Former Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., revealed Tuesday that he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and expects to die soon, but expressed hope in Jesus Christ and Heaven amid his suffering.

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The status of Adam came up in discussion, and I realised I hadn't given this much thought.

Is Adam a saint?

I don't remember ever seeing an icon of him, though his skull is depicted on many crucifixes. Can we venerate Adam? How would venerating him be considered - favourable, disliked, anathema?

A North Texas mayor is defending a decision to rescind an Episcopalian priest's invitation to open a city meeting with prayer after learning the pastor’s church hosted a drag show event with children in attendance.


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The Atom Bomb

Micowaves

Margarine

Tanning Beds

Asbestos

The right thing to do.

Not long ago in a forum thread that does not need to be remembered or read again, i mentioned it will be interesting to watch the left and right ends of the political horseshoe come together to solve the falling birth rate problem.

I think china is going to lead the way using a variety of methods



the banning of online porn, sexting, and any other number of things like, remote control of other people's uh.. "toys"

is not to increase "moral standards"
but rather to encourage people to meet up in real life and you know.. do it in real life.

The redaction efforts of the Trump Administration met their match today as the top level security protocols in place were circumvented by changing the colour of the background of the Trumpstien files by so called leet hackers and Word 365 savants cut and paste action to reveal the redacted information.


I grabbed some of them in a whim but I dunno if I can drop the PDF here; mods?

Here is Galates 6, 14 :

14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

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My aim in this thread is to appreciate the range of the crucifying Paul speaks of :

"unto" is translated in french Gospel by : "pour", and with the Linguee traductor, by : "à", 2 french confusing prepositions.

Indeed,
"pour" may express, according to my understanding :
(1) the world is crucified "to Paul's concerns", and Paul "to the world's concerns"
(2) the world is crucified "for Paul's sake", respectively : Paul's crucified "for the world's own intesrests"

while, still according to my understanding,
"à" might mean :
(3) The world "looks barren" to Paul (it's useless), and vice versa.

i fail to find a (4), but may be the whole thing is related to the notions of greediness, vs detachment
Please, do you have ideas on the subject ?

The notice states that Army dining halls will no longer give blind applicants the same priority after the Trump administration determined doing so “adversely affects the interests of the United States.”

The Education Department oversees what’s known as the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program, which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.

“The Army reports significant price and efficiency issues due to the requirement, impacting military readiness and imposing undue burdens on the Army,” Biedermann said.

The notice states that the Department of the Army currently has at least 23 dining facility contracts that were awarded through the program. There are more than 1,000 licensed blind vendors across the country, many of them helping provide concessions on military bases.

“The mentality of these people is if we have a disability and we have a job, we’re taking it away from an able-bodied person,” they said.

What are they complaining about? Now they can just sit on their blind butts and collect disability.

I have asked advice about this particular family member before. (You can look at the thread here: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/bible-recommendations-for-a-family-member.8336222/ )

I'm concerned about him. He's in his 20s, he has made very bad financial decisions, he is controlled by his girlfriend, and he has a baby. I was hoping I could talk to him about Jesus. I don't know what to say or how to get the conversation going.

I have concerns about him giving up on life and committing suicide.

Which is confusion (stupidity) and evilness. And evil can be done knowingly or unknowingly. When you're confused, it's acceptable because they didn't know any better. Doing it with full understanding is another matter. I tend to stay away from both cases since I do not know which is ignorant or which is knowledgeable. I assume evil is evil, and leave it at that. But, some people just don't know any better. And to protect myself from being like them, I stay away. I don't try to change them, nor teach them, I just pretend they aren't there. From a logical standpoint, you counter evil by doing the opposite (good), and not by turning a blind eye. I believe the real risk is that, observing evil for far too long, you end up copying its traits. One would never do it by himself, but if that's all he sees, at some point corruption starts.

I observe a lot of things. Things I do not like, things that the break the writings of the bible, things that are unworthy of faith. And no one does anything about it. Neither from the outside or inside. Change comes from inside, and people do not change. Observing all this evil, at some point, one can confuse good for evil, and evil for good. You can turn away a genuine person because of confusion. But the inverse is also true: you can help an evil person. That's the thing about falling: you don't know you've fallen until a certain threshold is reached. And even when that threshold is reached, when you have nothing to compare it to, it's even more perilous.

All animals and humans are a bond to nature here on Earth to a certain degree, most love nature. I understand God is everywhere in nature, so he wouldn`t lack the prescence of nature. But what about people, wouldn`t they get sad over not being in nature?

A fifth suspect in a far-left terrorist group’s New Year’s Eve bombing plot, a former member of the U.S. Marines trained in combat who uses the aliases “Darkwitch She/Her" and "Kateri The Witch," was arrested on his way to New Orleans with guns, a gas canister and body armor in the car, according to court documents.

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During the interview in front of 30,000 plus AmFest attendees, Kelly described how she was asked by Erika, Charlie’s widow, to moderate a face-to-face sit-down between Erika and Candace Owens in hopes of de-escalating tensions among Owens and TPUSA.

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President Trump on Monday announced plans to build a new fleet of Navy battleships, anchoring what he called the Pentagon's "Golden Fleet."

The president said he approved plans to begin constructing "two brand-new, very large, largest we've ever built, battleships." He later said he expects to build a total of 10 ships in short order, and ultimately 20 to 25. He made the announcement flanked by renderings of ships that were referred to as "Trump class."

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A small Maine congregation is suing a regional body of The United Methodist Church, claiming that the mainline denomination is trying to take over its property.

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A Texas judge who refused to marry same-sex couples because of her faith has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized same-sex marriage nationwide.

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Anime movie review from January of this year.

They have to leave by the end of the year. A family can make a lot of money.

Sometimes people can only pray 5-15 minutes in the morning or night.
And can't the rest of the day because they can't do it the 'correct way'.
Always pray, talk to God while in the kitchen, living room, bathroom, work, free time, watching TV, playing video games.
He listens always and the bible says to pray without ceasing, God knows you are going to be busy with other things, God doesn't say to do the impossible.

Rapper Nicki Minaj opened up about her recently reignited relationship with God and what inspired her to speak out for persecuted Christians, suggesting that her rise in the music industry made it more challenging to maintain the spirituality of her youth.


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Does anyone have suggestions for Catholic 365 Day Devotionals?

A new song. For Hanukkah. Published on the 8th day, just in time.
Rife with theological connections to the stone of Jacob, the oil he used, the stone the builders rejected, the 1st Hanukkah, Miriam's visit by the Angel announcing she will be with child, Mashiach when he was here for the Hanukkah recorded in the gospels, and the future Hanukkah of the Messianic Age.
Scriptural references in Hebrew rhymed with the English points.
If you have questions about the theology, let me know.
Enjoy.

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