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Reader,

An unbeliever is "under the law" := shows you that you are a sinner, with no Righteousness.
The Law and the Commandments can't give you any righteousness. They can only demand from you what you don't possess of yourself.
That is the "curse of the Law".
You need Christ as your Savior, so that God can give you His Righteousness. = "the GIFT of Righteousness". "The GIFT of Salvation". "Made Righteous"... "In Christ".

To be born again, is to exist spiritually "Under Grace" : which provides you with God's Righteousness as..>"The Gift of Righteousness", as proven by being born again.
If you believed that water washed your sin away, then you were lied to by a "water cult", and that lie denies that the Blood of Jesus is the sin cleansing redemption that is : The Cross of Christ.

Don't be deceived.

Now...Here is the paradox. = being born again "in Christ", yet still being a human on earth.
Your question is....."if im sinning and confessing, then how can i be "'' RIGHTEOUS".?

So, thats very interesting, isn't it?
And if you look at it using the "natural mind" that does not receive or understand the things of God.... because they are "Spiritually Discerned", then how can you ever find peace when you think ...> "how can i be righteous, when i sin and confess"....... "How can i be righteous, when i have daily thoughts that would make a Pope blush".

Now, im not going to teach it deeply here, because i have written many Threads about this already, but.....>"where there is no Law, there is no Sin.....no transgression".
The Born again have been delivered from the Law., = "the CURSE of the Law"... and exist "under Grace".

A.) "Christ has redeemed ALL the born again from the CURSE OF THE LAW""
B.) "Christ is the END OF THE LAW.......for Righteousness, to everyone who believes" = Born again.

Now...
How to get out of that mind that can't understand how you can not always be perfect, but yet in God's eyes, you are always perfectly righteous.
How to get out of that wrong thinking, and into the RIGHT MIND that is "the renewed mind"
Reader.....The right mind is to always understand how God sees you which is the "renewed mind", vs how you see you, which is the carnal mind....the mind of the flesh.
And until a born again person gets out of that carnal (natural) mind, they can't get into the right mind, and they can't believe right.
When your faith is wrong, yet you are born again, then you are "fallen from Grace".... "in the Flesh"..
And until you believe right, your faith is wrong., yet, you can be born again, heaven bound.

So, you have to start here.

Hebrews 13:9

You have to establish yourself, your thinking, your believing = in God's Grace alone.
You have to come to SEE yourself as always in God's Grace.. Always Redeemed. Always made sinless. Always made righteous. Always at peace with God..... And why?. Because that mind is the same Mind that God has when He looks at His Born again.
That is how God sees YOU, if you are born again, and not just water baptized and religious.
So, if you dont't have that same mind, you have the wrong mind, and your faith is wrong and wrong faith produces carnality and confessing sin.
That's why you do it.
Sin is not your issue.... Your issue is your wrong understanding regarding not understanding what it means to be "made righteousness" as a "new Creation in Christ".
And you dont have to tell me that you have never heard any of this in your church....... I know you haven't.
That's why im here for you.

Listen Saint.
God does not see what you do, as you see yourself.. He only sees what Christ has accomplished for you on The Cross, that has MADE YOU RIGHTEOUS, if you are born again.
The born again ARE BECOME>....>"THE Righteousness of God, in Christ""", because we have been given= "The GIFT of Righteousness".
So, you have to bring your mind and your faith into this Right understanding of who you are eternally become "in Christ"....., and once you do, and you have this revelation, you are finally discerning where God established you to be by the Blood of Jesus and the death of Christ.
This is REAL FAITH and its the renewed mind.., and that is where you find your power over your flesh and your confusion and your confessing sin.


Now.....Look at this NT verse, closely.

":As Jesus IS....so are the Born again, in this World"".

= Thats a fact., as how could the born again be "seated in heavenly places in Christ" and not be "as Jesus is, on this Earth".
And this eternal spiritual oneness with God..... does not change because you have a mood swing, or a tantrum, or some issue with your behavior or a faith crisis.
If you are born again, then you exist "in Christ"....>"one with God", and that not of yourself, but ONLY because of the Cross of Christ.

Listen,
your emotions and your deeds do not effect your standing "IN CHRIST",
Not ever.
You can't stop being born again.
Its done.
Rejoice !

If you are born again.....You are a NEW CREATION "in Christ".
And that is always and only how you are to SEE YOURSELF, as that is always How GOD sees you, at all times, and forever.
Let THAT RENEWED MIND rule your faith...... and God's Grace will begin to empower your Holy Living in a sustained way for you.

Artist John Emmett

I am not sure who saw the announcement with the sad news of their passing. Please pray for them as well as those that knew and loved them. May God bless them and keep them and bring them peace.

A thread for interesting science with big potential.
Ill start with this.

An area of science which is getting interesting is early stage cancer testing

The massive galleri trial in U.K., although critical papers question the effectiveness to 80%, even then it’s very worthwhile.

The claims for the Hrc epigeneres / tzar labs test are better At 99% on test of 1000 , yet to do full trials

(although as someone with a financial interest in a biotech drugs lab, I helped set up, I take all new claims with a pinch of salt!)

Both are worth looking up.
This area is ** massive ** for saving lives.

What big potential science are others watching?

Hello all,
I am asking for prayers for my mother Robyn. She is not doing well mentally. She is pushing herself above and beyond to get her mom (my grandma) the help she needs. So grandma is moving in 60 days to a nursing home. But mom texted me saying not to call her so she can quote "cry without interruptions". While the text concerns me, I am respecting her wishes. Please pray she feels Christ and the holy spirit guarding her heart and emotions. Pray she knows Jesus is with her throughout all of this and that she is NOT alone. Also I will include the url link to this post in an email and am asking the CF community to provide scriptures for her to lookup during this difficult time. She needs Christs' presence now more than ever before.

Thank you,
Jesse

The Hour shall come as it is now, when the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of Alohym, and those who hear shall live.

Yeshua who professed that he was The Son of Adam (Seth), further declared that he was the Resurrection, and revealed that John (who was born on Shavuot/Pentecost) was the Aliyahu (Elijah) whom we were to expect to come before the Great and Dreadful Day, to turn the hearts of the (Resurrected) Forefathers towards the hearts of their (Resurrected) Children, and vis-versa, or else the earth (which Yahuah has promised to never curse again on behalf of mankind), will be struck with a Curse.

Yeshua also indicated that John was Greater than himself, when he declared John to be the Greatest person Born of a Woman among the Risen, further implying that John was Adam, the Father of the Son of Adam:

Nevertheless the Resurrection sets the stage for Judgement, John (scarcely) turned the hearts of the children towards the two primary Forefathers (Adam & Seth, with Peter being Enos, the third), for John knew that if he revealed his true identity, they would no longer have a cloak for their sin, and he knew they were not prepared to Believe, and subsequently their disbelief would have brought judgement upon them;

Likewise, Yeshua pleaded with the Father to Forgive the Children, because they (like Children) had no idea what they were actually doing, wherefore Judgement (and the subsequent Resurrection) was postponed for Enos (Mankind), who were but Babes, until they were of age, as their primary Forefathers which qualified to pay the debt of Mankind;

Wherefore ‘Adam’ (Mankind) and the ‘Son of Adam’ (Mankind) Stood in the stead of a Condemned ‘Mankind’ (Enos), consequently, when the Head of John/Adam was Cut Off, Yeshua the Head of Manknd was Crucified, but not before he bequeathed the office of the Chief Shepherd unto Peter, when he emphatically Commissioned him to Feed his Sheep.

My question is this, how will the children of the Resurrection know that they have entered the dispensation of the Resurrection and Judgement?

The children of the first advent did not know that they had been raised from the dead to receive judgement, how will we know, or better yet, what are some of the signs that we may keep an eye out for?

If one truly believes that we are in the eleventh to twelfth hour of the last days, then they should also realize, that would imply we have entered the dispensation of the Resurrection, what evidence do we have to corroborate that?

This is bizarre.

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, was under an FBI counterintelligence inquiry into allegations about her connections in her home country of Czechoslovakia in the 1990s, according to excerpts from her FBI file obtained by Bloomberg News.

Hi there,

Where I live, society is rapidly changing - Christianity is viewed as an impediment to modern progress.

Secular education options push unwanted agenda's on our children.

Folks here are battling recession and usually both parents work to survive.

Small children are parked in child care from an early age so parents can work longer hours.

Viral infections rip through schools and disable whole families.

Christian alternatives to the status quo are noticeably absent.

For some intellectual reason the biblical model of believers community recorded in early Acts is relegated to 'descriptive' rather than 'prescriptive' and ignored.

Sadly it seems that only persecution brings a return to collective support, yet John records in Chapter 17 that visible unity among believers attracts the world to Christ.

We seem to have lost sight of the 'first love' of the church and battle away on our own under unnecessary pressure.

Is it not time to consider complimenting church with intentional community?

Folks can survive better together than in isolation.

Was not the church born as a Jewish community?

Video Talk

Psalms 34:15-19 ESV


We read in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV:


So, we can learn something from all Scripture, even if it wasn’t written for us specifically, but we must be careful in how we apply it to our lives so that we don’t apply something to our lives that was not meant for us specifically. So, we have to look at who it is addressed to, and we may have to consider the history behind it or what was going on during this time in history. And if it is a promise, we need to look at who the promise is for and we need to look at all the conditions and stipulations for those promises to be fulfilled.

But we also have to read the Old Testament in light of the teachings of the New Testament and under the New Covenant. For we are not under the Old Covenant relationship that God had with his people of old. And so we also need to see if what is being taught in the Old Testament is repeated for us in the New Testament, under the New Covenant, though perhaps not word for word, but so that we do not wrongfully apply something to our lives today. And then context is very critical to correct biblical interpretation.

Okay, so with that said, I read a meme on social media today which quoted only verse 18 here: “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” But is that true of all people who are brokenhearted and who are crushed in spirit? Like right now a large number of people are grieving over the deaths at that Christian school in Nashville. So I am certain there are a lot of brokenhearted people right now. But are they all the righteous in the eyes of God? And could some of them be evildoers?

I see this a lot, where Scriptures are taught out of context, and where promises of God are applied broadly to anyone who wants to apply them, because they do not quote those promises in context, and with the conditions for them to be fulfilled, and to whom they are to apply. But it is very clear here that this promise is not just for the brokenhearted and the crushed in spirit, but this applies to the righteous who are crying out to God for help, and the righteous are all those who are living righteously.

And I am not using this example of what happened in Nashville without true compassion for what these families and community are going through right now. In fact, I have great compassion for them which is why I am saying what I am saying about this meme. For when we quote the promises of God out of context we are doing a disservice to those who are going to think the promise is for them when it may not be, and therefore we may be guilty of giving them a false hope, and a willful false hope is not kind at all.

Now one last thing about this passage of Scripture, if compared to the teachings under the New Covenant, we also cannot assure ourselves that God is going to deliver us out of all our troubles and afflictions in a physical sense, even if we are among the righteous. For he promises us that we are going to suffer for righteousness’ sake and that we are going to have hardships and heartaches and trials and tribulations, and that we are going to be hated and persecuted and even put to death for our faith in Christ.

So, the Lord doesn’t always deliver us physically from our trials and our tribulations and our afflictions, but he delivers us through them by filling us with his peace and his joy when we learn to rest in him and to not worry. He will give us peace and joy even in the midst of great heartaches, and even when we have enemies fiercely coming against us. For when we trust in God’s sovereignty, and we trust him in all of our circumstances, he delivers us from the weight and the burden of our trials, and he gives us peace.

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It Is Well with My Soul

Lyrics by H. G. Spafford, 1873
Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1876

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
It is well; it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed his own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

It is well with my soul,
It is well; it is well with my soul.

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So many categories on this forum but strange that I can't seem to find one where Easter would fit.

With Palm Sunday coming, here is an article on a topic all ought to be familiar with because there is a tradition that dies hard that has no place in the Bible. Holy Week, Beware Idle Conjecture

Hi This is ink and wash on Yupo of Aachen Cathedral where Charlemagne rests.

What is the name of our ninth planet now?

Like another who posted, I'm back from long absence. Went to Google + forums for awhile till they ended. Have been on twitter and facebook but interaction is limited. Thought I'd check back here.

I think Sabine Hossenfelder's explanation (below) on various multiverse theories (including both Many Worlds and much broader: String Theory multiverse) is useful to summarize well both a brief overview of such theories and what is the most neutral, objective attitude towards such theories.

Hossenfelder's description of what's in the ~ 15 minute talk:

"Why do physicists think that our universe isn't the only one? And should you believe them? In this video, I explain what the multiverse is and what the problem is with it. I have talked about this before but in hindsight I think I made it too confusing. This is my new and hopefully improved attempt to summarize the important points." -->
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Many Gentile believers held this attitude for hundreds of years, a fact that 100% of churchgoers are never told because 100% of "pastors" are unaware of this reality. Picture it! Gentile believers went to Jewish instructors for teaching and to learn the faith. And what did the Jewish instructors teach? The Old Testament! What was the main focus of the teaching? The first five books of Scripture, which are referred to as the Torah. The next important focus was on the prophets, especially Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, not Daniel, Esther, or Nehemiah! The Hebrew Scriptures, which we call the Old Testament, is called the Tanakh by the Jewish people. The order of books is different in the Tanakh than in our English bibles. They separate the Tanakh into three parts, The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. Daniel is not included in the Prophets! It is listed in the Writings, as is Esther and Nehemiah. Most are unaware that there has been a huge debate for thousands of years among the Jews as to whether or not Esther should even be included in the Tanakh! I mention this because Esther is taught much in church buildings instead of Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Ezekiel. After Psalms and Proverbs, Job should be the main focus of teaching from the Writings. After Job, Ecclesiastes should be studied, not Ruth, Esther, or Nehemiah! Far too much time is spent and wasted on these three little books. Even after the "New Testament" was compiled and started being used by Gentile "teachers", the Jewish instructors still taught 95% of the time from the Tanakh.

While the Apostles and Paul were still alive, nobody questioned the "Jewishness" of Yeshua and what he taught. No Gentile denied the authority and importance of the Old Testament, especially those Gentiles who learned at the feet of the Apostles, those who, in turn, would become the leading Gentile teachers of Scripture to other Gentiles. But, as the Gospel started spreading among the Gentiles, an animosity toward Jewish people began to arise in the Gentile world. And as the Gospel spread among the Gentiles, a new reality set in. The further away, geographically, from Jerusalem the gospel was taught, the less importance the Gentiles put upon the value of the Tanakh, the Jewishness of Scripture and the great value of Jewish men teaching true Judaism! Those Gentiles who desired to be "leaders" among the Gentiles became very jealous of the Jewish instructors. There arose an attitude of "Who made you the boss?" As there is now, there was an arrogant attitude combined with base pettiness among the Gentle leaders, that they wanted to be "the experts" on all things Scripture. They had a goal in mind. Instead of a simple desire to teach Scripture, these men wanted to use Scripture to control the Gentiles. There was no hierarchy in a synagogue. Any male member was allowed to speak about Scripture. There were men in charge of different events in a synagogue, but the idea that a few teachers were in control of all of the members and of all of the teaching did not exist. On the other hand, as soon as the "church" concept began, the very first step was to put a hierarchy in place. And do you know where that came from? From how the pagans ran their Temples. And later on, when the Catholic Church was formed, their system of operation was a copy of how the Roman government worked. The idea of choirs, somber music, chanting, processions, extravagant clothing for the priests, statues, lighting candles, etc., all came from pagan Rome and the Roman government! You won't find any of that in Scripture. But that's what you do when you place Scripture as a secondary source of teaching and override it with man-made traditions.


After the death of John, there were no longer any of the original Apostles around, Paul having died before John. The evil Gentiles, who were the beginning of the Catholic Church, no longer had to worry about being refuted in what they taught. Those Jewish leaders were the authority, but any other Jewish instructor could easily be discounted after their death. But, the influence of the Jewish instructors was a huge obstacle not easily overcome. So, taking a cue from the growing animosity among the Gentiles, especially the leading influencers of Roman government and society, against the Jews, an attitude developed among those Gentiles who wanted to present the faith as a "Gentile faith," to destroy the auenthencity of what the Jewish instructors taught. While they couldn't ignore or disprove the Tankah (words don't lie, but men do.), the next best approach was destroying Jewish scripture teachers' credibility.
The illiteracy of the average Gentile played a big part in this. Even the more educated Gentiles, who knew Greek, Latin and later on English, didn't know how to read or speak Hebrew. The Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Tankah, was a well-kept secret among the Gentile religious elite. The average Gentile believer only knew what the Jews told them. So, if the Gentles could be convinced that the Jews were evil people who lied, specifically the Jewish teachers, then the Gentiles would not believe anything the Jewish teachers taught. And the campaign began.

A man named Oliver Jack Melieck wrote (caps mine)" To understand the relationship between Christians and Jews, it is crucial to survey some of Church Fathers (some, not all, the most prominent) to understand how their EXEGETICAL DEVIATION paved the way for modern anti-Semitism. As many of them PREFORMED ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS of God's word (a favorite practice still going on strong today), the early Church Fathers (any time you see "Church Fathers," think Catholic Church) developed a warped view of Israel and the Jews. They had a distorted view of Biblical Judaism. The PERCEIVED MONSTROSITY of the Jews was their main concern. As they saw it, (Old Testament), Israel had continually disappointed God. They needed to separate the "evil" from the "righteous," the "sinful" from "the holy." So they started to demonize and ostracize the Jewish people.

If I was teaching Scripture to people in a park and a crowd began to gather, I would be teaching the truth, and if some or many in the crowd believed what I was saying, things would be off to a good start. But, if there was a group of false teachers who didn't want people to listen to me, and they found out where I was teaching, showed up and start shouting out, "This man is a drug dealer," "This man is involved with sex trafficking," or, "This man beats his wife," chances are excellent that the majority of the people in the crowd would believe the lies, the false teachers would have destroyed my character and, as a result, would have destroyed the notion that I was speaking the truth.

About the time John passed away, the Greco-Roman world (There is a reason the Catholic Church originally called itself the Roman Catholic Church) already scorned the Jews and their monotheism and practices. The Roman people held fierce animosity toward the Jews. The average Roman citizen considered Jews anti-Rome and anti-Roman Society because of their monotheism; some even considered the Jews as rebels and enemies of the state. They considered circumcision a form of mutilation, and because the Jews performed circumcision on newborn males, they thought this was horrible. Many Romans thought that since the Jews refused to eat pork, the god they served was a "pig god."
A famous Roman historian, Tacitus, 56-120 A.D., called Jerusalem a "notorious" city, and the Jews were an "infamous" people, hated by their God. Their practices are base and wicked. The Jews are depraved and ruled by lust. They are bizarre, uncivilized, and misanthropic.

Around 100 A.D., away from Jerusalem and Judiah, teaching sprang up that claimed the Jews had lost their birthright, had murdered the Messiah, were excluded from the Church, and that God's covenant with Abraham and Moses was never established due to the Jews sinfulness, and that the Laws should be understood allegorically, that they were, in fact, referring to "Christian virtue and the sacraments." (Sacrament is not a biblical word and was, and still is, heavily used by the Catholic Church and other denominations)

The three most stressed things touted in the effort to separate Gentiles and Jews were 1. That the Jews murdered Jesus. 2. The lies of the Jews. 3. Jews were the enemies of Christians.

Ignatius of Antioch 40-110 A.D. He was a big fan and proponent of Greek philosophy. He introduced the mystical idea that the "church" was pre-existent before Old Testament Israel. At the end of the 1st Century, he wrote, "If we Christians are still practicing Judaism, we admit that we have not received God's favor...It is wrong to talk about Jesus Christ and live like Jews... Those who partake of the Passover are grouped together with those who killed Jesus. His motto was "For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, Judaism believed in Christianity."

At the end of the 1st century, Gentile believers were practicing Judaism! They were participating in the Feast of the Passover! Some were living like Jews! Where is the "church" in all of this? Where is the entity that Jesus "started" for Gentile believers, known as the "church?" By logic and history, one would have to say the "church" is Judaism! And Jesus, as a man, didn't start Judaism! He came living and teaching true Judaism!
The first and foremost definition of Christianity is: The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus. From Merriam-Wester: 1. the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture. Since there was no "bible" in Jesus's day and no New Testament, this definition should read: the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Old Testament as sacred scripture. Acts 11:26...And the disciples were first called Christians. Guess what? In Antioch, at that time were both Jewish and Gentile believers! There were anywhere from 20,000-40,000 Jews living in Antioch at this time.

For any who are unaware, as I pointed out in part 1, it was the nation of Israel, the Jewish people, that God planted and established true Judaism. At no time did God ever claim that He would replace the Jews with Gentiles as representing and being the source of truth and faith. I used to believe this because that is what Gentile people are taught. What is the source of this erroneous belief? It comes from one of the Pharisee's favorite tricks, the "proof text method." And what is the "proof text" for the teaching? Mk 12:9, after reading Mk 12:1-9.
I realize many commentators have drunk the Kool-Aid here, but let me tell you the truth. First, one verse is not a sole source of truth or doctrine. Second, This is a parable, Mk 12:1. Third, there is no mention of God turning over everything He established through and with the Jewish people to the Gentiles anywhere in Scripture. Fourth, Jesus said "others," not Gentiles. Fifth, the idea that "others" meant Gentiles is an inference made based on faulty logic, with no Scripture to back it up. Sixth, Many of Jesus's parables were direct attacks against the false teachers of the Jewish leaders, the Pharisees, scribes and priests. Read Mk 12:12. Seventh, If the crowd listening to Jesus thought he was referring to Gentiles, they would have been filled with rage and stoned Jesus on the spot!
A lie gets started and is believed. The lie spreads and others are believing and teaching the same lie. Soon, the lie is widespread and accepted by all. At some point it becomes part of "church lore," and from then on is established as a truth.


Starting in Isaiah, God purposed that at a later time, there would be Gentile believers and they would enter into the kingdom of God.

Is 11:10, 42:1, 6, 49:6, 60:3, 61:9, 62:2
Amos 9:11-12
Lk 2:32
Acts 15: 5-9,13-17
Rom 9:23-26

But it has always been the Jew first, Rom 1:16, 2:9-10.

Since the kingdom of God that Jesus established is a spiritual kingdom, how do Gentiles enter the kingdom? God makes the Gentile sheep spiritual Jews, Rom 2:29. Read Eph 2:11-22.

In Romans, Chapter 11, Paul teaches how all Gentile believers are grafted into the Vine. In verses 18-25, Paul warns the Gentiles not to be arrogant and look down upon the Jews, which shows how early some of the Gentile believers were already feeling a sense of superiority over the Jewish believers.

Justin Martyr 100-165 A.D. The first to introduce "Replacement Theology," whereas the "Church" had replaced the Jews as the keepers of the Covenants and that all of the blessings and promises of God had passed from the "evil Jews" onto the Gentile Church. He said that the Old Testament no longer belonged to the Jews, the O.T. only applied to Gentile believers, that Judaism was a false religion, and that the Israel of the O.T. was actually the "undeveloped" Gentile Church. He claimed the Jews were "unspiritual" people who were so out of control that God could only deal with them by putting laws on them. He accused them of rejecting and killing Jesus and that they were leading good Gentiles away from Jesus. He said that God destroyed the Temple as punishment for the Jews.

Irenaeus 135-202 A.D. "Christians should avoid any relationship or contact with the Jews to prevent confusion." He wanted the "church" to be cleansed of anything Jewish, especially any hint of Judaism. He said the Jews were cut off from the grace of God.

While I have only mentioned a few names, other Gentiles in leadership positions were spouting off the same garbage. Every single thing they said was nothing but lies! Even though we are nearing the 2nd Century, it is easy to see that the Gentile believers, the majority, were still learning from Jewish teachers, who kept teaching from the Tanakh! This is all documented history, people! Anyone can research this for themselves. The Gentiles consistently used the words "Church" and "Christian" to build a divide between Jews and Gentiles.

End of part 2

Hello everyone, any idea where I can find an online Bible study for Thursday evenings between 6 to 8pm EST? Truly in need of a Bible study group via Zoom or Google Meet. Thanks.

OK this guy is some kind of independent, former Ancient Church of the East bishop.... but he is wearing our headgear so I'm posting him here. Still figuring out him using the Syriac Orthodox Skimo (had to look up what thing was called!). I think he is trying to make some kind of positive Ecumenical type gesture of Syriac Church unification or something.


Just started to listen to the 1st part of the video so far. Interesting, not surprising. I guess the biggest take away is for being clergy and having much more leeway than your average person to move about during the pandemic in Australia, he still had more limitations than what a person would expect. As he mentioned during the pandemic, he had a curfew of 9 pm to make it back home which was worse than the various restrictions that happened during the first or second World Wars (Where there were fears of Japanese spies and such). Of course, the biggest problem was with the limitations of public assembly for worship, which he did not directly mention, but I'm sure that is also was a big issue for him.


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The other half of the video is around how Australian politics have become woke as far as LGBTQ, and how normal free speech around Christian morality can and is criminalized even when such speech is given in a reasonable measured tone.

Far right-wing radicals in New Hampshire and elsewhere may find themselves outgunned if a trend of LGBTQ+ people taking up arms in the state spreads nationwide.

Fin Smith, an organizer with Rainbow Reload, recently allowed a New Hampshire Public Radio reporter to tag along with their group on a training mission at Pawtuckaway State Park. In light of a rising chorus of threats targeting LGBTQ+ people, including those stemming from hate groups, Rainbow Reload provides a controlled environment for queer gun enthusiasts and experts to practice firearms skills.

The group says it aims to give people the skills they need to protect themselves.

“There’s been an uptick in hate crimes, there’s been an uptick in groups that have been protesting drag story times and drag shows, and it felt like I needed to learn how to protect myself,” another member, Jamie, told NHPR, holding her Christmas gift, a pistol.

“I recognize the temperature is freezing, and this is not the most comfortable,” Smith said to a handful of participants, NHPR reports. “But if it’s raining, we’re training. If it’s snowing, we’re going.”

Some club members say they would have liked to join a shooting club sooner but avoided them because they felt unwelcomed.

Despite a general societal shift in recent years towards the normalizing and public approval of marriage equality for LGBTQ+ couples in American culture, Republicans and those on the right have recently attempted to falsely isolate the community as a collection of “groomers” with a “woke liberal agenda” aimed at indoctrinating kids into seeking medical treatment to change their gender identity.

According to a recent Pew study, noted by NHPR, almost half of Republicans own guns, compared to one-in-five Democrats.

Members of Rainbow Reload are diverse in their opinions and don’t advocate for gun policies, the station reports.




I say, bravo.

Their message is similar to that of a group I've donated to in the past, Pink Pistols, who have the slogan "armed gays don't get bashed" and "pick on someone your own caliber".

I think movements like this are a win-win from multiple angles.

1) it'll make people (who are otherwise resistant to any/all forms of gun control) rethink their positions and be willing to reconsider and entertain some common sense measures (even if for the wrong the reasons)

2) it'll quickly expose the hypocrites who tout gun rights, but then all of the sudden want some gun control when a group they don't like starts getting some. (like California in the 60's... when Republican Don Mulford proposed bans on carrying guns because the original black panthers started carrying them to "police the police" in their own neighborhoods.

3) it allows people who are in a vulnerable position to defend themselves (which is the most important reason)

What do you all think of Quakers... Jesus said he would send the holy spirit... to teach us... and they seem prepared to listen.
I like the meditative stillness and listening aspect.. as s Buddhist it is an appealing form of Christianity.

But what do others think?

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1 John 3:9 : is the born again spirit having become : "the new creation in Christ".

This is to be "in Christ", and there is no sin found there.

However, renewing your mind, so that Romans 8:1 is your spiritual reality, is something different.

Romans 8:1 says there is no condemnation on you or in you, if you are in Christ.

See, Condemnation IN you would be guilt and regret and worry about sin.

While, Condemnation ON you would be God's wrath as damnation... and that is John 3:36, which is currently found ON all the unbelievers who have never been born again.
Unbelievers , never born again....,do not understand that they are currently damned, until they are born again.
This is the same issue you find with people who are water baptized, very religious, but lost.

John 3:36


Reader,

Hell, is the place where the damned end up., with the Lake of Fire being their final destination.

There are no born again in hell, and there are no Christ rejectors, never born again, in Heaven.

When a person is born again, they are completed """in Christ.""""

= They are "made righteous" by God, through the Cross of Christ.....so, this is to start....as completed.

If you are born again, then you came to the Cross by Faith, as an ungodly sinner, yet sinning, and God made you righteous with the Cross of Christ and instantly you Spiritually became as if you've never sinned. "Made Righteous"... "one with God"... "In Christ".....having received "the GIFT of Righteousness".
And notice......notice, you had not kept the commandments, or been water baptized, or worried about the Law....>Yet, God took that Cross and His Holy Spirit and made you a "new Creation in Christ". Born again.

God has imputed unto the born again, the gift of Righteousness, and Jesus has become your sin.... all of it.
Being Born again, is the literal proof that this has happened to you..
The devil is no longer your spiritual father and your born again spirit is : "seated in heavenly places, in Christ".
God now and for eternity.....ONLY sees your born again spirit as His redeemed, His Son/Daughter .... having become "the righteousness of God, in Christ".
See that?

That's God's mind......that's His perspective of YOU, if you are truly born again. You have SALVATION.......You have Eternal Life. and God maintains those for you, as you have received this "gift" from God., who completes it.

Philippians 1:6

Salvation is God's Gift to you, through the Cross of Christ....>Its His responsibility as He created it and gave it to you.
He maintains it........and you HAVE IT.

After you die, you will be "conformed into the image of Christ"""
Currently, if you are born again, you are "in Christ", "made righteousness".
Your "old man of sin" is "crucified with Christ".

So, what is left?

What is left is for you, READER, if you are born again.......is......to "work out your salvation".

But wait.....

If Salvation is Jesus on the Cross and you are made righteous , born again, and are "in Christ".. forever...., then what is left to work out, regarding your Salvation?
Saint, You have to work out the mind of your faith., and if you dont, then your spirit is in Christ, God is your Father, but your mind is the "mind of the flesh". = carnal.
That's the carnal mind, and the carnal mind is in rebellion against God and His word and Cross, and will refuse to accept that you dont have to "work to be saved" and "work to stay saved". as that is how the "mind of the flesh", SEES "Salvation".

Paul says of that mind..."are you so FOOLISH having begun in the spirit..(born again).... that you are now trying to stay saved by works (mind) of the flesh"?
See that?
That is LEGALISM, and this broken faith denies the Cross and tries to establish going to heaven and being accepted by God based on SELF EFFORT.,= that is literally SELF righteousness.

To stay out of that mind of the FLESH....You have to learn who you have become, regarding God's perspective,, as the "renewing of you mind".
That is how you "work out your salvation".

Paul refers to those who come into this full revelation of who they have become as "IN Christ'" as : "as many as be perfect".
When you do that, you have put on one of the parts of the "armor of God"., which is the The Helmet of your Salvation.

Now.....Here is a vital revelation for you.... if you are born again.

When you get your faith right as the "renewing of your mind", you begin at that very moment to wear the helmet of your Salvation,... and without it none of the other parts of the Armor of God will work for your spiritual or literal benefit.
And that allows the "fiery darts" of the Devil (LUST) to hit you and penetrate.
The result of that wrong mind..the mind of the flesh, un-renewed..(broken faith)..= all that is wrong with your Christianity that you can't seem to stop doing, or understand why you can't,... that slow inner torture you are experiencing... never gets resolved....and, if you dont get it resolved you will eventually mentally harden against the Grace of God, to the point that when you hear about the Grace of God, you will think its offensive to HEAR.... because there is no self effort, works, water baptism, commandment keeping or law in it that the carnal mind of the flesh needs to hear.

(CNN) An armed 28-year-old woman fatally shot three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville before she was shot and killed by police, authorities said.

The shooter, who was not identified, entered the Covenant School via a side door and was armed with at least two assault-style rifles and a handgun, said Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron. She fired multiple shots on the first and second floors of the school before police fatally shot her on the second floor, Aaron said.

The first call on the shooting came in at 10:13 a.m. and the shooter was dead at 10:27 a.m., he said. Police are working to analyze video from the school showing the incident, he added.

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The Pastor Sunday mentioned personal confession and absolution.

How does one go about it? I mean to speak with him next Lord's Day.

Yours in the Lord,

jm

World Council of Churches seeks to foster dialogue between Russian- and Ukrainian-affiliated communities affected by the war.

A largely overlooked effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a deepening of the divisions among Christians in Ukraine. Now, Pope Francis has reportedly voiced support for an effort to build bridges among sparring factions.

There was already a long-running controversy regarding the affiliation of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine when the Russian military began a full-scale attack on the country last year. Though the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine was established in 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which dates back centuries, continues to exist. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war, however, has seemed to heighten tensions.

Although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) has sought to distance itself from Russia, the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun to take action against alleged Russian sympathizers and operatives amid the Church’s clergymen.

The government has given monks of the UOC-MP until March 29 to leave their homes in the millennium-old Monastery of the Caves in the capital, Kyiv. Pope Francis has expressed his disapproval of this, asking “the warring parties to respect the religious places. Consecrated nuns, people consecrated to prayer — be they of any denomination — are in support of God’s people.”

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