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Does The "Weekly Sunday Services in NT" suggestion survive Acts 13? No?

He did but those verses are speaking of His Spirit and does not limit the Commandments that were written on stone to be that which is placed in our hearts. We are given His Spirit that we walk in His Commandments and statutes, all His Way. Not just that which was written on stone. All righteousness.
Here, verses in Romans 13 speaks about "Law (v8,10) and Commandment (v9)" only points to the Ten Commandments and nothing about statutes, when we shall love our neighbors.
That to "love our neighbors" was to not commit adultery, not to murder, not to steal, and not to covet, these all are in the Ten Commandments.
This implied that God's Laws in Hebrew 8, put on His people's mind and written their heart by God/Spirit as the new covenant refers to the Ten Commandments.

Notice, Ezekiel 36:26,27 speaks about the guidance of the Spirit but nothing about the Law written in their heart, only the Spirit's guidance to cause us to walk in God's statutes and ordinances.

Rom 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other
commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
Rom 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Eze 36:26 "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
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Is there any truth in the ideas expressed by double predestination?

I reject the claim that divine omniscience requires a universe with only one possible pathway, because Scripture shows God knowing future free choices without causing or predetermining them—Christ foreknows Peter’s denial (Luke 22:34) and Judas’s betrayal (John 13:11) even though both acts remain morally responsible, proving that foreknowledge does not equal predetermination. The Church teaches the same: “God’s eternal plan includes the free response of each person to His grace” (CCC 600), meaning God infallibly knows contingent futures precisely because His knowledge is not bound by time—“for Him all things are present to His eyes” (CCC 600; cf. 2 Peter 3:8). The argument you quoted falsely assumes God must reason discursively like a creature, but Catholic dogma insists God’s knowledge is simple, eternal, and immediate (CCC 202; 216), so He does not predict possibilities—He beholds all moments of history in a single act of knowing. Scripture explicitly denies that God predestines anyone to damnation: “God desires all men to be saved” (1 Tim 2:4), “not wishing that any should perish” (2 Peter 3:9), and Christ weeps over Jerusalem’s refusal of grace (Matt 23:37), which would be incoherent if their rejection were predetermined. Thus, the claim that omniscience requires absolute determinism collapses: God’s perfect knowledge does not eliminate human freedom, because He knows free acts as free, contingent acts as contingent, and His foreknowledge does not impose necessity upon them - “those whom He foreknew He also predestined” (Rom 8:29), meaning predestination follows foreknowledge, not the other way around.
God in the OT/YHWH was not always fully omniscient, and didn't start out that way. He's just as much a part of all of this determinism/time as much as we are right now currently, but who's true purpose is to allow God to be relational to us, and show us who God is, etc (along with Jesus Christ also, who also was not always fully omniscient/didn't start out that way 100%) (Hence that ones claims with being completely equal to YHWH, but not equal to this other One yet, etc) but all of this is also why things in the scripture are told to us from that perspective, etc, or the perspective of choice sometimes, etc. It is impossible for the One who is always fully omniscient to both relate to us or show himself to us without these others who are also locked into all of this determinism/time with us, etc, anyway, without these other ones, it is impossible for this other One to make himself known, and/or relate/show himself to us. It is the one and only limitation with this One's always knowing/predetermining all from the beginning, or making the universe/this reality this way, etc.

In no reality for any being anywhere is it possible to know a thing 100% and there be existing some other possibilities that aren't 100%, and the other one absolutely 0%. So in order for there to be any being anywhere who always knows absolutely everything 100%, all other possibilities have to be 100% absolutely 0%, otherwise full omniscience just isn't possible, etc. Therefore, in order for that to happen or be (there be any being anywhere who always knows everything 100% absolutely 100%) then this universe/reality has to be deterministic, with only one real pathway that this one can go ever, etc.

It's either this that I am right now telling you, or these God/Gods don't exist, or are made-up/invented by men like a lot of non-believers say, etc.

God Bless.
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The First Four Commandments and the Worship Issue of the End Time

A covenant can be a disposition (e.g. a last will/testament) or a compact.
Yes, a compact still is an agreement between two parties.
The "last will/testament" was not listed as one of the definition of covenant. See below.
Any Bible verse to support your definition?

Gen 9:12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

Gen 9:12 GodH430 saidH559, "ThisH2088 is R1the signH226 of the covenantH1285 whichH834 I am makingH5414 betweenH996 Me and you and everyH3605 livingH2416a creatureH5315 that is with you, for N1allH5769 successiveH5769 generationsH1755;

H1285
בּרית berı̂yth
BDB Definition:
1) covenant, alliance, pledge
1a) between men
1a1) treaty, alliance, league (man to man)
1a2) constitution, ordinance (monarch to subjects)
1a3) agreement, pledge (man to man)
1a4) alliance (of friendship)
1a5) alliance (of marriage)
1b) between God and man
1b1) alliance (of friendship)
1b2) covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges)
2) (phrases)
2a) covenant making
2b) covenant keeping
2c) covenant violation

Jesus himself, even during his earthly ministry, changed some of what the law said (e.g. instead of an eye for an eye, he told us to turn the other cheek).
Those are judgements, not included in the Ten Commandments or God's Law.
The New Covenant is not a set of rules and regulations, but life in the Holy Spirit, being led by him.
Yes, as God's Laws written in our heart, the ministry of the Spirit is more glorious. (2Cor 3:3,8 Heb 8:8-13))

2Co 3:3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2Co 3:8 how will the ministry of the
Spirit fail to be even more with glory?
The law is the ministry of death, as 2 Cor. 3:7 says (and you quoted it), because it reveals and stirs up sin, then shows everyone under it to be guilty.

The ten commandments were written in stone, by the hand of God. They are the ministry of death and condemnation, as the Bible states.
Is it wrong to call the old covenant the ministry of death? No, because that is what the law does to us: It slays us as guilty sinners before God so that we can be resurrected by the new covenant. It isn’t that the problem was with the law, but with us: The sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. (Rom 7:5)

Rom 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
Trying to live by the ministry of death and condemnation is not good works; it is dead works, from which we need to repent. It is attempting to produce one's own righteousness,by works of the law; rather than looking away to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, and walking in step with the Holy Spirit.
Yes, when we always follow the guidance of the Spirit without opting on our own, we'll be free from the Law, means freed from sinning and became slaves of righteousness. (Rom 7:6, Rom 6:18)

The word "released" in Romans 7:6, bears Strong#G2673, in Greek "καταργέω katargeō" defined by Bible Lexicon specifically from the text mentioned as means - to free from, etc.

Rom 7:6 But nowG3570 we have been R1releasedG2673 from the LawG3551, having R2diedG599 to that by whichG3739 we were boundG2722, soG5620 that we serveG1398 in R3newnessG2538 of R4the N1SpiritG4151 and not in oldnessG3821 of the letterG1121.

G2673
καταργέω katargeō
27x: to render useless or unproductive, occupy unprofitable, Luk_13:7; to render powerless, Rom_6:6; to make empty and unmeaning, Rom_4:14; to render null, to abrogate, cancel, Rom_3:3; Rom_3:31; Eph_2:15; to bring to an end, 1Co_2:6; 1Co_13:8; 1Co_15:24; 1Co_15:26; 2Co_3:7; to destroy, annihilate, 2Th_2:8; Heb_2:14; to free from, dissever from, Rom_7:2;
Rom_7:6; Gal_5:4.

Rom 6:18 and having
been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Trying to be righteous, by works of the law, will not keep anyone from the second death. We are kept from the second death by God's unmerited favour, through faith in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit leads us to bear good fruit (love, joy, peace, etc.).
No one will become righteous by our own works, as we always fall short to the glory of God.
If we want to be spared from the second death, the Bible records that the "saints" being spared from the lake of fire, the second death persevered on keeping the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. (Rev 14:12 Rev 20:9,10,14))
As faith should be shown by our works, through loving Jesus and the Father. (John 15:10)

Rev 14:12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

John 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

God works in Christians to will and to do of his good pleasure. It is in this way that we keep his commandments, not by trying to do the works of the law.
Yes, by God's grace we are saved through our faith, it is in that way that we keep His commandments being the result of being saved, not to be save.


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School officials sued after male trans wrestler accused of sexually assaulting female opponent

Interesting.
Per your question, what is allowed…

Debating morality is not allowed. Simply discussing LGBT for historical or political purposes et al is fine. Just no debating. I hope I’m making sense.

Clear?

Peace
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The Failure of Orthodoxy to take a Stand Against Male Genital Mutilation

I, for one, hope my mutilators, because they cannot be called parents due to what they did, will suffer terribly and I hope they die alone in some agonizing way because they 'circumcised' me. This should be the normal reaction to the extreme cruelty and evil of the practice
I hope you present your attitude to your confessor and repent of it. This is not the Orthodox Christian response to suffering.
I'm sorry that you have, and continue to suffer from what was done to you, but can only categorise the above attitude as evil.

Lord have mercy!
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Trump's Easter message.

Ooo, like this?
Yes, for the forth time.

Apparently seeing that ad is supposed to make me soil my pants or something. But so far I just see an ad for medallions.

Here, I'll try again:
Nope.

Maybe this time.
Nope.

Maybe this time
Still nope.
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Workplace decorating with pride flags; what do you d

My workplace has recently put up a bunch of pride flags over the building and stuck stickers over the desk. If your employee did this what would you do.

Also how do you react when apps you use decorate the wholehomepage with prode flags? And how do you react when neighbours display pride flags outside their homes
Unless these symbols lead you to think about what they mean, (in vivid detail), what is it about them that seems to “trouble” you?
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