I believe the most important thing in life, after believing in Jesus, is being filled with the Holy spirit like pentecostals believe, this is real, not every believer gets filled at believing in Jesus, like in the bible, sometimes we need to seek it, and for me is the meaning of life to have Him like that, he is our creator and he can be guide and friend. He is not like the kings of this earth who don't give even the time of day, but he is more important than any of those, the bible says he wishes us i don't remember the exact word in English, but our creator is such a beautiful person and wants to be our comforter guide and friend, is so awesome but people miss him, for wrong beliefs, like "everyone gets filled at believing" that has to be one of the most damaging beliefs ever.

$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt​

Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.

Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.

Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.

Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found.

Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump,potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money.

Within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.

[Trump-appointed] Barr directed Jessie Liu, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in D.C., to personally examine the classified intelligence to evaluate if further investigation was warranted. Barr later instructed [Trump-appointed] FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to impose “adult supervision” on FBI agents

“The investigation referenced found no wrongdoing and was closed,” [Trump campaign] spokesman Steven Cheung said by email. “None of the allegations or insinuations being reported on have any basis in fact. The Washington Post is consistently played for suckers by Deep State Trump-haters and bad faith actors peddling hoaxes and shams.”

In the years since the Egypt case was closed, the Sisi regime’s ambitions to influence senior U.S. government officials have been laid bare by the bribery conviction of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Over the course of his presidency, Trump shifted U.S. policy in ways that benefited the Egyptian leader, a man he once called “my favorite dictator.” In 2018, Trump’s State Department released $195 million in military aid that the United States had been withholding over human rights abuses — a move that had been opposed by his first secretary of state — followed by the release of $1.2 billion more in such assistance.

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Somehow, it was just two weeks ago that Donald Trump headed into the Republican National Convention looking like a juggernaut. That all feels like a long time ago. As his campaign enters its final three months, Trump looks like a man off balance. His polling lead has evaporated, his campaign strategy is obsolete, and he’s flaunting his most offensive tendencies.

“I want to be nice,” Trump said Saturday at a rally in Minnesota. “They all say, I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed since two weeks ago. Something affected him. No, I haven’t changed—maybe I’ve gotten worse, actually.”

He's lost his swagger, and his "mean girl" act backfired on him when he went after Harris for being black.

And Vance seems in retrospect to have been an impulsive mistake.

And there isn't much time to fix things.

Just kidding. Made you look.

Holy and Divine Spirit, destroy in me all spiritual laziness, all indifference, all doubt, all fear.

Fill me fully with your Light, your Wisdom, your Peace, your Joy, your Happiness.

To you Divine Spirit, who are God and always accompany us, to you be the Glory, the Honor, the Power, the Adoration forever and ever,
Amen.

• Nonfarm payrolls grew by just 114,000 in July, below the downwardly revised 179,000 in June and the Dow Jones estimate for 185,000.
• The unemployment rate edged higher to 4.3%, its highest since October 2021, triggering an economic rule on recessions.
• Health care again led, adding 55,000 to payrolls. Other notable gainers included construction (25,000), government (17,000), and transportation and warehousing (14,000).
• Average hourly earnings increased 0.2% for the month and 3.6% from a year ago. Both figures were below respective forecasts for 0.3% and 3.7%.

Max Boot’s wife and occasional co-author, the former CIA analyst and longtime Asia policy expert Sue Mi Terry, has herself now been charged with two felony counts of serving as an unregistered agent for a foreign power.

Wondering if you as a believer are being used as a seer? (God just uses this as a major way of communicating with some). Have there been recent changes in what you're seeing?

Has anyone actually read this? I'm sure his supporters here will love it because it hits all the right-wing talking points, but all it seems to be is a laundry list of culture war grievances. The primary policy changes that he proposes relate to teachers - abolishing tenure, going to a merit-based pay scale, and having parents elect principals - and are completely bonkers.

Lauren Boebert Repeatedly Demands Joe Biden Proves He's Not Dead




She's not going to take his word for it. I suppose a doctor's note will be required.

Jehu shot Joram, son of Ahab, King of Israel (2K 9:24). They killed Jezebel, wife of Ahab, at his command (2K 9:33). They killed the 70 sons of Ahah in different parts of Samaria to appease Jehu (2K 10:6) After that, God approved Jehu in 2 Kings 10:

30 The Lord said to Jehu, 'Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.'

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About a century later, Hosea sang a different tune 1:

4 The LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel."

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How to reconcile 2K 10:30 and Hos 1:4?

Strong's Hebrew: 1818. דָּם (dam) — 360 Occurrences

the blood
דְּמֵ֤י (də·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct

BDB:

f. plural דָּמִים of abundance, blood in quantity, hence sometimes of blood shed by rude violence, and of blood-stains;

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The LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

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God approved Jehu destroying the house of Ahab but he did more at that time. He killed the bad king Ahaziah of Judah (2K 9:27), whose mother was Athaliah, a daughter of Ahab (2K 8:18). Further, he killed 42 of Ahaziah's relatives (2K 10:14), who happened to be around Jezreel.

Jehu executed the violence in Jezreel in 2K 9-10 according to the word of God, but then Hos 1:4 condemned his house. Why?

He destroyed the house of Ahab as God commanded, but God did not instruct him to kill Ahaziah's innocent relatives along the way. His violent bloodshed was excessive, as pointed out by Hosea.

2K 10:

31 Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

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God used sinful men to accomplish his purposes.

P.S. I made a substantial revision to this OP because of okay's comments below.

I have heard that Science has the ability to destroy mankind.

BSB, Psalm 18:

For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said:
1 I love You, O LORD, my strength.

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Some psalms contained a preamble before the start of verse 1. These preambles were called superscriptions or titles. The titles provided information about the psalm's authorship, occasion, genre, musical instructions, etc.

Were they part of the inspired autograph manuscript?

Some scholars believed that at least some of the psalm titles were original to the composition of the psalms themselves. Others believed these titles might have been added by editors who compiled the Psalter. This would have to be decided on a case-by-case basis. In any case, they were present in the oldest known manuscripts and generally considered reliable information.

Was the superscription in Ps 18 original autograph?

Ps 18 had a nearly identical parallel in 2 Samuel 22, with a similar superscription. The historical details aligned with events in David's life. The superscription appeared in the oldest known manuscripts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. David himself might have penned the title of Ps 18.

Kamala Harris backed using ‘lists’ of gun owners to send police door-to-door to seize firearms​

When trying to understand God we always need to reply upon scripture. There are many theories about God, and foreknowledge. Some say, and I have wondered it myself from time to time, is God outside of time, and able to sort of travel through it. Hence knowing what will happen.

But I would like to suggest that even if God could travel through time, there was a period of it where God was bound by it. To prove this, I will show a few scriptures. The first is in Genesis where God was regretful for creating man.


If God foreknew, in the sense that He was able to see through history from the beginning and know the actions of man. Then this verse suggests that He would never have created man. This shows there is a span of time where God does not know how man will act.

We also see the regret of God in the story of Saul.


Note how God said to Saul I would have established your kingdom over Israel forever, that was God’s plan, but Saul continually sinned. God regretted making Saul king. God’s regret shows He did not have perfect knowledge of the future at the point He made Saul king.

I would like to suggest that God knows the future not because He can foresee it but rather authors our stories and uses them to control the future. As David said, God had a book written with positive plans for David before he was born.


We see that when David sinned, God changed His story.


Now let’s look at temptation, and how God is in no way desiring man’s sins, nor planning them. For we know that God does not tempt any man to sin.


So God is not causing or responsible for the evil actions of man. This means God did not plan out the evil deeds of man. But I do believe He tries to turn around many bad situations caused by the will of man for good, as the Bible says of the Christian:


That for every evil purpose man proposes, or carries out, God is working in the background moving people toward a good purpose

So, my conclusion is, that even if God can traverse time, there was a point that He did not know the future. Yet He controls the future through Authored, even edited, stories.

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There was a bit of confusion around how God could plan out our days, and yet regret making Saul King. So I thought I would explain. God grants man free will, to choose what he or she is going to do. But God places man in situations where the choice has to be made. As an example.

God authors a story where I am destined to meet a man who He wants me to lead to toward Jesus. If I have courage, the person will come out to church and hear the gospel. If I don’t have courage the person won’t. I have to make a choice. But God’s goal is for the person to hear the gospel at a church. If I fail, through my choice, God’s secondary plan is to use someone else to ask them to church. Finally, if everybody else fails God will send a dream to the person telling them to go to a church. God has many micro plans, but He has planned out all of these potential choices.

Like I said God does not plan out our sins, i.e. He did not make Saul sin, that makes no sense, why would He plan for Saul to sin, and then feel sorry about His plan? In the same way God is not planning our sins, He just knows that if two things happen together a sin may occur. And He plans good out of these bad situations.

Rom_8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

So, lets talk about people who actually shouldn't be competing in the Olympics.

Hello folks. How many of you guys think that Amil and Preterism are anti-Christian? Many Christians believe that Amillennialism and Preterism are false teachings due to their disagreement with a literal interpretation of certain end-time events described in the Bible. Here's why:

1. Amillennialism: This view denies the future millennium as a period of earthly bliss, which is often considered anti-Christian because it goes against several passages that describe this time explicitly (Revelation 20:1-7). For instance, verse 6 (NIV) says, "Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years." This suggests a literal millennium where believers will reign with Christ on earth.
2. Preterism: Preterists believe that most or all of the prophecies about the end times were fulfilled by events prior to A.D. 70, which is problematic because many passages in Revelation (such as chapters 6-19) clearly depict future events yet to come. For example, Revelation 20:4 (NIV) says, "I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God." This verse suggests a future event where believers will be martyred for their faith.

These interpretations can lead people away from a literal understanding of biblical prophecy and potentially undermine the hope that Christians have in Christ's return and the establishment of His kingdom on earth, which is central to Christian belief. For more detailed information about these views, you may want to refer to works such as "2000 Years of Christ’s Power" by Nick R. Needham (specifically chapters discussing millennialism).

In a highly-anticipated world-first, the Texas Heart Institute has successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart that uses the same technology as bullet trains to pump blood mechanically throughout the body.

Called the Total Artificial Heart (TAH), the feat is seen as a major step in keeping people alive for longer and longer periods while they wait for heart transplants.

Texas Heart partnered with the medical tech company BiVACOR to create the TAH. It’s a titanium-constructed biventricular rotary blood pump with a single moving part that utilizes a magnetically levitated rotor that pumps the blood and replaces both ventricles of a failing heart.

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As most of the country expressed outrage that a shooter could come within an inch of killing a former president and current GOP nominee, left-wing corners of the internet rushed to watch old video of Donald Trump making appearances at pro wrestling matches.

The theory was that Mr. Trump staged the shooting, cut his own ear to draw blood, then emerged with a raised fist to savor unwarranted adulation.

Never mind the emergency room doctors, the former White House physician, photos capturing a bullet in midair, and even The New York Times’ analysis of audio and video footage concluding that Mr. Trump suffered a gunshot wound.

Stanley Renshon, a political scientist and psychoanalyst at the City University of New York’s Lehman College, said it’s all fueled by a Trump obsession that has consumed so many voters for nearly a decade.

“It’s all a part of the same psychology, which is Trump hatred, which will leave no stone unturned to blacken his name,” said Mr. Renshon.

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Looking at the inflation rate throughout Presidents Trump and Biden shows a picture that bears out what Trump has said and discredits Biden's saying that he inherited high inflation from Trump.

The first bolded date in April, 2020 was when the CARES act started making payments to individuals and businesses for Covid relief. Watching the months after this largest in history (to that time) economic stimulus package was spent sees that the effect on inflation was minimal.

The second bolded date in April, 2021 was when the American Rescue Plan payments kicked in (starting in March, 2021). The Republicans that voted against this even larger economic stimulus package (1.9 trillion versus the Republican counter bill of 600 billion) said that it would overheat the economy and lead to inflation. Looking at the sudden rise in inflation rates after the payments started shows that that is exactly what happened.

Finally the top bolded date of February, 2022 is when Russia invaded Ukraine. As can be seen, the inflation rate was already 7.9 percent before the invasion. So blaming the spike in inflation rates on the invasion is revisionist. It might have had some effect on where the peak of 9.1 percent finally fell; but inflation actually started going down and has continued going down throughout the war in Ukraine (mainly due to increased Fed rates that spurred increasing borrowing rates on nearly all credit).

The Italian, Angela Carini, stopped fighting only 46 seconds into her matchup against Imane Khelif of Algeria, who had been barred from a women’s event last year.

Carini declined to shake Khelif’s hand after her defeat was announced, then fell to her knees in the ring and began to cry.

“I am heartbroken,” she told reporters afterward. “I went to the ring to honor my father. I was told a lot of times that I was a warrior but I preferred to stop for my health. I have never felt a punch like this.”

She added: “I got into the ring to fight. I didn’t give up. But one punch hurt too much and so I said, ‘Enough.’ I’m going out with my head held high.”

misogyny /mĭ-sŏj′ə-nē/

noun​

1. Hatred or mistrust of women.
2. Hatred of women. Contrast misandry.
3. Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.

Work your whole life - train - compete pay the price and rise to one of the top performers in your sport - Earn the spot in the World Olympics to compete with the best of the best. To have all your work and sacrifice ended by a biological male.

This is horrible and one of the worst attack's on woman I have ever seen and Harris supports it.

Know what you are voting for.

Algerian male boxer Imane Khelif (in red) punches Italy's Angela Carini in the women's 66kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena, in Villepinte on August 1, 2024. | MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images


An Italian female boxer quit 46 seconds into a fight against an opponent with XY chromosomes at the Olympics on Thursday after getting punched twice in the face, prompting renewed backlash to the hot-button issue of men competing in women's sports.

Angela Carini, who told reporters she was fighting in honor of her late father, was reduced to tears after abandoning the fight against her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif.

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My response is incredulity. Think bout it. These are the people calling them Weird





VS someone like JD Vance who grew up in poverty in Appalachia, served in Iraq as a Marine - graduated top of his class from Yale and is married with two biracial children.

to them - this is a picture of weird

Why Trump Suddenly Thinks Picking J.D. Vance Was a Mistake​

Joe Biden’s decision to drop out and endorse Kamala Harris to succeed him on the Democratic ticket has Donald Trump’s team scrambling​

Why Trump Suddenly Thinks Picking J.D. Vance Was a Mistake

Joe Biden’s decision to drop out and endorse Kamala Harris to succeed him on the Democratic ticket has Donald Trump’s team scrambling.

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Not sure why Trump thought Vance was a good idea when Biden was still running.