Hans Blaster said:

What has this to do with running for president?

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You should really read posts from the person you are debating with

A2SG said:

What defense? As I said, I don't even know who these rapists and murderers you're referring to are. Care to enlighten me?

-- A2SG, can't exactly defend what I know nothing about now, can I?

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@Always in His Presence this is exactly why the DNC is going to collapse.

Daniel Carlton said:

Like I said about the early Christians, they do not call what you are doing icon veneration, they call it idolatry.

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That’s false - we have archaeological evidence of second century icons in the catacombs of Rome and there was additional evidence in the house church in Dura Europos (which also featured a Jewish synagogue, also with icons in the form of fresco paintings), which were destroyed by ISIS, among many other examples of evidence of icons predating the Second Council of Nicaea.

There is also the important fact that no iconoclasm existed in the early church until the eighth century military defeats of the Byzantine Empire by the Muslims, and that iconoclasm was rejected by all ancient churches of Nicene faith that survive from the middle ages, including those which did not participate at the Second Council of Nicaea.*

*Indeed, unlike in the case of the Chalcedonians none of the six Oriental Orthodox churches was ever taken over by iconoclasts, and the scale of the problem was limited to a minor outbreak in Eastern Armenia which was swiftly suppressed by the episcopate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a fact an Armenian friend and I like to jokingly attribute to the streamlined shape of their headgear allowing them to reach even the most remote parishes in their dioceses at supersonic velocity, since an Armenian bishop in choir dress neatly adheres to the area rule of aerodynamics for trans-sonic flight).

Tropical Wilds said:

We will happily be a problem for as many years as we need to. Oldest sanctuary city in our state, we’re happy to do it.

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Your entire city is happy to break federal laws?

SabbathBlessings said:

Are you saying we should not keep God’s Ten Commandments as a moral guide and way of life?

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Keeping the 10 C's is just another way of emphasising what the Father said all along. Don't be self-centred. His will, not ours. Jesus summed up the 10 in 2, and people still don't get it. Don't be self-centred.

I pray to the Lord God that all of the rest of those missing children will be found and rescued.

RileyG said:

I had an atheist friend die over a year ago. I often think of her and what she’s experiencing now.

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My husband and I had a friend pass that we liked as well. He was an unbeliever. He didn't believe in God. My husband invited him to come to church with us but he wasn't interested. He died unexpectedly about a year ago. Heart attack. We think of him often. I pray that he (and your friend) were able to come to Christ at the very end.

public hermit said:

]Yeah, I asked a similar question related to your post, and it does appear that a flat earth was not the norm in antiquity or the middle ages.

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Thank the Lord for the internet so the truth can make it to the masses.

Yes. Good article. I agree with all the points.

SabbathBlessings said:

I believe God expressed His will

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Right.. we shouldn't be so self-centred. Not enough to build a religion around (that was never His intention), but more than enough to follow as a way of life.

NxNW said:

That was silly, since the Fed doesn't control that.

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Gemini strongly disagrees with you.

ozso said:

That'll be easy. Just picture US military recruits.

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Exactly! Fresh military recruits are armed and have unlimited law enforcement authority without any additional training. The liberals are making a big deal about nothing.

Hans Blaster said:

He already holds office. Why does he need to run for another?

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You really wonder why a Governor would want to run for president?

ViaCrucis said:

If it is unjust to have money transferred from one person to another, then every time you make a purchase it is an unjust act, every time you pay the bills, every tax, every purchase, every time an employer pays their employees.

It would also mean that God is unjust, since God proscribed literal wealth redistribution in many different ways in His Torah. From the tithe, to various forms of monetary compensation. The Jubilee, too, must be considered utterly unjust as every Jubilee it was required that ownership of property was returned to the original owners, all debts were ended, and slaves received manumission.

Are you sure you want to argue that transferring money from one person to another is unjust?

-CryptoLutheran

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Theft, as in the commandment (Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal). It is unjust to steal.

Valletta said:

I remember a survey of Cook County inmates who said the majority of guns came from within their network of criminals. If you took away the guns of everyone in Indiana then it would be the next easiest source.

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While it may be true that the majority of guns that the individual criminals acquired came from within their network, most of those guns came from out of state, half of those from Indiana. This is why having strong gun laws at the federal level is so important. Crimes committed with firearms and firearm-related deaths would plummet in Chicago and across the rest of the country if every state were required to have the same gun laws as California.

The Cook County Jail Pilot Survey

Most of the 99 respondents offered some account of how guns were getting into their neighborhood, although often prefaced with a statement such as “I don't know.” Some Rs were clearly better informed than others. R42 gave a brief lecture that appears quite accurate:

“Several ways actually…there's probably only one gun store that's located throughout the whole city of Chicago which is famous. It's Chuck's Gun Store…. ut as far as Chicago it's so close to Indiana and in Indiana … there's gun laws but it's easier to get access to guns in Indiana so most people either go to the down-South states or go to ndiana to get guns or people obtain gun licenses, go to the store and then resell.”

Our recent research on retail sources of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department tells a similar story (Cook et al., 2015): of new (less than two years old) guns recovered from gang members, 60% originated from out of state – half in Indiana – and of the remaining 40%, most originated in suburban Cook County, with Chuck's playing a dominant role.

zoidar said:

I did not move the goalposts. I’m making an important distinction. The Early Fathers certainly taught the human fall from sin, human weakness and sinfulness and the need for grace to be saved. No one denies that. But the specific doctrine of total depravity by the Reformers, that human nature is so corrupted by the fall that we are incapable to turn to God apart from irresistible grace, was not taught by the pre-Nicene Fathers.

This is not just my personal opinion. It’s in consensus with academic scholars. The Fathers quoted also strongly affirm human freedom which shows they did not hold the doctrine of total depravity.

Why is this so important? If the Early Fathers didn't hold the doctrine of total depravity (the way Reformers do), then most likely neither did Paul.

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The early church fathers are not the be all and end all of what is or is not true Christian teaching. If total depravity was taught in the Bible and the early church fathers were discussing it, then one must acknowledge that there are certain ramifications of those teachings, and it appears that they were not willing to go there. There are many errors that were made in the teachings of what became the Catholic Church and that is why the Reformation was necessary and important.

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Hans Blaster said:

Again, this doesn't make sense. It's his fight as much as it is for any leading Democrat, most of which are not running for the House of Representatives.

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Welp, thanks for chatting.