“Everyone here is pleading for mercy: to take pity, for mercy, for compassion, for them to stop this war, for them to stop shooting… for them to stop killing people, for them to stop bombing,” the only parish priest in Gaza, Father Gabriel Romanelli, said in a video he posted Sept. 23.

“There are stories that are terrible, there are stories that are truly terrible. People are deeply distressed and implore God to take pity, to have mercy on everyone, and they also implore taking pity on everyone, so that for the love of God this war may end,” the priest continued.

In a video that begins with the reaction of the faithful, including a child who seems frightened by a nearby explosion, the priest lamented that in Gaza “the bombing continues, it’s very heavy and ongoing, it sounds very loud, shrapnel and sounds come, even though some are 200, 300 meters away, 500 meters, 700 meters away, it sounds very loud, not to even imagine what it’s like for the people who are next to them or are in those places. Every day there are deaths and more deaths.”

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When we believe in Jesus Christ with biblical God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we die with Christ to sin and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. 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).

But that isn’t all that happens to us. By faith in Jesus Christ we enter into a spiritual marriage relationship with the Lord, with Christ as our husband, and with us as his bride. And we are to love him and to be faithful to him and to show him honor, as a wife would with her husband. And when we believe in Jesus, we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit, who is our teacher, our counselor, our encourager, and our guide who leads us into all truth and who reminds us of the teachings of Christ, and of his New Testament apostles, too.

The anointing which we have received from God, by biblical faith in the Lord Jesus, is the Holy Spirit within us, and it is our salvation from our slavery (addiction) to sin, and it is the empowerment of God to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in the power of God, by his Spirit, because of God’s grace. But when this says here that “you have no need for anyone to teach you,” I believe this is in reference to the fact that we no longer must receive God’s words to us through a prophet, now that we have the Holy Spirit within us.

But this doesn’t do away with all teaching, for within the body of Christ are those who are gifted with the gift of teaching, and John was obviously teaching (instructing) the Christians in the book of 1 John in how they ought to live and how they ought not to live, as God’s children. And we are taught in the Scriptures that we are to instruct, counsel, encourage, and exhort one another so that we are not led astray by those who are deceiving the people, and so we are not led into captivity to sin by the lies being spread.

And this section of Scripture (quoted above) is in the context concerning those who were trying to deceive the Christians to reject the truth of God and to follow after the lies. So in this context John was letting them know that they did not need to have these deceivers teaching them because they had the anointing of God and the Holy Spirit within them teaching them what they needed to learn. But still John saw the need to give them instructions, as well, to help them walk the right path and to not be led astray by the deceptive ones. And we still have need to exhort one another.

But we must not put our dependence in the teachings of humans, or assume that what they are teaching us is absolute truth, just because of who they are. And here the Scriptures tell us that we are to test the spirits to see which ones are of God, for many liars and deceivers abound these days. And so much is being faked and altered to make it look one way while it is the opposite of what they proclaim it is. So we must be spiritually discerning people who make sure that what we are hearing agrees with the Scriptures, but the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context, not out of context.

If we are abiding in Christ, we are living in him, and him in us, and we are acting in accord with what the Scriptures teach us as to how we are to be living, as followers of Christ. And this means that we are in the practice of obeying our Lord, adhering to and conforming our lives to his commands, and putting sin to death in our lives daily, by the Spirit. And we are walking in holiness and righteousness, continuing in Christ and in his Word and in doing what he says we are to do until the very end, by God’s grace. But if sin is still our practice, and not obedience, we have not life eternal with God.


[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 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 2-3]

Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Hymn lyrics by Anonymous/Unknown
Music by American Melody

“For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you” (2 Co. 13:4 NASB).

I am weak, but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong;
I’ll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.

Through this world of toil and snares,
If I falter, Lord, who cares?
Who with me my burden shares?
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee.

When my feeble life is o’er,
Time for me will be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o’er
To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore.

Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.

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His Anointing Teaches You
An Original Work / September 26, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

From Founders Ministry today:

We are saddened to inform friends that our dear brother, Voddie Baucham, Jr., has left the land of the dying and entered the land of the living. Earlier today, after suffering an emergency medical incident, he entered into his rest and the immediate presence of the Savior whom he loved, trusted, and served since he was converted as a college student. Please pray for Bridget, their children, and grandchildren. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. – Psalm 116:15

I've been researching various end time views to figure out where I land. I personally lean premillennial, but hold to it tentatively and open to amillennial and postmillennial positions. The only opinion I have that I am somewhat confident about is that I see the prophecies as having an "already but not yet,"'l aspect. You can find events in history that are similar to those foretold in Revelation, but I think they are partial fulfillments and parallel (aside from maybe the destruction of the temple in 70 AD) the total fulfillment is yet to occur at some point in the future.

My question here is merely due to curiosity. Futurism (the position that all or most prophecy in Revelation will find fulfillment at some point in the future) is often associated with premillennialism, and, in particular, dispensationalism.

Could one hypothetically be a futurist amillennial, for instance?

No politics, please. Looking for a smartphone widget to replace Apple news. I can find apps for outlets like News Nation, but finding widgets is another matter.

Who or what is the “antichrist”? Well, “anti” means to be against and to be opposed to someone or something. In this case it is speaking of being against and opposed to Jesus Christ, which includes being against and opposed to his gospel message which he taught and that his New Testament apostles taught, in the correct biblical context. For we can be for the name of Jesus and for what we believe he is offering us in the way of forgiveness of sins and the hope of eternal life with him, and still be against him.

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).

Therefore, to be antichrist can include a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, and a belief that all your sins are forgiven, and that heaven is your eternal destiny. How so? You are antichrist if your profession of faith does not include you denying self, dying to sin (not just once, but daily), and walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commandments (New Covenant), in practice, by the Spirit, because of God’s grace, and in the power of God, and if sin is still your practice, and not obedience to God and to his commands.

And this is NOT saying that you must live an absolutely perfect life in every respect or BAM! You are out! For all of us who are in Christ, by faith in Jesus Christ, are still works in progress. We are still clay in the hands of the Potter (God) being molded into the likeness of character of our Lord Jesus, as we cooperate fully with God and with his work of grace in our lives in yielding to his control and in obeying his commands. But if sin is still our practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God. Believe God!

So, when this says here that “they went out from us,” this is not speaking of a mere physical departure from any particular “church” gathering. This has to do with them departing from the faith as Jesus and as his New Testament apostles taught it, and then following after a diluted and altered “gospel” in its place. For the church is not a building or a denomination but it is the people of God who are his by genuine biblical faith which results in us dying to sin, being reborn of the Spirit, and walking in obedience to our Lord.

Therefore, there are many people today sitting in chairs or pews in “church” gatherings who are antichrist, for their faith is lip service only (superficial), and their lives are not surrendered to the Lord in dying with Christ to sin and in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, as empowered by God. And some of them are the pastors, deacons, and elders of such “church” congregations. And then there are some true followers of Christ who have departed from these institutional (partnered with the government/world) “churches,” in obedience to the Lord, who are being chided for departing.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 18:1-5]

So, making a verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ does not make you a Christian unless, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus you deny the self-life and you now die to sin and you obey God, in practice, in the power of God, by the grace of God. So please be aware that many who are antichrist are those who give lip service to the Lord but by their lifestyles they deny him as Lord. And many of them are in positions of enormous power, respect, and admiration among the people and within the gatherings of “the church.” So be those who test the spirits, please!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 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 2-3]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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This Is The Last Hour
An Original Work / September 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Q: I’m one of the parents on a new “safety committee” for our local parish school. One of the parents’ main suggestions is that, for our school Masses, we lock the church doors and keep the Mass private. To us, this seems like basic common sense. However, our pastor says we can’t do that. Is there any way to explain his thinking?

A: My thought is that your pastor is probably aware of the requirement in canon law that churches be open to the public for liturgical celebrations, such as Mass. As Canon 1221 of the Code of Canon Law states: “Entry to a church at the hours of sacred functions is to be open and free of charge.”

A sacred space​

So in light of this, closing the doors of a church to the faithful while Mass is being celebrated in that church is straightforwardly against the law.

Some canon lawyers believe that this law can be dispensed by the local bishop, who might in theory give special, limited permission to lock the doors of a church during Mass for an appropriately serious reason.

But other canon lawyers would argue that this requirement cannot be dispensed, not even by the local bishop, because it pertains to the heart of what a church building is most essentially.

Canon 1214 tells us that: “The term ‘church’ means a sacred building intended for divine worship, to which the faithful have right of access for the exercise, especially the public exercise, of divine worship.”

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DOJ official ordered to rescind inquiry to FBI agent who sued Alex Jones: Sources​

Former FBI agent William Aldenberg was part of a defamation suit against Jones.

Ed Martin, a top DOJ official and director of the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group, on Wednesday withdrew his request to an attorney for a retired FBI agent who was among the first to respond to the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that suggested the agent could be under criminal investigation for testifying at the defamation trial of conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones.

Martin's decision to retract his letter came after an admonishment from the Justice Department's No. 2 official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a person familiar with the matter told ABC News.

"I am writing to request information from you regarding your client FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg and his role in certain litigation that may benefit him personally and that may impact our citizens and our legal system," Martin wrote in the initial letter. "As you may know, there are criminal laws protecting the citizens from actions by government employees who may be acting for personal benefit. I encourage you to review those."

Jones was previously ordered to pay Aldenberg $90 million stemming from the defamation suit he and families of the Sandy Hook victims brought against Jones for harassment and threats they suffered in the wake of the tragedy as a result of conspiracy theories stoked by Jones.

"Thanks to the courage of the Sandy Hook families, Infowars will soon be finished," [FBI agent's lawyer] Mattei said. "In his last gasps, Jones is once again harassing them, only now with the corrupt complicity of at least one DOJ official. It's as disgusting as it is pathetic, and we will not stand for it."

Coin hoard sheds light on end of Byzantine period, Sassanid invasion

The hoard of gold and jewelry | Michael Eisenberg/University of Haifa

Archaeologists from the University of Haifa announced the discovery of a rare cache of Byzantine-era gold coins during excavations in the ancient city of Hippos (Sussita), near the Sea of Galilee.

The excavations at Sussita have been going on for 26 years, under the direction of Michael Eisenberg and Arleta Kowalewska of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa.

The large hoard of gold coins was accompanied by articles of gold jewelry, semi-precious stones, pearls and glass. The archaeologists even found evidence of a coin purse, which likely held the coins in the past in order to protect them.

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My testimony comes from struggling in life to a whole new chapter in my life. I grew up having a great family in Germany. Things changed when I was 17 years old, found out I was pregnant and my ex whom is the father was never there a lot through it all. My family helped me through it. Age 18, gave birth to my daughter Hilde and he helped a little raising her. Worst part what him and his family did to me at age 18 too, forced me into marriage and it was not pretty. He was nasty to me and would go out cheating on me a lot. It was huge mess and luckily I got out of the marriage. Being a single mother at the time raising my daughter on my own, it was tough although I had help from my family. I worked two jobs, an auto repair shop 3 days a week and at a bar/ restaurant as a server 2 days a week. It was not easy with off and on relationships, the guys would take advantage of me. Then in 2006 , my husband whom was in the United States Army stationed there came into my life. A couple of his buddies and him would come in for drinks on leave and I served them. I saw something, sensed he liked me and one day his buddies nudged him to talk to me. He did after I got off of work one day about to go home. I saw it and said he liked me asking me on a date. Told him yes and he was good to me right away. Loved my German accent which he still loves to this day. My family liked him right away when he first met them. Seen my life was going to be better. Then in 2007, he was done doing his time in the Army and knew I wanted to be with him. My family was supportive of me immigrating to the United States becoming an United States citizen Got the green card taking my daughter also whom was 10 at the time. Husband introduced me into being a Christian and introduced me to good people including the pastor and his wife also his family. One church member, he saw I was into VWs and mentioned he knew someone at an Audi/ VW dealership taking me there. Met them, sat down and saw potential in me. Asked me if I wanted to do an apprenticeship working on them. Told him yes. Went into the shop area and met the mechanic whom was going to work with me. He saw it too seeing I was a quick learner soaking in all the info and being shown how to do it right. Plus did go through the process of becoming an United States citizen which took 3 years and got my drivers license too. In 2010, Became a legal United States citizen and got married to my husband after that. Today, own my own shop fixing Audis and VWs including having a 4 year old grandson in my life. A step son too and he has been good to me over the years

Trump Personally Tried to Kill Story of His Birthday Letter to Epstein​

A new report reveals how Donald Trump got wind The Wall Street Journal was going to report on his birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein—and how he tried to stop the story from getting published.​

The Journal has reported that when Trump first heard about its plans to cover his strange, sultry 50th birthday letter to Epstein, he told aides that it didn’t exist, never happened, and called News Corp chair emeritus Rupert Murdoch personally from Air Force One to get the story pulled. After the story was published anyway, he denied that the letter existed and sued Dow Jones, the Journal’s publisher. (The letter was later released.)

I enjoy going for a swim, I will pick up any trash I find whenever I can. I thought of dedicating a full day to help clean up the ocean, or would God want this help to be towards helping people instead of the environment?

I have donated to charities that are about helping people, but I find I am really good at helping keep the ocean clean since I can scuba dive, and carry big things I find out of the ocean like a car tire, or whatever junk that has sunk to the bottom.

The unknown suspect 'fired rounds' at the main gate of the site and was 'behaving erratically' around 12.30am Wednesday in Las Vegas, a Nellis AFB spokesperson told the Daily Mail.

Security officers then 'challenged the suspect who pointed his firearm at them,' the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said.

The alleged gunman was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital for non-life threatening injuries after a tourniquet was applied.

Greetings, friends! Just wanted to share an experience my friend, Ricky, had while out and about evangelizing at Cleveland State University the other day.

He was talking with a young guy, and they were talking about abortion, crowd was gathering, and there was one gal who took out her pepper spray and sprayed Ricky in the face. He wasn't interacting with her or anything, she just didn't like what he had to say.

The police quickly caught her but he decided not to press any charges (I have mixed feelings about this).

Here's a picture and the video... Thoughts?

Let's continue to pray for safety (as this can happen to any one of us), for all the lost souls or that this gal will turn to Jesus before it's too late.


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The new Quinnipiac University Poll released on Tuesday found 53% of citizens believe American democracy is not working right now, compared to 41% of Americans who believe the system is going fine.

Those on the left, unsurprisingly, were much more likely to say the figurative house is burning down, with 74% of polled Democrats saying “the system of democracy in the United States is not working”; only 22% of Republicans said it is not working, and 74% of GOP voters said there is no problem at all.

If you read it carefully, the Bible does not actually say that only Christians will have eternal life in Heaven.

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.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Jesus is the only way to the Father, but this does not tell us that we must be a Christian to go to the Father. It only tells us that those who go to the Father, will go there because of Christ.

According to John 3:16 we must believe in the Son of God to have everlasting life, but as Jordan Peterson might say, “what do you mean by God, and what do you mean by believe?”

Christians assume that a person must believe in Christianity. There must be repentance, but there must also be agreement with fundamental beliefs of the church.

A person who believes in a particular philosophy might say that they believe in the philosopher who developed the philosophy, The wife of the philosopher may say that she believes in him. Her statement of belief is a greater truth than the statements made by those who only believe in his philosophy. To truly believe in God, we should believe in who God is.

We see this very idea, two verses after John 3:16.

John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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We must believe in the name of the Son of God. Surely that doesn’t simply mean believing in the name “Jesus”.

A person’s name represents their essence. When a person is somehow transformed, they will sometimes change their name because they are now a different person.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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God is absolute Righteousness greater than we can comprehend.

To believe in the name of God, we must believe in the essence of God which is righteousness. All good people believe in righteousness. That is what it means to be a good person. Perhaps that includes everyone, perhaps not, but all good people will have eternal life in Heaven because they believe in the name of the Son of God.

Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Saved from what? In the Bible, being saved often referred to being saved from something in this life.

Psalm 18:3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

Luke 18:42 And Jesus said unto him, receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.

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Jesus healed a blind man and told him that his faith had saved him, but the blind man was saved from a life of blindness. Every time the Bible talks of heaven, hell, judgment, or being saved it may be referring to judgment in this life which is called temporal judgment.

There are many interpretations of the Bible, all with some degree of Biblical support. It is noteworthy that the Bible can be interpreted to mean that Jesus will give eternal life to all good people on the Day of Judgment while our words and actions may still affect us in temporal judgment.

Luke 9:59-60 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

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Temporal judgment, heaven in this life, is for the living not the dead.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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Repentance has to do with the kingdom of heaven, which is at hand, which is temporal judgment. Eternal Heaven is entirely a gift of Christ for all good people.

Hello, I am a Christian since 2007 after I immigrated from Germany. Met my husband there while he was in the Army stationed there and he introduced me to it. I went through hard times before I met him. Was forced into a marriage at 18 by my first husband and his family. Did get out of that when I was 20. Even a single mom raising my daughter on my own working two jobs which my ex husband denied being the father of. Things got better even when I went through the process of becoming a legal United States citizen. People around him, his family including him got me on track in the right direction helping out. My family whom still lives in Germany is glad my husband is in my life including my daughter

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an urgent and unprecedented gathering of hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals at a Marine Corps base in Virginia, causing widespread confusion within the Department of Defense. The unusual directive, which did not state a reason for the meeting, was sent to virtually all of the military's top commanders worldwide.

• The rare meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 30, at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.
• Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the meeting, telling The Washington Post that Hegseth "will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week," but offered no further details.

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing criticism for commentsshe made on “The Katie Miller Podcast” last week, where she declared, “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech.” Bondi suggested that “there is no place” for hate speech in the U.S., “especially now, especially after what happened to” conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier this month.

When Miller asked Bondi if she saw “law enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech and putting cuffs on people,” the attorney general answered in the affirmative: “We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”

Bondi has since walked back those comments, telling Axios that the attorney general's office won't be prosecuting citizens for hate speech, but would be pursuing "criminal groups or people that incite violence."

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This question is only for those holding to Reformed Theology. In the Westminster Confession (or London Baptist 1689) it mentions that infants who die are "regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit." But in my mind this is vague and possibly conflicts with scripture in implications; but sounds more like speculation to work around the "Original Sin" issue that even infants are guilty due to Adam's sin being imputed to them. I question this doctrine with a series of questions below.

I was prompted to this question by R.C. Sproul's survey results on the question "Are we born innocent" wherein 64% of evangelicals agreed. I was not appalled at that result (as Ligonier was), because I question the doctrine of imputed sin to people who have not sinned (infants). Essentially, I question the idea that Adam's sin is imputed to mankind, as distinct from Adam's sin nature is inherited by mankind.

These questions are all related, so there may appear some redundancy. I'm trying to get a handle on what the scripture actually states about the issue.

1. I don't see the scripture teaching the imputation of Adam's sin, but I do see it teaching the inheritance of the sinful nature (traducianism). If Augustine (and the confessions) mean these issues to be the same thing, then I think it imposes some confusion about the spiritual state of infants. Are these issues the same, or not?

2. If infants are guilty by imputation, then how do you interpret Rom. 7:9 and Rom. 4:15? It looks like these verses imply the innocence of infants (people who have not yet learned right and wrong). Exegesis would be helpful, or a link to interpretive commentaries.

Rom. 4:15 -

Rom. 7:9 -

3. It appears to me that innocence does not mean "basically good" or "not having a sin nature." In the teachings I have read on the subject, there appears to me some confusion, that teachers seem to make no distinction. So then, "having a sinful nature" does not necessarily mean a person is guilty, because "through the law comes the knowledge of sin." It seems to me that a person must know moral law, that is, know right from wrong, in order to be guilty of wrongs committed (per Rom. 4:15 and 7:9). If this is the case, then children too young to know right from wrong really are innocent. What do you think of this?

4. Do the confessions that say infants are regenerated, do they mean all infants, or does it mean only those who die? If it means only those who die, or even limited to only those elected to salvation, then when does the regeneration happen - before or after they die? There is an implication here. If they're saying that all infants are regenerated, then how can a regenerated person become spiritually dead after sinning? This is inconsistent with the idea that regenerated people are saved and can't lose their salvation. And if not all infants who die are regenerated, then how can God send them to hell when they have not sinned?

a. If infants are regenerated, then which ones are, and when does it happen?

b. If some infants who die are not regenerated, where do they end up and why?

This is enough for now, but discussion may lead to more questions.

Please pray that The Holy Spirit somehow Miraculously Defeat politicians with extreme socialist, progressive liberal & socially-liberal views like Zohran Mamdani at the ballot box:

I'm sorry I haven't posted for a few weeks as my husband passed away a few weeks ago. He was my rock & soul partner. We met when we were very young.

I loved him so much, although he never really agreed with me about the shape of the earth he would always pretended to just to keep the peace.

I will miss him so so much & at the moment I'm praying to Jesus to take me home to be with Mark.

RIP my darling until we can be togeather. I love you so very very much.

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Biblical faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, and is not of our own doing, not of our human flesh, but which is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of God, must result in us being crucified with Christ in death to sin, and us being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands. So if we claim faith in Jesus Christ, but sin is what we practice, and not obedience, we do not know God!

But sadly there are many professers of faith in Jesus Christ today who have been convinced that they are eternally secure in their salvation since they prayed the prayer to receive Christ, or they made a verbal acknowledgment of Christ as Lord and of his bodily resurrection. They have this false sense of security that their professions of faith alone serve like insurance, and that their sins no longer matter to God, and that God will not judge them for their sins since they “did the deed.” And so they keep on in their addictive sins.

Many of them are the self-indulgent, lovers of intoxication to sin, who think their deliberate sinful lifestyles will not prevent them from having salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And some or many of them are quite aware of what the Scriptures teach on this subject, so they are not naïve. They have just chosen “the path of least resistance,” i.e. they are choosing the easy way which leads to destruction rather than the narrow way, which leads to salvation from sin and eternal life with God (see Matthew 7:13-14).

So they hold on to their sins, and they continue to add sin upon sin to where their sins are piled up as high as heaven (see Revelation 18:4-5), while they refuse to biblically repent and to forsake their sins and to now walk in obedience to the Lord and to his commandments, in practice. So, for them, coming to faith in Jesus Christ is not in dying with Christ to sin and now walking in obedience to his commands, in the power of God, but it is Jesus forgiving their sins while they continue to clutch their sin treasures in hand.

But this isn’t just about them sinning against God deliberately and habitually, without conscience, while proclaiming Jesus as Savior and Lord, and God’s forgiveness of all their sins, and heaven as their eternal resting place. But this is about them sinning against their fellow humans, some of whom are their spouses, children, grandchildren, neighbors and even strangers. For they are vile, malicious, immoral, untrustworthy, and liars who sin habitually regardless of who gets hurt in the process. For this is about self-indulgence.

So, please understand here that the Scriptures do not teach that you can hold on to your pile of sins, and keep repeating the same sins over again, in direct disobedience to God, via hate for God and for all who you hurt by your deliberate sins, and then claim Jesus as your Lord as though you are in an intimate relationship with him. For Jesus said that not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God the Father who is in heaven (see Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 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]

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

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Do You Know Him in Truth?
An Original Work / September 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love