Let's say A1 made God.

Who made A1?

A2.

Who made A2?

A3.

And so on. There is no end to this line of questioning.

The Bible declares God is existence, Psalm 90:

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

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God is self-existent in himself. He declared his tautological existence in Exodus 3:

14a God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.

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Does this refer to being cut off because they do not believe or that if they believe and are saved can they be cut off after salvation?

FYI: I believe that once you leave Adam to join Christ you can't go back (Rom 8:37-39).

Can you please pray that Jesus comes to me and that I feel his tangible presence and that nothing evil happens to me all the days of me and my family's life and Pastors and all of God's creation can you pray that Jesus let's me know if he's still In my life

It doesn't seem as if Biden will step down willingly....and he would have to in order for the DNC to run someone else (it's in their rules apparently). If however, Biden can be convinced this is his second term so he can't run a third time (a possible solution) who would step up and take his place?

Many people say "anyone" to this question because it simply means....not Joe. Asking who they actually want or who could win is harder to answer...

That's because the left's foray into identity politics has left them with many memorable and diverse politicians who don't know what they're doing. Let's look at the possibilities...

1. Kamala Harris.
Pros- Non-white female.
Cons- 0 achievements plus she starts sentences without knowing how they end. Politicians have to master the art of saying nothing but sounding like they know what they are talking about. Harris isn't there yet...

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2. Pete Buttigeig
Pros- Gay.
Cons- Can't run a train yard. Trains are super complicated. They require a functioning train, a functioning track, and schedules. East Palestine was a disaster early enough that Pete convinced people it wasn't his fault. Later derailments were given less attention because that excuse only works once.

3. AOC, Tlaib, Pressley, Omar, aka the "squad".
Pros- Sassy, non-white, female (maybe, they can't define what a woman is).
Cons- Possibly hate the US and want to destroy it. AOC used to market herself as a progressive but she's given up that schtick and gone full establishment Democrat. She supports war in Ukraine and will accept bribes, especially those she solicits. Tlaib and Omar hate Israel (our one regional ally) and support Hamas. Seriously, both supported BDS, a pro-Hamas funding organization.
Pressley...well she's capable of saying things that make Donald Trump look reasonable and politically savvy.

4. Gavin Newsome.
Pros- People from California seem to like him.
Cons- People not from California think he's try to turn "Escape From LA" from a movie to a real life challenge. Seriously, every time I hear someone bring him up the reason he gets floated as a possible candidate is "I think he could win" whenever I ask why....crickets. This suggests to me that he's a politician's politician. Corrupt to the core, able to say all the right things, no idea what he's doing regarding policy or leadership. He's even got two strikes already against him....he's white and male (I think, I'm not sure he can explain what a man is).

5. Gretchen Whitmer.
Pros- almost the victim of an FBI plot.
Cons- Who? Apparently Whitmer said or did something at some point to be considered for the presidency. I just can't figure out what. Again, this may have something to do with her being a woman. I don't want to jump to conclusions though, as it's unclear what a woman is to people on the left.

These are some of the Democratic Party offerings and while they certainly aren't the only options (I've heard Cory Booker's name) they're the frontrunners imo. If you'd like to add a name to the list...please do. Just include pros and cons. If you feel I've left something important out on this list...please remember that I can't list everything about a person.

If this list seems underwhelming....I'd agree....and I'd point out it's the inevitable result of treating inherent characteristics like race, sex, or sexual orientation as accomplishments worthy of positions of authority and power. They aren't things that anyone does...and aren't really worthy of reward or celebration.

"Breaking"​

MSN​

Prediction: Sorry Democrats, Biden Isn't Going Anywhere​

Story by Robby Soave
• 1hr ago


President Joe Biden sent a defiant letter to congressional Democrats on Monday morning stating unequivocally: "I am firmly committed to staying in this race." This followed his Friday interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, in which he said it would take a literal act of God to force him off the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket.

A neurologist and Parkinson’s disease specialist has made nearly a dozen visits to the White House Medical Unit, visitor logs show, raising new questions about President Biden’s fitness for office as he battles efforts to push him off the 2024 ballot.


Dr. Kevin R. Cannard, a Bethesda neurologist and movement disorder specialist affiliated with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, visited the office of the White House Medical Unit 10 times dating back to November 2022, the visitor logs show.





The logs, last updated on July 1, show Dr. Cannard visited the White House most recently on March 28.

Here is an example of the kind of garbage that passes for a "scientific study" these days, as well as how it's reported.

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Limiting ultra-processed foods does not necessarily make for a healthy diet

A new study demonstrates that eating primarily minimally processed foods, as they are defined by the NOVA classification system, does not automatically make for a healthy diet, suggesting that the types of foods we eat may matter more than the level of processing used to make them.

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Surprised? Anyone?

Okay, I think we can all agree that it's certainly possible to create a bad diet with foods right off the hoof and out of the ground. There is plenty of existing information about natural diets of primitive people groups that lacked vital nutrients and resulted in poor health. We don't need a study to prove that such a thing is possible.

Hess noted that some nutrient-dense packaged foods can be classified as ultra-processed, such as unsweetened applesauce, ultrafiltered milk, liquid egg whites and some brands of raisins and canned tomatoes.

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Who besides them would classify any of those foods as "ultra-processed?" An Oreo cookie is ultra-processed...a separated egg is not ultra-processed. Pureed apple is not ultra-processed. Drying fruit and simple canning is not ultra-processing. If those were the foods they included in their ultra-processed menu...no wonder there was little difference.

And although they claimed to have gone by the Nova food processing classification system, in fact they did not. According to the Nova food processing classification system:

Ultra-processed foods are industrial formulations made entirely or mostly from substances
extracted from foods (oils, fats, sugar, starch, and proteins), derived from food constituents
(hydrogenated fats and modified starch), or synthesized in laboratories from food substrates
or other organic sources (flavor enhancers, colors, and several food additives used to make
the product hyper-palatable). Manufacturing techniques include extrusion, moulding and
preprocessing by frying.

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So, nothing they mentioned would be considered "ultra-processed" by Nova. They simply lied. Or they're stupid.

Whether a diet comprised mostly of simple ingredient foods can provide a low-quality diet remains unexplored.

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Whether being stuck in the face with a thrown brick causes facial damage also remains unexplored...do we need a federally funded study for it, though? I'll bet a high school student can find Google information on that.

Results: The LPW and MPW had similar nutrient densities and HEI scores (44 and 43, respectively). The LPW included 20% energy (kcal) from UPFs, while the MPW included 67% energy from UPFs. Relative percentages of shelf-stable, frozen, and refrigerated foods were similar between the two. Using the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis method, median time to expiration of the LPW menu items was 35 days versus 120 days for the MPW menu items. The “per person” cost was $34.87/day for the LPW and $13.53/day for the MPW.

Conclusions: The less-processed and more-processed menus both provided low-quality diets. However, the LPW was more than twice as expensive as the MPW and had a shorter overall shelf life. Level of processing is not a proxy indicator of diet quality, and less processed foods can be more expensive and have a shorter shelf life.

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And we also already know that an apple costs more and has a shorter shelf life than a Twinkie.

Funding Sources: USDA Agricultural Research Service project grant #3062-51000-057-00D

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We paid for this.

Bless their hearts.

Pray Jesus Christ provides for & heals all those who are broken-hearted due to the deaths and injuries caused by a Russian airstrike on a Ukrainian children's hospital:

Ukraine war live: Kyiv children's hospital hit as Russian daytime strikes on Ukraine kill dozens

Have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit? More than once? What changes took place?

I have been given the gift of tongues, and I asked for another language in addition to the first. I have this. But I am not yet baptized in the Holy Spirit.

How did you gain your grace of baptism in the Holy Spirit?

LINK

(Just to demonstrate this is official: donaldjtrump link)

As expected, no "one man one woman" marriage, no "unborn people" amendment, no national abortion ban.

Also as promised, it's relatively short at 16 pages.

I'm not sure if this is the right section for this question or if this question has been asked before but I thought I'd ask it here and now.

I was baptized in the Catholic Church, went to a Catholic boys high school but after high school I fell away from the church. It's been way too many years since I've been to church and I've got this overwhelming feeling to return to the Catholic Church and be an active Parishioner again. What steps would I have to take to be active again?

Any help would be appreciated!

New King James Version, Hebrews 8:

13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He [God] has made the first obsolete.

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The main verb of the sentence is:
πεπαλαίωκεν (pepalaiōken)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek: 3822. παλαιόω (palaioó) — 4 Occurrences

BDAG:
① act. (La 3:4; Is 65:22; Da 7:25 Theod.) make old, declare/treat as obsolete
② pass. become old (oft. w. the connotation of becoming useless

Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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The secondary verb/participle is the same lexeme G3822:
παλαιούμενον (palaioumenon)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Neuter Singular

NKJV translated the passive voice using "becoming".

Now, Berean Standard Bible:

By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

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BSB emphasized the secondary verb form aspect, the participle, and translated it using "is".

Both translations are valid depending on the emphasis.

The next verb is:
aging
γηράσκον (gēraskon)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1095: To become old, grow old. From geras; to be senescent.
Strong's Greek: 1095. γηράσκω (géraskó) — 2 Occurrences

BDAG:

becoming obsolete and growing old

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The original phrase "παλαιούμενον καὶ γηράσκον" suggests a process. They pair better by translating the phrase as "becoming obsolete and growing old".

Is the old covenant obsolete?

At the time of the Book of Hebrews, God had declared the old covenant obsolete. Meanwhile, what had been declared obsolete was aging and growing old and would soon disappear. There would be an elapsed time between declaration and disappearance.

See also

• Did Jesus ABOLISH the Mosaic Law?
• How long will the Torah last?

As observed by our own mighty Colorado River:

Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church articulated a stern view of President Joe Biden’s leadership during a recent interview, framing it as a divine judgment and a reflection of societal moral decline. America is a nation reaping the consequences of its moral choices, he declared.

During his interview with Breitbart News Daily, MacArthur spoke about the Biden administration’s vocal support for trans ideology as emblematic of a society straying from biblical teachings.

When a society “turns to sexual immorality, homosexual immorality, and a reprobate mind, God gives them up,” MacArthur said, suggesting that the current leadership exemplifies the punishment described in Romans 1.

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Some people, men as well as women, lie to their perspective fiancés. Then after they get married ,they do the exact opposite that they promised to do.Now,I realize that we do not live in an ideal world. But, wouldn't it not be great that the couple taking a lie detector test be a part of pre-marital counseling?

On this Victory Way thread I'd like to put down posts , what I believe to be nuggets of encouragement I've wrote. Each one will be about a 2 minute read. Hope you enjoy! I'll start by number of posts on The Christian Love Walk.

Victory Way 1
First of all it's a Commandment! Jn 15:12 "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." Jesus didn't just say it's a good idea. He didn't say it's just a wonderful thought or something you might just consider. He made it a Commandment! That means we do it whether we feel like doing it or not. That means God is saying I am your Commander and Chief in Heaven your Lord and King and you must become compliant to what I'm saying.

We can say it's a MUST to do, it's essential, and imperative with no option to do the contrary that is if we want to please him. So was God being mean to insist upon such? Unreasonable? Or was he rather just longing to keep you in the realm of joy and peace? The last thought of course is the TRUTH. God who is LOVE doesn't want his children wallowing around in the misery and poison that comes from sin! Strife, contention, ill will and rancor is a degeneration from the Light of Life., which shuts down your FAITH. (Cont on a future day)

In a surprise result, the New Popular Front (NFP) — a cluster of several parties ranging from the far-left France Unbowed party to the more moderate Socialists and the Ecologists — won 182 seats in the National Assembly, making it the largest group but well short of the 289 required for an absolute majority. Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance won 163 seats and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies won 143 seats.

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Hello folks. Sometime tomorrow, I will be testing out a local AI on my computer that can retrieve information from documents on my laptop.

Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) is where an AI can use documents as a source for output. After plugging in the Holy Bible, a Catholic Catechism and a book about 2000 years of Church history, I am hoping that this new software can improve my devotionals. If not, it can just work as a regular AI, if I turn the RAG mode off.

RAG info: What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?

My computer is using GPT4ALL v3.00, along with Mistral 7B v0.3 (a step up from v0.2). All this stuff runs offline, and does not need an internet connection.

In the face of Hurricane Beryl:

Critics argue a significant threat wouldn’t exist if Border Patrol agents were properly vetting and processing for removal illegal border crossers under the law. While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims they are being vetted, the DHS Inspector General has repeatedly refuted this argument. One recent OIG report found that even after Congress allocated $1 billion for facial recognition and other technology to perform background checks, extensive vetting deficiencies exist, The Center Square reported. Another found federal agents aren’t detaining illegal border crossers, and because of Mayorkas policies, are processing those deemed inadmissible under the law for release, not removal, The Center Square reported.https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_407cc96e-389b-11ef-809d-1b79dee76590.html
Criminals and terrorists pouring over our border.

The current White House has a history of calling on pre-selected reporters during press conferences and other outlets have a history of providing the White House with interview questions in advance. Could this also be the case with the ABC interview?

This not edited. Biden completely ignores the woman. Her face says it all.

Hmm. What was it, that dies in darkness?

Let us join together in unison to pray for our priests. Please feel free to add in your prayers for them



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