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Jewish Israel is a Misnomer

My understanding may not be best advice, but Abraham was circumcised after Itzak.
God simply chose the lineage of Isaac to establish a people to whom were given His oricles.
We are Jews by adoption by believing what He revealed to a specific chosen people.
Jesus loves we Gentiles the same.
And of course; the Jews had their chance when Jesus came among them.
They rejected and killed Him, they were punished in 70-135AD, but now the fig tree has budded and flourishes. [Note: NO fruit!]

The final retribution and the virtual demise of Jewish Israel, is stated by every Prophet*. The Book of Zephaniah says it clearly - Zephaniah 1:18
Only the Holy peoples of God, 1 Peter 2:9-10, every faithful Christian, will be present in the Holy Land for the end times. Ezekiel 34:11-16, Romans 9:24-26 They will be conquered by the Anti-Christ 'beast', Daniel 7:25, Revelation 13:5-7
But when Jesus Returns, Revelation 19:11-21, ALL the ungodly peoples will be destroyed and His faithful peoples**will be gathered to Him, Matthew 24:30-31, to be with Him for the Millennium.

*Even in Jonah 2:8.
** Revelation 12:6 & 14, mainly those kept in a distant place of safety.
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The Hispanic Vote

yes, we need another amnesty.

However, this amnesty need NOT include
1) those who have come in the last 4 years (there does need to be a date in the sand),
2) those who have been convicted of a violent crime or are awaiting trial for them, or
3) those under current deportation orders.
I'm not sure about number two. Those fellows who were deported to South Sudan got a sweet "briar patch" deal. They should have been kept here to serve their time.
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The Hispanic Vote

We need another amnesty like happened under Reagan. Traffic across the border has slowed significantly. If we can fix the system that would be great, too. Big ask, I know.
yes, we need another amnesty.

However, this amnesty need NOT include
1) those who have come in the last 4 years (there does need to be a date in the sand),
2) those who have been convicted of a violent crime or are awaiting trial for them, or
3) those under current deportation orders.
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Golden Eagles-Lets Post Our Music-Still Relevant for Today's Traumatic Times

Not of this World
Words and music by Bob Hartman
Based on 1 Peter 2:11, John 15:18-19, John 16:33, Matthew 16:18, John 14:3

We are pilgrims in a strange land
We are so far from our homeland
With each passing day it seems so clear
This world will never want us here
We're not welcome in this world of wrong
We are foreigners who don't belong

(Chorus)
We are strangers, we are aliens
We are not of this world
We are strangers, we are aliens
We are not of this world

We are envoys, we must tarry
With this message we must carry
There's so much to do before we leave
With so many more who may believe
Our mission here can never fail
And the gates of hell will not prevail

(Chorus)

Jesus told us men would hate us
But we must be of good cheer
He has overcome this world of darkness
And soon we will depart from here

(Chorus) Petra (1983)
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Was Col 1:24 (2nd Reading at Mass) preached to you today? If so, how was it?

Col. 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking* in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,
25 of which I am a minister in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God,
26 the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But now it has been manifested to his holy ones,
How was this interpreted for you - did any preacher say, "It is exactly true just as written, because ..."?
Or, "It really doesn't mean what it seems to be saying because we all know the sacrifice of Jesus was complete in every way. So It's only trying to say...."

Or something else?

House Passes Trump-Backed Rescissions Package Slashing $9 BILLION in Bloated Spending — FOREIGN AID, NPR, and PBS on the Chopping Block — Two Republic

One of these "practically secular" Catholic enterprises (I forget which one) took a case all the way to the Supreme Court (and won thanks to the theocratic Roberts court) on a claim that some regulatory law didn't apply to them because they were operated by a religion. They need to pick a lane, either they are essentially secular, but are governed by a religion, or the are essentially religious. If the the latter, then no government funds for you church org.
I know, and I pretty much agree with you, but my experience is all foreign and on that basis I don't see a need for the abrupt axing of USAID over it. I think Musk realized it too. He's a slash and burn expert--that's how he runs his companies--and I think that when he realized he had been called in to carry out an ideological agenda rather than just to save money he bailed.
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The Blood-Curdling Permian Monsters That Ruled the Earth Before Dinosaurs...

I have to offer my apologies for interrupting again, but,

We have good surveys showing that the resulting acceptance of evolutionary theory has become the number one reason youths raised in a Christian home today give up their faith.
Can you post a link or citation to these surveys please?
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MAGA takes Medicaid Personal Health Records

I wonder if anyone has realized that if the 14th Amendment is set aside, then no babies born in the US will automatically be US citizens and their naturalization will be by law rather than the Constitution, law that can change at the whim of whatever administration happens to be in power.
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Another look at the moon landing.

Aldrin, the second man to step onto the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong, has spoken publicly about the mission for decades, but two interviews from the past have now gone viral, with some claiming he admitted the US never made it to the moon.

Daily Mail
Yes, so you've said.
But you haven't answered our comments.
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MAGA takes Medicaid Personal Health Records

Where are you getting facts from? Don't you even have a job to do today?
Facts? From my own experience and observation. Evidently you have never worked in an industry where illegals are openly employed. I'll bet you have never lived close to the Mexican border, either. But I don't have a job. I'm 82 years old and all I have to do is sit back and enjoy the circus.

Things are seldom what they seem
Skim milk masquerades as cream
Highlows pass as patent leathers
Jackdaws strut in peacock feathers
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How do we set aside the grace of God?

I was still hoping you would engaged in the Scriptures I posted, just keep going to the next argument. We truly can make any case we want but using a verse here or there without understanding the context of what is being discussed or how it relates to other Scriptures.

For example, in Galatians the law Paul is referring to is circumcision Gal 2:3.
In the Romans scripture I cited Paul was referring to the entire law.

In Galatians 2 Paul is referring to circumcision. If you believe in Jesus, we have His righteousness. We do not have to do any work to be righteous. By putting their faith in circumcision, they did not believe Jesus made them righteous they would be relying on their work of circumcision.


In context, Paul is correcting that the Jews were trying to force new Gentile converts to getting circumcised in order to hear the gospel Gal 2:3 and for salvation Acts 15:1 as they were teaching all they had to do is get circumcised in order to be saved apart from Christ.

We also need to understand the role of circumcision, it was never meant to save anyone, it was the OT sign of God separating His people from everyone else.

Only His people had the cure for sin.

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; 26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, 27 Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! NKJV

Job was not an Israeli, yet he believed in his redeemer. He did not have the law.

Job 31:23 For destruction from God is a terror to me, And because of His magnificence I cannot endure. 24 "If I have made gold my hope,
Or said to fine gold, 'You are my confidence'; NKJV


Job believed God would provide a redeemer for him. Read the first chapter of Romans and it explains how Job could have known. There was a local pastor that went through the Zodiac and explained how it spelled out God's plan of salvation. each sign had 3 decants and told different parts of the story.
Lev 4:1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 4:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,
Lev 4:3 if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without blemish as a sin offering.

So if a Gentile sinned, the only way to get access to the OT cure of animal sacrifices in the temple was to be circumcised
See above

Why Paul contrasted circumcision with the commandments of God

1Co 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

Right now you are making the law that defines what sin is (breaking God's laws 1 John 3:4) the same law that was added because God's law was broken, until the Seed came. They can't be the same law.

The law until the Seed was animal sacrifices
Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. NKJV

If you believe in Jesus, we have His righteousness imputed to us

Dan 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."

The law that defines what the description of sin is when breaking is the Ten Commandments is still sin for all people in the NC 1 John 3:4 James 2:11 Rom 7:7

The argument that Jew should only worship God, but the Gentiles can worship any god, or the Jews only can't steal or murder, or vain God's holy name, or break His holy Sabbath, but Gentiles can is not a doctrine from Scripture. Why Jesus said "whoever" breaks the least of these commandments and teaches other to break will be least in heaven and if we look at the very next verse v20 means not there.

Sometimes is helps to work backwards. At the coming of Jesus Christ did He those who practice lawlessness (without law) will be saved? He very ,much said the opposite. If He is saying depart from Me those who practice lawlessness it means we should keep His laws through faith and love John 14:15 1 John 5:3 Exo 20:6 Rev 14:12

If we can't believe His words, mine will mean nothing. So I guess we will have to agree to disagree and all will get sorted out soon enough.
I believe His words. You believe that you can improve on the righteousness that God gives you.
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Priests demand probe after arson at ancient church in West Bank's last remaining Christian town

You used the term "right to exist." Now, you've moved the goalpost to whether God wills any state to exist.

Those are different propositions.

Everything exists by God's will. But nothing has a "right" to exist.

You could as well ask how God protected the Jewish people during their captivity in Egypt or Babylon.

God destroyed the Third Reich before it could exterminate the Jewish people in Germany, and before the Third Reich grew powerful enough to exert that effort to the rest of the world.
So, the Declaration of Independence is false?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, "

To protect those God given rights, governments must exist. Without those governments, you'll
have anarchy and or a dictatorship.

Is it God's will that they exist or not? If not, then no nation on earth has a right to exist and
we might as well abolish all nations and have a "one world religion." Exactly what Satan wants.
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How do we set aside the grace of God?

You are saying that you do not sin at all. According to you if anyone sins, they are in Satan's kingdom and not saved.
That is correct.
It is written..." Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Rom 6:16)
James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; 9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. NKJV
According to James if anyone shows partiality to a person it is a sin because we are supposed to love our neighbor as ourselves. If you break one law, you become a break the entire law.
It depends on the nature of that partiality.
Is it a sin to pick the best hitter for my baseball team ? No.
Galatians 2:11 Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; 12 for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? NKJV
There is no doubt in my mind the above is a true account of what Peter did.
Peter showed partiality to His Jewish brothers and would not associate with gentile Christians.
What you call a sin, I call condescending to visitors.
Do you use "the good china" when company comes over ? Or "the good towels" ?
Is that a sin ? No.
Peter wanted the visiting Jews to feel at ease.
In doing so, he inadvertently missed the opportunity to show those visiting Jews that the Law had been fulfilled in Christ and that there was no longer any separation between Jew and Gentile.
Yet you insist that no one in Christ can sin and you are sinless.
Of course, as there is no darkness in light, and thanks be to God, I walk in the light.
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. NKJV
The above scripture says anyone claiming to be without sin is making Jesus a liar.
John uses an A-B, A-B, A-B, style of writing in 1 John 1.
By doing so, he juxtaposes two positions against each other, showing how dissimilar they are.
The two positions are: walking in God-the light, and walking in sin-darkness.
Verses 6, 8, and 10, apply to those walking in sin.
It is those walking in sin who cannot honestly say they have no sin.
They can't say they have fellowship with God either, (v6), nor can they even say they know God ! (1 John 2:3)
Verses 5, 7, and 9, apply o those who are in, or about to enter, God-the light...in Whom is no sin-darkness.
(Paul uses the same style of writing in Rom 8, where he juxtaposes walking in the Spirit against walking in the "flesh".
Please do not reply to me on any topic or subject any more anymore.
It seemed like a waste, to not post this after spending so much time on it.
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MAGA takes Medicaid Personal Health Records

Where are you getting facts from? CNN? lol. I take you don't like President Trump? Well guess what? I don't like your lies either.
The link I provided goes to the White House website.
”The horse’s mouth”, the text of Executive Order 14160.

Are you afraid of reading the Executive Order under discussion?
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Micah 6:3-8 KJV July 20,2025

I Worship God Jesus Christ is the Truth My Father John 14:6 KJV . I Worship God God of promises that cannot be sropped. I worship God that wants us serve God-gifts that ascends to heavens.-Lord recieving first fruits of the harvest I worship God wants people to treat each other fairly and to walk accordingly to his way. I Worship that satisfy me wirh blessings. I Worship God that enter into judgment with elders and princes of his people

Anyone have good arguments against Calvinism.

Actually, I chose to follow Paul. . .was not familiar with Calvin at the time.
And that choice was absolutely and only by the operation of the Holy Spirit.
I am glad you made that choice.
And the choice to be sinless. . .
Absolutely.
It is written..."Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Rom 6:16)
Our choices will be manifested on the day of judgement.
Non-responsive.
I chose to respond.
We preach for those among them who have ears that can hear.
Some will make the proper choice, to the glory of God and the name of Jesus Christ.
Do the unsanctified make that choice?
The unsanctified have opted to remain in sin.
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