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Delvianna said:

As I said, living in sin ("So someone who is living in sin...."). This isn't a case of messing up and asking for forgiveness, this is a case of continual, habitual sin. It's the difference between having impure thoughts, asking for forgiveness and trying not to have those thoughts again, vs someone who has friends with benefits relationship outside marriage and doesn't care to change.

Hebrews 10:26-27

• “If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God."

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1 John 2:1-2

• “My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.”

Salvation is a change of heart against sin. It's striving to live in righteousness but knowing that if we stumble, God will forgive us. That is the entire point of the holy spirit. The Holy Spirit convicts us and helps us be better and do better.

John 16:8-11

• “When he [the Holy Spirit] comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.”

Galatians 5:16-18

• “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

Romans 8:5-6, 9

• “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace… You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.”

Titus 2:11-12

• “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.”

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You have listed Romans 8:5-6. The point is it makes no difference how much we sin less as long as we set our mind on the things of the spirit. And the fruit of the spirit is love, peace joy, kindness, goodness, patience, and forbearance (Matthew etc.) But we must utilize the cross in which he covered once and for all (John 1:29) after we've acknowledged ourselves as sinners. However, we must bear fruit in accordance with our repentance, but that never means to work the OT law. Faith works through love to follow him period (Galatians 5:6).

So on Hebrews 10:26-27 - it may often say something like that in the Bible, but if you look closer up top or below them, it'll usually begin to direct our faith by spurring each other on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24-25). But our passion must not be driven towards sin or habitual sin; instead, it must be led by Christ and to trust what He did to overcome them all. So we must stir up our passion against the lust of world by desiring the things of God without worrying about falling too short of OT sins.

Be not stuck on those verses that confuse people into circumcision or uncircumcision (regarding law) but expand your reading around them, including others that explain its meaning.

Hope I could be of help.

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Servus said:

The Green Industry made $2 Trillion in 2024 for a total of $8 Trillion so far.

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Where were these guys to "corrupt the science" of climate change 200 years ago when Joseph Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect of the earth's atmosphere compared to the much colder surface of the moon?

Where were they in 1856 when Eunice Foote described the power of the different gases?

Where were they when Svante Arrhenius calculated how doubling CO₂ could raise Earth’s temperature - and he did this way back in1896.
It's probably the world's first climate model.

Servus said:

The Green Industry has a negative impact on the environment as well. Namely when it comes to EV batteries. Explore the negative impacts of the Green Industry for better insights.

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All energy systems take energy to make. An energy group calculated that the CO2 budget for the ENTIRE build out of ALL renewables and EVs to replace the current system across the next 25 years would be 6 months of today's CO2 emissions. Then we would have a renewable powered world running everything - including building the next renewables. And the difference between oil and batteries? You can't recycle oil once it has been burned, but you can recycle EV batteries! We are heading into an era of renewable energy made from renewable materials.

1. Why do you not accept climate change is real?

2. Why do you not accept that the global oil market props up some really nasty Petro- dictators?

3. Why do you not accept the health studies that show we're killing 8 million a year through sorry energy, which costs global health an EXTRA $5 Trillion - and that the faster we do this - the sooner it pays for itself?

4. Why do you not accept Mining 101?

That is: oil and gas and coal are finite and will run out.
We always mine the cheapest easiest stuff first - and then the industry scales up around the largest deposits and the amount of cheap product increases.

But then at some point the rate at which we can pull it out of the ground reaches a maximum, or peak.

That after this, we are moving into an era of deeper, harder to extract coal or gas or oil.

Mining slows. That it can no longer be extracted fast enough to meet global demand.

Depending on how we measure it (whether gigatonnes per year - or actual BTU's in energy value extracted each year) - coal might geologically peak soon. (See the wiki.) However, not to panic! Solar deployment is on a doubling curve such that by 2032 it will supply more energy than ALL other sources combined - including wind, geothermal, oil, gas, coal and nuclear combined! The same wiki reports that coal DEMAND should peak soon.

Leaving the USA stranded doing their own thing, and shunning many in climate and renewables (and medical) science, so that they leave for greener pastures overseas. Which will kick America in its industrial guts - and stymie your economy for decades after Trump dies of old age!

slaney3 said:

Paul and James on Justification

The book of James is one of the most important topics to cover when it comes to faith and works. James is believed by many people to contradict Paul, especially in the book of Romans, making the case that works are an essential component to be the evidence of our faith.

While James writes that faith without works is dead, just as the body without the spirit is dead, Paul states that he who does work will not be made righteous; however, those who do not work but believe in him who justifies the ungodly, their faith is counted as righteousness (Romans 4:4-5).

Both Paul and James become clear that they do not contradict each other but how do they agree without excluding one of these two concepts? Since both of them believe that grace comes through faith alone, works would not add to that according to James, who writes:

“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

He presents the point that even demons believe in the existence of God, so how can works apart from faith be useless? Depending on how you interpret the context of what James says and how Abraham was justified by works, we can settle to a point with Paul. Whereas faith without works is dead only in the eyes of men, not in the eyes of God.

If that is the case, how is faith made evident according to what other parts of scripture says about the fruit of the spirit? Most people believe that the fruit of the spirit (or works) means to gradually abandon sin or, by having corresponding actions, to go along with our faith.


One of the most common reasons why people believe you must still abandon sin is told in John’s epistle: “No one who abides in him makes a practice of sinning; for whoever is born of God does not sin; you cannot keep on sinning by being in him.” Since he appeared in order to take away our transgressions, there is no sin in our new creation that’s within us, but as for our mortal body, sin still exists daily; it’s part of our natural human tendency.

So works never involve deeds of the law as evidence of faith. Whether good works can signify our faith is another matter to look at further. As for our sinful nature, which has broken the laws of God, that is what the cross was for—to replace us from dying in the flesh—by his work alone, so we can live free according to the spirit.

If Christ’s righteousness is applied to us, then how can the law itself ever negate self-righteous effort? For if you mix the law together, what grace could you receive if Christ didn’t cover it fully? By his atoning sacrifice, his death, after living a perfect life, was sufficient enough to cover the full penalty. What works can add any value to that establishment for us on earth? We were called to be like him through only one way that can grow. Therefore, we should always look to spread his word through the willingness of the holy spirit.

In free grace theology, contrary to lordship salvation (where one must submit to God), opposes that we must gradually obey the law through the process of sanctification.

We are to allow him to save us from those consequences. But in order that he will, how must we prove our belief for his word to reside in us?

No works ever lay the foundation of our faith; all works are as filthy rags, as stated in the book of Isaiah: “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment” (v. 64:6).

However, those without corresponding actions may have denied him by not living according to the heart of the gospel teachings. Only by the fruit of this spirit — love, peace, joy, kindness, patience and forbearance — can faith become evident (Galatians 5:22 etc.). Those are the corresponding points to what Paul and James taught on the doctrine of justification.

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What good is justification in the eyes of man but not God and why is that relevant?

Righteousness is not earned as the result of our works, but rather it is embodied through our works. The one and only way for someone to become righteous is through faith apart from being required to have first done enough righteous works in order to earn it as the result, but what it means for someone to be righteous is for them to be a doer of righteous works, so it would be contradictory for someone to become righteous apart from becoming a doer of righteous works. In 1 John 3:4-7, everyone who is a doer of righteous works in obedience to God's law is righteous even as they are righteous. Christ embodied the righteousness of God by living in obedience to God's law, so that is also the way that we have the gift of getting to do by the gift of righteousness.

In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so the has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so doing those works in obedience to God's law has nothing to do with trying to contribute anything towards earning our salvation, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of those works is part of His gift of salvation.

In Isaiah 64:6, it is not God speaking, but rather it is the people hyperbolically complaining about God not coming down and making His presence known. The reality is that is not a commander of filthy rags but rather the righteous deeds of the saints are liken fine white linen (Revelation 19:8).

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prodromos said:

Not quite. The title of Pope belonged first to the Patriarch of Alexandria and continues to be used today.

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Although that is absolutely correct, I really doubt that the Patriarch of Alexandria claims the enormous powers and attributes that the chap in Rome does. Please enlighten me if I am mistaken.

rjs330 said:

No this is about left wing activism. This whole thread is about left wing activism and its violence and obstructionist, rebellious actions.

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I of course do not condone violence in the name of protest.

I also wonder at the wisdom of the way you've tried to cast this?
Trump's doing this to distract from the Epstein files he promised to release, and to generate a 'tough guy' image and photo-op.
That's it.

That ICE or immigrants are somehow involved is peripheral to the whole exercise.
It's just more Demagoguery 101 on display: more 'othering' as sociologists put it.

I hope the democratic protests in Portland this weekend are peaceful - and that violent extremists do not tarnish the objectives of this fun Frog-protest meme.

Jerry N. said:

A very useful post. I only had opioids when I was in hospital. It was wonderful, but I was “wandering behind the little animals.” The feeling was nice, but it scared me, and I have avoided them ever since. Aspirin worked the best, but I became a bleeder. I was very active as a farmer, and the best situation was moderate pain killers, like aspirin, and a brace. Periodic therapy with limiting myself to tasks that reduced bending over allowed me to get work done until I retired. I still use both the brace and pain killers, but to a much reduced amount.

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There are more modern pain killers that work like opioids but don’t make you feel drugged like morphine. Butrans, belbuca and I don’t know if they still make levorphanol could be better choices for chronic pain.
CBD oil has good use in some people. It’s a component of marijuana but does not make a person feel “high”
Pain is complicated and many different things need to be tried to see what works

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RDKirk said:

We're not talking about "conservatism" anymore, we're talking about right-wing activism.

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No this is about left wing activism. This whole thread is about left wing activism and its violence and obstructionist, rebellious actions.

Trump effectively undermined consideration for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize based on

1) His "America First" policy that ignores past alliances and insults the leaders of friendly nations (ie Governor Trudeau)

2) Cancellation of USAID! with its long legacy of providing food and shelter to much of the world's refugees

4) Arbitrarily imposing tariffs that could trigger a worldwide recession - yet another example of Trump viewing the rest of the world with contempt!

5) Then there is the Trump Administration's resorting to extreme measures that one would associate with authoritarian regimes --masked ICE agents engaging in arrests with no means of identification, conducting sweeps for illegals in the middle of the night and transporting prisoners without "due process" to prisons in El Salvador!

6) Its doubtful that those on the Nobel Prize selection committee appreciate candidates who are actively lobbying for themselves or nominated by leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu - who is currently the subject of an arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court!

ChubbyCherub said:

Thanks so much for this!

Do we have any guidance on how to honor the Sabbath?

I am Protestant and I have no idea about the Sabbath. I was taught it was not relevant, anymore. I'm sure many are taught this. I wouldn't even know where to begin or how to do this in modern life.

I feel quite lost on this point.

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If the Sabbath were written on our hearts wouldn't we know it and seek to keep it like the Israelites were commanded?

Concerning Matt 5, Jesus explained that the law would remain until all He came to do was done. I believe Jesus did everything He came to do. Paul wrote in 2 Cor3 KJV that the ten Commandments were done away. His take on the subject is that the ten were instructions for those under the Sinai Covenant. We are under the New Covenant and the Holy Spirit is our guide. Read 2 Cor3:6-11.

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

o_mlly said:

We don't know what care the Catholic hospital offered but she claims "they could not provide the care she sought due to the fetal heartbeat". If the care she sought was a direct abortion of her living child then of course the Catholic hospital guidelines forbid that act.

If the non-Catholic hospital preformed a direct abortion then blood loss is to be expected and perhaps subsequent sepsis as well.

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Im aware. There was another source quoted elsewhere to the effect that they sent her away with a great deal of pads to absorb the blood.