Although I believe God has a plan for His creation, I believe it flexes with man's choices. The fact is God does not "cause" any man to sin. Sin, specifically fornication can lead to childbirth, and whole generations of change. So God's plan must flex, with the choices of people.

Do we see examples of God's planning flexing? I say yes:


We see in the above scripture, God regretted making man. This shows that God did not plan out in a linear fashion people's destinies. He could only be sorry if there was a "free will" element that He did not control.

We also see that God progressively learned about His creation.


We see above that God saw that man did not repent over longer life spans, so He restricted their life to 120 years in length. This shows God did not know the perfect length to begin with, but learned as time went by what was the best length for man to live.


We also see above that the LORD "would have" established Saul's kingdom forever, had he not sinned, but sin denied him that opportunity.

So in conclusion, we see God's plan flexes with the choices made by people.

An Iranian ballistic missile struck a 10-story residential building in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, during a wave of attacks on Israel last night, killing six people, including children.

The missile “shaved off” part of the building in the impact, and seven people are still missing, as authorities search through the rubble.

The missiles that hit Bat Yam were part of the second round of launches from Iran on Saturday night, which triggered sirens throughout central Israel, with falls reported in Bat Yam, Rehovot and Ramat Gan.

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Please pray that my step dad who is a highschool teacher gets to stay in his home. It is his teachers housing on a Native American Indian reservation. I pray for his stress and worry!

This article refutes the idea that aion means eternal, so why do so many modern Christians think it means eternal?

It is a vital question How was the word used in the Greek literature with which the Seventy were familiar, that is, the Greek Classics?

Some years since Rev. Ezra S. Goodwin(13) patiently and candidly traced this word through the Classics, finding the noun frequently in nearly all the writers, but not meeting the adjective until Plato, its inventor, used it. He states, as the result of his protracted and exhaustive examination from the beginning down to Plato, “We have the whole evidence of seven Greek writers, extending through about six centuries, down to the age of Plato, who make use of Aión, in common with other words; and no one of themEVER employs it in the sense of eternity.”

When the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew into Greek by the Seventy, the word aión had been in common use for many centuries. It is preposterous to say that the Seventy would render the Hebrew olam by the Greek aión and give to the latter (1) a different meaning from that of the former, or (2) a different meaning from aión in the current Greek literature. It is self-evident, then, that Aión in the Old Testament means exactly what Olam means, and also what Aión means in the Greek classics. Indefinite duration is the sense of olam, and it is equally clear that aión has a similar signification.

In the Iliad and Odyssey Aión occurs thirteen times, as a noun, besides its occurrence as a participle in the sense of hearing, perceiving, understanding. Homer never uses it as signifying eternal duration. Priam to Hector says,(14) “Thyself shall be deprived of pleasant aiónos” (life.) Andromache over dead Hector,(15) “Husband thou hast perished from aiónos” (life or time.)

Dr. Beecher writes(16) “But there is a case that excludes all possibility of doubt or evasion, in the Homeric Hymn of Mercury, vs. 42 and 119. Here aión is used to denote the marrow as the life of an animal, as Moses calls the blood the life. This is recognized by Cousins in his Homeric Lexicon. In this case to pierce the life (aión) of a turtle means to pierce the spinal cord. The idea of life is here exclusive of time or eternity.” These are fair illustrations of Homer’s use of the word.

Hesiod employs it twice: “To him (the married man) during aiónos (life) evil is constantly striving, etc.(17) Æschulus has the word nineteen times, after this manner: “This life (aión) seems long, etc.(18) “Jupiter, king of the never-ceasing world.”(19) (aiónos apaustau.)

Pindar gives thirteen instances, such as “A long life produces the four virtues.”(20)(Ela de kai tessaras aretas ho makros aión.)

Sophocles nine times. “Endeavor to remain the same in mind as long as you live.” Askei toiaute noun di aiónos menein.(21) He also employs makraion five times, as long-enduring. The word long increases the force of aión, which would be impossible if it had the idea of eternity.

Aristotle uses aión twelve times. He speaks of the existence or duration (aión) of the earth;(22) of an unlimited aiónos;(23) and elsewhere, he says: aión sunekes kai aidios, “an eternal aión” (or being) “pertaining to God.” The fact that Aristotle found it necessary to add aidios to aión to ascribe eternity to God demonstrates that he found no sense of eternity in the word aión, and utterly discards the idea that he held the word to mean endless duration, even admitting that he derived it, or supposed the ancients did, from aei ón according to the opinion of some lexicographers.

A similar use of the word appears in de Cælo.(24) “The entire heaven is one and eternal (aidios) having neither beginning nor end of an entire aión.” In the same work(25) occurs the famous passage where Aristotle has been said to describe the derivation of the word, which we have quoted on page 7, Aión estin, apo tou aei einai.

Mr. Goodwin well observes that the word had existed a thousand years before Aristotle’s day, and that he had no knowledge of its origin, and poorer facilities for tracing it than many a scholar of the present, possesses. “While, therefore, we would regard an opinion of Aristotle on the derivation of an ancient word, with the respect due to extensive learning and venerable age, still we must bear in mind that his opinion is not indusputable authority.” Mr. Goodwin proceeds to affirm that Aristotle does not apply aei ón to duration, but to God, and that (as we have shown) a human existence is an Aión. Completeness, whether brief or protracted, is his idea; and as Aristotle employed it “Aión did not contain the meaning of eternity.”

Hippocrates. “A human aión is a seven days matter.”

Empedocles, An earthly body deprived of happy life, (aiónos.)

Euripides uses the word thirty-two times. We quote three instances:(26) “Marriage to those mortals who are well situated is a happy aión.”(27) “Every aión of mortals is unstable.”(28) “Along aión has many things to say,” etc.

Philoctetes. “He breathed out the aióna.” Mr. Goodwin thus concludes his conscientious investigation of such of the Greek classics as he examined line by line, AION IN THESE WRITERS NEVER EXPRESSES POSITIVE ETERNITY.”

In his Physic(29), Aristotle quotes a passage from Empedocles, saying that in certain cases “aión is not permanent.”

At 8 years old, Minnesota native Joe Masek was exposed to pornography for the first time and went on to struggle with an addiction to it for 23 years. Through a series of actions he finally gained freedom and after experiencing a calling to help other men, he founded a ministry called The Freedom Group in 2023.

About 100 men have gone through the ministry’s program each year since then. The group uses a 12-month training system as well as additional courses and retreats to help men break free from porn addiction.

The Porn Free training system includes weekly coaching calls with a Freedom Coach, group coaching calls, performance and mindset coaching, simple daily habits to build discipline and rhythm, access to an app to connect and track progress, and more. There are also several courses that help individuals understand the neurological aspect of addiction and how to rewire the brain.

Based in the Twin Cities, The Freedom Group also offers individuals the opportunity to attend nature retreats, where they are encouraged to encounter God and themselves in a deeper way. Through guided reflections, group sessions, time alone, and physical adventure, participants learn how to live free from their addiction and become grounded in their true purpose.

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In Galatians 2:19 Paul states that He is dead to the Law in context to the topic of circumcision and new converts not having to be circumcised anymore physically. Circumcision is of the Book of the Law. There is a spiritual circumcision made without hands. But what we are speaking of is physically keeping the Law.
The death to the Law Paul mentions in verse 2:19 is said in context to Paul being dead and Living spiritually through Christ living in Him and Christ's faith being manifested.
In respect to Christ now living vicariously through and with Paul, Paul continues to say if righteousness is of the Law and not of this faith, then Christ died for nothing.
A distinction is made which is missed by most and is extremely important in relation to what we speak. It is said In context to Christ living in and through us and us not having to be circumcised anymore which is of the Law. If while we are in this state we are found to be sinners, is Christ the minister of sin, since He is living in and through us? God forbid Paul continues, if we build again the things we destroyed we make ourselves transgressors!
In this we see at least two things that need to be noted. For one sin is still sin. And as Paul states in Rom.3 and 7, we would not know sin but by the Law, for by the Law is the knowledge of sin. And the secondly, circumcision is not part of this sin to which we can be found in. This work of the Law has been and is being fulfilled in us through Christ and the physical work of this Law is not needed. There has been a change in the Book of Law in respect to how it is manifested. Christ now lives vicariously through through and with us and we have been circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting of the body of sin. For we who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Know you not that we who have been baptized into Christ have been baptized into His death and are risen with Him that the Body of sin be destroyed, That henceforth we do not serve sin. For He that is dead is dead to sin is therefore freed from sin and alive unto God through Christ.

That brings us to another note worthy of our attention. Through the Faith OF Christ We are dead to sin and we are dead to the Law as Galatians and Romans puts forth. How so? The old man, the Body of sin has been destroyed. It is no longer I, but Christ Jesus. And the Life we now live in the flesh we live by the Faith OF the Son of God who Gave Himself for Us. So sin is to be out of the equation for us who are in Christ and He in us that the world might believe. Paul is showing us we do not live by the Book of the Law any more but by Christ and His Spirit. So He, we are dead to the Law. Manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

This is brought even clearer to us to verses 2-5 in chapter 3 in Galatians where we see the Spirit is mentioned in respect to the hearing of faith. If we are now dead but alive and it is Christ living in us and we now live by the Faith OF the Son of God who gave Himself for us we have His Spirit and have begun in the Spirit and are hearing the Faith that we are now living by that is OF Christ. We are not made perfect by the flesh, justified by the works of the Law but by listening to the Spirit, hearkening unto the hearing of the Faith of Christ.

This hearing of faith, hearkening unto the Spirit of Christ is said in Context to verse 6. Where it states as a direct comparison, EVEN AS, JUST AS Abraham believed God.

Abraham heard God and believed and acted. So we of the Faith of Christ Hear God believe and Act. We as He have the hearing of Faith. Not because of the Law, but because of Christ, His Spirit, Faith in us. Being dead, but alive in and through Christ We do because of who we are in Christ not because of the Book of the Law, and external source. But because of the changed heart through Christ. We are a new creature. All is new and of God. His Word is in our heart that we do it. That is the word of Faith in which we preach. As God has said. He will put His Law in our hearts and iin our minds. And our sins and iniquities will no longer be brought to His remembrance.

Now one might of forgot that physical circumcision is no longer a requirement and by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified as chapter 2 plainly stated. And say if the Law, His Word is in our hearts we will keep God's Holy days and if we do not we are sinning. That is a problem. Circumcision and All the holy days accept the Sabbath of Creation were instituted because of the fall in the Garden of Eden. Every last one of them. And every last one of them Paul states He is dead to in chapter 2 when he states he is dead to the Law and not Justified by doing it. Mind you sin still exists (prayerfully not in us) and is defined by the Law. But as was stated by Paul, circumcision is not one of those laws that defines sin. Therefore we do not have to do it. And as we progress here we will see that the days months, times and years are indeed those written in the Book of the Law instituted after and because of the Fall in the Garden of Eden. and Are also of the works of the Law in which we do not have to do, because they justified no one.

As chapter 3 stated, We are not made perfect by the works of the Law, For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. This works of the Law is being said in respect to verse 2:16 where Paul had said that we know that we are not Justified by the works of the Law if not through faith of Jesus. To be of the Law, the Book of the Law that Paul stated that he was dead to meant that you did the works of it to be justified. The Law has made no one righteous, not one. For all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. Through the Law, the Book of the Law is the knowledge of sin. Therefore it was our schoolmaster, tutor to bring us UNTO Christ, the Heir according to the promise. We are now the children of Abraham partakers of the promised blessedness through Christ. For we who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, male nor female, bond or freeman. We Are All One in Christ and of Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile. This takes us spiritually back to the time of Abraham before Sinai and the giving of the Law. We are to walk with God through believing Him, hearing the faith and hearkening unto it through Christ. Christ, The promised land, flowing with milk and honey, through the veil, that is to say Christ's flesh. Mind you we do not make the void the Law which gives us the knowledge of sin through Faith. Neigh in no way! For through Christ the Word is in our hearts. We are changed and walk with God through faith and We establish the law. We are a new creature. Be a doer of the word in your heart and not a hearer only deceiving your own selves. Look into the reflection. Do not forget what manner of man we now are in Christ. Sons of God with the Spirit, Faith of His Son crying in our hearts, Abba, Father. Redeemed from under the Law, the elements, first principles of this world. How can we Turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, first principles? Whereunto ye desire AGAIN to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? One Abraham had two sons, one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. Brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage, that of Sinia. Be led of the Spirit, and not under the law, bondage of Sinai. Walk in the faith of Abraham, Christ Jesus with God. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Glory in the Lord and in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto us, and we unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Behold all is new and of God. He is faithful and will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able to bear. He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. He in us, us in Him that the world might believe. Amen

Europe must take note, ban Sharia law, and reshape its refugee and migrant policy, keeping in mind the tyrannical nature of Islam.

new report by Open Doors, an international human rights organization that monitors Christian persecution on a global scale, confirms that Christianity is the world’s most persecuted religion. Except for North Korea, where the source of persecution is Communist and Post-Communist oppression, the cause of persecution in the other top 10 countries is mainly Islamic oppression.

Every year, Open Doors releases its “World Watch” report of the 50 states that persecute Christians. According to the organization’s 2025 report, more than 380 million Christians across the world suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination because of their faith.

North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are all in the top ten list of countries where Christians are exposed to extreme persecution.

The only NATO member country on the World Watch list is Turkey (number 45), where the Christian minority suffers from Islamic oppression, religious nationalism, dictatorial paranoia, and ethno-religious hostility.

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380 Million Christians Face Brutal Persecution in Muslim-Majority Regions

Europe must take note, ban Sharia law, and reshape its refugee and migrant policy, keeping in mind the tyrannical nature of Islam.

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Could a woman priest represent the Holy Spirit,

and celebrate Mass on Monday ?

They seem to forget that they govern the entire country and not just those who voted for them.
Then they push a very extreme and specific agenda.
Naturally there is resistance and backlash.

Next thing you know we have the opposite in office.

Too bad the cycle goes on and on.

I had a strange conversation today with an Uber cab driver named Anh. He was a Vietnamese man. He wanted to know why Christians persecuted Buddhists in Vietnam, if Jesus taught love. Also, he seemed to think Jesus must have been a Buddhist (I don't agree, of course) because he talked about love. I told him I studied under the lineage of the Ven. Thitch Nhat Hanh for several years, and was familiar with Vietnamese Buddhism. I just pointed out that being a Christian doesn't mean you have to believe there are no wise people in other religions, and maybe that was a better explanation: the Bible itself contains a great deal of wisdom. I didn't have alot of time to explain much else. He was basically unloading alot of grievances about being a Buddhist, particularly upset about Catholics, and talking very fast and in an animated manner (something I have noted occasionally happens around me, ever since I had my spiritual experience). And my approach around people that are upset is always to listen more than talk, so I didn't get to say much before the ride was over.

On the way out of the ride, I didn't want to be a religious controversialist, so I just said "May you be blessed", something I know would be acceptable to both Christians and Buddhists.

Let's pray for Anh... that he would be able to let go of bitterness and that his questions about Jesus would be answered, if that's really what he's looking for, that he would be lead into truth.

What subjects should John Oliver cover ?

16 years ago, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior. I was a prodigal child who knew God as a very young girl. I had been chasing the world and all its sinful fruits, and suddenly found divine love and grace.

Shortly after my conversion, I met the man who would become my husband. We started with the premarital relations and I got pregnant 3 months after meeting him. And it's not like I had a bunch of lust for him - I sincerely believed that we were meant to be together, and that my getting pregnant meant that God wanted us to be married. I actually was not attracted to him very much because he constantly belittled me for my past before Christ.

He convinced me that he would be happier in a cabin in the woods 500+ miles away from our families. I fought him on moving away, but the pressure was too great. He would be shaking from stress when he drove in the traffic-filled streets. His mom was verbally abusive to me, so I moved back in with my mom. Then, my brother was verbally abusive to me, in a very inappropriate and scary way. I felt like I had nowhere to go, and escaping to a remote cabin seemed like a safe option with all the chaos and tumult in our hometown.

That was 15 years ago.

It was the worst decision I ever made.

God even warned me in a dream. He showed me the chaos I would be walking into. I still moved here, feeling like I had no other option.

The culture shock has been extremely intense. I have been misunderstood and excluded by the people here. I used to be a colorful, articulate Christian with unbridled enthusiasm for life and my walk with God.

Now, I have been beaten up by life so severely that no one recognizes me.

I had to leave my ex-husband 6 years ago. My health was breaking down because of the abuse and isolation. Sadly, though I have been recovering the best I can, I am still unhealthy. It is not for lack of trying. I eat very well and work out regularly.

I have no friends. I have no boyfriend. My kids are my only company, and I refuse to be co-dependent with them. My mom did that to me. So I keep my big problems to myself, and suffer silently.

I tried going to church. I got attacked for not being vaccinated.

I tried dating. I got hurt multiple times and needed to call the cops.

I tried getting medical care. My doctor ignored me for a week. I ended up in urgent care diagnosed with an infection. The antibiotic gave me a bad reaction, and I needed an ambulance the next day. My support system is so non-existent that I needed to pull my oldest child out of school to watch the younger kids just so I could go the emergency room.

I tried visiting my family back home. But the courts will not allow me to move there with the kids, since my ex says that he can take over the parenting duties. However, this reality only exists in his head. He doesn't even check his mail or write back to emails. He cannot manage complex medical care for disabled children.

I have been looking for a new place to live for 4 summers in a row. I have been rejected and denied because of things beyond my control, like a bankruptcy because my ex-husband financially abused me (to the tune of $50,000 in credit card debt). An eviction incorrectly filed against me, but the court will not remove it from my record.

As such, my kids and I have been forced to live in an unhealthy home that has black mold, because we cannot find another place to live. The neighborhood is geographically isolated and socially deserted. The people here are so unfriendly that they go inside whenever we go out.

And this locale that my ex moved to is quite beautiful, and it had low Covid numbers. So now the housing has been bought up by people, and there is nowhere left to live. I am looking at dingy apartments for my kids and me that cost double what I am paying now.

I am not depressed.
I am demoralized by life.

Every day (almost) I read my Bible. I need to. I need God. I have been clinging to Him for dear life.
I don't understand what He's doing in my life.
I need Him to guide me through this storm.

Do any of you keep a Chotki to pray the Jesus prayer?

I have a black one that was blessed by a Catholic priest.

I need to use it more.

Especially with my own anxiety disorder.

God bless

Interesting quotes concerning “Christianity” from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
All emphasis in following quotes is mine.

My comments in blue.

Chapter 3

Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines.

Part I

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whatsoever name he may be distinguished, is intrusted with the execution of the laws, the management of the revenue, and the command of the army. But, unless public liberty is protected by intrepid and vigilant guardians, the authority of so formidable a magistrate will soon degenerate into despotism. The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might be usefully employed to assert the rights of mankind; but so intimate is the connection between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.(The History of the decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, Chap. 3, pg. 68 of the Everyman’s Library edition)

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Thus the eventual formation of Constitutional governments for and by the people, with a healthy separation of church and state. Formed by predominantly Protestant, liberty seeking, justice loving people. It took us long enough, and now it is slipping away.

Quote - This football analogy from Del Bigtrees interview of Geert Vanden Bossche made me understand the HOW and WHY humanity is in such grave danger from the global mass vaccination campaign. This explains the very basics of how non-specific and specific antibodies are completely different and should be at the very centre of any and all covid vaccine discussions.

https://rumble.com/v44ns69-football...interview-of-geert-vanden-bossche-the-hi.html

what this woman did was so brave and she is on fire for the Lord Jesus! - YouTube

Called by his heavenly Father and inspired and encouraged by his earthly one, Father Jeremiah Hahn expresses sincere appreciation for his calling.

Like many Catholic boys, Jeremiah Hahn considered becoming a priest. At an early age, the devoted altar server “first sensed an inkling” toward priesthood, even attending a meeting to learn more and affirm his future vocation.

This inclination was at least in part influenced by his father, well-known Catholic theologian and scholar Scott Hahn, a former Presbyterian minister who converted to Catholicism and entered the Church at the Easter vigil in 1986.

Scott, 68, holds the Father Michael Scanlan, T.O.R., Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, where he has taught since 1990.

A well-known program host on EWTN, he also is the founder and president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. Scott speaks often nationally and internationally — both in person and on radio and television — on various topics regarding Scripture and the Catholic faith.

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I wasn't sure where to post this but does anyone else here wear Christian t-shirts? here are a couple that I wear I sometimes get compliments about the Lord's Gym shirt

Hi,

My dad got injured and now his arm is swollen. He is older, and I want him to recover well. Please pray for him

Prison time is necessary.

Seems our music is still relevant for the times we are living in now!

Let's share our songs together

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I don’t have this magazine but this is an article in this months‘ Popular Mechanics. Science tells us what we already knew.​

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I am sadly not surprised.