Strictly speaking, Soccinianusm, also known as Unitarianism, and Christianity, are mutually exclusive. Therefore we can say that there is a 0% prevalence of Soccinianism among the Christian faithful.

Unfortunately there are those who believe Jesus was not God incarnate or even a lesser divinity (the belief of the J/Ws and other neo-Arian heretics) who believe themselves to be Christian, which is a form of spiritual delusion, however, the number of Unitarians in the UK and Unitarian Universalists in the US who identify as Christians has sharply declined in recent years. Only a few Unitarian churches, such as King’s Chapel in Boston, still call themselves Christian (And in the case of King’s Chapel, unlike other former Puritan UUA churches in Boston such as the First Church of Boston, the Arlington Street Church, the Federal Street Church, etc, King’s Chapel has always been welcoming of Trinitarians - it is more of an excessively broad church Anglican church than a dogmatic Unitarian church like the others that converted from Congregationalism and seized control of Harvard University in the 1780s).

I wonder if there is not some spiritual disposition towards racism that is inherent in humans. It seems to me that racism stems from something ancient and tribal. I don't think it a coincident that the bible speaks of tribes describing the different peoples rather than race or genetics.

If as a people we were once united according to the bible and then after the fall we divided beginning with Cain and Abel then this inclination to divide ourselves into different groups and seeing the other as a threat is inherent.

Therefore I think fundementally racism is not a matter of science or evolution but spirituality. It defies logic and reason and stems from a core belief that incorporates moral justification as to why the other is a threat.

It doesn't have to be from a religious group. Look at the rise of antisemetism and the vile towards Jews coming from mainstream politics. The level of vitriol towards the Jews is far beyond any rational explanation. It cannot be accounted for by evolution theory.

If its about land and resources and survival then its a dog eat dog world. But its much more than that and I don't think evolution theory can come close to accounting for this.

I think its more a case that evolution theory can for some limit how we see the human nature. If its limited to naturalistic processes and cultural constructions then one way or another there will be rationalisations that divide people and cultivate tribalism.

Probably Tears of the Kingdom though I do miss a few things from BotW, namely the bomb and magnet tools but.. being able to rig up contraptions/devices, and the more explorable area with the underground and sky islands is really hard to beat, and I loved fighting Gleeoks

One area I see people try to be remembered is thru their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, & great-great grandchildren, etc. The reality is w/in a couple generations even they won't know who you are & your great-grandchildren will barely know or care who you are at all

Building on quicksand..... only one final result.

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My party always loses. I'm a registered libertarian. But the numbers look worse for the republican congressional people right now. And now that the democrats are about to respond to red-state Gerrymandering by responding in kind, it might be even worse for the GOP.

In California alone, Democrats could shift 6-7 seats. The biggest GOP state, Texas could at best swing 5 seats. If New York and Illinois join in, it could be pretty grim for republicans.

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The proof will come in the 2026 elections. Until then……..

William J said:

I pray that God would help you prepare for these apartment inspections. I also pray that God would bring you back to full health so that you won't be isolated any more. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Thank you for your prayers. I failed my apartment inspection, but they're giving me another 30 days to finish, which is great. My health is recovering, thankfully.

When technology serves power instead of the person, the result is not progress but oppression.

Artificial intelligence is giving governments and hostile actors the ability to identify, monitor and silence Christians in ways that are quieter, faster, and harder to expose. What once required vast manpower can now be done instantly, at scale and with precision that human surveillance could never match.

In China, authorities have installed cameras at the entrances of churches and, in some cases, inside sanctuaries. These cameras are tied to facial recognition systems that can identify worshippers and feed that information into state databases. Incredibly, Church attendance can quietly damage a person’s career, block university admission, or limit travel. A national policing platform known as the Integrated Joint Operations System aggregates biometric data, travel history and communications to flag “suspicious” individuals. First deployed against Uyghur Muslims, the same system has been used to monitor Christian communities.

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And now Trump's embarrassing failure in his meeting with Putin puts him in even worse position.

Rubio Desperately Tries to Spin Trump’s Putin Flop​

The president said he'd be "unhappy" if he walked away from his meeting with the Russian leader without a ceasefire agreement, which is exactly what happened

Rubio Desperately Tries to Spin Trump's Putin Flop

Despite earning no concessions from Russia's President Vladimir Putin during his visit, the Trump administration scrambles to paint it as a success.

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bbbbbbb said:

The fact remains that your particular interpretation of this proof verse is quite flawed, especially in its application of only one of the two activities described for the nation of Israel in the future.

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Are you equally sure that observation of the new moon is addressed to the same audience as the sabbaths are?

I would suggest that the there should be the possibility of the aid being reinstated provided they can plug up a few gaps in oversight and monitoring.

(this is from Jan. 2024)

Shortfalls in required monitoring by American officials mean the U.S. cannot track more than $1 billion in weapons and military equipment provided to Ukraine to fight invading Russian forces, according to a Pentagon audit released Thursday.

The findings mean that 59% of $1.7 billion in defense gear that the U.S. has provided Ukraine and was directed to guard against misuse or theft remained “delinquent,” the report by the Defense Department’s office of the inspector-general, the watchdog body for the Pentagon, said.

I was reading the following in Mathew today:

Mat 12:31-32 "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Earlier in my Christian Walk I believed that I had Blasphemed the Holy Spirit. I had a melt down after a relationship break down and told God “if this is how it is being a Christian; I don’t want to be one”. At that point in my life, I did not understand the faithfulness of God, so I began to believe that He had left me. This led to around 10-15 years of thinking I was destined for hell. I don’t have to tell you how hard that is to live with.

I took many years for God to restore me from the thinking that I was eternally doomed. So why do I bring this topic up? Well, I have since found that many people struggle with the thought that “maybe they have committed the unpardonable sin”, and it leads to hell in their lives. Often people think, “I keep thinking blasphemous thoughts”, or “I said some thing against God”.

But when you look a little deeper at the situation, these things we think are “Blasphemy”, are not. The bible clearly tells us that:

1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And that the cross covers our whole lifetime of sins:

Heb 9:27-28 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.

So every sin from the point of birth, to the point of death is covered by Jesus sacrifice. So what is “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit”, the Pharisees had just witnessed Jesus power, a mighty healing of the Holy Spirit, but refused to acknowledge it. They chose to remain in their sins, rather than come to Jesus.

John 5:40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

I believe Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, the totally pushing away of all God’s drawing, be they miracles etc. We may do this 100 times, and God will still forgive us, and keep drawing, but eventually if we persist in unbelief that grace will run out. The Holy Spirit can only give so many miracles.

As for my situation, God kept sending people to me, and they all spoke one word of scripture over me. “I know the thoughts I think toward you says the LORD thoughts for good and not evil; to give a future and a hope”. This persistent drawing by God drew me back into relationship with God, for He is faithful to stick with us, and just to not deprive us of life when we seek it. So today if you feel you have turned God away, know that He is still there, He promises to never leave or forsake us. But we need to seek Him again.

2 Chronicles 15: 2 If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

The Barbarian said:

For one thing, no land vertebrates lived in the Devonian.

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True. All the rabbits from the Cambrian were extinct by then.

Christsfreeservant said:

But now the truth of the gospel of Christ, and of our salvation, is this:​

Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

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That's right !

Congratulations!

Thank you everyone, for praying for me to discover my identity in Christ. Thank you for praying for me that I now realize, I need not to worry, if I have autism or not, as my true identity is being a child of God, and being in Jesus, no matter what it looks like. I pray that you still continue to pray for me this day, and help me to continue to follow the word of Christ.

We may all look different, we may all have different talents, but in the church and in Christ there is no more division present, and there are no more infirmities.

I also appreciate both of your unique perspectives on this issue, linux.poet and Anthony. linux.port, I love how you were able to use the analogy of how God loves me deep down to the atomic level, showing how God lives every tiny part of me, even the things I cannot see. Anthony, I appreciate how you mentioned the beauty of the stained glass window at your church, showing how even if every piece is a different shape, size, and color, they all work together to create something beautiful.

As you have taken your time to pray for me and give me peace today, I will spend some of my time today in prayer to pray for you. God bless all of you!

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28 KJV

What do we really know about the life of Mary beyond what the Bible tells us? Scripture gives us only glimpses of the Blessed Mother before she vanishes from history, only to reappear in the Book of Revelation as the “woman clothed in the sun” (Revelation 12:1-6).

We have the last words she speaks, resonating down the through the ages as a message to all who follow: “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:1-12). The story of the Wedding at Cana is, in fact, the only place in Scripture where Mary addresses the adult Jesus directly.

We have her appearance at the foot of the cross with St. John, in which she is commended to the care of the Beloved Disciple:

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. (John 19:25–27)

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She appears one final time in Acts 1:14, where we are told she was with the twelve in Jerusalem, along with the other women and the brethren of Jesus, devoted to prayer.

And then she is gone from history.

Or Is She?

What We Know​

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peaceful-forest said:

I'm hoping it will cool off soon. I enjoy taking walks in the park, but sometimes the heat is too much.

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same here! Love waking, but hate the heat!

Strong in Him said:

I'm in Chester.

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