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The investigation centered on the events that began with the May 28, 2021, attack on a female student in a girls’ bathroom by a male assailant wearing a skirt at Stone Bridge High School, an incident that drew national attention after the girl’s father, Scott Smith, was dragged out of a raucous June 22, 2021, school board meeting.


A video of Mr. Smith being removed from the meeting went viral, with the footage mischaracterized to support unfounded claims that parents upset about COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates posed a threat to school board members across the country.

This is my open letter to President Joe Biden:

Dear Mr. President:

I have some serious concerns regarding the systemic racism in the United States.

Nothing shows more evidence of America’s long-standing adherence to “White Supremacy” than the fact its leader, our President, lives in a “White House”. The color white was obviously chosen because in western cultures, the color white symbolizes a sense of purity, cleanliness, and peacefulness, while the color black symbolizes death, evil, and aggression. I strongly advise that you change the name and color of your current residence.

First, I suggest you have the exterior of the building repainted with Black and Brown stripes. Then you should replace the American flag for one with rainbow-colored stripes to show support for the LGBT community. Finally, I think you should change the house’s name to the “Cordoba House” to show you also support the Muslim community.

Finally, you need to change the name of our capital city. Not only is it named after a know slave owner, George Washington, but the city is also in the District of Colombia, which is named after Christopher Colombus, the man which colonization is named for.

Hopefully everyone got a chuckle. If any lefties got offended, please excuse me but I grew up in the seventies and eighties, back when Saturday Night Live poked fun at both the left and the right.

This is real and not merely sore loser talk. As you might expect, the perp is denying everything, but it's a matter of public record.

DO AS I SAY: Georgia GOP candidate for state office accused of voter fraud​

Brian Pritchard — a Republican talk show host and candidate for Georgia House — broke a state law against voting by people convicted of a felony.
The North Georgia conservative was on probation for felony forgery and theft when he illegally voted at least nine times while still serving his sentence.

“I’ve not done anything wrong here,” Pritchard claimed – but state law says otherwise.

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Pritchard is nonetheless running in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by former Georgia House Speaker David Ralston who passed away in November, where he faces the deceased former representative’s widow, Sheree Ralston, for the open seat.
In 1996, the election-denying wannabe politician pleaded guilty to three counts of forgery and one count of theft by failure to make a required disposition of funds – all felonies – in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County.
Pritchard agreed to $33,000 in restitution and to serve probation as part of his sentence.
DO AS I SAY: Georgia GOP candidate for state office accused of voter fraud

The majority of problems in this world are for the most part due to those who do not see anything greater than themselves. Of course in today's world these elites are amalgamating into a new global Mt Olympus. Does God take kindly to those who put their will ahead of His?

I am convinced that Jesus was born on the 1st of Nisan in the year 5 BC.

Why the 1st of Nisan?
Because it is exactly the same day that God's presence filled the Tent of Meeting (Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:34). This event was a shadow that foretold the incarnation of God (John 1:14). On the same day that God came to earth to be in a tent, on the same day God came to earth to be in a human body.

What also speaks of Jesus being born in the month of Nisan, and thus in a spring, is the fact that when Jesus was born, shepherds were in the fields with their flocks. This could not have been the case in a cold month like December.

Am I now saying that celebrating Christmas in December is wrong? No, you can celebrate the birth of Jesus whenever you want. There is nothing wrong with celebrating Christmas at all.

Why in the year 5 BC?
Scripture records:

-that Jesus was baptized at the age of 30
-that Jesus' ministry began when he was baptized
-that Jesus ministry lasted 3.5 years
-that Jesus was baptized on the 15th year of Tiberius
-that Jesus was born before Herod died

History records:
-that Tiberius 15th year of his reign was 26 AD
-that Herod died 4 BC

Conclusions:
If the 15th year of Tiberius is 26 AD, then Jesus was 30 years old at that time. If Jesus was 30 years old in 26 AD, then he was born 5 BC. So the crucifixion of Jesus was 30 AD, since Jesus ministry lasted 3.5 years. And since Jesus was crucified on the 14th of Nisan, he was crucified only 13 days after his birthday, which means he was 34 years and 13 days old when he died.

This is why it's more reasonable to believe that Jesus was actually resurrected from the dead than any other explanation. It fully debunks the "Near-Death" theory, the "Hallucination" theory, the theory that the disciples stole Jesus' body, the "Wrong Tomb" theory, and even the "Jesus had an identical twin nobody knew about" theory.

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I have a theory that seems like it could explain an incredible range of mysteries and unknowns, but I have no one to bounce it off of. It’s okay if you think this is too long or incoherent to read or respond to; I basically have to just get it out there so I can free my thinking to move on to other things.

Although this isn’t where my theory began, it might help to explain two crucial notions. First, that the will of God doesn’t just cause reality; it is reality. What God wills simply is. Creating all things wasn’t about having the power to make it so; God wills a world to exist, so a world exists. But his will is flexible. When two possible situations equally fulfill God’s purposes, then both situations maintain a place within his will. We might say the universe has two layers, actuality and potentiality. Potentiality is everything that is not ruled out by the will of God or by definitive cause-and-effect relationship to what is actual. Potentiality is governed a-temporally by a God who exists outside of time, but its rules require it to be logically consistent within time. Actuality plays out in time but it must remain within the realm of what is determined by potentiality.

That explains quantum mechanics. God really doesn’t care exactly where a photon or electron might be at any given moment, so his will doesn’t assign an exact place, just allows for a range of possibilities. The scientific concept of “quantum probability wave functions” is nothing other than a description of what is possible within God’s will, as well as its probability relative to everything else that is possible. Everything exists as a range of possibilities until either God’s will, or our observation, or logical consistency leaves only one remaining option. When only one possibility exists, it simply is reality by definition. (Kind of like Sherlock Holmes’ famous observation about deduction eliminating the impossible; whatever remains is the truth).

The universe is like a set of dominoes, except that each domino could fall a hundred different ways and knock down a hundred different potential lines of other dominoes. A standing domino represents any particle or event or situation that has more than one possible resolution. A fallen domino represents anything that is certain, and therefore a part of actual reality. But note that these dominoes fall logically and a-temporally, although we observe them falling temporally, so we’re going to have to fight the temptation to think of their falling as itself being the actual flow of time. There’s a sort of law of logical consistency that requires that every domino is consistent with all past and future dominoes that have any cause-and-effect relationship to it. So its falling must propagate into the past just as it does into the future. The possibilities and probabilities could be thought of as constantly changing to reflect the impact of all past and future limitations on what is possible—except that it’s all a-temporal, so nothing really changes.

When you open Schrodinger’s cat box and find a live cat, it not only results in a live cat persisting afterwards; it means the cat was never dead. It collapses the past quantum probability wave function, so there never was a simultaneously live/dead cat. There never could be unless the box is never opened (or not opened until after all the potential cats inside have died and there’s no way to tell when it happened). It was alive the whole time, not as if your opening the box changed the past, but because the laws governing the realm of potentiality are a-temporal, that the present must always be consistent with the future just as much as the future must always be consistent with its past. It’s all just a reflection of the fact that God and his will exist outside of time. His will allows for what is potential and determines what is actual. Much simpler than the scientists make it out to be.

The same concept would explain spooky action at a distance. Quantum entangled particles match each other when their wave functions collapse, not because they instantaneously reach across space to affect the other. It’s more like the observation of one changes the past, except that it doesn’t happen temporally and nothing actually changes; it always was. We can imagine it as if the observing of one particle knocks down its predecessor dominoes back in time until it reaches the point of origin and then flows forward in time down the other path to knock down the other present particle, except that what is determined within the potential layer of reality is a-temporal. So it always was collapsed.

Secondly, we can then think of God’s work in creation as being primarily a matter of subtraction rather than addition. Imagine if God, outside of time, considered all of time and space and everything that could possibly happen in any possible universe, past, present, and future. Then he just started subtracting every domino that didn’t match his will, as well as every domino that was not logically consistent with those that remained. Whenever and wherever only one possibility remained within the will of God, that was or is by definition reality, and would be the first domino to fall, knocking down most of the rest. The Garden of Eden would then be the first primary spot where dominoes started falling, knocking down most, but not all of what would follow, leaving gaps and lines of standing dominoes that are not definitively and causally forced to fall by that initial cause. Those missed dominoes may or may not fall by other means.

If I’m right, then entropy is not tied directly to time moving forward, but rather to the causal relationship to the first cause, the first falling domino. Each domino that causes another to fall has a little bit of wiggle room, so it injects a tiny bit of randomness into the way the next domino falls, and that randomness is entropy. Because almost all dominoes are falling forward, from the Garden of Eden toward the end of time, entropy must increase. That would also mean that when you open Schrodinger’s cat box, or measure any quantum particle and send ripples back in time, the entropy would increase backwards in time in this instance. But it would be mostly unobserved. We’d see it only as an increasing haziness to the past. That is, when I open the cat box, I not only see the cat alive, I see where it is and what it’s doing. I can extrapolate where it was and what it was doing a few seconds before the box was opened as well. Before that it all becomes hazy as the lines of dominoes become too uncertain to definitively knock down their predecessors. That would be a sort of entropy increasing into the past.

This theory may have something to tell us about all kinds of other topics, like free will coexisting with God’s omniscience and control of all things (we can and do knock down dominoes ourselves, but only choosing from those pathways God left standing in front of us. But perhaps he chooses to leave them standing to give us choices—even while outside of time he already knows what our choice will be), or God’s activity in creation and in response to prayer (while God can always add new miraculous dominoes wherever needed and wherever his will places them, there’s really no limit to how much he could accomplish just by judicious removal of unwanted potentialities with no miracle required; sometimes reaching into the past and making wise use of the butterfly effect. And we’d never see proof of a miracle unless he willed us to see it, because even with overt miracles he can always add enough dominoes at the head of the line to hide the miraculous source in the unobserved past). Or how about questions like, what exists beyond the edge of the visible universe? The answer is infinite possibilities of an infinite universe, but nothing actual or real, because there is neither observation nor causal linkage nor any reason for God’s will to knock down any dominoes out there.

This theory seems like it could also be workable without reference to God, but there are some ways that it just makes more sense with God as the one willing it, selecting from infinite potentialities, and knocking down the first domino (and selected dominoes ever since). And I really doubt any non-theistic scientist would find anything worth pursuing here, because any explication of time from outside of time’s dimension and perspective is usually viewed as inert (there’s no time outside of time, so there can be no change, so there can be no influences or laws governing what would or could happen outside of time). I could go on, but I have my doubts that anyone will even read this far or want to hear more. I just had to get it all out.

This is a very popular phrase in Christianity: You must have a personal relationship with Jesus.

How would you explain this to someone new to Christianity? How do we have a 'personal relationship' with someone we can't see, touch, or hear?

What does such a 'relationship' look like?
What does your personal relationship with Jesus look like? Does it involve pure faith, intellect, or strong emotions of love as you would feel for another person? Do you hear His voice, audibly or in your soul or mind? Do you have visions of Him?
Does regular prayer time mean you have a personal relationship with Jesus or is that only one small part of it?

I'm asking to try to understand and in pursuit of my own walk with God. I'm asking in part because I've had certain people say this to me and I'm curious what their own relationship with Christ really looked like and what that phrase really means to them but I am not able to ask them personally.

If no one gets to the Father except through Jesus, and you can only accept Jesus when your mortal body is alive , how did all those before the cross get into heaven or are they all in hell or is there part of heaven that you can go to that you can’t get to the Father?

The former high school student who became the antagonist in a media-driven controversy at the March for Life nearly four years ago now wants Elon Musk to release the “hidden” Twitter files related to the death threats he received in light of that coverage.

One of the users said to burn down Covington Catholic School in Kentucky, where Mr. Sandmann was a student at the time, and to shoot at the students “on sight.” Another shared an illustration of a woodchipper in use and said “#MAGAKids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchipper.”

A Catholic campus ministry center at the University of Nebraska received a death threat Saturday morning in a note signed, “Jane’s Revenge,” a calling card used by pro-abortion activists.

A member of our church, who is still dealing with the loss of her husband, has lost her son to suicide.

Please pray for her and her family. Thank you!

The Text: Moreover, your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.

Contextually, this verse refers Numbers 13-14 where Israelite spies were sent into the land of Caanan, lied about what they saw and convinced Israel leaders and elders to murmur against Moses. For the sin of grumbling, judged the whole of Israel, forcing them to wander in the wilderness for 40 years, and only those under the age of twenty would be able of enter the promised land.

For many Credobaptists and those to deny original sin, who hold to the Age of Accountability this verse teaches children below the age of accountability were exempt from God’s judgement due to their age—— “our little ones” who have “no knowledge of good and evil.” They reason those that have “no knowledge of good and evil” at minimum are morally neutral or as extreme as being sinless or guiltless.

My contention is "knowledge of good and evil" is a Hebraism which yields a closer linguistic fit meaning "maturity and immaturity" rather than sinlessness or guiltlessness. See my previous post OP 12/4 on Is. 7:14.

The question is raised: Were the “little ones” who had “no knowledge of good and evil” exempt from God’s judgment of Israel. ABSOLUTELY NOT. The judgment placed upon the “little ones” was they were forced to wander for 40 years in the desert. The exemption of death is seen as a pardon and an act of pure grace by God allowing the promises to Abraham to continue.

This is the only passage of Scripture that God provides an “age based” exception to His judgments. No where does Scripture indicate such an "age based" exemption exists elsewhere or to be continued in the NT era. The OT is replete of examples where children fall under God's judgment which are not "age based."

Examples would be:

THE JUSTICE OF GOD. If children and infants are seen as innocent of sin, hence infantile purity and do receive God’s judgment, would this make God unjust. As Mark Beach has said,




God is not unjust.

【Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 】Matthew 16:16~17

Please pray for me(sangeun) and all of my family members(junghee dohan jieun hochul jeolja nosun zzomi) to know the Jesus and Gospel and the truth by Spirit of God and accept the Gospel and Jesus christ and believe in Jesus christ. and not to give up on Jesus christ and faith at any situation and repent of all our sins and be free from all our sins and be forgiven all our sins by Jesus and go to heaven surely.

Please pray for me(sangeun) and all of my family members(junghee dohan jieun hochul jeolja nosun zzomi) to believe that the Father is in the Son Jesus and that Jesus is in the Father. And Jesus Christ directly reveal the name of God the Father to all of us. And that God fulfil the Bible verses above for all of us.

Now we know there is a preplanning with God. We each have a book written with our purpose in it. (Jeremiah 1:5, Acts 17:26-27, Psa 139:16-18)

But we see that this written book has multiple pathways depending upon our actions. (2Sa 12:7-12, Jer 15:19)

We also see that God does not have perfect knowledge of how man will act (Gen 6:6-7).

So the discussion will now focus on the scriptures used by Calvinism (a doctrine which I disagree with), to say that man is assigned as saved, or unsaved status before the earth was created. Let’s look at the first one.

Romans 8:29-30 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called*; whom He called*, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

*call, summon, invite

Foreknew, there is no denying that God foreknows each of us. That there is a degree of planning with God. But where this plan is laid down is not known, it could be one generation before we were born, or it could be at creation or both.

I argue that God calls all men, to the truth, all men to repent (Acts 17:30). I believe that all men are predestined to life, all men are called, but only those who respond are saved, some choose to blind themselves (John 15:24, Mat 23:37).

We see from the Greek definition of the word call, that it means to “call out to”, summon, or invite. The meaning to invite, or summon, fits with the idea of God calling out to men in Christ. We might all be predestined, but only those who accept the invitation will receive life.



Eph 1:4-11 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,



Ephesians (above) also talks about this choice. Calvinistic thought will say that is a definite choice, that God selects some and not others. But the choice here could be referring to the method God will use to save men, faith. God still “chose us”, because of our faith, we were chosen by our response to Christ.

We know that Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world (1Pe 1:20). This does not mean his body was slain before creation, but rather the method was selected before creation. In the same way, the choice of who would be saved was chosen before creation began, we were predestined. We were called to “be holy and without blame before Him in love”.

People often say that Christian universalism is a fringe viewpoint that is dismissed as heretical by most Christians. But how true is that? Most people don't know what universalism actually is as was the case with me until I started reading some of the universalist threads here on CF a year or so ago. Rather than rejecting universalism, I think many are in the open/hopeful category but to help them see that, they need to have a conversation or read a thread about what universalism actually means.

The way something is described can affect the answers people give. If I put a poll on this thread with the question 'Do you believe in universalism", most responses would be No. But I think this is because most people think universalism is the same as relativism or Unitarian Universalism and that Jesus is not necessary for salvation.

I used to think that it was just relativism - the idea that all points of view are equally valid - until I learnt that universalism means that Jesus will actually "draw all people" to Himself and that "every knee will bow", and so everyone is saved through Jesus. I think many people would be open to that. Even people who are tied into the more mainstream view of Eternal Conscious Torment don't necessarily want that to be true. They just believe that that's how it works. Sadly, I've known people who abandoned Christianity because of the concept of ECT who may not have done if they had heard of an alternative view.

Of course, there will always be some people who will oppose the idea of universal salvation no matter what but I think generally people are pretty open to the idea when it's explained.

To illustrate my point, if put a poll on this thread that asked "Might you be in favour of universalism" most answers would almost certainly be No, but if it was possible to put a series of questions on the poll, the answer may be different:

Poll 1.

Are you worried about people going to hell?
Ans: Yes

Do you think the Christian message of responsibility and repentance is being softened to make it more appealing to the general population?
Ans: Yes

Are you worried that the objective truth of Christianity is being lost in our post-truth society?
Ans: Yes

Do you think that universalism contributes to this relativism?
Ans: Yes

Might you be in favour of the idea of universal salvation?
Ans: No

Poll 2.

Are you worried about people going to hell?
Ans: Yes

Do you believe that we are all God's children and are loved by Him more than we can ever comprehend?
Ans: Yes

Do you believe that God has the power and will to achieve His purposes?
Ans: Yes

Do you believe that God is the Good Shepherd who searches for every lost sheep until it is found?
Ans: Yes

Might you be in favour of the idea of universal salvation?
Ans: Yes

Luke 14:25-33 ESV


The word translated here as “hate” can mean either to “love less than” or it can mean to detest, which is usually acted out with spite, meanness, cruelty, bullying, harassment, false accusations, and evil deeds. But, in this case, it means “to love less than” (see Matthew 10:34-39). And the reason that we know this is that Jesus taught us not to hate anyone, so then he is not going to turn right around and instruct us to hate other people. And to love is to prefer, so to love Jesus is to prefer him above all else, and that is the point.

And then this becomes obvious that this is the intended meaning as we read further, and especially as is compared to other similar Scriptures. For what Jesus is talking about is the cost of following him with our lives, of becoming one of his disciples. And becoming a disciple of Christ is not optional for one who truly believes in Jesus. For the Scriptures are very clear that those who believe in Jesus with genuine faith are those who walk (in conduct, in practice) according to the Spirit and no longer according to the flesh.

So, when he says that whoever does not bear his own cross and come after him cannot be his disciple, he is saying basically the same thing as he said as recorded for us in Luke 9:23-26. And that is that if we want to come after Jesus we must deny self, take up our cross daily (daily die to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we die with him to sin that we might live to his righteousness, then we have life in him.

So, we are being instructed here as to what it means to believe in Jesus Christ and to be one of his followers. And again we need to understand that Jesus Christ did not teach once saved always saved. He did not teach that we can profess faith in him, have our sins forgiven, and be on our way to heaven regardless of how we live our lives on this earth. He and the New Testament apostles did not teach that a one-time decision to believe in Jesus secures us heaven for eternity regardless of how we live.

And this is why he spoke here on the importance of us counting the cost of being one of his disciples. And we can’t be a true believer in Jesus Christ and not be a disciple of Christ. For the Scriptures are clear that genuine faith in Jesus Christ involves repentance (turning away from our sins), dying daily to sin and to self, and walking daily in surrender and in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. They don’t teach we have to live in sinless perfection but that sin should not be our master and we should not be its slaves.

So, genuine faith in Jesus Christ means death to sin. For we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Now we have been set free from our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we can now walk in holiness and in righteousness in obedience to our Lord in the power of God’s Spirit now living within us. Now we are to live for Jesus and no longer for ourselves. And now we are to honor God with our lives.

And this is the path that we are to continue on. For the grace of God which is bringing us salvation trains and instructs us to renounce (to say “No!” to) ungodliness and fleshly lusts, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives while we await our Lord’s soon return. For Jesus Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them (Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:10).

So, please know here that a mere verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ is not enough to save you from your sins and to guarantee you heaven as your eternal destiny. If you do not die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness, but you continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and sin is your practice, and righteousness and obedience to the Lord are not your practice, then you will not inherit eternal life with God. On the day of judgment Jesus will say to you, “I never knew you. Depart from me you workers of lawlessness” (Matthew 7:21-23; cf. 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10).

So, if our anchor in Christ will hold in the storms of life, and if it will remain in place, and not drift, depends on us daily dying to sin and to self and us daily walking with our Lord in obedience to his commands (New Covenant). Again, this is not about sinless perfection, but it is about what we practice. If sin is what we practice, and if righteousness, holiness, and obedience to our Lord are not what we practice, then we will not inherit eternal life with God. For if our lives are still ours to do with what we like, then we are not true disciples of Jesus Christ. We need to surrender our all to him.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

We Have an Anchor

By Priscilla J. Owens, 1882
Music by William J. Kirkpatrick, 1882

Will your anchor hold in the storms of life,
When the clouds unfold their wings of strife?
When the strong tides lift and the cables strain,
Will your anchor drift, or firm remain?

It is safely moored, ’twill the storm withstand,
For ’tis well secured by the Savior’s hand;
And the cables, passed from His heart to mine,
Can defy that blast, through strength divine.

When our eyes behold through the gath’ring night
The city of gold, our harbor bright,
We shall anchor fast by the heav’nly shore,
With the storms all past forevermore.

We have an anchor that keeps the soul
Steadfast and sure while the billows roll,
Fastened to the Rock which cannot move,
Grounded firm and deep in the Savior’s love.

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I have come down with a cold, and it turned into an infection. I have laryngitis from it too. The doctor told me not to talk for a few days… I responded I have 3 kids.

Turns out the doctor knew what he was talking about and today I cannot speak at all. That’s really fun with two busy little boys!!!

When did Eve become evil?

More specifically, can a father do motherly things as well as a woman?

A few months after my wife died, my son (who has autism) wasn’t feeling well. I tried my best to make him feel better, but without success. I said to my son, “I don’t know what else to do.” My honest son replied, “If Mama was here, she would know what to do.” I began to question my abilities as a single parent.

The environment of the current era promotes busybodies more than ever before. Pre tech era survival made people not have a lot of time for leisure, and the distance challenge prevented the mass dissemination and promotion of ideas. Modern era changed that. With survival gone people have a lot more time to spend on debauchery, and with the internet they can mass promote they can speed up that debauchery's evolution in a ping-pong style fashion. As of this moment busybodies is the biggest killer of faith in my opinion.

Info: What is a busybody? It's a person who has nothing to do, so they make something out of nothing and then converse about it. In other words, a body that just exists to be busy. They say what should be not said.

The bolding etc. Is still not working for me whatever I do. Tried to post a picture to a thread and saw no way to do it. Again, I’m on an iPhone. It was so easy before... *sigh*