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But at least you've conceded that people can fly over Antarctica.

Yes - But how many of them actually fly right over Antarctica & don't forget that Antarctica is supposed to be 13.66 million km.

Commercial flights do not fly over Antarctica because of a combination of safety regulations and the continent's harsh, remote environment. ETOPS regulations require aircraft to stay within a certain range of an emergency landing airport, which Antarctica lacks,
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Trump knocking down historic East Wing to build Ballroom - is this LEGAL?

What are you even talking about.
Honestly, that got a chuckle. There is a distinct anti-Republican bias in general and an anti-Trump bias in particular on CF. Yet this is unnoticed?

Perhaps we are wasting our time responding to each other. I'm sitting here trying to think how to respond further without coming across as insulting, and I cannot. Call that a personal failing if you wish, and I'll acknowledge it.
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Weekly homilies

Homily Thursday, October 30 2025

30th OT



Rm 8:31b-39

"No creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ."



It is up to us to continue to allow ourselves to be Loved by God. God already Loves us.



Lk 13:31-35

Jesus says to those who do not welcome Him: "Behold, your house will be abandoned."



Let us remain in God.



When our relationship with God is deficient, we distance ourselves from Him, we find ourselves alone, and we move towards evil.



Let us remain in God.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.
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Who then can be saved?

I asked this question before, do you know where Romans 3:10-12 comes from?
What point are you trying to make here. Are you playing a Bible Trivia game, if so I'd guess there are Old Testament scriptures which describe mankind's state, yes that includes you and the Pope of Rome as well.

Every single person after Adam was born dead in sin, we all inherited our sin nature from our parents Adam and Eve. I don't know why you reject this truth which God Himself confirmed many times. If you reject this truth then you reject God Himself.

And if you're going to demand I answer your question, it sounds like Psalms 14:1-3 and Isaiah 59:7-8 I'm not going to look them up now but your welcome to correct me if necessary.
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Hubble Constant (Ho) fixed to light speed, C and calculated as 71 k/s/Mpc. God did it!!

Can you explain why the physical quantity isn't ( [length] / [time] ) / [length] = [length] / ( [length]*[time] ) and why the two [length] measures can't cancel each other apart from some constant if the [length] units are different?
Silly goose! Why do all of that when you can simply write ‘goddidit’?
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Trump knocking down historic East Wing to build Ballroom - is this LEGAL?

From The Economist:

'The president's net approval rating is -18%,
down 1.3 points since last week'.

I believe that's the lowest since...well, for ever. So what descriptive would you use to preface '....unpopular' if not 'objectively' (although the fact that he is unpopular is an objective fact)

Drastically? Overwhelmingly? Incredibly?

Me, I'd go 'Undeniably', but it's your call.
Verses this from MSN:

MSN

Hardly what the economist spins, and MSN here is carrying a story from USA Today, hardly a Trump supporter. Playing with words like 'net" to pretend no one approves of Trump is on-brand, though.

If some have an emotional investment in believing no one likes Trump and it helps them sleep through the night, let them go for it. Claiming poll numbers to "prove" someone is "objectively" popular or unpopular is more like middle school slam book stuff that actually acknowledging that someone you find unpopular will be very popular with someone else. That is the way of things. Claiming someone is "objectively" popular or unpopular is resenting an either/or as an absolute that does not exist.

That, as you put it, is my call.
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So there are plenty of flights that fly over Antarctica which puts them in imminent danger - Okay.
Do you really think anyone would be cruel enough to sell a flight to someone else, knowing they were putting them in danger?
Do you really think anyone would be stupid enough to take one?
It is only your idea that they are in danger.

But at least you've conceded that people can fly over Antarctica.
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So.....did your insurance premium go up?

I need to correct the annual figure...it's actually a lot less... $4,180 are our annual medical premiums. Apologies for the miscaluclation! Dental and Vision are additional.

As a "high deductable" plan, we pay the first $2500 each year before insurance kicks in covering 80% of the bill. Preventative care is covered at 100%. Our maximum payout in a given year is capped at $6,000 (in network) or $10,000 (out of network).

We have the lowest family plan available. A premium plan is over 8k a year with lower deductables and flat co-pays.
So even paying out each year you still have to pay per medical intervention?
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Who then can be saved?

Are you saying that this was according to God’s will that man became corrupted or against His will?
The answer is beyond your ability to comprehend. The Bible tells us that God is not the Author of sin, yet at the same time, nothing can happen apart from His will.

God is a mystery, so it's impossible for man to know His ways or why He does what He does or how He does them. It's very dangerous to put God on trial and judge Him according to the standards of wicked men. So best you don't go there and stay at your post, which is to simple trust and obey and never question anything he does.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

I think thats an unreal solution. We may not find anymore for years. Are we to wait and just ignore all these vases. When you consider that the very best of what came out of the digs was given away by archeologists like Petrie. It seems strange that we don't attempt to verify them in whatever way we can.

What a hypocritical thing to say! "Oh, we should accept that all these things were made with advanced tech, but we shouldn't go and search for the advanced tech that made them. That's unreal."
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These guys do. What to Expect. The flights depart from several places in Australia, pass over the south pole, and return to the same location as take-off. And as mentioned previously, there are also tours that land at the south pole base.

How many of them fly right over Antarctica ?

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OSAS - I was wrong...again

1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
If you don't do righteous deeds, you will not inherit eternal life. Matthew 12:50, Matthew 25:31-46

Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter proceeded to speak and said “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. 35 Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.

John 14:23-24 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.


If a person claims that he's a believer/follower of Jesus Christ but does not obey Jesus' commandments, he is a liar. He's merely a fan of Jesus Christ; he's not a follower of Jesus Christ. 1 John 2:4
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

So then we see if we find any new archeological sites and excavate those.
I think thats an unreal solution. We may not find anymore for years. Are we to wait and just ignore all these vases. When you consider that the very best of what came out of the digs was given away by archeologists like Petrie. It seems strange that we don't attempt to verify them in whatever way we can.
So now you're speculating not only on my mental states, but also how the forgers think?
Yes we can do that. But also the collectors and auction houses. All aspects of what was going on and what would have been the most likely situation. For example forging these vases down to the smallest of detail and even unusual marks that would not be bothered with. This is done in forensic science.

You look for tiny signatures that only the ancient vases would have. Whatever that is. Thats one way. Even metals in the stone and the stone makeup. In fact One test found a higher level of radioactive material in the predynastics as opposed to modern vases. Forgers would not know this.

Or the tremendous difficulty and cost would restrict most back street forgers out. This would be someone with connections. Even modern machinist have difficulty replicating these vases let alone early to mid 20th century tech. It would have been specialised.

The problem is the majority of vases and the best vases are in private collections. No one in their right mind in testing these vases would ignore the majority of vases and a category of vases that potentially has the very best examples.
This then needs to actually done for each vase.
But some of the vases in private collections like Beall's have this level of prevenance. They trace back to say high rtanking politicians or military who were gifted these from say Petrie. They will all say this on the certificate of authenticity. One well known family has owned these vases in the early 20th century and has sold many for 10,s of 1,000's of dollars with guarentees and certificates of authenticity.

Museums have hosted them on loan and everyone referred to them as genuine and this was taken for granted. So we should be able to say they are the real deal.
The three pictures of the inside of vases you posted recently don't look exactly the same. So which ones are you talking about?
The two images together of the full inside of the unbroken vases. The one on the left is a predyanstic with provedence going back to the same family I mentioned above. Before this family it was owned by a high ranking officier in the Egyptian army I think. The one on the right is a modern CNC vase.

The seperate pic of the vase fragment is from under the Stepped pyramid where there are many like this. They both show circular striarations. But some vases will be partly or fully polished on the inside as well. So its not every vase. But either way we have clear evidence for circular strirations from some sort of machining. In the case of the fragment theres no doubting its provenance.
No, that is not true. It's only the observation that we don't know and therefore can't use it as evidence for any historical or archeological claims. I'm sure there are vases of all qualities with unknown provenance.
Actually it is true when it comes to the precision vases. We are not worried about the less precise vases. They are not calling out with their signatures in being witnesses to modern tech and machining. Its the vases I have shown with high precision that are now being questioned for provenance.

When they say it may have been made on some lathe in the mid 20th century they are trying to attribuute those modern signatures still to within modern times. The provenance has become the biggest objection to these vases. There are literally millions of crooked soft stone vases. Theres ample to find good provenance and we know they did not need sophisticated tech. Well not as much as these precision vases anyway.
Did that specific fragment have any engravings from a predynastic king? The stepped pyramid is not predynastic, so we can't assume that just because something was found under it then it was predynastic.
Ah and you said it was not about provenance. Thats all that is left to counter the evidence. These were found by Petrie and are still the same ones when discovered. The same place the complete vases that are in museums and yes some of the same have inscriptions from predynastic kings.

But many from the predyantsics such as the Naqada. Whether the Kings usurped them or made them themselves. But it doesn't matter because they are all predynastic and 5,000 plus years old.

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If you go an find pics of the vases under the pyramid you will see many repeats of the same vases tested. They look exactly the same. Repeated over and over and over again.

Just go to any pics or especially videos of under the Stepped pyramid and you will see. Obviously they have taken the complete ones and cleaned up a bit. But they are everywhere. From memory they even used fragments as part of building walls.
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Yehovah God will not send you to Hell!

All somewhat interesting but my post #82, from June 2025, above remains unaddressed.
Your positions remain void of the unseen enemies of all people

Apparently too hard of a gap for your positions to fill

You see only flesh(ly)
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Doesn't it make more sense to go with the latter ?

when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. proverbs 8:29
Only if you don't understand poetry, or how to read the Bible.
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I am still adamant that Antarctica circumferences the earth & that fights to Antarctic can only fly so far in.
Of course you are - you're not going to give up your beliefs or concede that you might be mistaken.

You've started yet another thread on a subject which you don't understand ("the earth is flat; I don't believe any evidence to the contrary".) This thread will rehash all the same arguments, will get heated and may eventually be closed down.

Why not write a thread on something which matters?
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OSAS - I was wrong...again

100%. I think a lot of what people describe as 'losing your salvation', is people who were never saved in the first place departing, natural progression.
Jesus states that some people believe (obey his commandments) for a while, but then later they fall away from the faith when they choose to sin.

Luke 8:13
Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but they have no root; they believe only for a time and fall away in time of trial.
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These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us (1 John 2:19).
We do not know for sure who is truly faithful. However, we can tell who was not faithful if their sins become public.
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