tobelieveinHim said:

I liked a whole band who went on a college tour who talked about how much money they didn't make, as Bella is trying to say.. According to this girl, She is more financially stable than they are. She also works in healthcare, Whom supposedly they make no money, either..

I don't know if I believe the band who said they don't make any money, but might believe this girl and I did look it up about the scholarships and how they earn their money..

Bella is getting way too in depth with it, and not addressing anything I actually said..

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I don't know about the scholarships. The extent of my knowledge only goes to Tiktok and Youtube. Some find it easier to make money on tiktok, some youtube. Since tiktok is about view numbers, it would favor shorts.

Since Tiktok had "tiktok store", accounts with large following can apply to promote products sold on the store. Retailers don't have to actively look for influencers, influencers can apply themselves for some commisision % plus free sample(s) of the product.

I see plenty applications even for relatively obscure products. It made me think that influencers probably make more money by promoting products than getting views alone.

I have actually considered becoming an influencer on youtube as skater and fitness/health enthusiast but feel being convicted in my soul I might be encouraging people "worthless distractions". Although skating and fitness add value to me, It may not for another person. For another person, it can be purely vanity, for some, it would just distract them from things that matter much more. People are more likely to make mistakes (sin). Even if it's not my intention nor design, I'd still be contributing to people's ignorance.

I don't know if I believe the band who said they don't make any money

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Some of my favorite music on youtube did not even make 1million views.

Our world is just evil. It will say one thing like it embraces diversity (you can be anything you want) but only rewards those who fit a certain "format". And that format is often based on distracting people from the only things that add value to the soul. Things like truth, justice, and there's nothing about justice in what they're doing getting everyone hooked on consumerism / materialism, wasting people's time, and only rewarding those who can fuel this madness.

Michie said:

Joshua Harris has been thinking about Jesus again. Harris, who became famous for his 1997 book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and who later publicly left the Christian faith, said in a recent Instagram post that President Donald Trump was partially responsible for Harris rejecting Christianity. But now it is because of Trump that Harris’ thoughts have turned again to Jesus.

“I don’t know how to say this. And it probably won’t make sense,” Harris said at the beginning of his Instagram post. “But it feels like President Trump is leading me back to Jesus.”

Harris began and ended his post with the cover of Christian music artist Keith Green’s album “No Compromise.” The cover depicts Mordecai from the Book of Esther refusing to bow to Haman amid a crowd of other people who are all bowing. One person with a fearful expression next to Mordecai is trying to get him to bow as well.

“Growing up, I thought standing up to power was something that happened somewhere else, under dictators in distant countries or in some dark era of centuries past,” Harris said in the caption. “In these troubling days, I’m asking where the courage to stand up to kings actually comes from. I find myself turning back to the stories that shaped my earliest understanding of power and courage.”

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Joshua Harris, Who Left Christianity in 2019, Says Trump Is Leading Him Back to Jesus

Joshua Harris says that it is because of President Donald Trump that Harris’ thoughts have recently turned to Jesus again.

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An Antichrist leading someone back to the faith. Interesting.

Translating a gut feeling into a message from God is fraught with problems. I just don't think He speaks to us that way. The feeling of course may indicate something, but not the voice of God in my view. That you've spoken to a couple of pastors and neither of them think its God speaking should hopefully set your mind at peace. I hope you are ok otherwise.

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keras said:

80 years ago, your interpretation would have been accepted by everyone. But not now, since we have nuclear technology.

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If you're changing the meaning of the Bible based on current trends and modern events, then you're admitting to engaging in bad hermeneutics.

The meaning of Scripture doesn't change over time. It says what it says for all generations.

keras said:

That Zechariah 5 does Prophecy nuke missiles, launched from Iran, is a perfectly viable understanding of what Zechariah described.
The result of Iran attempting to fire this missile to Israel, is described in over 100 Bible Prophesies as the terrible Day of the Lords fiery wrath.
Zephaniah 1:14-18, 2 Peter 3:7, Revelation 6:12-17, +

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What you mention here is found in precisely 0 places in the Bible.

It's not in Zechariah 5.
It's not in Zephaniah 1.
It's not in 2 Peter 3.
And it's not Revelation 6.

headphones777 said:

I feel so weighed down. I went to confession yesterday and told the priest all of my sins, but I still cannot hear him. Even when I cry out to the Lord, he does not answer. I am sick both mentally spiritually and physically, yes I have schizophrenia and other physical health problems, problems that are seemingly impossible to resolve. I am despondent because I never wanted my life to come to this. I do not understand why God created me if he knew my life would become like this and the terrible state of my soul currently. I have become a mere shadow of myself. I wish God would help me and heal me and restore me but whenever I pray all I feel is his silence. I do not know why exist. I have prayed for healing so many times yet I received nothing. My soul is so darkened and my heart is probably hardened. I am the closest thing to an insane schizophrenic you can find on this earth. The last 10 years have just been sin, and a nightmare. I am afraid this depression will get the better of me and will do something stupid and sinful. What in the Lord's name am I supposed to do, when confession does not heal me and God does not answer my prayer? I feel like my heart has become infected with evil and I fear going to Hell. The Holy Spirit does not come back to me, and I do not know what to do to get him back. I think I have lost the Holy Spirit. I can't live in this darkness and suffering, I at least need to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but I do not have the reassurance..

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My friend, consider Job. His only fault was questioning God over his affliction. But the affliction itself was not Job's fault. If Job did all that suffering then we can bear our burdens. And we can do it together.

That’s terrifying! Lord have mercy!

stevenb6 said:

The struggles I have are just too many. The pain I feel is unbearable at times.

The only thing I have to keep me occupied is exercise. And thanks to being completely out of it earlier in this illness I racked up a lot of bodyfat and health problems.

Ive lost weight past few years but I still suck at working out and smoke, I attribute to schizophrenia.

Just feels like I dug myself the deepest hole I could to try and get up out of. I am having a hard time coping lately living on my own, broke as hell and just no hope.

I guess some cool things I did this year that I didn't see coming, I can do chinups now(not many at one time but still its a start) got my bench up to 135 pounds deadlift up to 120 pounds and other stuff.

I had gotten decent at jump roping but this year switched more to stationary bike and it sucks cause when I first got it I could go to 5, 7, 10 then 15 minutes without stopping and now I can't go past a minute thirty before stopping past few months.

Lately i've been not smoking more than I have I just cannot completely kick the habit though.

That's all I got. I'm a loner/struggler hard lately lol. It's a cold cold world.

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It is a cold world. We who struggle need each other.

I hear voices at times because of psychosis. Im sure there is a stigma for that. Who wants to be friends with me? Its a lonely road. But the word of the good Lord is my guide and medication seems necessary for the panic attacks. The anxiety can be unbearable.

SabbathBlessings said:

This ex-Adventist has been debunked more times than I can count. Anyone who dedicates their life to hate, false witness instead of spreading the gospel, says everything. Believe as you wish, I already provided our official statement of beliefs, all will get sorted out in God's time.

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Sda went from holding to a JW view on Jesus to more akin now to a Lds view it would appear

zippy2006 said:

Laws do not judge character. Laws judge acts.

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Which is exactly my point. As Jesus pointed out in Matthew 5:28 it's actually lust that's the sin, but the law can't tell what's in a person's heart and so it judges them according to the act alone, and not according to what's in their heart. Homosexuality is thus universally condemned because of the act itself, regardless of whether that act was born out of lust or love. Therein lies the law's flaw... it cannot judge hearts. But God can, and hopefully the members of His church can, and it's this ability to judge people by what's in their heart that allows divorced people and homosexual people to be welcome in God's church.

FredVB said:

, no believers were taken out from the troubles to themselves in any persecution, being taken out when that happens will have believers not under judgment from God then not here in this world when God's judgment is coming on the unrepentant everywhere in this world.

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Your post takes some figuring out?
Yes, no Christian under persecution has ever been removed by God from it. We have and still must endure it.

EVERYONE must stand before God in Judgment.

What is Promised to the faithful peoples, is protection from the wrath of the Lord.

Many scriptures prove the above points.

DaisyDay said:

I know, right? Knee pads scream, "Gardening!" to me.

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Roller skating to me.

2 Corinthians 5:13-15
New King James Version
13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

God will guide you in His peace >

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)

So, obey God in His peace, and you will see what He does with you.

Even if it was not His providence, now you can obey Him and He can now make it His providence for whatever He guides you to do with it

It's a *truck*!! It can be His providence for others, whom you help using your truck

Humility in the Christian sense is accompanied by a sense of wretchedness and surrender. Its being contrite and broken.

Prayer is a priority in philippians chapter 4.

This week, debates about Christian nationalism and the First Amendment received fresh attention after Idaho Pastor Douglas Wilson delivered a brief sermon at the Pentagon and progressive Christian and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” for an interview that never made it to live television.

Douglas Wilson Preaches at the Pentagon​

On Tuesday (Feb. 17), Douglas Wilson delivered an address at the Department of Defense’s monthly worship service, sparking conversations about Christian nationalism, an ideology for which Wilson openly advocates.

Wilson is the pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a denomination of which Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth is a member. Wilson is a controversial figure for various aspects of his theology and leadership, which include allegations he has overlooked abuse and his arguments for the virtues of antebellum slavery.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got off to an immediately rocky start with the U.S. Coast Guard, according to new in-depth reporting.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead DHS angered senior Coast Guard officials by prioritizing deportation flights over search-and-rescue operations, and the tensions began just days into her tenure, on Feb. 4, 2025, when a 23-year-old guardsman went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the cutter Waesche, four current and former officials told NBC News.

"The Coast Guard had surged ships and aircraft to the Pacific to find the Coast Guardsman," NBC reported. "Hours into the search, Noem learned that a Coast Guard C-130 that was supposed to fly detained migrants from California to Texas was among the aircraft over the Pacific looking for the missing Coast Guardsman, and she intervened, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official."

"Noem verbally instructed the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane off the search-and-rescue mission so it would not miss the migrant flight as part of the DHS’s so-called Alien Expulsion Operations, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official," the report added.

I doubt if anyone is surprised. Apparently, she agrees with Donny that we're all "losers" and "suckers."

JohnD70X7 said:

The same effect is in water which we CAN observe.

Hmm.

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Galaxies and water are not the same. This is trivially true.

I’d like to echo that most well regarded poster Hans; what qualification in the field of cosmology do you hold?

Neostarwcc said:

So I'm trying to get the government to pay for it since it's really my only option.

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I did not think my wife needed a doctor. But the women at church thought she did. So I just took her to the free clinic. That turned out to be a disaster. First of all they are just doctors in training. So they do not know what they are doing. Also they treat people like drug addict prostitutes with all of the tests that they run. You can let them pay for all of the tests but when it comes time to having the baby I would come up with the money for a real doctor with real experience. 15 years of experience would be best according to a fiend of mine that teachers at our local Medical School. He said he would never go to a doctor that does not have any experience.

What did your doctor do?

Suffering is part of our cross. Right? But what about mental illness? Its Suffering. And doesn't everyone need medical care? Is mental illness different than other illnesses? I will persevere anyway regardless of opposing views, because thats all i can do, but I would like opinions. Thanks.

for children ages 10 through 14 or 15. Books by Christian authors apecifically is what I'm asking. Thanks!