purge of moderate and insufficiently MAGA Republicans that could reverberate well beyond the state’s borders.

The basics: Both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) targeted a number of incumbent Republicans who had run afoul of them — Abbott for opposing his school voucher plan, and Paxton for supporting his impeachment and watering down his authority.

• Of 10 state House GOP incumbents Abbott targeted, only twowon renomination on Tuesday. Five lost, and three others were pushed into runoffs.
• Paxton was less successful in the state legislature; of the 35House GOP incumbents he targeted, most won. But seven lost, and eight others were pushed into runoffs — including, most notably, state House Speaker Dade Phelan (R), who led the failed impeachment charge.
• Paxton also successfully targeted all three Republican judges on the state Court of Criminal Appeals who were up for reelection — two of whom lost by landslide margins. The trio had voted in an 8-1 majority to strip him of power to prosecute voter fraud without the approval of local prosecutors.

Reformed Theology is considered highly accurate because it interprets the Bible as a whole, from Genesis to Revelation, rather than focusing on individual verses. This comprehensive approach helps address complex questions about God's identity, actions, love, the number of people saved, and our purpose on Earth, aligning as closely as humanly possible to the original biblical scriptures.

Examples of Reformed concepts would be Predestination, Total Depravity, God's sovereignty over all areas of life, God's omnipotent nature and more. All of these theological concepts are taken from the oldest and most accurate mauscripts of the Bible.

However, understanding Reformed Theology involves studying the Bible in its original languages—Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic—as they were used when the texts were written and as they have been copied down over the centuries by the Jews and Christians of history. This is essential because all English translations inevitably contain inaccuracies due to the evolution of these languages over millennia. Thus, while English Bibles are valuable, they should be approached with caution, and greater emphasis should be placed on the interpretations offered by theologians who have studied the original manuscripts.

Over the past 500 years, Reformed Theology has gained widespread acceptance among Protestants for its scripturally rooted doctrines. Its rigorous and sometimes challenging perspectives remind us of the gap between our sinful human desires and the teachings of the scriptures.

Other Protestant theological concepts that have existed over the years like Arminianism usually are not very accurate to the Bible because they're generally "proven" by a single verse or a small group of verses rather than taking scripture as a whole.

Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. NKJV



All the law does is give people the knowledge of sin. In other words, the law says, if you do “this” it is a sin.



Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. NKJV



All the law does is define sin. Even without the law people died. What law were the people under who that died from Adam to Moses?



Genesis 4:2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. 4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, 5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6 So the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it." 8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. NKJV



The commandments had not been given. None of the law of Moses, written laws or laws of any kind had been given. All that had happened at the time of Cain and Abel was, through Adam, man had gained knowledge of good and evil. Yet, Cain was envious and committed murder. Therefore, Cain knew the 7th and 10th commandments. When sin was defined sin revived and Cain sinned.



The entire world fell into sin when Adam gained knowledge of good and evil. They started to die at that time. The thing that Adam knew was, when he got the knowledge of good and evil he would surely die. Therefore everyone, when they get the knowledge of good and evil, has the knowledge of sin and because we are slaves to sin, we sin. When we have knowledge of good and evil it revives the sin within us and we die.



Does that mean that Cain was judged for his sin of breaking the 7th and 10th commandment. If he was then God lied because Romans 5:13 states that sin is not imputed where there is no law? Cain was not under the law, all he had was the knowledge of of good and evil.



Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. NKJV



God passed over the sins Cain committed. He did not impute the sin of breaking the 10 commandments to Cain. We must look at verses Genesis 4: 3-7 to determine what Cain did wrong. Verse 3 Cain brought an offering of his work. His work, as well as our work, will not get us justification.



Compare Cain's offering to Abel's offering. Verse 4 Abel brought the firstborn of his sheep. Abel brought the best of his flock. Abel's offering proved that he believed God. Abel's offering was accepted because his offering was the offering God required.



Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law. NKJV



The law required animal blood offerings for sins. As shown by Cain and Abel God required a blood offering prior to the law.



Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. NKJV



The offerings required, under the law, did not take away sins, it provided a temporary covering for sin. When the people made the offering for their sins it proved they had faith in God's word. Therefore, the law did not remove a person's sins. It was the faith the people had in God's word that justified a person under the law.




Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God NKJV




Faith does not void the law. The law and the prophets provided witness to righteousness through faith in Jesus. Justification by faith confirms the testimony of the law and prophets. Faith justified under the law and continues to justify under grace.

Long story short: I am, slowly but surely , dying. My body is getting weaker and weaker each day, I started to sleep a TON .... I'm diagnosed with something which triggers cancer in early to mid 30s , and I am in early 30s now so ..... Basically - illness is a death sentence and nothing I can do about it ... So I am cool with this from long time ago. Everybody dies anyway so ... xD

Anyway ... few weeks ago I was searching for some stuff on YouTube, and video bumped into my recommendation with title something along the lines - " The Holy Spirit test when you leave Earth , and you can't skip it . ". Something along those lines ...

So I wanna know , what does Bible or your belief say about this matter ?

I am dying ... and I know someone will wait for me after my spirit leaves body .... But how can I prepare for " test " , cause I assume death is not " straight forward thing " , sure there is some like .... " trap " there. xD

So ... any thoughts? Thanks. <3