"But it wasn’t until this school year that a parent came into her school’s office and said, referring to Cruz, “I don’t want to talk to the gay one.”

Well it's about time gay people that work around children realized that many parents care and very much object to their influences over their children. I can't think of a stronger reason to start home schooling. I can't imagine NOT home schooling seeing the constant evolution and gay agendas being pushed on children, not to mention the overwhelming lack of discipline in the classroom. This allows bullies to do whatever they want because they know there are almost no repercussions which makes for a very dangerous environment for children. No child should fear going to school! Yes, there have always been bullies but in the past they could be controlled and severely reprimanded: The principal's strap was one strong reprimand and really kept us in respectful. It was a line absolutely no one didn't do their best to avoid. But there is nothing like that anymore. And parents can be arrested for spanking their own children. The only way that will happen is if someone finds out and if a child is congregating amongst others it's more likely they will talk about it and a disciplinary action done with control can be completely misinterpreted by the police who are under all kinds of woke pressure.

What is shocking about this article is how out of touch gay people are today. They don't realize the vast majority of people are most definitely not OK with their choices, especially around children. It's just that there is so much pressure on people to accept this moral decay they hesitate to speak out.

It's wonderful that people like DeSantis have the courage to take on initiatives to push back. That's really takes guts. Florida is the shining star in the US. The more gay people that leave the state the better it will be. No worries, there's plenty of morally decrepit states that will welcome them.

Today is not an ordinary day
Today is not just a time to play
Today’s not to be a time lived for self
Today is time to put self on the shelf

Today is a day to commit life to God
Today is a day to stop being a fraud
Today is a time to make Jesus your Lord
Life that’s without Him you cannot afford

Tomorrow may be what you not want to be
Tomorrow you may not be free as a bee
Tomorrow you can’t really anticipate
And by tomorrow it may be too late

So, please do not take the life you are given
For granted and think you’ll end up in heaven
For Jesus has said if you say to Him, “Lord,”
But then you live idly, His grace not afford

For you not obey Him and do what he says
But you walk in sin, live for self, now instead
You live for your idols, what pleases your soul
For you’re not in Jesus, your life not made whole

So give of your life, give it now all to God
Surrender your will to Him, not be a fraud
Die to your sin and deny what is self
No longer put God and His Word on a shelf

Live for Him daily, do all that He says
Walk in His fellowship, praise Him, instead
Walk in His holiness, purity vow
Give up your idols and to HIM now bow

An Original Work / June 17, 2023

**RC here- just curious. ***

Would you ever own and icon of Fr. Seraphim Rose or read his writings? OR could a man be ordained because he was homosexual? I've read The Soul After Death and Religion of The Future and found them both interesting.

EO ONLY please.

Hi all,
it seems debate in America - and my home country of Australia seems to be following - is moving further apart. We have less in common than ever before. I'm struck by the way "The New Corporation" portrays the urgency of dealing with Corporate creep into our lives. Corporations are trying to turn us from Citizens into Consumers. I agree with the majority of the movie analysing the problems. The way Corporations are set up they can't help being in a frenzied search for short term profits for this quarter, trying to ‘outsource’ costs to the public purse (like fossil fuels letting the public health care sector carry the burden of all their particulate pollution - thanks a lot oil barons!), offshoring profits into tax havens, and complaining how heavily taxed and unfair it all is as they do so. It’s outrageous!

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But then, rather than sensible regulation of corporations - it jumps to Socialism.
What gives? There's a thousand degrees between laissez-faire and Socialist.
(They do interview a few other people after the Socialist lady. But cutting straight to a Socialist after the climax of the Corporate thrashing wasn't a good look in my Ordo-Liberal view.)

What about we use anti-trust to break up some Corporations?

What about new firm structures, like Germany's Mittelstand family-owned firms or even Democratic Worker's Co-ops? They might sound a bit socialist - but really still have to compete in the marketplace like anyone else. What about a thousand other ways to balance and protect our rights as Democratic Citizens while still having the creativity of a free-market, but heavily regulated and contained for the public good?

Let's look at medium sized family firms like Germany's Mittelstand. Germany has vastly more medium sized firms than Australia. We tend to have big corporations, or tiny mom and pop firms.

Anyone can be corrupted and go down the wrong path. But if we’re talking about the systems that might tip behaviour one way or the other, which is more likely to be corrupted and short term in its thinking?

A family owned firm looking to supply a good or service for the next quarter century, or a Corporation in a desperate rush to report a profit to shareholders that quarter?

A German Mittelstand firm training apprentices from high school to hopefully keep for life, who have a real chance of becoming senior accountants or engineers or even the Managing Director - or a Corporation willing to fire whole departments to cut costs for the all important bottom line that quarter?

I've worked in the Australian army, government, and now a Corporation. And the turnover I'm seeing in the Corporation I'm in right now and morale issues and toxic employer employee relations is just unreal. Watch the doco above - but seriously - where's the political middle in America?

***EO ONLY***

I'm just curious, what is the Orthodox response regarding the traditional Fundamentalist Protestant view of hell as "fire and brimstone" where the damned are tortured and tormented for all eternity?

It is my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, God does NOT torture those he loves, and he loves ALL creation.

Thanks in advance.

Isaiah 66:1-4 strongly suggest a rebuilt house/temple dedicated to God by the Jews, with renewed animal sacrifice, this will be an "Abomonation" to the Lord and the cross of Calvary, God will send them a strong delusion

Point Of Interest: The word "Delusion" is used 2 times in the KJV, and they are both associated with a house/temple, and it appears that the scripture presented could be "Parallel Readings" of the same event

Isaiah 66:1-4KJV
1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-11KJV
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

In its complaint, the Center for Renewing American requested that the ethics office “impose appropriate disciplinary and remedial action—up to and including expulsion” of Schiff.
It is sad that a good number of Democrats did not vote against Schiff.

Luke 20:19-26 ESV


If we are teaching the truth of the Scriptures, in their true context, not meaning that we have to go into detail about everything, but that we are telling the truth of what the Scriptures teach, and we are not altering the Scriptures to teach what is false, we are going to be opposed as Jesus was. And especially on the internet we are going to have people who will try to trick and to trap us into saying something to where they can bring false accusations against us.

Honestly, from what I have witnessed in my 18 years of writing on the internet, I think there are many people who get on some discussion websites for the sole purpose of stirring up trouble. They are always looking to pick a fight or an argument with someone. And so we need to learn to be very discerning about these things so that we don’t fall into their traps. And we should be in the practice of answering people with the Scriptures, or if it is our own thinking, say it is.

Now I am not saying that everyone who disagrees with what we are sharing is trying to trick or to trap us into some meaningless discussion leading to an argument. But some do. And so this section of Scripture here (which tells us of how Jesus’ opponents did not like something he taught, and so they sought to catch him in something he said) serves as an example to us today in some ways in which we can handle what we can see is a trap. And sometimes it is best just not to answer them at all.

I will admit that, in my younger years, I used to be pretty naïve and easily I trusted others. But as I grew older I began to realize that not everyone is who he says he is. And especially on the internet anyone can be whoever he says he is, but he may be someone altogether different. For on the internet you can fake who you are, and some people will do this to try to get information out of people in order to trap them in some way. And now we have artificial intelligence (AI) in the mix to deal with. Is it possible they can even create fake people to serve as their spies? I will have to look into that.

Take for example on Social Media they like to ask a lot of personal questions about your lives, which on the surface looks like fun, questions like who was your favorite pet or what was your first automobile or your favorite food. It all seems innocent on a surface level. But then think about your passwords you create for yourself, and not just passwords, but your security questions you have for yourself may be some of these same questions. So be very careful if you decide to answer personal questions that you are not giving a thief entry into your accounts via your passwords and security questions.

For there are the spies being sent out to us via the internet, and in real life, who will pretend to be sincere in order that they might catch us in something we say, either to try to trip us up with our words so they have cause to accuse us, or to gain entry into our internet accounts. And I personally believe these “spies” have greatly increased in number over the past 20 years or so. And if you own a computer or even a TV or a smartphone, someone is listening to you, whether you realize it or not.

For example, have you noticed that you are having a casual conversation with someone, and your smartphones or computers are on and nearby and you mention the name of someone or the name of a product and so you decide you are now going to google that name. And all you have to do is type in one letter of the name and google knows what to fill in next, which is the word you were just talking about.

Same applies with advertising. You and your spouse are sitting there having a private (so-called) conversation about something, and the next thing you know when you get on the internet you are getting all sorts of ads for what you just talked about. This is the world we now live in. Everything we say can now be heard by computers unless we go somewhere away from technology, but then honestly we don’t even know what has been planted in some of our bodies via vaccinations, either.

So, spies are everywhere we look these days, and people may friend us on the internet who we don’t know, who could be spies, too. And it is a very sad situation we live in today, but we can’t trust everyone, for not everyone is who they appear to be. So, again, we must be discerning people who are not paranoid, but who are facing the reality of the world we now live in and who are wise to what is going on so we know how to respond. And I am not claiming to be perfect in this area, but I am growing in wisdom, for sure.

So, we, as followers of Christ, need to be those who are able to perceive craftiness and deceitful scheming and who seek the Lord for guidance in how to respond. And some of this deceitfulness and craftiness comes from pastors of churches in their sermons, or via books written by “Christian” authors, or via memes on social media, or via “Christian” songs and entertainment. So, just because it looks good or sounds good does not mean it is good. And just because someone appears sincere doesn’t mean he is.

So, again, guard against paranoia, but be wise and discerning because these days are evil and anything can be faked, and much is, so test everything you hear, see (or think you see) and read, and do so in prayer and against the Scriptures, and pray for much spiritual discernment so that you do not fall into other people’s traps. And watch out for scams, for they are everywhere. And where you have to give an answer for something you are teaching or sharing, make sure your answer is biblical and not your own opinion, unless you state that it is your own opinion. I have to do this, too.

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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Praise be to God!

I was looking to see if anyone had links they could send on what the earliest Christian writings are for verses…

Exodus 32: 11-14
1 Samuel 15:11
Genesis 6:6-7

I’d like to know what our earliest church leaders interpreted these verses to mean. If you have info on 1 but not all 3 verses, that works too!

God Bless

I began to go to a non-denomination church in 2013 when I remarried. There was a sense of belonging and there was freedom to worship.
The music was contemporary and there appeared to be some ministerial development under way.
I eventually joined the worship team, playing lead guitar and bass.
The most significant thing I saw was that the door was open for me to explore and study prophecy.
I would eventually learn to prophesy during breaks in the service. It would be brief, to the point and I hoped to inspire people.
In 2015 I began to have problems with my medication, behavioral issues persisted for months until I was prescribed another drug.
It ruined the experience for me and I eventually had to move on.
I have nothing bad to say about the pastor or his congregation, I wish them the best.

Can someone please explain this to me? It is my understanding because they were buried so deep, water did not wash away any evidence from the Dinosaurs, thus they have been preserved for millions of years.

Will most remains become fossilized?

Thanks in advanced

7 JUNE 2023

Australia Phasing Out Cheques by 2030


(Australian) Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Wednesday morning that his government would be moving to phase out cheques by no later than 2030.

"We know that usage of cheques has been declining," he said.

"This is largely because digital transactions are easier, cheaper and more accessible. In fact, 98 per cent of retail cheques could be serviced through internet or mobile banking."

Cheques account for only 0.2% of all payments, according to figures from an Australian Banking Association (ABA) report.

Cheque processing is also costly with major banks charging between $7.50 and $15 to issue a check. Some banks also charge a fee for cheque cashing.

Based on 2022 data, 75% of consumer payments are now on credit/debit cards and only 0.2% by cheque:

• Cheque: 0.2 per cent
• Other: 12 per cent
• Cash: 13 per cent
• Credit and charge cards: 25 per cent
• Debit cards: 50 per cent

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Cheques will be phased out by 2030 as mobile wallet use sky-rockets - ABC News

OB

Just looking for a comprehensive and explicit outline of the Trinity explained in the Bible. Thank you.

I have been doing some research (more so reading the Controversial Christian Theology threads) and the doctrine of hell is really shaking me up. I think this is the first time I really sat and thought about what it means. The UR proponents make a better case philosophically, those is the CI camp make more sense logically, but the ED proponents seem to have Scripture lining up with them better. Its causing me some serious stress, so please pray the Spirit to reveal to me the truth and to understand and accept whatever it may be. Not only to accept it, but to be at peace with it because it is His will.

Edit: Changed ECT to ED, I want to be fair in how I portray each view.

I apologize (intellectually) for playing games with you all.
By_the_book told me this in one of the previous forums
But I’ve never had that still small voice of the Spirit speak to me to draw me to salvation though.
Is it too late?

This makes so much sense and ties into a question I had asked about marriage in the Advice forum.

Thoughts?


Note: This column is part of Scott Lively's series "30 Days of Pride-Month Push-Back."


"Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands" (Proverbs 14:1).


Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, was one of the most toxic women ever empowered by Marxist radicalism. She was co-founder of one of the bloodiest abortion-pushing entities in American history, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and was cursed with a personality even her leftist allies at the New York Times characterized (in her obituary, no less) as "famously abrasive" … "thin-skinned and imperious, subject to screaming fits of temperament." But the most destructive part of her legacy was "Second Wave Feminism," which "The Feminine Mystique" was "credited" with triggering. Perhaps more than any other person, Friedan is responsible for weaponizing feminist grievances to poison women against home-based, family-centered lifestyles and transform them into aggressive workplace competitors with men, leveraging leftist power in the civil rights movement to achieve the cultural Marxist goal of "disintegration of … the monogamic and patriarchal family."


As a man who came of age in the 1970s I am a part of the first generation of males upon whom was imposed Friedan's feminist theory of social order by the American public-education cabal. We were the first to be indoctrinated in the false narrative that men and women are equal and interchangeable in all things, and that men's collective unfair past "oppression" of all women warranted new public policies and practices favoring the advancement of women in roles traditionally relegated to men. Men who declined to voluntarily defer or submit to women's leadership in this campaign were deemed "male chauvinist pigs," justifying anti-discrimination laws to punish those who stood in the way of "equality." I only broke free of that mindset when I became a Christian in my late 20s and started understanding God's plan for family.

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1. What's being done to research creatio ex nihilo?

2. What's been done to research creatio ex nihilo?

3. What is the consensus of opinion on creatio ex nihilo so far?

Holy Angels can appear as men to help us on earth.

I wonder if the bad ones also appear in order to harass us, deceive us and pull us away from God etc.

What do you all think ? Any thoughts ?

Something amazing just happened to me! In the last few days I noticed my vision was getting a little blurry, I was concerned that my vision was going downhill and that I might eventually need glasses. However I laid my hand on my eyes and said "Vision be healed in the name of Jesus". Instantly my vision came into focus! If you have any pain or sickness in your body just lay your hands on it and tell it to be healed in Jesus' name! There is power in the name! A lot of power!

well, hello there everyone.
My name is Mike, I'm 40yrs old from Minnesota and plan on going to bible college and seminary in the near future. as of now i am completely self-taught aside from my childhood spent in church, Sunday school, church school etc. Although I'm not new to my walk of faith, I am new to an Online Forum of any sorts, so I'm not sure what to expect by being here. however, I am Excited to share with a community of many other believers from all walks of faith. my particular area of interest includes apologetics, and defense of the gospel. truth be told i just love coming up with good sermons and sharing the word of God, but one of my far favorite pastimes is a good debate with an unbeliever or someone who considers themselves a believer but whose doctrines are not sound.

You know, just in case you wanted to pray it today.

Let us pray.
Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that we, who glory in the Heart of your beloved Son
and recall the wonders of his love for us,
may be made worthy to receive
an overflowing measure of grace
from that fount of heavenly gifts.
Through Christ our Lord.
R/. Amen.

This from the USCCB website​

The temple destruction talked about In Matthew 24:2, Mark 13:2, was symbolically the Lord's body as John 2:19-21 teaches below

Daniel's AOD, The Great Tribulation, and The Second Coming are "Future Events" unfulfilled

Daniel's AOD causes the great tribulation, Jesus returns immediately after the tribulation, this didn't take place in 66-70AD Jerusalem, Reformed Preterist Eschatology in 66-70AD fulfillment is "Wrong"

John 2:19-21KJV
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

Pretty hard to have a Great Tribulation in 66-70AD and Jesus Christ returning (Immediately After The Tribulation) as seen below, reformed preterist eschatology in 66-70AD fulfillment is "Wrong"

Matthew 24:29-30KJV
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The Two Witnesses Are Raised To Heaven And "The Same Hour" is the great earthquake as the 2nd woe is complete

"Yes" the 3rd woe is the 7th Angel/Trump that comes "Quickly" (The End)

"No" gap of days exist's between the 2nd/3rd woe below as many claim

"Yes" Revelation 11:18 is the "Final Judgement" (The End)

(The Time Of The Dead, That They Should Be Judged)

Revelation 11:12-18KJV
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

(When He Shall Begin To Sound)

Revelation 10:7KJV
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

My name is Frederick (Rick) Eldridge, I am new here. I am an American who lives in Jordan. The Father called my wife here back in 2015. We began the process of selling and planning our move here in Jordan. We moved here in July 2016. We have seen God move mightily in miracles and people's hearts. On September 8th of September 2022, she died and went on to other assignments with Yeshua. I have to learn what it is to be alone again. It is not easy, but with YHVH's help I am able to get through each day.

Good Day.

I never really though NYC prosecutors had the skills to take on tax attorneys and win. Seems they now have confirmed my inclination.


Snip ....Scored a legal victory on Thursday after a New York prosecutor confirmed her two-year-long investigation into the Trump Organization's valuation of a golf club was closed without any criminal charges being filed.

Trump wins massive legal battle as prosecutors drop case​

In Him,

Bill