Anyone here familiar with the Advent Christian Church?

The denomination has its roots in the Millerite/Adventist movement, but, afaik, it seems like the only thing they have in common with the 7th Day Adventists is a belief in annihilationism.

I think this denomination is pretty close to my own views. Idk if I'll convert because I am on the fence about annihilationism. The denomination also seems indifferent to women's ordination, and I'm a complementarian.

What can you tell me about them?

After hearing about stories about how young people are diagnosed with a terminal illness and they only have months to live, it got me wondering. There is no guarantee of a long healthy life, no idea if the next week could be anyone's last days on Earth if it's because a car accident or anything else.

How much time have we probably wasted, and not spent it doing the things we love?

I will be changing the way I live, treating every month like it could possibly be my last, I think that will help push me to live life to the fullest and even live more for God. But I haven't been doing that in the past, I have been waiting and planning on doing things much later, but we don't know how much time we will have on Earth.

If Census counts have implications with regards to the number of house seats and thereby the number of electoral votes a state gets...
(which, someone is free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they do)

...despite not being able to vote in federal elections, large undocumented populations can still end up giving prevailing party of the state their in an unfair advantage at the federal level.

Would it be a fair statement to suggest that with regards to sanctuary cities/states, there's a bit of a conflict of interest there if their undocumented populations (albeit, unable to vote) are helping their team get more seats and electoral votes?


Is there an opportunity for a "bargain" of sorts?

Where, if a state designates itself as a "sanctuary" or allows their individual cities to do so, ICE leaves them alone, but their undocumented population can't be factored in when it comes time to calculate house seats, electoral votes, or federal funding for various programs.

Hello, everyone. I'm new to keeping the Torah and I'd like to know if these laws are still applicable:

Numbers 15:38

“Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.”

Deuteronomy 6:8

“You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”

Leviticus 18:19

“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.”

Leviticus 23:40

“And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.”

Deuteronomy 24:6

“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.”

Deuteronomy 24:12

“And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.”

Deuteronomy 24:13

“You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.”

Deuteronomy 24:17

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge.”

Deuteronomy 25:13-14

“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.”

Deuteronomy 25:11-12

“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.”

Exodus 21:16

“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.”

Exodus 21:18-19

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.”

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.”

Leviticus 27:28

“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.”

Leviticus 11:34

“All food in it that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.”

Leviticus 11:39

“And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,”

Leviticus 15:1-15

“The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean. And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. “And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean. And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest. And the priest shall use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.”

Leviticus 15:16

“If a man has an emission of sperm, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.”

Leviticus 15:19-24

“When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean. And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening. And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.”

Leviticus 15:25-27

“If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity. And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.”

Deuteronomy 25:17

“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,”

Thank you.

Peace in Christ.

The “princes”….which means “first”…of this age come to nothing as they have crucified the Lord of GLORY. It is the Lord of GLORY rather than the suffering Christ that they have crucified from this earth. His glory is currently not being seen in this earth.

The princes love to be “first” among the man-based churches. They are “princes” and they know not what they do as the wisdom of God is being hid from them.

The Lord has ALREADY been raised to glory….and yet His glory is not being seen currently in this earth in this age because they are serving for their own belly rather than the Lord Jesus Christ. This is has blinded their minds to the truth of the gospel. The “god of this age”…the serving for their own belly…has blinded their minds to it.

The gospel is hid from the minds in those who are perishing…mortally perishing to the grave...and are leading MANY down that broad way to destruction. They are pastoring the flock of the slaughter. They are the vessels of His wrath. The wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

1Co 2:6-8 KJV
(6) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world (AGE), nor of the princes of this world (AGE), that come to nought:
(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
(8) Which none of the princes of this world (AGE) knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

His people….the “heavens”…have NO LIGHT to shine to the people of the outside world (the “earth”).

The earth became “without form”…without the form of Christ (the Lord of glory) and are void…void of the knowledge of the glory of God because His people have NO KNOWLEDGE to do good and have no understanding. Yet, the are wise to do evil. The princes of this age come to nothing.

Jer 4:22-23 KJV
(22) For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
(23) I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

His “visage”…that is, His view…is being marred more than any man. His FORM is being marred by those who do not know what they are doing as they have crucified the Lord of glory so that the outside world cannot “see” Him.

His people are not manifesting Him to the darkened world around us for they are dark themselves. The nations around us see us and are “astonied” as we are not manifesting His presence to them. They look at us and do not see His form and so are not attracted to us. They hate us instead and blaspheme His holy name among them.

Isa 52:14 KJV
(14) As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

The Son of the man (Greek: anthropos) goes (withdrawing as if sinking out of sight) as it is written of Him.

He “goes”….PRESENT TENSE… as it is written of Him. He is being betrayed/given up (PRESENT TENSE).

He is being given up (betrayed) and so His form is not being seen among His people by the people of the outside world. The people of the outside world are the seeing man.

Mat 26:23-25
(24) The Son of THE man goeth (PRESENT TENSE) as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

The Son of the "man" ("man" = "anthropos" = From “aner” (meaning “man”) and ὤψ ōps (the countenance; from “optanomai “ which means “ to gaze” …that is, with wide open eyes, as at something remarkable).

The Son of the SEEING man (the outside man who has eyes to see with) goes away…sinking out of sight. The outside seeing people cannot “see” the Son has His people are not manifesting His “visage”…His view…to them. The Son of the seeing man goes away (present tense) so that they cannot “see” Him.

The man-based churches …their elders and chief priests and scribes….have crucified the Lord of glory. His glory is not being seen in this earth because of them who have no understanding of what they do.

Mat 16:21-25 KJV
(21) From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
(22) Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

We must depart out from among the man-based churches where they are saying “this is not unto you.” This is not so. "Be if far from you"...this is not so.

They will deny that this is happening. This is exactly what is going on….the Lord of glory is crucified among them. Satan and his ministers are actively doing this.

We must leave them behind and follow Him out of them: “ Get thee behind me, Satan.” Satan and his ministers savor the things of men….their church handwritings of ordinances, the doctrines and commandments of men…rather than the things of God (that are understood only by the Spirit of God).

Satan is an “offence” unto Him. The man-based churches are a “trap” where they are being deluded into serving the sin rather than dying to it and so are not manifesting the life of Jesus in their mortal flesh.

The Greek word skandalon literally refers to the trigger mechanism of a trap or a stumbling block that causes someone to trip. In the New Testament, it metaphorically signifies an obstacle, an offense, or a, "snare" that causes someone to stumble into the sin.

Satan and his ministers are using the church handwritings of men to get people to serve the sin rather than die to it. The church handwritings of ordinances are devices …trigger mechanisms of a trap….used by Satan and his ministers to get you to serve the sin rather than die to it.

They JUDGE others supposedly in HIS NAME/authority using their handwritings (the things of men) when God is the Only Judge. Who are we to judge another? We are serving the sin when we do. Only One Judge can save or destroy. We are not judges for God as that is His sole authority.

(23) But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

We must “come after Him”….denying our own religious church denominational thoughts and ways…taking up our cross (the stake that has anchored us in the man-based churches) and follow Him out of the man-based churches. Get thee behind me Satan. We are never to look back.

(24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
(25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

We must forget those things (the things of men) which are behind (get thee behind me Satan) and reach forth unto those things (the things of God) which are before us.

Php 3:13-14 KJV
(13) Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
(14) I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We must count all the man-based things as a loss for Christ.

Php 3:6-9 KJV
(6) Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

We are to count all things (man-based church things) a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. Never mind the “princes of this age” and their things. They come to nothing. They perish. We must count their things as “dung”...leaving it all behind.... so that we may win Christ.

(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Saul/Paul did not go about defending his own “righteousness” (which was Law-based) but believed in Christ and His knowledge when he heard it.

We must also not go about defending our own “righteousness” which for us was derived from the church handwriting of ordinances but be found in Him at the hearing of the knowledge of Christ. For Paul, it was Law-based righteousness...but for us it is our denominational church handwritings' supposed "works of righteousness" that we once adhered to.

(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Some of those who attend man-based churches will "oppose themselves" as they will hear the Word of Truth and speak evil of it...being "drunk" on the wine of wrath. Hopefully God will give those who have been taken captive (captive in the man-based churches where his ministers are) "repentance"...to change the mind...to acknowledge the full Truth (the excellency of the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ) so that they may "recover themselves"....be sober at the revelation of Jesus Christ who teaches us.

We are to hear His knowledge and change our minds and lose our own religious thoughts and ways for His thoughts and ways our higher than our own.

2Ti 2:24-26 KJV
(24) And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
(25) In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
(26) And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

US federal authorities have launched an investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in cash transported through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by airline passengers over recent years. The Tennessee Star reports that the inquiry focuses on large sums discovered in checked and carry-on luggage, most often linked to travelers of Somali descent departing Minnesota on international routes. According to federal sources, the cash movements were detected primarily during routine TSA screenings between 2024 and 2025. Officials are now examining whether the funds are connected to broader fraud or money-laundering activity.

Talk about a red flag!

As I pay attention to what is going on over in the Middle East, it begs the question: Why can't people just be good? Why can't we all just be friends and get along with each other? Why are there so may bad people over there initiating violence and bringing about evil?

I know what you are going to say: its because we are all sinners. And by having a sin nature people are prone to committing evil rather than good.

But I guess I am just so sick and tired of turning on the News and seeing all the negativity that is going on in the world. All the nonsense. So I rarely ever watch it.

I am certain I am not the only person who is deeply grieved by what is going on over in the Middle East. If people have never heard of thugs like Isis I will be surprised.

Lord, please come quickly and put down all evil. Make Your World good and beautiful again. Amen.

While senior administration officials portrayed TdA as a centrally directed terrorist network active across American cities, internal tasking directives and threat assessments repeatedly cite “intelligence gaps” in understanding how the group operated on US soil: Whether it had identifiable leadership, whether its domestic activity reflecting any coordination beyond small local crews, and whether US-based incidents pointed to foreign direction or were simply the work of autonomous, profit-driven criminals.

The documents, marked sensitive and not intended for public disclosure, circulated widely across intelligence offices, law-enforcement agencies, and federal drug task forces throughout the year. Again and again, they flag unresolved questions about TdA’s US footprint, including its size, financing, and weapons access, warning that key estimates—such as the number of members operating in the US—were often inferred or extrapolated by analysts due to a lack of corroborated facts.

Together, the documents show a wide gap between policy-level rhetoric and on-the-ground intelligence at the time. While senior administration officials spoke of “invasion,” “irregular warfare,” and “narco-terrorism,” field-level reporting consistently portrayed Tren de Aragua in the US as a fragmented, profit-driven criminal group, with no indication of centralized command, strategic coordination, or underlying political motive. The criminal activity described is largely opportunistic—if not mundane—ranging from smash-and-grab burglaries and ATM “jackpotting” to delivery-app fraud and low-level narcotics sales.

Please pray that God will allow me to stay well. That my lungs will be clear with no fever if it is His will. Please ask for healing. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen

Out of all the books in the Bible I have read, the book of Revelation has probably been the hardest for me to understand.

I have bought books talking about the meaning of its Scriptures, like books from Jack Van Impe (he is dead now), but still, the exact meaning of the Book of Revelation escapes me.

What do you guys say?

This was a prayer of King David, but I do not know if he was king at this time or not. David was a man of God who followed the Lord in obedience to his commands, as his life practice. He was not a perfect man, and there was a time in his life when he sinned against God and other humans grievously, but God used Nathan, the prophet, to point David to his sin, which then brought him to genuine biblical repentance. And I do not know if this Psalm was written before or after David’s moral failure, but God did forgive him.

Here David states that he himself was a godly man, so this was not the time in which he sinned grievously against the Lord. This was a time when his life was committed to obeying the Lord and to doing his will and to walking in his truth and righteousness. His heart and mind were surrendered to the Lord to do as he commanded. But it was also a time of trouble and distress, for he had enemies who sought to take his life, who did not honor God. But he had confidence that God would hear his prayer, and would answer him.

Now, perhaps some of us can relate to what David spoke of here and to some of David’s history. I know that I can. I also had a time of moral failure, but God brought me back around, and he forgave me, and not too long afterwards (4 years) he called me to writing down what he teaches me each day from his word and to post these writings on the internet. I can identify a lot with David’s heart and with his love for the Lord and with his desire to serve the Lord with his life, and with having people come against him, too.

But we read in the New Testament that if we follow Jesus Christ with our lives that we will be hated as he was, and that we will be opposed, mistreated, slandered, thought ill of, and persecuted for the sake of the name of Jesus, and for the sake of righteousness. We will have enemies if we are serious about our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and especially if we are verbal about our faith and the true message of the gospel of Christ which teaches us to die to sin and to obey God’s commands.

And when David wrote that God is good, and that he is ready to forgive, and he is abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon him, he was not speaking of giving lip service only to the Lord or just asking God for favors. For all who call upon the Lord must call upon him in truth with a sincere desire to have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior, i.e. to truly repent of their sins. We must want to have our sins put to death so that we can now live for the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

You are Loving and Forgiving

Based off Psalm 86
An Original Work / February 19, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

You are loving and forgiving,
Jesus, Savior, King of kings.
You provided our redemption.
By Your blood You set us free.
You are gracious; full of mercy.
No deeds can compare with Yours.
Great are You; there is none like You.
Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.
O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.
May I not have a heart divided,
That Your name I give honor to.
I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,
For great is Your love toward me.
You have delivered me from my sins.
Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,
Slow to anger, bounteous in love;
Faithful to fulfill all You promise;
Glory be to Your name above.
Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.
You are my God. I trust in You.
Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.
You are my comforter.

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Abundant in Lovingkindness
An Original Work / January 31, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

He had a very bad case of it, insomuch that it practically swallowed up his entire life. He became so fearful and paranoid that he was calling my dad (his brother) on the phone every single day all the time wanting to talk to him. I think talking to my dad comforted him from his fears and paranoia, kind of like when a child hears his parents' soothing voice.

My uncle genuinely believed that everyone was out to get him and he was constantly looking out the windows of his house to make sure no one followed him home. It breaks my heart that he was living in such a bad state of paranoia!

But here is where it freaked me out: Sometimes he would call our landline phone (this was back in the 2000s or 2010s when landlines were still around and starting to go away) and leave us messages where he was almost yelling in fear begging for my dad to talk to him. It was like he actually thought it was an emergency or something.

I actually became afraid of my uncle after hearing those messages he left: I was only a teenager at this time and I thought he was completely psycho! I never wanted to talk to him. I was too freaked out.

Sometimes when he was talking to my dad he would calm down enough for them to talk about the latest football game. Both of them were into football.

My uncle is dead now. He died years ago, but I do remember that he was living a nightmare with his bad schizophrenia, and I truly hope he was born-again (I don't know), because I do feel like Jesus could have helped him live a better life. I just feel sad that his life was completely destroyed from this disorder.

I want everyone to have good lives. Sadly, that doesn't always happen.

RIP uncle Edmond.

Please, I just want the ladies only to answer this question, if they want to.

What are your hobbies ladies, if you have any?

I have a number of creative hobbies and crafts that I do in my spare time, but the list is so long that it would take me awhile to type it all up! So being that I am too lazy to do that, I will just say this: I am trying do something called Diamond Painting. I heard its popular, but being that I'm new to it I am having trouble doing it! Has any lady on here ever done Diamond Painting before? Can give me some tips?

31 January 2026 – Pakistan​

Pray for God’s comfort and strength for Nawab Bibi, whose husband, Zafar Bhatti (pictured), died shortly after being released from prison in October. He had been behind bars since 2012, having been falsely accused of blasphemy. Nawab is supported by a Release International partner.

30 January 2026 – Pakistan​

Thank God that, although Christian women can be discriminated against and are unable to find work, many have been able to start small businesses with loans from their S2S groups.

29 January 2026 – Pakistan​

Pray for Strength to Stand (S2S) groups, which work to increase resilience and protection for some of the most persecuted, deprived and vulnerable Christian women in Pakistan. One participant, Shimon, said: ‘I feel a new strength within me – a strength that comes from God’s Word and the encouragement I receive from my group family.’

28 January 2026 – Somalia​

Pray for the terrorist group Al-Shabaab that pursues and kills Christians within Somali. Pray that the Lord would bring them to justice and to Christ.

27 January 2026 – Somalia​

Pray that believers in Somalia would be blessed with access to Bibles, which are currently prohibited. Pray that physical copies would not be found by persecutors and that efforts to increase digital access would be both safe and successful.

26 January 2026 – Somalia​

Pray for the underground church within Somalia. There are no church buildings in the country and it is illegal to evangelize. Pray that the church would remain faithful and grow in number as they meet in secrecy.

25 January 2026 – Somalia​

Pray for Operation Joshua’s various media projects that aim to increase its reach and effectiveness in areas from trauma response to material for bible study groups.

A post from an X account explaining that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) celebrates Eve’s decision to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil has gone viral, with 1.9 million views as of this writing. The post has drawn strong criticism from some Christians, who say it represents Satan’s point of view.

“In the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin,” said a Jan. 27 post from the account Dem Saints. “To the contrary, we celebrate her courage and wisdom to partake of the fruit, transgress the bounds of Eden and become all that her Heavenly Father wanted her to be.”

After the post went viral, the account posted on Jan. 29, “I created a simple one-tweet summary of last week’s Sunday School lesson and just Eve-pilled more than a million people. Sometimes Twitter is pretty cool.”

LDS Church’s View of Eve Draws Criticism​

Continued below.

‘We Celebrate Her Courage’—LDS Post Praising Eve’s Choice To Eat Forbidden Fruit Goes Viral

A post from an X account explaining that the LDS Church celebrates Eve's decision to eat the forbidden fruit has gone viral.

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Mark Eleven:
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain,
‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart,
but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray,
believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
25 And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone,
forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Here is Jn 11 35 :

35 Jesus wept.

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i guess Jesus is weeping over Adam and men's fall, but not sure.
What do you think, please ?

This is from my sisters' minister. He used to call himself a prophet. Anyway it goes for a bit over 2 minutes.

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He says that God's voice is "quiet, calm, still, and small" based on 1 Kings 19:12:

"After the earthquake a fire came. But the Lord wasn’t in the fire. And after the fire there was only a gentle whisper."

What do you think? Could the voice of God that you hear sometimes not be "quiet, calm, still, or small"?

Apologies in advance if any of this info is repetitive. My wife's younger sister is oblivious to the fact that she's entrenched herself in an abusive relationship (verbally and emotionally we know for sure, unsure if it's abusive in any other ways). She's been with this guy maybe three years and has an 18-month-old daughter with him. She's nominally Catholic, only going through the religious motions because of how hard my wife is trying to bring her back into the Church. My wife and her parents are trying to get her to see how messed up this relationship is. He's 11 years her junior (23-24, so he's immature but also just not smart in any conceivable way). They were living together in Los Angeles when he decided he was going to move back to Arizona and finish getting his commercial pilots license. He wanted to move her and their daughter up here where we live ~500 miles north of LA. He rented them a one bedroom apartment about a mile away from us so she has our support in a lot of ways, she's completely dependent on him financially. He pays the rent, the bills, food, etc. But he weaponizes that responsibility by threatening to withhold if she does something he disapproves of (like finding a job of her own).

For a long time my wife and I were trying to encourage them to get married for their daughter's sake and in hopes that he would convert to Catholicism and my SIL would revert/convert as well. But as times gone by things have just deteriorated instead. We're suspicious his motives behind this current arrangement (I'm cynical so I assume he "sent her away" and moved to Phoenix so he could philander) cause as far as we can tell he hasn't re-entered flight school.

She's taken a gig nannying for a family who just moved to town and joined our parish. The upside is the mom is very disciplined, especially with the faith. For example, she gave my SIL a list of prayers she wants her to pray with the kids whenever she's watching them. These are things my SIL wasn't even aware of, that's how poorly she's formed in the faith (really not at all).

Anyway, I dunno what the point of me putting this whole story out there is other than context for the prayers I'm asking for. I mean, obviously God's will be done. IMO I think she's given the relationship a fair shot and it's just getting more toxic, to the point where it could start harming their daughter. I think she needs to be freed from it, then maybe she'll have the space in her life to really discover the faith and meet someone based on the morals and values that come from the faith rather than her own backwards secular values. Which I would think would be best for both of them.

If you guys have any thoughts or advice as well, I welcome it.

Thanks all.

Hello, my name is Thomas!. I've been a active seeker in god for over 14 years now. I am glad to be here. I have posted my testimony in the testimony section for those who are interested in it. My journey is a bit personal. I am diagnosed with schizoefffective disorder, which intertwines into my faith. I believe in Jesus christ, who came to earth 2000 years ago, to free us from sin. I see us as our Redeemer, because Adam and Eve sold humanity into slavery of sin for the knowledge of good and evil. And jesus had to be our kinsman redeemer by taking human flesh and blood and paying the price (death) to free us and redeem us from the price of the apple's price!
you can find my testimony here.

7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Let me set the Story. 14 years ago, I'm in my early 20's. 21/22 yrs old. (My birthday is today! Jan. 16th 36 years old) At that time, I have a "general" belief in Jesus and God, but not deep enough to search him or read the bible. Just a empty faith. My babysitter when I was a toddler, took me to church. I attended Awana's as a pre-teen/young boy. And in high school I attended a church with a girl, because I had a crush on her and her parents invited me to start going to church with them. Those parents even set up a "fellowship group", that got us high schoolers together at hangout spot. It had good Christian intentions, and at times there was Christian messages at the group, but it was mostly a hangout spot for kids supervised by parents. Then after high school, I attended an Apostolic Church for a year with my dad. So I was predisposed to the Lord, but I was young and my heart wasn't committed/fully invested. I believed, but I lacked "Depth".

In the college school year of 2011-2012 I start dating a Girl named Rachel. While dating, I have a vision. This vision I forget about until about 6-8 months later when I have my 2nd experience that unlocks the memory of this vision. So its like a flashback memory. But the memory came to me so vividly, that I remember details about this vision, as if I lived it and actually experienced it.

So the first experience/vision.....I visited my father one weekend from college. While staying at his house overnight, I get up to use the bathroom. When i finish and pass my dad in the living room. (He slept on the couch), he was awake and told me to sit next to him. He then explained to me he wasn't my father, but he was really Gabriel. He placed his hand on my forehead. Immediately air rushed into my lungs and i sneezed with my mouth. At the same time, I felt the sensation of warm water being poured over me. I was then pulled out of my body into a separate "realm" that was above. This realm was pure black. Out of the blackness a Silvery/Blue face appears, and says "Thomas, I swear by my great name you are mine". He then asks me several times what I want, and I keep changing my answer. First it was to "live lives", then it was "for my mothers healing", then it was "just to be happy", then it was "to get out of the military", then finally I answered "I wanted to marry Rachel". I was sent off to bed, and as I laid in bed I heard a voice say to me, "My dad was going to die".....so I pleaded with the voice and said "Give my dad, mercy" (meaning his soul). [side note, 14 years later. he is still alive (but his life collapsed around him and changed majorly and he is doing really good now)] I fell asleep and forgot about this vision until my 2nd experience happened. I place this vision happening just before the Holiday Season 2011. I interpret this as a baptism of water and spirit.

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Fast forward to Summer break. Rachel and I had broken up at the end of the school year, and i wasn't dealing with my emotions properly. I buried them, refusing to think about the pain and heartbreak. I started a job as a flagger for the oil and gas industry and we had plenty of downtime. Enough downtime where I had hours and hours to just sit and think. During this time my thoughts began to wander towards God, and missing not having a girlfriend. So I decide to pick up the Bible and read it at work. I read the Bible from cover to cover in 3 months for the first time on my own. During the timeframe I was power-reading the bible for the first time. I was sitting with a group of friends hanging out one day. When all of a sudden, i have the thought that God himself is going to smite me dead on the spot. This feelings of utter terror washes over me, and I am paralyzed with fear. The only thing I can do, is start crying loudly in front of everybody (seemingly random to everybody) and start praying in Glossolalia. (something I learned to do by only hearing my Dad do it once, Apostolics do it). While crying and praying in tongues in front of my friends, I felt the feeling and emotion of terror wash away from me, to be replaced with the feeling of Peace and Comfort and Reassurance. As I felt this way, my mind took control of itself. Thoughts were planted into my brain forcefully, and at the same time I heard a voice accompany them. This voice wasn't a whisper. It was loud and audible to me. The thoughts and the voice said "Thomas, You are the lonely sparrow, but I have given you wings, oh what mighty wings they are, spread them and fly." The feeling and voice disappeared and my mind relaxed, and I was left with my friends staring at me wondering what just happened.

Today, I equate this experience with Solomon's verse "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom". …9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning. 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.…

About another 4-5 months after the "Fear of the Lord Experience". I am reskimming the New Testament. I come across this verse where Jesus commands the Rich man to give away all his possessions and follow him. I took this seriously. Seriously enough to get a hold of a local church and give all my possessions away. ALL MY CLOTHES. I gave away all my electronics. EVERYTHING, but my vehicle, which was owned by my dad. I even called my boss and quit my easy flagging job. I literally owned nothing but my Dad's vehicle, my bed, my pillow, my blanket, the clothes on my back, and the socks and shoes on my feet. I still had a little bit of money in my bank account, not much. Less than a few hundred dollars, but if I had thought about it at the time, I probably would've emptied my bank account too, but that thought didn't cross my mind. At the time, I believed I was taking a leap of faith that God would provide for me. …

20“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?” 21 Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.” 22When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.…

My Dad catching wind of this, takes me to the hospital. I am diagnosed with Schizoaffective-Bipolar Type 2. Schizophrenia runs on my mothers side of the family. My grandmother had it, and my mother had it so bad, my parents were forced to divorce when i was age 3 for my safety concerns as a child. I interpret this moment of my life as "denying myself, and taking up my cross (schizophrenia).

24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

I feel as if I "lost my life" for his sake, when the oath was given to me "I swear by my great name you are mine". Because in the following year that followed that oath, i lost my position at ROTC in college, lost my girlfriend, dropped out of college, kicked out of the National Guard, lost my ambition and then I gave away everything i had to a church, and diagnosed with a mental illness that ran in the family. I effectively "lost" my current life. Now it has been around 14 years since those 3 experiences. A major reason why I chose to seek god during my time as a flagger, was to address my loneliness and the emptiness I felt over the breakup with Rachel. While dating Rachel, instead of the pet names "baby" or "sweetheart". I choose the name "Sunshine" to call Rachel. And I used that name pretty much exclusively, and for her only. Even years later, when I dated other girls. I always reserved that name for her. Even though the emptiness and pain didn't completely go away after we broke up, I attempted to move on and date other girls. But as time and the years passed, i kept finding that I still loved Rachel. And over these past 14 years, I have never stopped wrestling with Theology and my internal Thoughts and feelings to seek and find God. I settled into this "wrestling mindset" and even saw myself as a Biblical Jacob Archetype (once I realized the love for Rachel would never go away), wrestling with God.

Why did Christ give us some as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers? It wasn’t so they would do all the work of the ministry, so that they would be regarded as “THE ministers,” and so they would be the ones doing all the preaching (prophesying). He gave them to us so that they would train us for the work of the ministry, but not with worldly means and methods and marketing schemes, but via the Word of God and what God instructs his church, the body of Christ, that we should all be doing.

“The Church” not only is not a building, and not a place you go to and then you leave until you go to it again, but it is not a place where the bulk of the body of believers in Christ sit as spectators while a handful of “professionals” do all the “ministering.” It should not be like going to a theatre. For the biblical church is the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ, and all of us are necessary to the proper working of the body, as EACH PART does its work. And our gatherings are to be participatory, not stage productions.

All of us who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who have died with him to sin and who have been reborn of God to walk (in conduct) in obeying him and his commands, have been given spiritual gifts of the Spirit of God, and we have been assigned our body parts by God, and we each have a part in the proper working of the body of Christ. And we are to be speaking the truth of God’s word to one another, in love, for the spiritual growth of the whole body of Christ, which happens when EACH PART is working PROPERLY!

We speak the truth of God’s word to one another so that those who believe in Jesus will no longer be influenced and led astray by some humans who in their cunning, craftiness, and deceitful scheming teach false doctrines and altered gospel messages which do not teach the truth. We speak truth so no believer will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, too. And we are to stir one another up to love and good deeds. As well, we are to be helping fallen brothers and sisters in Christ back to biblical relationships with our Lord.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

Servant of the Lord

Based off Romans 1:1-17
An Original Work / July 26, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Servant of the Lord;
For the gospel you’re set apart.
Promised through the prophets of old:
Jesus, Son of God.
Through Him, and for His name alone,
We receive His grace
To call people, Him to obey;
Coming from their faith.
Servant of the Lord,
For the gospel you’re set apart.
Promised through the prophets of old:
Jesus, Son of God.

You belong to Christ;
Loved by God, and called to be saints;
Serving God with whole heart and mind;
Preaching Jesus Christ;
Always praying for others’ needs;
Helping hand to lend;
Giving courage to others’ faith,
For the praise of God.
You belong to Christ;
Loved by God, and called to be saints;
Serving God with whole heart and mind;
Preaching Jesus Christ.

Servant of the Lord;
Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;
For salvation, power of God
To those who have faith.
In the gospel find righteousness:
Being right with God.
Turn from sin, and trust Jesus Christ.
By faith, live in Him.
Servant of the Lord;
Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;
For salvation, power of God
To those who have faith.

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The Church Working Properly
An Original Work / January 30, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Im 20 years old and recently I bought myself my first car. Its a small 1992 pickup truck. Low milege, 16km on the odo, and its in pretty good shape! I was overjoyed! My parents gave me a no-interest loan to help pay for it, which was greatly appreciated, as I didnt want to have to deal with financing through a dealership/bank loan. I got the truck and it was losing power, turns out it had a clogged fuel filter and then shortly after the battery died. Two pretty cheap and easy fixes I was able to do myself. Its been running perfect since. (last three weeks). Anyhow, I was praying, thanking God for His providence of the truck (parents helping, good condition, cheap fixes) and I got this DEEP wordless sense in my gut that said something akin to "That wasnt me/my providence" and now im confused. Ive BEEN confused, for three weeks. I dont even know how to explain it, it was this "knowing" of what was being said, there were no words attached. Was this God? Im honestly lost and I am unable to ask a christian elder irl right now.

I can sense God is near, and has been near me through the problems. That is the problem he has stood by and, at the very least, let the problems happen. I honestly think ALL counseling does is try to make you feel better. It does nothing to actually help. I can feel His presence, but it is in no way any kind of help. Comforting is 100% not help. I don't want to feel better about going through something. I want the situation to actually improve. I prayed and begged for Him to provide actual help, and He chose absolutely useless comforting instead. So why should I desire his presence, since it does nothing to change the situation?