“Would we leave [Osama] bin Laden in a corner and just pull back because the world didn’t like the way we’re fighting a war? And they’re [Israel] all committed to making sure they give the civilians plenty of time to get out of Rafah,” Scott said, adding later, “Think about it, I mean, if they attacked America, if somebody attacked America, we’re going to say, ‘Oh no, we’re not going to go after the people that killed our women and children?'”

Joe is for Joe.

MSN


Asked oil executives for a billion dollars directly to his campaign in exchange for specific executive orders for him to execute upon election.


I mean, I know Biden told a story about his family lore and that's reason to question his ability to be president.


But I wonder if having a bought and paid for president like this may also not exactly be ..."awesome" for the US.


Or are we going to continue pretending that Biden and Trump are "both equally unscrupulous?

What can we learn from Job's family and friends? What is their part in Job's calamity?

Paul Manafort, poised to rejoin Trump world, aided Chinese media deal​

With his freedom [after Trump pardoned him], Manafort hardly retired to a quiet home life. Instead, the longtime power broker — briefly brought low by the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — reengaged in international consulting, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with his activities who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

Manafort has been assisting an effort to launch a Netflix-like mobile streaming and entertainment platform in China that, according to corporate documents, has the endorsement of the Chinese government. In an email to The Post, Manafort said he was “not involved with China” and has “had nothing to do with China, including Chinese businesses, government, individuals, or anything else,” but acknowledged that he “was asked to make introductions to U.S. studios and potential U.S. partners in the venture.”

[Other activities in Japan, South Korea, Guatemala...]

Advisers say Trump is determined to hire Manafort, likely handing him a substantial role at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, because he appreciates that his onetime campaign chairman has remained loyal to him even while serving in prison.

[After Trump pardoned Manafort...] The two later reconnected at one of Trump’s clubs and have stayed in touch since, according to a person familiar with their interactions.

Meanwhile, Manafort is moving closer to a significant role at the Republican National Convention, scheduled for July. He is expected to be involved in organizing the convention committees and helping to manage the party’s platform process, according to people familiar with the planning.

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Some forum history:

Trump's Terrible Day Sees Cohen Plead Guilty, Manafort Convicted​

Paul Manafort will enter a guilty plea in second trial​

Manafort lied to the FBI after the plea deal​

Unregistered (foreign) Russian agent, Manafort, gave Trump campaign polling data to Russia​

And from the "Wishful Thinking" files:

Pardon of Manafort Would Hurt The President​

Nearly four years ago, the Shenandoah County School Board ... moved to rename Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School. The schools had been named after Confederate Gens. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby.

That 2020 move was part of a resolution condemning racism and affirming the district’s “commitment to an inclusive school environment,” according to school board documents.

The schools have been called Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School since July 2021, according to board documents.

But the composition of the school board is different now than it was during the 2020 decision – all six seats are held by different people.

The 5-1 vote came after hours of public comment during a meeting that began Thursday evening from people speaking on both sides of the issue. Vice Chairman Kyle L. Gutshall was the sole opposing vote.

“I ask that when you cast your vote, you remember that Stonewall Jackson and others fighting on the side of the Confederacy in this area were intent on protecting the land, the buildings and the lives of those under attack,” said a woman urging the board to restore the Confederate names. “Preservation is the focus of those wishing to restore the names.”

Sarah Kohrs, a mother of two students attending schools in the district, is among several parents and residents who said ahead of the vote that they were opposed to restoring the Confederacy-tied names and were frustrated it was being considered.

“It’s very frustrating to know that here we are four years after that, and we still have a small portion of the community that just refuses to move on,” Kohrs told CNN.

Did you consider that the apostles were not educated or dressed in suits? For the most part they were simple fisherman and laborers. They wore rags and might have smelled like farms, fish and horse stables.

Paul said that they were out of their own minds at times. Paul said that he had a messenger of Satan torment him.

Do these sound like the kind of people you would hire to teach your church? If not why? It's the strangest thing.

Isaiah chapter 58 teaches us to fast or rest permanently from judging and pointing fingers. It says to help people instead. It says take in the outcasts and to feed the hungry. Healing is promised. Politics seem to do the opposite of what Isaiah teaches us however. Am I wrong?

I hate politics, preaching in these last days, money loving, myself and my own sin. I don't even like worship music anymore. It's just more wealth and politics to me. I'm the scum of the earth like 1 Corinthians chapter 4 mentions but im not even an apostle. I'm not even worthy to be called a Christian.

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It seems to me like people are your friend until they find out that you hate politics and wealth

Proverbs 14:20 The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor,
But the rich has many friends.

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.

We live in a fallen and a sin-sick world. And when we are born into this world we are born with sin natures in the image of Adam who was the first man God created, and the first man to sin against God. We are all sinful human beings by nature, bent toward doing what is evil, and not toward doing what is good. And even though we are created of God in his likeness, ever since Adam sinned against God all human beings have been born into sin in the likeness of Adam, separate from God, unable to be acceptable to God.

[Rom 3:9-26; Rom 5:12-19; 1 Co 15:21-22,42-49; Eph 2:8-10]

So, while we live in these flesh bodies in this fallen world we are going to be tempted to sin, and many will give in to those temptations, and many of them will tempt others to sin, too. It is the nature of things. These things will happen. But we can keep them from happening to us when we choose to surrender our lives to Jesus Christ and to trust him to be Lord and Savior of our lives, and when we die with him to sin and we now walk in obedience to his commands, in his power and strength, by faith, because of God’s grace.

In the previous verses we read that unless we turn (repent) and become like children (trusting, believing, following without question) humbling ourselves before God with that child-like faith in Jesus Christ which obeys him, we will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And then a caution is given to the one who causes such ones as these to sin against God, for “it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (see Matthew 18:1-6; cf. Matthew 7:21-23)

And then verse 7 continues with that same thought when it says that it is necessary that temptations come, “but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!” So we are to take this subject as seriously as it is presented to us here, that, not only should we, as followers of Christ, no longer be walking in sin, making sin our habit, but we should not be those who then lead others into sin, who become the tempter to them to the point to where they are pushed into sinning, although they still have a choice.

And then we are given some instructions here in some things that we can do, as drastic as they may seem, to prevent ourselves from falling into sin. And I tend to take these instructions more figuratively, rather than literally, when it comes to the subject of cutting off our hands and feet, and with regard to gouging out an eye, if our hands, feet, and/or an eye should be instrumental in leading us into sin. For I believe these are to illustrate a biblical principal much like Jesus’ parables that he often spoke.

And the reason that I believe this is that, biblically speaking, our hands are often a symbol of our deeds, and our feet are often symbols of our walks, i.e. of our habits, our practices. And an eye is often a symbol of judgment and discernment. So if our deeds and our habits and practices and our judgments and discernment are what are leading us into sin, because they are against the Lord, and are contrary to the will of God, and because we are not exercising good judgment, then these things need to be out of our lives.

For example, if we are in the habit of watching movies that have sensuality in them and sexual situations and flirtations and extra-marital affairs, and this is what we are feeding our minds, through our eyes and our ears, then what we feed our minds goes into our hearts, and then what gets stored up in our hearts is what we produce. So we need to change our habits and we need to cut out of our lives any type of input that is sensual and seductive and alluring in nature, because that it just going to lead us into sin.

And if we are spending our free time that is not taken up with employment or childcare or housework, etc., just idly wasting time on viewing junk, without a plan, just coasting along, just channel hopping or internet searching blindly, and God has taken a back seat in our lives, then we are bound to fall into temptation to sin which then can produce a desire for more of the same. So we have to cut these things out of our lives. We can’t go through life not exercising good judgment and expect to not fall into sin.

So we must be those who first of all are committed to surrendering our lives to Jesus Christ, to do his will, to walk in his ways. And then we must discipline ourselves and guard our hearts and minds against the evils in this world by not “playing with fire.” And we must know ourselves well enough to know our weaknesses, and then to avoid those areas where we know we might be easily tempted. All this must be done in prayer and in the power of God, but we must be the ones to put these disciplines into practice.

Why? What does it say here? It is better to have these things cut out of our lives rather than to hold on to them knowing that they have the potential to lead us into sin. For if we hold on to them, and they continue to lead us into sin, in practice, habitually and deliberately, without genuine repentance, and without walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living, then we will not have eternal life with God. We will be thrown into hell, regardless of what we profess with our lips in the way of confessions of faith in Jesus Christ.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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A judge found Travis Huse guilty of 12 felony counts, including four counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.​

His father, Scott L. Huse, 66, of Wautoma, faces one count of child enticement, four counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child and seven counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child. Scott Huse is scheduled to go to trial on the charges against him in October.

According to the criminal complaint, eight women came forward to accuse the father and son of assaulting them when they were youths at the church.

Another woman said Travis Huse was working as a teacher's aide at the Apostolic Worship Center when he assaulted her during class when she was 12 and 13, according to the complaint.

The sixth victim said she was 17 years old when Travis Huse was working as a youth group counselor at the Worship Center

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#notadragqueen comes to a close after a year. Some recent quotes from two of the stories are useful, I think:

“Sexual abuse is a problem in every institutional setting,” Feinstein said.

"This is a reminder to all that those in positions of authority have a lot of access to children. It is important to remain vigilant."

Vigilance is not a sometimes attitude.

Jesus warned of wolves in sheep's clothing, not wolves in drag.

Samwise warned of enemies that seem fair, but feel foul.
No matter the venue, keep your senses open to detect any feeling of foulness, even if all seems fair.

Well, I have seen much injustice in my many years on Planet E

MUCH injustice. So part of me is hardly surprised at all the disgusting politically-motivated antics of Trump's enemies trying to get him by distorting the law and violating his rights.

But as a Catholic Christian, I also see other things... if you are anti-Catholic, you should probably hold your peace because I am not in the mood to defend Catholicism here, to speak of.

But I sometimes believe that Trump is "paying for the sins of his youth (and not- so- youth)." I sometimes believe that God allows good people to go through these things because they need to be purified (made ready for Heaven), which usually happens through suffering (Ask Jesus about that one). Purgatory is said to be painful, so, as the Saints say, it is better to be purified (do your purgation) here on E rather than after death.

Even though I haven't run this idea by any clergy from my or any other church, well, I think this is a good possibility.

The bad people? I think God lets them get away with all manner of evil because He knows where they are headed if they do not repent. And the more entrenched you are in your sin (lawlessness, sexual debauchery, promoting abortion... etc), the less likely it is you ever WILL repent. Sad but true...

In any case, the Word says, God "prunes" and chastises those He

what?

Those He loves

‘Sleepy Don’: Trump Falls Asleep (Five Times!) at Hush Money Trial​

Now there’s a new problem with it that no one anticipated: It’s easy to turn it back on “Sleepy Don” when he nods off — repeatedly! — during a criminal trial over hush-money payments he allegedly made to cover up an affair with a porn star.

During day one of Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan — which will determine whether he broke the law by paying off Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election, then disguising the payments — the former president reportedly fell asleep in the courtroom. Though Trump was reportedly furious that journalists caught him sleeping in court that didn’t keep him from nodding off repeatedly as the trial continued. Instead, he offered a dubious excuse on Truth Social, claiming he’s not sleeping at all, “I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!”

Here’s a running list of Trump’s courtroom naps (or intense “listening” sessions)...

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In flesh, we all are filled with pride.
In flesh, the will of God denied.
In flesh, we think more than we should
Of whom we are and what is good.

In flesh, we look at others grim
When we compare them to us dim.
In flesh, we fill our minds with lies
When we our sinful hearts deny.

In Spirit we confess the truth
That in our flesh we are uncouth.
In Spirit we repent of sin
And let the Spirit dwell within.

In Spirit we on God rely,
And do His will, we not deny.
We live for Him, forsake Him not,
For by His death our lives He bought.

An Original Work / May 9, 2024

The Doctrine of Election was contrived by the French Theologian Jehan Cauvin (John Calvin). Jehan had developed it by 1536AD, but continued amending and honing it all the way up to1556AD due to frequent scriptural rebuttal from biblical scholars like, Sebastian Castellio. Jehan was one of the final contributing voices to the Protestant Reformation, which is to say a fracture from the Body of Christ which intended to Reform the Biblical Canon as well as the doctrines and practices of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. To be "Protestant" has lost understanding, but it is to say that a person is Protesting against the Holy Roman Universal (Catholic) Church that was born from the Papal lineage of Peter. There is a second lineage that Protestants adopt, which is a "Scriptural Chain of Custody" Lineage. Whatever a persons stance on this matter, both Lineages of Doctrine are relevant to the validity of Canon and assert that Biblical Canon has remained genuine and intact.


It is noted in history that Jehan's living influence was Martin Bucer. HIs deceased influences were based on the early church scriptural chain of custody, lineage. It was common practice for men like Irenaeus of Lyons to write extensive commentary on scripture. “The blessed apostles [Peter and Paul], having founded and built up the church [of Rome] . . . handed over the office of the episcopate to Linus” (Against Heresies 3:3:3 [A.D. 189]). This growing volume of Commentaries, by the time they arrived to Reformation Theologians like Bucer and Cauvin were prolific in nature. They had become a sort of prophetic extrabiblical addendum to scripture, in the minds of Reformed theologians, identically to how many Popes wrote on scripture, under the edict of Papal infallibility. Martin Luther was behind one of the 5 pillars of reform, Sola Scriptura, which is a proclamation against the Catholic church for utilizing extra biblical writings to generate Church Doctrine. However, Theologians like Jehan and Bucer, while claiming to be "Scripture Only", heavily drew from the writings of the custodians of scripture to create doctrine. One cannot claim to use The Holy Spirt to exegete scripture, while incorporating exegesis of extra biblical origins into their doctrines. This would be like saying one drinks water, only, but adds lemon, to their water.


Eusebius is one of the early men that was entrusted with Scriptural Chain of custody. He is known for DEEPLY infusing Plato's writings into his exegesis and summaries. We have direct evidence of this in books 11 (Book XI Eusebius of Caesarea), 12 (BOOK XII Eusebius of Caesarea) and lastly 13 (Book XIII Eusebius of Caesarea). This is no small doing. Eusebius absorbed the core elements of PLATO's Pegan musings about God, then ultimately utilized that knowledge to infuse into the concepts of God's Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence. Plato essentially created an Image of God that was incapable of experience through Plato's personal human musings about what it means to Know All Things. He fastened a very BLIND to experiential reality facet to the Omniscience aspect of God, which removed God's ability to be a Living, Breathing, Experiencing Being. Plato's private illusions which alluded to God's "Perfection", were void of "Benevolence". Plato, mused that Perfection was a state that was so precise, that the very deviation of Consciousness to one matter or another would topple the essence of perfection. Plato's musings seem to De-Anthropomorphize God. This is a severe issue, because YH-H's very name is not only "I AM That I AM", but the very 4 ancient Hebrew Characters are known to illicit a distinct Living Breathing sound that is poetically necessary to understand as Living and Breathing. To remove the Living, Breathing, Experiential aspect of God from God is very directly attacking the Sacred Name of God. This is not to say that Eusebius was a bad man. It is simply to say that men followed him, in doctrine, which is the issue. Eusebius wrote many beautiful things.


By the time the Line of Eusebius's Plato infused writings reached Augustine, Platonic Christianity had become the norm. Most, all of Christendom, or to say Tongue and Cheek wise, ALL (In terms of Limited Atonement) of Christendom had adopted Pegan musings into their lens of viewing God. Augustine's volumes of Commentary were even greater than Eusebius's. A matter of fact is that Augustine subscribed to and then openly RECANTED of a known Heresy of his time. Manicheanism was the name of the Heresy which consisted of Zoroastrian Dualism, Babylonian folklore, Buddhist ethics, and some small and superficial, additions of Christian elements. The most prominent aspects of Manicheanism are that God and Satan are Pre-eminent and Pre-existing. God did not "Create" Satan in Manicheanism. This was a cleaver way of saying that Good and Evil are 1, yet separated, though the Pre-Eminence and infusion of all that exists. Manicheanism taught about Aeon's the term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal Being, and constituting the Pleroma or invisible spiritual world, as distinct from the Kenoma, or visible material world. This is to say that all that exists is derived from Good and Evil. As all Heretical Gnosticism taught, Knowledge is our Salvation. This is to say that God isn't our savior, but instead that knowledge is our savior. Though Augustine wrote vehemently against Manicheanism, his doctrine of original sin incorporated the idea that flesh itself carries "Sin". This is a direct take from Gnosticism in this way; " The only hope for humankind, while locked in this evil shell of a body is to spiritually transcend this world and deny the body." This almost sounds like Paul saying "Oh Body of Death", but Paul, when speaking of The Old Man and The New Creation in Christ is paralleling the condemnation of the Law (Old Covenant Man) with his Faith in Jesus (New Covenant Man). The war within Paul is most specifically, but not scripturally limited to... Trusting the Work of Christ which yields the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Spirit or trusting his ability to Follow the Covenant of Stone, which yields death. The Battle is within Paul's mind and NOT AGAINST his Flesh. It is unmistakable that Paul is also emphasizing that we fail, sin, goof up, yet Christ's Grace is MORE THAN SUFFICIENT... but Paul isn't teaching Gnosticism that assumes Creation itself, including our flesh, is evil. Augustine asserted that Sin itself was evidence of free will, yet struggled to separate the Pre-Existing Nature of God, from the Dualism of Manicheanism... and would speak of God punishing, yet doing so justly... and then Augustine's writings would struggle to reconcile the Love of God with the presence of Evil. Augustine, unknowingly painted a picture of God that was Good and Evil, but NOT Evil, because we can never ascribe evil to God, therefore what appears Evil by God is actually "Justice". Augustine said MANY beautiful things! He had many wonderful points and perspectives. This was simply a matter of fact within Augustine's writings.


Now, with all of this being read and regurgitated, gurgitated, then regurgitated... from Augustine to Jehan, these two discussed matters of Pegan Platonism and Gnostic Duality were stoutly distilled into a very Potent form of these ideas, infused into Christendom. It is exactly here, with Jehan, that both the idea of Pegan Omniscience and Gnostic Dualism get infused into a very popular doctrine of Election, now discussed under the Umbrella of Predestination, which in Layman's terms presents forth the following idea;


Due to God's Platonically defined Sovereign Omniscience, God is INCAPABLE of creating a system of Creation in which, just as God has Sovereign Moral Agency, His creations have Sovereign Moral Agency. It now becomes apparent that by this Human Logic, No matter how God creates a Being, He will know that Beings every decision... and upon inception, has already decided the Salvic fate of that created being. I don't have Jehan's debate notes, but I can already surmise by kindergarten level logic that his initial Doctrine based itself upon the observation of the life of each human being, and by merit of the life lived by each human being, chose some to become ELLECTED unto salvation. What was the war-cry of Luther, that started the Reformation? As Luther was intentionally inflicting recompense upon his flesh, by walking up stairs on his knees, he heard the words... "The Just Shall Live By Faith". A Single Predestination doctrine would be heresy, under the most stringent guide of all of the reformists, because Luther's demand that the Just shall live by faith is erased, by the idea that in reverse evaluation, the Elect aren't saved by Faith, but by merit of their Good and Godly lived life, that God pre-selected them by. How do we defend this idea? We can Double Pre-Destine Mankind. One set of people are randomly selected per Divine Lottery for salvation, while the other set of people are selected for the purpose of Eternal Damnation and pain. Why is this done? Only God's great, perfect Sovereignty is to be demonstrated in doctrine... so this is to Glorify God. God demonstrates his Sovereignty by creating Reprobates that serve the purpose to guide and teach the Elect the utter wickedness of not being according to God's ways. The Gnosticism and Pegan Platonian Strong Drink assist in this being true, because we can then say, By God's Magnificent Sovereignty, He has demonstrated His PERFECTION by creation it's self. Remember, Perfection binds God to a flatline of emotive demonstration or experience. To God, He is merely Doing what He has Already done, and humanity is just a tool to Demonstrate God's Majesty, to God.

This is all and well, but there is a specific doctrinal issue with Single and Double Predestination, which has to functionally exist for Election to be true.

It rests on the Hebrew of the matter. The most imperative word within all of the above work of John Calvin is Sovereignty. This word denotes that God is fully capable of doing as He pleases in the matter of Election through the mechanism of Double Predestination (Random widgets to Heaven and Random widgets to Eternal Hell). If a theist uses the term "Free Will" the idea of Sophism combined with Semantics is employed. The argument will then become... there is no such thing as "Free Will". If a person were to as ad nauseum as it is in discussion about God's inability to instill genuine free will into His creation, instead define and combine the terms Individual Autonomous Free Moral Agency... the term would express God giving His creations Agency that is independent of His agency, thus a form of Self Sovereignty that has genuine, non-illusionary choice.

Enter Genesis, Daniel and Colossians: In Genesis, God does far more than just provide Sovereignty. God BLESSES mankind with Sovereignty, which by the very Hebrew word used for "Dominion", is Sovereignty. Daniel Talks about Jesus Christ's Sovereignty that is established Post Ascension. This passage in Daniel Echo's Colossians 1 where it again, Denotes all authority to Christ post Ascension.

The Passage in Daniel affirms the legitimacy of the implication in Genesis... and Echo's the exact rhythm of Adam being the First, while Christ is the Second "Adam". The interlinking of Genesis 1 and Colossians 1 are Poetic by Hebrew nature. While Jesus is Given Heavenly and Earthly Sovereignty in Colossians, Adam and Even are BLESSED with Earthly Sovereignty in Genesis 1.

This is how this looks in the verses and in the Hebrew.

In Daniel the word for Dominion is the NOUN Sholtan (A Sultan), while in Genesis the word for Dominion is the Active VERB Radah (A Raja) to give Sultan (The Noun) ), BUT, Raja is a Verb, in this case which would indicate that (Sultan), was given, via the active Hebrew Verb (Raja.)​

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To respect ALL scripture... The passage indicates that Y-WH Barak (Blessed) them actively "Raja verb" which would then imply the Masculine Noun Sultin has been given as a gift to Adam and Eve. This matches the Biblical account that the First Adam was incapable of restoring Dominion. This then goes forward to show that Christ (The Second Adam) Could and Did Restore Sultan to God.​

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Daniel 7:14 (This Hebrew word is Sholtan) Noun

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Genesis 1:28 (This Hebrew word is Radah) Verb​

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Now, that we understand this reference... the defensive response could insinuate that Adam and Eve weren't given full Rule, Dominion, Domination, Sultan of themselves and the earth.... However, this would immediately defame the Supremacy of Christ, as the very rhetoric God used towards Adam and Eve in Genesis 1, in reference to Adam and Eve's Rule over the earth is identically echoed towards Jesus Christ, though towards Heaven and Earth as Creator is added in Reference to God the Son.

17It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’ ”

18When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

This is the Lords speaking. He made the heavens and the earth in six days. ONLY the word day here is:
NOW we have a new ball game. The Lord uses a different word for "days".

The Hebrew word יָמִים (yamim) translates to "days" in English. It is the plural form of יוֹם (yom), which means "day." Like its singular counterpart, יָמִים (yamim) can refer to literal days, as in periods of 24 hours, or it can be used more broadly to signify a longer period of time, such as "days" in the sense of "times" or "ages."

The Hebrew word יָמִים (yamim) translates to "days" in English. It is the plural form of יוֹם (yom), which means "day." Like its singular counterpart, יָמִים (yamim) can refer to literal days, as in periods of 24 hours, or it can be used more broadly to signify a longer period of time, such as "days" in the sense of "times" or "ages."

Mr. M said:

Isaiah 28:9 Whom shall He teach knowledge?
and whom shall He make to understand doctrine?
them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

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The question proposed in the verse is immediately answered by way of metaphor.
The question then becomes, what does this mean, to be:
"weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts"?

Mr. M said:

Hebrews 5:
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers,
you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God;
and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use
have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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The quotation from Hebrews 5 is cited because the most
immediate answer is to say a mature Christian;
leaving to debate what constitutes "a mature Christian"?

The answer to the question proposed in Isaiah is answered
by David in the Psalms:
131:
1 Lord, my heart is not haughty,
Nor my eyes lofty.
Neither do I concern myself with great matters,
Nor with things too profound for me.
2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 O Israel, hope in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.

This is the testimony of a mature Christian.

I desperately need help. I feel almost numb like I don’t care anymore. My heart is so corrupt and I really believe my conscience is dead. My heart posture matches that of a Pharisees and I really think I fit the Hebrews 6 category. It describes my situation very well. (Sorry in advance if I sound despairing and sorry for the bad grammar)


I had an experience with god to an extent but then after having the experience with him and getting to know him I began to love my sins more. I read my Bible and somewhat loved god. I had a professing faith though and it was more shallow/ religious. I’ve always been one to stray and go back to the mire and god was with me for quite long. I'm surprised he stuck around with me for so long but I deliberately and consciously rejected him and his convictions so badly. I committed heinous sins and I ignored him so badly. When I realized this I panicked at first because I feared hell and I was scared that the Holy Spirit left but after some time of waiting for him to come back I fell away and went even deeper into the world, forgetting everything god did for me and ogoing against God and Christianity. I stopped worrying because it was affecting my mental health and I had to push the situation deep in my mind and so I stopped caring to an extent. I don’t think I was repentant at that time and I don’t think I am now. I’ve turned into a terrible person and I don’t think I have a journey with god anymore. I’m scared of hell and I’m scared to become truly hardened even though I think I already am. I don’t think I can truly be repentant and I think that I kept going to sin and evil and i don’t feel conviction anymore. Now that I’m trying to change it’s not by the power or help of the Holy Spirit and I’ve been a terribly host to the Holy Spirit so I know I’m in no favor with him and I’ve possibly even blasphemed him because my heart was so hard and I indirectly in my heart and mind, purposely to taunt god, attributed the Holy Spirit to Satan. I resisted and rebelled against conviction and I toyed with sin. My spiritual state is unknown but it’s possible that I’m not in a good state and I already died spiritually. I’ve destroyed my life with my sins but now that I realize somewhat the situation im in I want to change but that desire might not be enough. I understand from Judas’s story that apostasy and backsliding are two different things and the possible apostasy stated in Hebrews 6 is a serious one.


I guess I don’t know what to do because it says directly that it’s impossible to repent of and i can’t repent and I know I don’t want to go to hell. These last few years have shown me how miserable life is without god I just failed to see that god left my life like I didn’t care- like I was fine with it so that might be an indicator that god had already given me up since then. I persisted in my sins and even hated god and his commands because I wanted to do evil. I want to be the prodigal son but I also know that the darkness in me exceeds me and my heart and conscience are calloused.

I know I’m in a perilous situation and I don’t know what to do. I say all these things but in real life I know I’m also a jerk and my behaviors are so bad. I fail to love others every moment. I feel like I made myself a slave to sin and that’s why I act the way I do and I’ll die in my sins. I don’t believe god is drawing me anymore and I don’t believe he’s calling me to repentance anymore either. I’ve tried changing my ways but my heart and mind and soul isn’t in it and it’s not sincere. I’ve been like this for years but I decided to do something and pay attention to my condition finally a year ago and now I’m still stuck. I did everything I could to sever myself from Christ so I don’t think there’s any hope. Also im not sure any prayers can help me either because my sins might also be sins that lead to death.

The Georgia Election Board on Thursday agreed to a series of measures intended to provide oversight in Fulton County, home to notorious anti-Trump prosecutor Fani Willis and the site of so many votes in 2024 that they outnumbered actual residents, according to one official with the county’s election board.

It's a start. The RNC wants 100,000 people to oversee the election.

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
— Matthew 28:18-20

Hopefully this clears up the confusion that Satan is currently running things.

Hi, this is not exactly about the Catholic faith but I am struggling (when am I not).

My dad has had a friend from college for at least 50 years. He's a "friend of the family." He has visited our home on occasion since I was born. The last time, I was on the phone with him (I didn't initiate the call) and he brought up a previous conversation I had had with him in person, about being afraid as a woman to take a walk alone. Well, on the phone he made a casual suggestion that he could take me out for a walk sometime if I felt unsafe. I found it odd for him to ask me that sort of thing, because it sounded like he was implying for a date. I simply said in a grey-rock manner "yeah" and diverted the conversation elsewhere. I didn't think he would bring it up so soon again.

A couple days after that, he calls my dad and asks him if I can go for a walk. I was taken aback by this because I didn't expect it to be brought up so soon. It made me uncomfortable. It weirded my dad out for awhile, but after a few weeks, my dad is simping for him again and telling me that we (me and my dad as a family) should remain in touch with him because he's known us for so long and that it would be rude for us to avoid him. I got really upset at my dad because I told him that I want to take my own precautions. He almost didn't like what I said I'm like, why do you want to practically force me to stay in touch with a man who I have no desire to be friends with? About a month ago, when he came to our home, he literally talked nonstop about the virtues of Islam for four and a half hours, minus going to the bathroom. It was excruciating. I know that there is a verse (2 John 1:10) about not even allowing certain kinds of people into our home! I know that this verse is seemingly not applied these days, but he's a classic example of someone who I think fits the bill. It disgusts me how I have to tolerate such garbage ideology being brought into our home, and to make matters worse, my dad thinks that "avoiding" him while he's visiting the home is rude. I'm like I have the fn right to go wherever I want if he comes over, because he's not my friend!

already protests have started

but i am for Israel taking part

Hi
I am new to this blog and not sure where to go for discussion, I would like to post some post through my amanuensis owing to my sight problem, due in part to my diabetes. My brain is still sharp, but my 87-year-old body is holding me back, but with the help of my amanuenses, last count was I had four (4) I hope to post some discussions. Jero

Biden claims inflation was 9% when he came into office — when it actually was 1.4%​

Does he believe that people don't check in this day and age?