BobRyan said:

You are quoting the Law in the old covenant.

Deut 6:5 Love God with all your heart
Lev 19:18 Love your neighbor as yourself.

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Yes, I am. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

BobRyan said:

It is the basis/foundation for all the Law of God according to Christ in Matt 22.

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Jesus even said, "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets".

BobRyan said:

IT is the foundation for Ex 20, things like "honor your father and mother".

Notice what Paul says about it in Eph 6:1-2

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My testimony is that the Holy Spirit convicts me of sin using the two great commandments. In the Spirit of brotherly Love for others, He shows me if I do anything to others that I would not want done to me and He also causes me to do things to others that I would want done to me. He also causes me to Love God and worship Him in Truth by being truly thankful for His Spirit, revealing through correction where I would have gone wrong if not for His guidance.

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The subject is excellent, but...but it's from National Geographic....

Bradskii said:

This is par for the course in bushfire zones in Australia. And we used to have 5 levels of warnings:

low-moderate
high
very high
severe
extreme

You'd think that 'Extreme' would cover the worst case scenarios. But a few years ago it was thought that the dangers had increased to such an extent that we needed another level. So 'Catastrophic' is now the highest warning.

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Yes - the 2019 fires that smothered Sydney for 6 months were horrendous.
These new climate mega-fires are something to behold.
I read somewhere that to dry the bush to fire-ready used to take 6 months of unusually hot weather back in the 1930's. But in some of today's mega-heatwaves it can achieve the same thing in about 2 weeks!

Now getting back to fire and drought risks in LA. ​

I know this is highly idealistic - but I'm a fan of Ecocities. As well as the energy transition and electrifying everything and tweaking agriculture - society should have a long hard look at how we build our dwellings. Americans and us Aussies use DOUBLE the oil of the average American - and it's all due to living in suburbia.

This short 3 minute video sums up the vibe - but there are many models of New Urbanism / AKA Ecocity / AKA Solarpunk! (Even more extreme!)

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Basically - if LA rezoned around Ecocity principles and let natural attrition of the housing stock expire, and concentrated inhabitants in "more European than Europe" urban living - LA could collapse back in on itself over the next generation and become a more and more attractive place to live! (There are different PROFITABLE ways to fund all this - as eventually living on 20% or even 10% of the land costs governments far less with vastly less roads and gutters etc to maintain.)

Think about the extra WATER that would save for firefighting - and how much easier it would be to protect a smaller amount of land!​

RandyPNW said:

You seem to be trying to prove, weakly, that the Law and the New Covenant are the same "commandments," purely because both are called "commandments." But every religion and each covenant has its own "commandments," and they are certainly not the same set of commandments. Your claim fails terribly!

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These are solid statements concerning the commandments.

• Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. [Or as Luke worded it:] Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
• Psalms 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
• Psalms 111:7-8 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

The Ten:

Aldebaran said:

But really, so what? You keep repeating 6 words Trump said, and then try to make a Hitler comparison.

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I don't have to try and make a comparison. Hitler said those exact sentiments.

Aldebaran said:

I remember a time not long ago when it was revealed that Baltimore had a severe rat problem that wasn't being addressed. It was so bad that they were becoming infamous for it. Whenever it was said that Baltimore was "rat infested", there were certain people around here who I won't name who claimed that it was racist to use the word "infested". Slander? Oh well, some people hear what they want to.

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I can't see how that's racist. Maybe those people thought rats was referencing people.

Ray Comfort just spoke at a uni on behalf of TPUSA and it was one of the best vids I have seen in a long time. Very much well worth the watch
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JAM2b said:

My birthday is October 5th.

It's never really celebrated much. Sometimes my kids remember it, other times not. My family stopped observing my birthday when I was still a teenager, but kept celebrating everyone else's. My ex didn't care about my birthday.

I spoke to my brother yesterday, the only family member I still have contact with. He didn't mention my birthday being this weekend. Acted like he wasn't even aware, just like they have done for decades.

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Well happy birthday early, but actually October 5th is a date not a day. What day were you born on?

Dan Perez said:

And keras. , will you explain what Phil 2:12 means too WORK OUT OUR OWN SALVATION READY MEANS ??

DAN P

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I did, in #31.
Your posts are childish, irrelevant and off topic.

Yeshua HaDerekh said:

I just dont have a revisionist grasp of American history...

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Of course you do, if you think that the Democrats of 2025 are the same party as the Democrats of 1855. Then either you subscribe to a revisionist view of American history, or you simply don't know American history.

It's actually pretty simple. People who brandy about this flag:



Which Party do you think they are more likely to vote for, Democrat or Republican?

When Neo-Nazis gathered a few years back with tiki torches in hand shouting "Jews will not replace us!" they were at the Unite the ____ Rally. Fill in the blank.

-CryptoLutheran

Douggg said:

keras, back in the days of bows and arrows, archers could wrap their arrow tips with and set them on fire and shot the arrows into wooden structures to catch them on fire... i.e. deadly shafts tipped with fire.

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Sure they did and probably David, the Psalmist had that in mind.
What then; does what he wrote mean for us today? Psalm 7:15-16 says their mischief will recoil upon themselves. Kind of seems unlikely that anyone shooting an arrow tipped with fire, would have that happen! It could, but why would the Psalmist mention silly accidents?

Lets get real; rockets and missiles with exploding warheads are the modern 'arrows'. America and Russia have had Nuke tipped ICBM's for many years, now Iran has them; But the moment of attack, is the moment God will act - Deuteronomy 32:34-35.
A tremendously powerful Electro-Magnetic Pulse will be emitted from the sun – Isaiah 30:26, causing all explosive devices to blow up - Psalms 11:6. This is followed 24 hours later, by a multi million ton mass of superheated hydrogen plasma - Joel 2:1-11. This Coronal Mass Ejection will strike the Middle East at mid day - Zephaniah 2:4. Clearing and cleansing that entire area.
The rest of the prophesied end time events and things, will then take place, leading up to the Glorious Return of Jesus.

Stopped_lurking said:

Why would you cut it there, it clearly shows it only goes back to 1979. This borders on explicitly trying to misdirect the reader, peer-review is what is needed as this point.
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To be honest I did not even read the detail. Just took it for granted that a certificate of authenticity stating its a predynastic vase was a certificate of authenticity for a predynastic vase. Thats what the certificate says. Its certifying its authenticity as a predynastic vase lol. Otherwise its false advertisement and they can be sued.

If you notice down the bittom of the certificate it says purchase dare 1979 and mentions it comes from a collection. I think this collection is what gives it provedence from memory in another article. Some vases were from a famous collector in the 60's after the 6 day Isreali war who was a Isreali general who had obtained vases directly from digs when Isreal took back the land in parts of Egypt.

Anyway I am not trying to hide the provedence of any vase and have acknowledged that some come from the 60's and 70's. I argued that it would be silly for a forger to fake high precision in vases when it was totally unnecessary as precision was not an issue back then. No one was going on about it back then.

Just making the vase would require specialist and be very expensive to make for a back street fake antiques dealer. They could have got away with a far less precise vase as they appear similar until you get down to the micro level. So the whole idea about fakes being made 60 odd years ago is a weak arguement.

Its then pushed to deny the fact that many vases come from museums. So unless you want to start calling museum pieces fakes I don't think the whole provedence red herring is enough to refute the precise vases being made in predysnastic times.

I just found another vase from Matt Bealls collection that has provedence back to 1962 with excellent precision. Even does a live metrology to show its precision.

Aldebaran said:

Has nothing to do with replying to what I said.

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Aldebaran said:
You should remember that when Conservatives likened Biden's speeches and left-wing censorship tactics to things Hitler did and said, we were accused of "Godwin's Law". Your own comparison's of Trump to Hitler and no more valid.

I don't actually recall what you're talking about. But my remarks about the ad hominem attack logical fallacy was what came to mind when I read it. Sounded to me like it had to do with smearing others to avoid the substantive issues and that's where I felt you were going. So, I wanted to remark that pointing out slander is not slander.

While it makes sense that when people discuss some perceived form of demagoguery, like silencing dissent, it will inevitably remind people of Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini, because they're infamous: But Trump actually said, they're "poisoning the blood of our country". And He actually said, "enemy within" and he actually means it. So, any claim that my comparison is somehow a manifestation of Godwin's law is not even close to valid.

Michie said:

What Charlie is failing to mention is the culture and the witness it gives. In Germany, etc. Not a big deal. Other places, yes. Kilts or whatever the usual uniform is does not deny one’s gender. Those forms of dressing can be a manly form of dress depending on culture. Movie stars or fashion shots do not do that and it is not in the setting in the Church where appearance could cause scandal. Something completely different than what the op discusses. Again Charlie, thanks for the derail.

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I agree. It's the intent behind the dressing that is important. If someone is trying to fool people that they are the opposite sex, then it's a grave sin.

ThatRobGuy said:

It's not to present a "different way of thinking for consideration", it's to present a certain way of thinking to steer person in one direction or the other.

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When you put it that broadly, you could make that argument about literally any piece of media ever produced. Ultimately, what this comes down to is that the message is one that you (and others) find objectionable.

Michie said:

We need bolder believers of what Jesus told us in Scripture.

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I tried a few times to get a priest to bless my house, but the first one had a crush on me and the second one said he "didn't believe in all that". The bishop said he believed me, but couldn't help. I just decided it was my cross and I will have to offer up my sufferings regarding it.

timothyu said:

Man has wrongly thought so since the Garden.

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1 Tim 2:3-6 Gods will that all be saved if even one is lost then that one's will would be greater than Gods.

Delvianna said:

Jesus didn't say this, you did.

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I'm simply using your analogy about messing up dinner to apply what Jesus said.

Here is what Jesus said:

Romans 5
21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Delvianna said:

Because you said, "God's righteousness is not subject to the law," which doesn't make any sense when righteousness is literally following the law. That's the definition.

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I was hoping you might understand this if we could at least agree that God Who formed all things IS NOT A THIEF. <-- Hence, He is not subject to, or under the law. I would consider it an insult to the HOLY IMAGE OF GOD to tell God "THOU shalt not steal" because it implies that it's possible He could be a thief.

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God is not 'subject' (defined above) to the ten commandments because He is not a sinner. He cannot take His name in vain, He cannot put any gods before Him. I'm saying that God's righteousness is not dictated to HIM by the law. I'm saying GOD's Righteousness exists apart from the letter of the law because He is the Spirit of Love that is the goodness in mankind that keeps the law. And I'm even saying that God's righteousness is greater than the letter of the Law because His Love lays down His life for sinners.


5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Delvianna said:

You're conflating two concepts, the fruit of the spirit which grows with love, and the requirement by God that says we are supposed to act righteously which is following his moral law. Again, righteousness is following the law.

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I don't see my interpretation of scripture as conflating two concepts. I think the scriptures are indicating that if you walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh, you won't sin.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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Definition: RIGHTEOUS, a. ri'chus.

1. Just; accordant to the divine law. Applied to persons, it denotes one who is holy in heart, and observant of the divine commands in practice; as a righteous man. Applied to things, it denotes consonant to the divine will or to justice; as a righteous act. It is used chiefly in theology, and applied to God, to his testimonies and to his saints.

The righteous, in Scripture, denote the servants of God, the saints.

2. Just; equitable; merited.

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This above reminds me of this--> Romans 9:30-32
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

The above scriptures match exactly what I testify to. When I say righteousness, I'm testifying to a Spirit that loves others as oneself dwelling within me. And I'm saying that this Spirit of righteousness was attained by grace through faith apart from the law, which means I didn't attain the Spirit by following the law.

Delvianna said:

I literally keep asking what you mean because you don't explain yourself very well and based off of what you say, is how I respond.

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You literally just highlighted my point in bold "being witnessed by the law".

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Is that your point? I have no problem with that point so long as it includes both the law and the prophets.

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Put the concept of that verse together. You're singling out 1 part of the verse by pointing to the word righteousness and highlighting "without the law" while you aren't understanding the point of the verse and then ignoring other parts of scripture. You can't single out verses like this because there are points and concepts that group verses together to get the big picture which include these verses:

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I don't know why you would think I'm singling out one part of the verse. I can't even make my point that the righteousness that comes by grace through faith comes apart from the letter of the law, if the righteousness in letter doesn't exist to witness to it.

It's the same as saying God will write the law on one's heart and cause us to walk in His Way. It's the same as saying, God has given us His wonderful law but as yet has not given these people a heart to keep it. The Holy Spirit is teaching me that I can't keep the law with my flesh, I have to have God's Spirit of Truth dwelling in my heart to be set free from the slavery of sin.

Delvianna said:

James 2:21-24 "Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected... You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone."

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Well, there's a difference between what Paul means by works of the law and what James means by works of faith. I view those as two different meanings of works (arguing semantics). James is referring to the works that happen as a product of faith in The Christ, NOT the works of the law like don't steal, don't murder, don't lie, don't commit adultery, etc...

Delvianna said:

James 2:26 "For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead."

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True that.

Delvianna said:

Matthew 25:31-46 (Parable of the Sheep and Goats) “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you... for I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat...’”

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Great scripture. Great clarity. This to me the emphasis in bold is the same as saying "you loved me as yourself".

Delvianna said:

Romans 2:6-7 "Who will repay each person according to his deeds: to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life."

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I don't particularly like to think I am trying to seek glory, honor, or immortality. I just want to be thankful to God for the loving goodness that cares enough about others to do the right thing.