Yet Again, At Planet Fitness...

How does science “do more research”

You're absolutely correct, there's no ethical way to do research on children.

They should pin down what helps adults first before they even consider children. After all, there's no trans child suicide epidemic. There's no real problems at all apart from folks pushing this cultish belief onto children.
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Is modern secular society headed down the path to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Ok, so you're trying to essentially bring in a Herbert Butterfield type of lens to the historical interpretation and application of the verse where Jesus is reported by Matthew to have said, "As it was in the days of Noah........." ???
Sort of but not just limited to the bible and religion but also in anthropological, sociological and psychological terms as well. How societies breakdown and how past examples can apply today.
Personally---and I could be wrong---I think you may be putting too much emphasis upon a particular theological and eschatological view in order to make a point that the majority of your audience isn't really going to reflect upon nor take seriously.
Actually I havn't focused on the religious aspects but more on the practical ways society may breakdown. More from an anthropological viewpoint. How societies undermine themselves and how humans are inclined to believe in ideologies about life and morality and how that will determine how society is ordered or disordered.
I also wouldn't use Sodom and Gomorrah as a typological motif in order to get attention for the thread, especially since you've already that it has little to do with your attempted focus of study.
You are probably right. But I was actually looking at some videos on the fall of society through a historical perspective, what actually happens, how they breakdown which had nothing to do with religion but S&G came to my mind. Not so much in a religious sense but wondering how did S&G get to that point. What was happening in the back streets, in politics, was there this subculture going on that took over.

I know people relate to S&G as sex but that was only one expression and I wasn't so much interested in the sex side of things, though that always seems to be a big part of it. But rather how things breakdown across a number of areas, how relationships breakdown, division, the mindset and how this leads to believing in destructive ideas that bring about self destruction.
As for Gobekli Tepe, I don't think it tells us that much, other than that there have been people around for some time that doesn't quite match up with the time span found in the Old Testament. Gobekli Tepe especially doesn't tell us much about Ethics.
Actually it does in a big way. What we see at Gobekli Tepe is a temple, the worlds first temple perhaps and all that is left of a much wider community. So even 10,000 years ago we see that religious worship was central and cultures were built around this. These type of cites are being discovered with complex temples and icons of worship especially to animal gods or the shy, sun, or nature itself the elements and natural forces.

This comes around 4 or 5 thousands years earlier than we thought humans became socialised from hunter gatherers and developed sohpisticated beliefs. But it seems they were much more intelligent and had an advanced level of belief.
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Democrat has suitcase stolen

Well, crime is bigger in more populated areas: More crime in cities? On the scaling laws of crime and the inadequacy of per capita rankings—a cross-country study - Crime Science

And cities tend to be more democratic: What Is It Exactly That Makes Big Cities Vote Democratic?

Yes, people need to stop denying that crime occurs.
Democrat run cities seem to have the most observable trifecta of crime/junkies/homeless. So it's ironic whenever a Democrat politician is victimized. Like the one who was all into defending the police until she got beaten up and carjacked.
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Israel Has No Place In Closing Events.

So?
My point is that the common belief of a general Jewish redemption is false teaching. It is not what the Prophets tell us.
The pre trib rapture believers have to have the Jews here and going thru the Great Trib, while they sit in heaven. A more unbelievable scenario is hard to imagine. Paul never says the Jews will all convert to Christianity.
So, my point remains that proper exegesis, as it flows from the apostles literary and Spirit Driven intention, of Romans 9-11, makes it theologically impossible for you to assert what you assert.

Verse for verse, from the beginning of Romans 9 to the end of 11, when simply cross referenced with ALL scripture, tells a story that you just… don’t … want… to … hear.

You have eyes, but you can’t see it. You have ears, but you refuse to hear it. You have a heart, but you harden it against the natural flow of the God inspired text. Why?!?

Because you have immersed yourself into chasing Western centric translation of Eastern scripture… to the point you have volumes of books penned by your own hand that you are very proud of. You have created something VERY important to yourself, that you abide within.

It’s not a salvation issue, but it shows that you may have forgotten to look at the very character trait that God cited was found within Daniel, that impressed Him to reveal His most complex prophecy, to Daniel.

Tell me that character trait and the verse it is found in… and I won’t wipe my feet off, on the matter.
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Free will and determinism

I'm not at all convinced that you can represent a standard (incompatibilist) philosophical free-will view...
On the not unreasonable assumption that incompatibilism refers to free will being incompatible with determinism (and determinism is accepted), then there is no incompatibilist free will position. Other than 'it cannot therefore exist.' I thought that was self explanatory.
It sounds like you've read determinists and compatibilists and this led you to determinism.
That makes no sense. I considered determinism entirely separate from any thoughts about free will. I've been a determinist since...for ever. Long before I started thinking about free will.
Yes, reading determinists and compatibilists will tend to do that.
Reading determinists and compatibilists will, if you accept their arguments, tend to reinforce an already inbuilt sense of free will. I haven't found one that's acceptable. Maybe you have one?
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Absolute proof.. can't deny.. the earth is flat

This was the first of two presentations Rob did from his Genesis Revelation series. This one deals with the importance of Biblical Cosmology - specifically as it pertains to understanding the Firmament.


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Are you watching this for science or because you are bored and you want some fantasy amusement?
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Biblical Evidence For 31 AD Crucifixion

Okay, I watched your video. I don't mean this in any sort of ugly way. It's just a matter of fact statement. It was nothing profound or special.

You concluded that Jesus was born in 6 BCE, but without any proof.

You concluded that Luke's "about thirty years of age" actually meant that Jesus was 34 years old, again without any proof.

You demonstrated that you have no working knowledge of the Greek language. Word placement has no bearing on the Greek meaning in a sentence. The language is inflected. ἀρχόμενος (beginning) and ὤν (to be) are both nominative, singular, masculine present participles, modified by the adverb ὡσεί (about) (adverbs modify verbs, like "beginning" and "to be"). The word structure determines the association. Although it would be strange to see, you could literally put an adjective at the end of the sentence with the noun it modifies at the beginning of the sentence, and the declension would determine which noun the adjective modifies. A literal translation of the sentence in question would be, "And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old." Furthermore, a substantive is a noun replacement. It wouldn't be translated "is" or "are."

Seleucid year 304 is 8/7 BCE, not 6 BCE, and you didn't provide any evidence that Jesus was born so early. It's just speculation.

You would need to provide source material to establish that the year of Alexander and/or the year of Alexandria (whichever the Anno Alexandri is referencing) refers to the Seleucid year. I would also point out that this opinion of people a thousand years after the fact is not in agreement with the people one or two centuries after the fact, who almost unanimously placed Christ's birth around the 28th year of Augustus, or 3/2 BCE, depending on the specific calendar each was using. This piece of information you've given does not accurately reflect the majority belief of early Christians.

You concluded a shorter ministry, but without any proof. The argument from silence is not an argument. As they say, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

You concluded that Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday, which is impossible for a number of reasons. For all your piecing together of coincidental scriptures of synchronized dates, it might interest you to recognize that if Jesus died on a Wednesday, then there were merchants conducting business in the temple complex on the Sabbath. That had been strictly prohibited since the time of Nehemiah.

I honestly didn't see anything in the video that was new or mind-blowing. Even your point that most miss the fact that Jesus had already been baptized in the past tense in John's gospel wasn't new to me. I noticed that years ago.

The video was, in my honest opinion, rudimentary and base. Had I never had any of these discussions with you prior to seeing it, I wouldn't have been impressed. It came across to me as the work of an amateur who's done a little bit of internet research. It does not strike me as the work of a serious academic.

I apologize if this criticism stings your pride. Call it tough love. You have a lot of work to do. But at least know that someone took the time to watch it. You weren't dismissed or ignored. I watched it. I just disagree with your findings. You offer too little proof, and make too many speculations.
Doesn't bother me in the least your baseless and pointless comments. It's obvious you didn't watch and understand anything. I couldn't care less people like you whose egos can't take having their entire world view threatened. You are a liar for saying there was no evidence or sources presented. Every single point has evidence that can be checked and verified. Your baseless opinions do not change the facts.

Oh, and by the way, thousands have already watched these and I've had quite a bit of positive feedback that what I have presented is actually the way things should be understood. So I don't care one iota that you don't understand what's being said. It's sad. But it really is your problem.
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Russia says deeper U.S. hybrid war using Ukraine will end in Vietnam-style humiliation

Zelenskyy could also surrender and/or desire a truce and make terms of peace. Russia stays in the east and Crimea. But he won't do that. He is insistent that he wants to retake every inch. That will cost thousands of lives and is probably not doable without direct NATO intervention which then would result in catastrophe for all.
Just think of all the good people you’ll be saving by surrendering to us, your very nice neighbors who don’t like who you’ve been keeping company with.

Sure, like that’s ever going to happen.
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Given The Bird For Sharing The Gospel

@1Tonne

Whereas, if you beat them with the bible, or come across as judging them, vs, offering them God's reconciliation, then you can push them away from God, for life, and then you have sent someone to Hell.
We are meant to show people how they have sinned. This can be confronting to some, and they will hate it. But to others it is enlightening. And Jesus said that if we did this, then the world would hate us. So, if do as Jesus did, then some will be pushed away. Many will hate it.
Many believers in this day and age choose to skip the bad news of sin and simply tell people that if they believe and say a prayer, they will be saved.
And yes, we do have to be careful about how we show people their sins. We are to do this with gentleness and respect, but at the same time we should not lower the depravity of sin. We should show it in its fullness.

See, unbelievers already feel that God is angry with them, so, we dont need to reinforce that...
You will not find that in the Bible. Most unbelievers that I speak to on the streets say that they are good enough to get into heaven.
Unbelievers have also been told by many Christians that God loves them and the Christian will then leave out the part that God hates sinners. The unbeliever then thinks to himself that God would never send someone He loves to Hell.
"For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.
The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes;
You hate all who do iniquity." Psalm 5:4-5 (NASB)


So, we should not downplay God's anger as it is doing a disservice to the unbeliever.
"Preaching that downplays God's wrath does not enhance true evangelism, it undermines it." John Mcarthur
We instead need to reinforce just how WELCOME THEY ARE to the Family of God... as "Jesus came into the world to save SINNERS", and they certainly qualify.
So, don't point out someone's sin? Just tell them that God loves them, and they are welcome to join His family. Where does Jesus do this type of evangelism? In Mark 10:17 a rich young ruler asks how to get eternal life. Jesus then takes him through the commandments to show his sin. This is very confronting and to some Christians may seem unloving. But we should be doing just as Jesus did. And we should do it with gentleness and respect.

When talking about the great harvest Charles Spurgeon said.
"He who preaches the Gospel without preaching the Law of God may hold all the results of it in his hand and there will be little for him to hold. I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law."
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If God knows everything, why do we need to pray?

Mark Quayle said:
Painting?? Mankind is at enmity with God.

But, no, the unregenerated cannot truly confess, because their confession would be false

We see from from the angel's declaration over Cornelius in Acts 10 that not all the unregenerate are that way.
What makes you think Cornelius was unregenerate? Or, even if I accept that he was not, what did the angel declare over Cornelius that demonstrates that someone unregenerate can confess truly?
Again, Jesus is our example as He also stated that He could do nothing without the Father and yet He was infinitely triumphant. Faith comes from hearing the word of God (Romans 10:17) and we all daily decide what we listen to - so it is not in the realm of the impossible for anyone to listen to God's word, receive saving faith, and go onto doing great works.
What has "doing great works" to do with this discussion? Did not those who cast out demons in Jesus name do great works? "Depart from me you workers of iniquity, for I never knew you!"

But yes, they receive saving faith! Who said otherwise? Faith comes by hearing. I agree. What's your point? How does that defeat anything I have said?
Man has Body (AKA flesh), Soul (AKA mind, will and emotion), and Spirit. Only the spirit (Proverbs 20:27) can commune with God's Spirit and be born again - so no need to concentrate on the weakness of the flesh as only our spirit communes with God. Per the parable of the Prodigal son, it is possible to come to yourself, repent and be welcomed. God desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4) - therefore our God does not block the path to salvation for anyone. despite the weakness of the flesh or Calvinist dogma.
The spirit of man, you claim, is not spiritually dead, in the unregenerate?

Why do you characterize it as "God blocking the path to salvation?" That is not what I claim. Man WILL not.
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Are Iran’s 9 Lives Nearing an End?

Never heard of this "prophecy". (I have heard of Elam as I have made some study of ancient history intermittently.) Elam hasn't existed for 2500 years.
Yeah, “prophesy” that takes two and a half millennia is an “inside joke” in the (Triune)godhead.
It’s “above our pay-grade” to try to understand, just laugh and say “good one Boss!” (If one were so inclined).
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Ellen White: Meat eating weakens moral powers

People that eat vegetarian diets tend to have significantly high heart rate variability, which is a generally accepted biomarker for better stress adaptation, among other things. So perhaps White's words aren't so ridiculous after all.
This looks like some ad-hoc "fact" found somewhere randomly.

Really important fundamental things, for example that our brain needs fats found only in animal food (and its not a coincidence that people with low animal fats have so frequent mental problems and later in life dementia, Alzheimer etc.), should be the priority for our diet.
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FTC Announces Ban on Non-Competes

The one company I turned down was for 18 mo. No trade secrets were involved, and it was a very low management position. Not even a large company. They wanted to deter people from quitting. If I had taken the job and quit, I would not have been able to work "in that field for 18 months" which is a very broad stroke they painted with.
That this practice has been tolerated by seemingly intelligent people even during these days of low unemployment…without non-competes “players” are able to go “free-agent” and look for better prospects on another “team”, in the same “sport”.
This makes the “managers” be better “coaches” and loosens the purse-strings of the board-of-directors.

Why would workers tolerate being stifled in finding the best deal that they can wrangle?
Are people that compliant?
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