Artificial intelligence-generated videos depicting child sexual abuse surged by more than 26,000% in 2025, amid growing concern over Grok, an AI chatbot now under investigation for producing similar content. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced an official inquiry into Grok and its parent company, xAI.

The U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation, or IWF, reported identifying 3,440 such AI-generated videos in 2025, up from just 13 the previous year, with more than half of the videos falling under “category A,” the classification for the most severe forms of abuse, CBS News reported.

The chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s xAI and integrated with the X platform, became a focal point of controversy in December after Copyleaks, a content detection firm, found it was generating one nonconsensual sexualized image per minute, according to its estimates.

In response, xAI stated it had implemented changes to block users from generating images of people in minimal clothing through Grok, following scrutiny from regulators in the European Union and consumer protection agencies in the United States.

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2 Peter 2 is a description of false and dangerous teachers, and there are some passages in it where I would be interested to know, how the Calvinists put them in harmony with their Limited Atonement doctrine.

V.22 seems to imply that these false teachers were never born again, but kept their old impure nature. So far it is a good beginning. However, in verse 1 we learnt that these false teachers where “bought” by the Lord and in verse 20 that “they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”. I think that we could make these 2 verses relate to another as follow: The Lord bought them from the slavery of sin, and the effect of that, is that they have escaped the pollutions of the world. But they were afterward “again entangled therein”.

The fact that they were bought by the Lord didn't necessarily mean that they were born again, as we could understand from v.22. However, I don't see how it could happen that the Lord bought them, except by virtue of His sacrifice on the Cross. Moreover, I don't see how someone could escape “the pollutions of the world”, except it also be by virtue of the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, because his own endeavors could never have achieved that: “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom. 8:3-4).

According to the Limited Atonement doctrine, Jesus only died for the elects, then I understand, that there would be no virtue left in the atonement of Jesus for the non-elects. But that would contradict the development I made above. So how does Calvinism resolve such a question?

It looks as if "Allah" is going to allow Iran to return to the desert from which it came....

The dark truth about Iran's water: Why the nation's aquifers are collapsing​

MSN

And it looks like Afghanistan isn't faring much better:

The world has entered a new era of 'water bankruptcy' with irreversible consequences​

MSN

(shrug) But then, I guess if both of them end up in a perpetual severe drought, it'll lead to a reduction in the amount of mischief they inflict upon the world, since they'll have to spend their time finding liquid to drink instead of indulging in state-sponsored Islamic terrorism. [facetiousness] What a pity! [/facetiousness]

John 15:5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. NKJV

Jesus, Himself, warned that we must abide in Him. If we did not abide in Him, we would be cast out as a branch. Verse 1-2 the father is the one who is the vine dresser.

1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. 24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. NKJV

John wrote that the person who keeps His commandments abides in Jesus. Jesus first commandment is that we keep believing in Him. How could we quit believing in Jesus?

Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, NKJV

How does a Christian fall away from Christianity?

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? NKJV


The writer of Hebrews urges believers to hold fast their confession of their hope. The confession of their hope was Jesus. A few scriptures later he stated if “they sin willfully.” By 2Corinthians 5: 15 the only sin God imputes is not living for Jesus. The only way to sin is to stop living for Jesus. Since they were warned a few scriptures earlier to hold fast to their hope in Jesus, hope must have something to do with our living for Jesus, apostatizing or sinning willfully.


Colossians 1:21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight — 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. NKJV


Paul warned the Colossians to not be moved away from their hope of the gospel. That hope is the same hope the Hebrews had in Jesus. What does hope in Jesus have to do with not abiding in Jesus or apostatizing from Jesus?

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. NKJV

Without hope in Jesus we have no saving faith, we are saved through faith. If we lose faith we lose salvation.

Romans 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. NKJV

We are more than conquerors through the Father who loved us. John 15: 1-2 the Father is the vinedresser, if we lose faith in Jesus, it is because we love the world more than Jesus. We have trampled on the blood that sanctified us and we sin willfully. The Father casts us out as a branch.

Tuesday’s transfer included figures from the Sinaloa Cartel, the Beltrán-Leyva cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, a remnant of the infamous Zetas based in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, across from Texas. Mexican authorities said that all had pending U.S. cases.
Americans should be pleased with the cooperation. What a difference in U.S. administrations!

I'm a regular white guy but I really enjoy the 'black' mode of song worship, swaying and getting into it. But the question is, am I doing it just to feel good or is it happening by being by moved by the Holy Spirit, as King David was when he danced? Our natural tendency is to do something to feel good, and that in itself does not cut it with God. Cain offered his sacrifice doing the best he could and it was rejected by God but God accepted Abel's sacrifice because it was by revelation, revelation being something that comes from God. William Branham, who I believe was a man of God said 'why do you want to be healed, just to feel better?'. He goes on to say that that is not quite right our desire to be healed ought to stem from a desire to continue our service for God.

Please don't follow Finke's advice, this is yet another political leader trying to get his base angry and fired up. Storming a church as was done in St. Paul may see you arrested on federal charges. Call for discussion and debate instead.

In the Diocese of Charlotte, Bishop Michael Martin’s pastoral letter of December 17, 2025 ordered that altar rails, kneelers and prie-dieux be removed from public Masses by Friday, January 16.

As the first Sunday Masses without altar rails unfolded this weekend, reports from across the diocese indicated anything but uniform compliance. While some parishes removed temporary kneelers and adjusted Communion lines, others made no immediate changes, awaiting Vatican clarification on a dubia submitted by more than 30 priests. The result has been a patchwork of responses indicating deep frustration with the bishop’s vision of liturgical conformity.

As parishioners awaited this day, The Catholic Herald spoke with laity from multiple parishes and a diocesan staffer prior to Saturday the 17th. Many voiced deep frustration and concern, viewing the removal of altar rails as a liturgical time bomb they foresaw would not go well for the first Sunday Mass.

The Catholic Herald first spoke with Jason Murphy, longtime coordinator of the Catholic Men’s Conference of the Carolinas, its co-founder in 2010 and leader since 2019. He offered a perspective from his parish, the Cathedral of St Patrick in Charlotte. Murphy recalled how the cathedral’s renovation in the late 1980s or early 1990s stripped away its original marble altar rails in favour of a modern look. “They were sliced up, they were used as wall decoration, they were used as altar server benches, things like that.”

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U.S. equities suffered big losses Tuesday after President Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric on Greenland, threatening to impose new tariffs on countries opposing the sale of the Danish territory to the United States.

U.S. Treasury yields spiked and the U.S. dollar declined as Trump’s threat caused a flight from U.S. assets. Danish pension operator AkademikerPension said Tuesday that it is exiting U.S. Treasurys because of finance concerns over U.S. debt.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 870.74 points, or 1.76%, to end the session at 48,488.59. The S&P 500 dipped 2.06% to settle at 6,796.86. The Nasdaq Composite slid 2.39%, closing at 22,954.32. It was the worst session since October for all three major averages.

The day’s losses put the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq into negative territory for 2026: The broad market index is now off 0.7%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq is down 1.2% in the period. The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) — Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — spiked to a high of 20.99.

Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Saturday that eight NATO members’ U.S. imports will face escalating tariffs “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.” The tariffs will start at 10% on Feb. 1 and rise to 25% on June 1, Trump said.

Trump is ready to ruin the economy trying to annex Greenland. It's extreme, but it's the first diversion that seems to have been successful in driving the Epstein pedophilia scandal out of the news.

Supreme Court skeptical of Hawaii's 'vampire rule' for gun owners​

A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday indicated that a Hawaii gun law that limits people carrying firearms onto private property infringes on the constitutionally protected right to bear arms.

The measure has been dubbed the “vampire rule” because, as with the fictional creatures in folk tales and the novel “Dracula,” it requires people with concealed carry permits to seek permission before entering private property open to the public.


Members of the court's 6-3 conservative majority, who regularly back gun rights, suggested during oral argument that the requirement violates the Constitution’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.

“Two @PortlandPolice officers were shot in NE Portland as leftist and Antifa rioters occupied the ICE facility in south Portland. The officers’ conditions are not confirmed,” journalist Andy Ngo posted on X.
Both officers were taken to a local hospital and were listed in stable condition, Det. Jon Richardson said, according to ABC News.

Whether they are Antifa or not, the federal government needs to move against those who threaten or use violence against law enforcement.

I have been writing poetry for a long time and at one point was published on the internet frequently. Many of the platforms no longer exist and the ones that do, are not very active. I also write Bible studies and run a website where I offer classes for free.

Also I am a very gifted Christian because I have Autism and Savant syndrome. I have to admit honestly that I tend to write about my struggles with autism and savant more than I do about the Lord. My poetry frequently reflects my struggles. It also reflects my faith in the Lord and how he influences my struggles.

I am a well rounded Christian who has some artistic talent that also reflects my autism and my faith.

Many of my poems have a theme such as “ Jesus Speaking “ to Christians.

I am an accomplished motivational speaker in the field of weight loss. Over the years I’ve spoken to youth groups, singles groups and in many secular venues. I have done all of these things because I love the Lord and have devoted myself to reaching people with his hope of deliverance. I have experienced it myself.

I hope that somehow, my writing here will reflect my struggles and my faith in the Lord while speaking to others who may be facing struggles of their own.

Please pray and ask God if He could please heal me and protect us from illness. Please ask Jesus to make me feel better if it is God's will and it's not anything serious. I ask in the name of Jesus and I thank you. God bless you. Carmen.

The ultimate pay to play. That doesn't include pardons. Cha-ching.

Hello,

I would like to know the Calvinist perspective on the four fields of the Parable of the Sower (Matt 13), especially the stony and thorny grounds. The wayside, I think it to be easy to understand: that's the people that heard the Gospel but without the necessarily illumination (v.19). The good ground is the elects. But what about the stony and the thorny grounds? I don't think we can say that they are the false believers described as the tares in v. 24-30 + 36-43, because the tares are sowed by the devil, but in the Parable of the Sower, this is about some people that have received the good seed of the Word of God, and this good seed begins to have some effects and grows as wheat, but only until a certain point.

I think that you will say that they are not born again, however the seed didn't remain a seed but grew to be wheat. Maybe with some good observation, someone could discern at the very beginning when the seed is planted, that the wheat is not going to fully develop and bear fruit. But then, if this was not a new birth, how are you going to describe the transformation of the seed to wheat?

In verses 20-21, it is said that the stony ground represent the people that received the Word of God with a great joy, although it has no root in them. In John 1:11 it is written that “as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God”. Isn't it a bit strange that those that received the Word didn't receive the right to become children of God? Or would you say that they received some Word of God, some part of the Gospel, but not Jesus Christ in all his offices: as Savior and Lord? Or would you say that they did received Jesus in all his offices, but it was a superficial reception that did affect the emotions and the enthusiasm but not the heart?

The question is also: how easily it would be to discern for oneself to be a good or a stony or a thorny ground, or how easily could we discern that in our fellow believers? Or are we in general blind to that, until it will be revealed to us after some time?

The Left is desperate to make lawful deportation in America a giant, impossible mess to deal with.

According to a new media narrative, President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security are behaving irresponsibly by conducting more immigration raids around the country, which in turn have allegedly led to violence against innocent civilians and illegal aliens.

And if you’ve been listening to Democrats, you’d think that the reason that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is particularly active in blue states is that the Trump administration is being mean to them for political reasons.

Their reasoning goes that Trump wants to occupy and bully their states with ICE “terrorists” who spend their time murdering innocent American citizens for no reason other than to cruelly “own the libs.”

“This is retribution-style politics,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a recent CNN interview. “This is drama. This is performance politics at its worst, and it’s hurting people and it’s making us less safe.”

This is projection. It’s Frey and friends who are all about “performance politics.” They desperately want to convey the idea that Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are the real problem.

But the narrative that aggressive ICE enforcement in blue states is just some kind of political retribution is bunk for many reasons. The biggest one is that Democrats have actively pursued policies that would lead to a confrontation with the federal government over immigration law.

This is happening by design.

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I’ve just been listening to interviews with people in Minnesota. Lot’s people afraid to leave their homes without taking passports, whistles and pepper spray. People afraid to leave the house at all for fear of being snatched by unidentified masked men and ending up in a different state or country before getting to call someone.

But in the interviews no one who was white expressed any fear or experiences of being held without charge.

The neighbourhoods are crumbling as businesses are disrupted and failing because of the wandering masked groups going door to door and stopping (non-white) people in the street demanding papers. Drones flying overhead over groups of people in the streets.

How long will it take criminals to realise that they can go about their business in broad daylight wearing similar outfits and snatching victims to rob or worse?

How long until someone goes ballistic with a gun to defend themselves from these masked men?

Is this America?

What is wisdom? It isn’t just knowledge, for there are a lot of people who have heads full of knowledge who do not exercise wisdom. For me, wisdom has always been applied knowledge, i.e. putting the head knowledge we have into practice, but the right kind of knowledge. So wisdom is exercising common sense and good judgment. And it is not just speaking the truth, but it is applying the truth to our daily lives. And it is seeking the counsel of God to make good, sound, and right decisions, which are well prayed over.

So, if we are lacking in wisdom, and so we ask God for wisdom, we need to mean it. We need to be sincere in our requests. And we should not be asking God for wisdom and then wait for him to respond before we decide whether or not we will accept his counsel. And asking God for wisdom is not to be some ritual we go through to give an appearance of seeking after God if we are not going to listen to what God has to say anyway. And there are people who do that, who say they prayed, but who then reject God’s counsel.

And that is called being “double-minded.” And that is like being on both sides of opposite ends of a see-saw (teeter-totter) going up and down in thought or belief or opinion. For to teeter is to stagger, to wobble, to waver, to sway, to falter, to vacillate, and/or to hesitate. And to totter is to falter, to stumble, and to flounder. And from a spiritual perspective that can mean to sin. For it has to do with not being steady in faith or in practice, but with vacillating back and forth between living for sin and for self and claiming faith in Jesus.

What this passage teaches us is that if we are those who “teeter-totter” as a matter of practice, and so we vacillate in belief and practice on a habitual basis, and so we pray for God’s counsel, but while we may decide not to take God’s counsel, that we are the double-minded, unstable in all our ways, who will not receive anything from the Lord. And I believe this includes salvation from sin and eternal life with God, too. For the double-minded are of two minds going back and forth between God and their sin, which is not of God.

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).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

So, don’t take God’s grace for granted. Don’t see God as a Genie in the sky just there to grant you your every request, regardless of how you treat him. Believe God and what he teaches us that faith which comes from God will result in us denying self, dying to sin, and following our Lord in obedience to his commands, in practice, or it is not biblical faith which saves. This does not make us perfect (1 John 2:1-2), but if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, we do not have the hope of eternal life with God.

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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Being Double-Minded
An Original Work / January 20, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What are American churchgoers being taught from the pulpit these days about what happens after death? Clearly something is terribly amiss. A 2025 study by Dr. George Barna and Dr. David Closson reveals the dire situation.

Only 36% correctly affirm: "You will go to Heaven if you repent of sin and accept Christ." The rest of American churchgoers are completely misguided regarding who goes to Heaven.

The Family Research Council released the study a few months ago. And here is what people in the pew actually think:

• "Everyone goes to Heaven" (14%).
• "Everyone is purified, then goes to Heaven" (12%).
• "Don't know" (12%).
• "You go to Heaven if you did good deeds" (11%).
• "You cease to exist" (7%).
• "You are reincarnated" (7%).
• "You go to Hell" (2%).

Why are two-thirds of churchgoers wrong about something so foundational to Christianity? If your pastor is not preaching the Gospel, you should switch to a church where the truth of Scripture is being taught.

Half of American churchgoers (49%) either do not know who goes to Heaven, or believe that everyone goes to Heaven, or think that everyone is purified and then goes to Heaven. These statistics are shocking! And remember, these are people who actually attend church!

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Alveda King, a gospel singer, evangelist, and niece of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., believes that if her uncle were alive today, he would be stressing the importance of unity and nonviolence amid ongoing unrest against immigration enforcement officers.

During a Monday interview with The Christian Post on the 41st Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the 74-year-old evangelist appealed to the legacy of her uncle, who would have turned 97 this year, to offer her thoughts on the violent tension in Minnesota.

Minneapolis has been roiled in recent weeks with protests against U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) officials after two ICE-involved shootings, including the death of 37-year-old Renee Good.

King, who serves in the Trump administration as a senior advisor on Faith and Community Outreach at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, urged protesters to remember that her uncle emphasized the importance of remaining peaceful during protests.

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New York City will increase police presence at Staten Island houses of worship in response to a recent series of criminal disruptions and other acts of vandalism at local churches.

Patrol Borough Staten Island Assistant Chief Melissa Eger said at a press conference last Thursday that authorities will take extra measures to protect local churches.

“So, I want to emphasize that none of these incidents indicate the targeting of churches due to religious affiliation,” Eger said, as reported by The Staten Island Advance.

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I'm looking for a book that explains things like what is Presbyterian? What is Baptist? What is Roman Catholic, what is Anglican etc? In enough detail to understand the differences and any nuances within each group.

I have read a bit from specific viewpoints, and understand the differences are not always theological, ie Presbyterians may not all be Calvinists these days.