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With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans


It seems like Kansas is going to make driver's licenses for trans holders invalid, and have to re-issue them with a gender marker of the birth sex.

Why is it important what gender marker is on a driver's license?

Even given that, why not just change it when it is renewed the next time?
It's not important to me. But if a transgender looks like a female or man. Who cares. I might be more confusing if they change it,
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Western world 2070 a muslim state?

Dear Heavenly Father,

we pray for Europe. Please protect the culture, faith, and freedom of this land from being distorted by Islam, and let the light of the Gospel shine upon the hearts of all nations, so that people may know Your truth and love. Grant wisdom and justice to leaders, guide the people to uphold faith and moral values, and fill Europe with Your peace and blessings. We also pray that individual Muslims in Europe may have the opportunity to turn to You, becoming witnesses for Christ and a blessing to the Muslim community and Europe.

In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
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Are UFOs Demonic? ‘UFOs and God’ Directors Urge Church To Address the Supernatural

That's why traditional beliefs is the biggest obstacle in "spiritual" warfare".

Deconstruct the lies we've all been born into, that the only way demons, aliens, and worldly people cannot have influence / power over us.

My opinion/experience on the subject, UFOs and demons both use physical technology and can be physical just like people! People can laugh about it until they can't.
The late Chuck Missler wrote a book and has a youtube video on Alien Encounters called 'The Return of the Nephilim'. The biblical Nephilim, fallen ones, were able to take human form and mate with human women. God Bless :)
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Operation Epic Fury

The USA/Israel launch “preemptive strikes“ in Iran.
Trump urges protesters in another country to rise up and change the regime that they live under.
What sane person will take to the streets whilst attacks continue?

So far, it just looks like theater to dodge the fact the Israeli-Palestinian situation has genuinely deteriorated into a moral trauma and the mideast peace process has been sabotaged by two bad faith conmen.
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Doctrinal Differences in Different Denominations

I am going to be sincere, because i know what i am talking about anyway.
The most 'heretical' thing going around apart from straight sin,
Is the belief that every christian is filled with the Holy spirit or beliefs of the sort,
that don't let people get filled like the disciples at pentecost.

If you are giving credit to that bad theology, you are shooting yourself in the foot,
in the most painful way as christian, because the Holy Spirit,
Jesus said he will accompany us forever, comforter and helper, and guess what,
because people agree with bad teachings, they don't Get Him.

Then people come and say 'i don't feel God'
I don't get his presence, God is far away, i don't enjoyi time with God,
i'm losing my faith, i don't have faith.
I don't believe in deliverance, i don't believe in gifts.

Guess what all that wouldn't happen f people were filled with the Holy spirit like the disciples.

And people with the Holy Spirit, have defects, weakness, and flaws and sin they may need to fight too.
The bible says the prophets were people subject to passions. Jeremiah even had 'dirty lips' i guess that would mean he said bad words or something like that, but people today expect perfection in someone claiming they have something from God.
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Two things to pray for on my behalf

Dear Heavenly Father,

I come before You on behalf of JacquelineDeane55. Please comfort her, ease the pain in her throat, heal her body, and restore her health. Grant her peace and strength, so that in the face of fear and anxiety she may still rely on You, filled with faith and joy.
Father, I also pray for her mother. Please protect her mind and memory, slow or heal any possible decline, and restore clarity of thought and memory. Grant her daily peace, joy, and comfort, and watch over the hearts of the whole family, removing fear and anxiety. May Your love and presence always be with them, and may they be a blessing to their neighbors and community.

In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
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Trump Proposes Annual Federal Retirement Contribution of Up to $1,000 — Which Workers Stand to Gain

"If those details are handled carefully, experts suggest Trump’s proposal could be a genuine game changer for working-class Americans who have never had a real shot at building retirement wealth."

I am glad to see Trump focusing on those with lesser incomes. No tax on tips and the senior tax credit go a long ways toward helping lower income Americans. This too addresses a major problem for those who have little or no retirement benefits beyond Social Security.
1) The bottom 50& of wage earners in America have no retirement savings!

2) With the defunding of Obamacare by Republicans, the Trump Administration has yet to express any interest as to when it intends to introduce an affordable alternative

3) The net result is that a large segment of the American society can't afford to retire and has now been stripped of its ability to access affordable healthcare!

4) All is not well in "THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF TRUMP" when the President's current public approval % has descended to the mid 30's - particularly during an election year

5) This President may enjoy the benefit of not having his name on the ballot, but that luxury doesn't extend to those names of 435 Republican candidates in the House and another 33 in the Senate which serves as a proxy for the electorate when it comes to registering their discontent with the Trump Administration's failure to address "AFFORDABILITY!"

6) The prospect of $1000 is nothing more than a "gimmick," a short term cynical "bribe" designed to solicit the vote from those bottom 50% of Americans who can neither afford to retire nor pay the current dramatic increases in their healthcare insurance premiums - who have been reduced to a desperate search for their next dollar to pay for food and rent!

7) For those millions of Americans currently living on this "financial treadmill," $1000 would appear to serve as an answer to prayer, providing a temporary respite before, once again, being forced, to face the inevitable - a bleak economic future!
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Trump to Netanyahu: U.S. prefers deal with Iran to war, for now

President Trump stressed after a three-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday that he wants to keep pursuing a deal with Iranrather than moving to military action at this time.

Why it matters: While Trump said his meeting with Netanyahu was "very good," the Israeli prime minister is very skeptical about the prospects for diplomacy with Iran and inclined to support military action.

Yes, but: Trump and Netanyahu also made divergent public statements before Israel attacked Iran in June, before coordinating closely in that operation.

Catch up quick: The U.S. and Iran resumed negotiations last Friday in Oman for the first time since June, but Trump has simultaneously launched a massive military buildup in the Gulf.

Continued below.
Sitting here at 4:00 am Saturday morning. The U.S. and Israel at war with Iran.
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Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say

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But yet we still believe ( and this is growing as time passes by) that Government (republican or democrat) is our god and should be our care taker.

Complain about this administration and its actions, but remain silent where your team is in the ruling seat.
Politics the height of eye specking

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”
I don't see blind, incoherent people. Not being taken care of on the left. I remember people protested about Obama on the left. So, Obama took care of the problem. Because of Trump, funding has been cut for suicidal people. So, emergency funding has been cut off. No help in keeping people, that needs help on a horrible day. To not comment suicide. Just like compassion over this blind man. Your bible verse means nothing to me, when this stuff keeps happening.
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DOGE NEWS

No. They didn't cause more problems than they solved. Instead, they did indeed intelligently cut waste and fraud. While DOGE itself might be no more, we're still looking to cut waste and fraud. Apparently, there are multiple billions of dollars of fraud which have been found in the Medicaid and Medicare systems.
A government agency that sought to save its way out of existence seems wildly optimistic.
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Please pray for my grandfather

Dear Heavenly Father,

please have mercy on this grandfather, ease his pain, and heal his body. Guide the wisdom and hands of the medical team. May Your peace and comfort be with the whole family, giving them strength and hope. I pray that You give him a heart for prayer, so that he may remain steadfast in prayer both in times of prosperity and in times of adversity. In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
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It's not so much about what we as individuals think is either right, or else wrong...

Not killing them.
More than overarchingly agree, etc. And they do in fact, should have a right to do that or be that or choose that if they want or choose, and without anyone else treating them any differently because of it, etc.

A certain discomfort at first is only natural for some individuals at first, but it doesn't justify or override another full grown adults rights, and nor does it justify treating them any differently just solely based on that, and that only, etc.
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What’s the loopiest conspiracy theory you have ever heard? Name one or several.

Hilarious how some use the letter J as an excuse. First I heard of that one.
Yes, it's ridiculous. Not only did the letter J not exist when Jesus was on earth, nor did the English language, so neither "Jesus" nor Christ" existed as a name and a title back then. Besides, not all languages use the letter J for the name. The Cyrillic alphabet, used by Russian and Bulgarian, was introduced 900 years after Jesus was on earth, so whatever Cyrillic letters Russians use for the name didn't exist two thousand years ago.
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Are you a Christian Nationalist?

I believe that real Christians are those who have let the Gospel of Jesus penetrate their mind, heart, and spirit, and that this is reflecte in their behavior, in their recognition that every human being is a temple of the Holy Spirit and a Child of God. In my experience, those who preach Christian nationalism and those who follow that philosophy are sorely lacking in their love and respect for other human beings--in their cities, states, country, and across the world. In my experience, they see Christianity as an opportunity to criticize and judge the morality of others and are quick to condemn immigrants, refugees, the hungry, the poor here and elsewhere--usually without ever having walked a mile--or even a few hundred feet--in their shoes.

So is it a fair assessment? Well, they're nationalists, willing to ignore and outsource the needs of our world--environmental, social, economic. Are they Christian? I don't see much evidence of that.
The whole point is I know nobody who preaches "Christian nationalism." I see a lot of people who oppose Christianity trying to frame Evangelicals as Christian nationalists. As long as you stay in your church and do not speak up on issues of the day, they will leave you alone... but recent events in St Paul have shown us that even that is no longer a rule. You can go to your church on a Sunday Morning, and apparently, it is A-Okay to barge into the service, marching around, screaming at people, and proclaiming that they are not Christians. I hope we are not suggesting that "real" Christians should not speak up on current issues like abortion, LGBTQ, and other social issues. That is simply not so.
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God loves us unconditionally or does he?

Many christians believe that God loves everyone, and love us unconditionally no matter we do but is this true?
Yes it is.

Can we keep sinning and walking in the flesh and God will still love us?
Yes we can.

Are there conditions to God's love for us?

No there are not.
How do we show God we love him?
This is where obeying comes in, but now you are refering to us loving God, not God loving us.


We see that sinner who fails to repent will be burning in the lake of fire(the second death).
Yes, because if people do not love God, God will not force them into His company forever.
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Do atheists constantly change the goalposts?

A concept that made zero sense to me then or now. How can you have a "relationship" with someone that doesn't communicate back to you? Hmmm. Pretty impossible.
There are no goalposts moving around here, but there is an assumption that God does not respond to communication, and that this lack of response is universal.
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The Desperate Mullahs of Iran

Keras said his views came from God himself - from a 'vision'​


(This post is from 2020.)

"I am just a humble servant of the Most High God. He gave me a task: to promote what His prophets wrote so long ago, because what they wrote then, is about to happen soon. I know this, because in 2010, when I was in the Holy Land; I received a vision from the Lord and inspiration to do this."

His “vision” was so infallible he remained PERFECTLY CONFIDENT! He had this "I told you so!" tone about things that had not even happened yet.

“I remain perfectly confident and I know the Appointed Day on which the Lord will arise and send fire to destroy the attackers of Israel and change the world, ready for the lead up to His glorious Return. I doesn't take great Biblical qualifications to know what God has planned, in fact such learning is a hindrance to finding the truth. And don't ask me when, as you would do what Jesus said will happen in: Matthew 7:6
The Day of the Lord is at Hand for all the Nations

The way Keras uses the Matthew 7 verse (out of context of course) attempts to call theologians and the very STUDY OF THEOLOGY ITSELF corrupt - like unclean swine. I know these people - and some of them are close friends. One is godfather to my children! But Keras has his "calling" and his "vision" - so he felt entitled to call them swine! Like Joseph Smith, he was here to correct the church's corrupt theology about these passages for the last 2,500 years!

The Lord returns in 2029.5!​

“2020 AD + 9.5 = 2029.5 AD Exactly 2000 timeyears for the present Church age” -
The Day of the Lord is at Hand for all the Nations


The AOD was meant to happen last month!​

Then - on his own literalistic reading (of the highly symbolic numbers in Revelation) - we subtract a literal 3.5 years for the Abomination of Desolation = January 2026 for the AOD in the temple!

Keras wrote all this back in 2020, when he could sound triumphant about "knowing" what was going to happen way off in 2026!

Then, this horrible thing called time happened.
And given what he had said about my theologian mates, I was waiting.

Where's the temple Keras?

I see...
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Moment economist fact-checks Whoopi Goldberg live on The View after woke star tried to bash Trump

Moment economist fact-checks Whoopi Goldberg live on The View after woke star tried to bash Trump

'The market likes who is president. There's a lot of upbeat sentiment from companies and from investors about policies that are helpful for growth.'

- Sara Elsen, NBC financial news anchor

The facts support Whoopi - irrespective of the supposed sentiments attributed to the stock market, companies and investors, the fact remains that "ALL IS NOT WELL in TRUMPLAND" when a President's approval ratings descends into the mid 30's - particularly during an election year!

This "APPROVAL RATING" can be largely attributed to "AFFORDABILITY," an issue that Trump contends he has already solved and now attributes to nothing more than a Democratic ploy!

The President's lengthy "Stste of the Union Address" effectively ignored this growing unrest stemming from an electorate faced with the growing divide between prices and wages - apparently Trump has forgotten as to why Biden and the Democrats lost the 2024 Election!

Even Sara Elsen's optimistic appraisal of the business community's support for Trump has long been open to question
- 23 Nobel prize-winning economists signed a letter warning of the negative impact that Trump's tariffs would on the US and world economies
- "Business groups, economists sound the alarm over Trump's incoming tariffs ..." - Business Executive Feb 2025
- "Over 1500 Economists Agree; Trump's Tariffs are Terrible" - Reason Magazine April 2025
- "Major Investors, CEOs, economists lash out at Trump tariffs" - Financial Post, April 2025

ECONOMISTS CAN DISAGREE ON MANY THINGS BUT TRUMP's USE OF TARIFFS IS NOT ONE OF THEM!
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The Sabbath, Worship and the End Time

There are a number of annual Sabbaths in Lev 23 that were indeed ceremonial animal sacrifice based Sabbaths that Rom 14 states as optional but not prohibited.
Here's something from the same chapter that is optional but not prohibited:
I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. verse14

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. verse20
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WHEN WAS THE LAW TAKEN AWAY. AND GRACE BEGAN. ??

True and Acts 15 does not say 'delete all of scripture that you do not find in this letter or in some other letter written in this century"

Indeed. that is the issue, the ceremonial laws.
Not the moral laws such as the TEN Commandments where "the first commandment with a promise is Honor your father and mother" Eph 6:1-2

agreed and the TEN are included in the moral law.
As James 2 points out "to break one of them is to break them all"

yep

true.

true

yep. IT is in Jer 31:31-34
It is how we find Moses and Elijah standing with Christ in glory in Matt 17

1 Pet 1:9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls (NKJV/KJV)
1 Pet 1:9 receiving the outcome of your faith—the salvation of your souls (NASB)

Your Rom 10 statement is of the same form
BTW
Best not to to put in your posts
Under grace 1 said what he did not state, you knew in post 127 I was simply quoting your own words in the emboldened
Doesn't look good in my view
But I understand why you felt the need to do it.
Possibly more studying is needed
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Voter ID

Jury found him guilty of all of them. No point in denial. He never appealed, because he would have lost. Judge knew that the conviction was enough to punish him. First U.S. president to be a convicted felon. Like a lot of other things he would rather not have, it's part of his legacy.
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What was his sentence.
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No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !

Jn 6:44

44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

No man can come here means no man has the ability to come to Christ. That cancels out the myth that man has a freewill,

It also means that no man has the ability to believe on Christ for Salvation. Because Christ equates believing on Him with coming to Him. Jn 6:64-65

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.


What about those Jesus says to them Jn 5:40

40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Thats answered in Jn 6:44 they simply will not come because they cannot come unless the Power of God draws them and makes them willing

Ps 110:3

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

If and when one comes to believe on Christ willingly, the credit goes to Gods Power !
You didn't leave any loopholes or opportunity for those who don't believe the true gospel message to challenge the truth.
Those verses don't leave any room for other interpretations
I haven't read through the thread but I'm sure there will be those who deny the plain simple truth, in order to promote their non existent free will / free choice, version of the gospel.

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