The Islamic Republic on Wednesday celebrated the 47th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the monarchy led by the Shah and, eventually, led to the creation of the current mullah regime under the first “Supreme Leader,” Ruhollah Khomeini.

As every year, the festivities were accompanied by raucous displays of hatred and hostility toward Israel and the United States, which Khomeini had dubbed the “little” and “great Satan,” respectively.

One of the “high” points of the state-sponsored mass rallies this year was the burning of a statue of Baal, the ancient Canaanite god often mentioned in the Bible.

The statue was adorned with Israeli flags, a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump, and had a Star of David carved into it, apparently meant to associate the deity, which the biblical Israelites had fought against, with the modern state of Israel. The statue was eventually torched amid chants of “Death to Israel.”

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NJAmbassador said:

It was the ultimate expression of empathy. Father had placed Himself in human form, and was now experiencing Person-ally as we do what humans in their flesh feel when someone they love with all their heart passes out of the realm and reach of human contact and interaction.

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Indeed, one might wonder whether it is not Jesus' human nature that weeps for Lazarus. That also seems possible to me.

Your comparison with Hosea is also interesting. But I am much less familiar with the Old Testament.

NJAmbassador said:

I think ultimately, though, at its core, the root cause of Jesus' weeping was deep divine sorrow at His, the Creator's, loss of personal, intimate daily fellowship with His children that was lost at the fall of man in the garden, which was what Jesus came to restore.

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It converges with my own interpretation, yes, but sounds like one has to admit our God feels sorrowfully the loss of His children

I would be more inclined to believe that Jesus' expression of weeping is made possible by the incarnation of the Son of God with permeability to emotional manifestations.
And then, perhaps he is struggling with his enemy: death (?)
However, I still believe that there is a progression in the struggle within the person of Jesus: the struggle for faith, which comes with the resurrection and which would precede and follow this miracle. In the moment of weeping, Jesus would rather be gathering this faith, wherever he can find it (see his exchanges with Martha and Mary), as if it were one of the raw material for his miracle.

peter2 said:

So, since his groaning occurs whenever there is doubt, it may be because of them (the doubts) that he cries, that is, the lack of faith.

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Pommer said:

True that, there’s still “sundown towns”.

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Back in 1963, my family and I made a road trip from Oklahoma to Florida. That was, of course, prior to the Civil Rights Act, and it was also before most of the Interstate system was in operation.

But back then, we had to drive on state highways through the center of every single town on the route from Oklahoma through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and into Florida. Frankly, every town was a sundown town when you're unfamiliar with them.

So, whenever we had to stop for gas or food or whatever, my father would get out first to see if we would be served. Most often, he came back shaking his head and we drove on.

I remember him saying that he was looking for a Howard Johnson's restaurant, which were common in the larger cities. For many years afterward, I gave HoJo's mental credit for being progressive for integrating their restaurants. It was years later that I discovered HoJo had only just then been forced to integrated because they'd lost an FTC lawsuit. Being an interstate corporation, the feds had jurisdiction over them. We had found one HoJo on the way, and ate there...but I did notice their "Black Sambo" restaurant motif.

My wife's story is a little different. They were a husband, wife, and four girls. When they traveled those roads and towns, he drove primarily at night to avoid as much contact with white people as possible. When they found a place for food, they stocked up so that they wouldn't have to stop any more often than necessary. They stopped at the side of the road (this was at night) to urinate. Otherwise...just got constipated.

Today on the Interstate, a "sundown town" is just an exit that I zoom past at 70mph.

I wonder if Donald's abysmally low ratings and penchant for suing messengers has anything to do with Gallup's decision.


Peaking at 47%? Some mandate.

Vindicated :

Jelly Roll's wife, Alisa DeFord, describes backlash to his Grammy speech as 'horrific' and 'borderline demonic.'

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Peyton Perrish doing sound theology and Internet evangelism here. Praise the Lord!

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Sadly, those who believe in an escape from bad things to happen, do not believe that the Lord will protect them. They read Psalms 23, 46 and 91, +, failing to make the connection between our world situation now and their role in the end times.

There is coming a Day when the Lord will arise and change the world; Zephaniah 3:8, 2 Peter 3:7, Revelation 6:12-17.
It will be our great test of faith, be ready to Call to Him for protection through it all. Isaiah 43:2, Revelation 3:10-11
2 Peter 3:12 says we should look forward to it and hasten it on!

Especially after the Epstein Files were released.

The Lord Jesus Christ summed up much of the Old Testament of the law and prophets in a few words. He said the law and prophets involve mutual respect & treatment between individuals ( Matthew 7:12 per Matthew 7:1-12). He said on His greatest commandments are which the law and prophets depend ( Matthew 22:36-40). Additionally, the Lord added the Psalms to this framework in Luke 24:44-48.

This is a very broad framework but it is the Lord’s framework ( as best I can understand). In some ways, I believe the Lord had to set a basic framework that could be easily understood & faithfully communicated by the apostles & early Christians. Most people couldn’t read and write. I believe this is within the establishment of the Gentile faith in Acts 15:1-41.

There is an early Church manual titled: The Didache which, I believe, is a summary of much of what I have noted above. It is usually about 10 printed pages.


There are many extensive articles online about this document and many scholars believe it began circulating during New Testament times:


On a personal basis I noticed the development of God’s commandments throughout the Bible. We must know the salvation of Jesus Christ in seeing this development in both testaments ( John 1:1-18, John 3:16-21, Colossians 1:10-24, Romans 3:21-25, Ephesians 2:8-10 etc.). On a basic level human behavior might seem the same without this ( Ecclesiastes 12:13-14) as the Lord told the rich young man ( Matthew 19:16-19) and St. Paul tells us in Romans 13:1-14 ( especially verses 8-10).

There is a very broad establishment of commandments for our fallen humanity in Genesis 9:1-17. We have the 10 commandments & great commandments in Exodus 20:1-17, Deuteronomy chapters 5 & 6, Leviticus chapters 18, 19, 20. Much of what God commands us to live by is there.We have to understand the change of severity for transgressions especially in regards to the Lord’s commandments between both testaments. We have to understand the ending of harsh severity in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5,6, & 7. We also have to understand though what was sinful before has not changed as the Lord says in Matthew 15:1-20 & St. Paul tells us in Romans 1:18-32. Much of this is lost in many who proclaim love in today’s world.

I would also read St. Stephen’s testimony in Acts 7:1-60.

Say it aint so said:

Don't know how many Trump pardoned who just turned around and committed more crimes, but there's a number of them.

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Criminals commit crimes. Some learn from punishment, but many don't. Trump didn't help things by pardoning so many of them.

A church in Oklahoma recently had its bank account hacked by an unknown party, resulting in more than $85,000 stolen over multiple weeks.

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church of Wagoner became aware of the hacking on Sunday, which ultimately resulted in $85,907.27 being stolen from their account, Baptist Press reported.

By the time the church became aware of the hacking, only $20,000 remained in the account. On Monday, that amount had been removed, restored, and then removed again by the unknown party.

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Just over a week after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that faith-based organizations that meet evidence-based addiction recovery standards can apply for federal funds, his agency is now inviting those organizations to begin submitting their applications.

Responding to recent questions from The Christian Post about how the faith community has been responding since Kennedy’s announcement, an official with the HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said they look forward to partnering with the faith community to advance public health.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A disruption in reimbursements to states for disaster relief costs. Delays in cybersecurity response and training. And missed paychecks for the agents who screen passengers and bags at the nation’s airports, which could lead to unscheduled absences and longer wait times for travelers.

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FireDragon76 said:

I'm suggesting the whole line of thinking isn't particularly morally serious in the first place.

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That's your own subjective opinion, it looks like. Everyone can have his own subjective opinions about anything, but it is only the objective truth as revealed in the Bible that matters in the discussion.

Questioning Brother said:

Blink again and you will be 50 (trust me I know). I too believe the pain can't be compared to the pain. God cannot possibly have enough to make up for this pain.

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What is it God cannot have enough of to "make up" for the pain?

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We have to love everyone in Heaven by definition. What if our "enemy" is in Heaven? Corrie Tan Boon had an encounter with the worst guards of the camp she was in. With God's help, she was able to forgive him. I had a friend who was thrown into a Polish prisoner of war camp when he was 12 years old. Even a guard knocked out one of his eyes. He wore a patch over that eye. He was kind of paranoid, but with God's help people can straighten themselves out.

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1 John 2:5 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. NKJV

The end result of our sanctification is to make us perfect. Yes, we will love everyone in heaven with the love Jesus gifted us with.

They don’t mind tooting their own sexual preference horns. Let someone else point it out…*gasps and pearl clutching*

chevyontheriver said:

What will the poor Democrats do now?

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lol! Something will replace it. Reliable or not.

Little is known about Kim’s daughter, Ju Ae, who made her first public appearance in 2022 but appears set to be her father’s successor.

South Korea’s spy agency believes that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is preparing to designate his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, as his successor, increasing the agency’s earlier assessment of the teenager being the “most likely successor”.

The National Intelligence Service in Seoul informed legislators of the news during a closed-door briefing on Thursday, according to South Korea’s official Yonhap News Agency. Their intelligence agency’s findings were later shared with the media by South Korean politicians Park Seon-won and Lee Seong-gwon.

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As followers of Jesus Christ, and as his body parts, we all have a God-given responsibility to be ministers to the other parts (members) of the body. For the “ministers” are not just the “pastors,” but all of us are to be ministers of Jesus Christ and of his gospel message and to one another within the body of Christ, the church (the only church). For all of us of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus have been given spiritual gifts, of the Spirt, and we have been assigned our body parts (ministries) by God to be put into practice.

We are all to be speaking the truth of God’s Word in love to one another, teaching, encouraging, lifting up, warning, counseling, and admonishing one another. We all are to help one another to grow to maturity in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord’s commands, and to not be led astray by the deceitfulness of people in their cunning and craftiness who teach a false grace gospel and not the Gospel of Christ. And we are to exhort one another every day so that none of us may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

In addition to all of that, we are to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct and proper biblical context, who are seekers of truth and righteousness, who desire to know, in truth, what God’s Word teaches us, because we want to obey the Word of the Lord, and our Lord. For we don’t want to be those with head knowledge only, who can recite Scriptures, and who can instruct others. But we want to be those who are putting the truths of the Scriptures into practice in our everyday lives, by the Spirit.

So, what we teach others we should be living ourselves, and if we are not, we should be honest about it, and then correct the areas where we are in error so that we don’t end up being hypocrites trying to teach others what we ourselves are not living. But that should not be our only reason for changing how we live. We should do what is right in the eyes of God because we love God, and because we want to obey our Lord and to live holy lives, pleasing to God, free from slavery to sin, for the glory of God, in his power.

And then we read here that, with all wisdom, we are to be teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. And we are to be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. But when do you see that happening in the gatherings of the church? For a “worship service” where one person picks out all the songs, and where a select few lead us in singing many songs which are not psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, is not what is meant.

We are to be teaching ONE ANOTHER with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs which teach the messages found in the Scriptures, which are to help us to grow to maturity in Christ, and to be encouraged in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living, which is what many of the old hymns of the faith do, but which (it seems) few of these modern-day “worship” songs actually do. So this is about us ministering to one another such songs as which help us to walk worthy of the calling of the Lord in our daily lives.

So, I am going to add this on here that, beginning in 2011, the Lord gave me a gift of writing such songs as what are mentioned here, and for the very purpose of what is being taught here. These are not for show. They are not for entertainment. They are not flashy and well-orchestrated and produced. They are simple songs of faith written very simply and sung by an old lady whose voice has seen better days. But they are for the encouragement of the body of Christ, which you will see if you read the lyrics.

And they are often included with my daily devotions, which is for your encouragement, not to entertain you. And they are examples to you of what these passages of Scripture are talking about. We need more of this in the gatherings of the church, and less showmanship and empty lyrics that do nothing to lead you to walk in faithfulness to your Lord in holy living. And if you are not familiar with the old hymns, see if you can get a copy of an old hymnal and read the lyrics. They are not all great, but many of them are!

To My Beloved

Based off I Peter 5:6-9; Ephesians 6:10-20; James. 4:4-10
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Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be strong in the grace of Christ, and
Put on His full armor in your fight
Against the enemy of your souls,
And resist him with all your might.
Take up the shield of your faith within you.
Salvation’s helmet – you put it on.
Put on the belt of truth,
And walk in the Spirit,
And you’ll not be ashamed.
Love your Lord Jesus; call His Name.

Call on your Lord and Savior, Jesus, and
Make Him Lord and King of your hearts.
Obey all of His teachings He has given
To you to follow in all His ways.
Repent of your sins. Return to your God.
Follow Him where’er He leads you now.
Humble yourselves in full
Surrender to His will
For your lives today.
Bow before Him, and humbly pray.

Be strong in the grace of Christ, and
Obey your Lord in ev’rything, always
Keeping His teachings in your hearts near you.
Walk with Christ in ev’ry way.
Resist the devil. He will flee from you.
Draw near to God, and He’ll be near you.
Wash your hands you sinners
And double minded.
Weep and wail o’er sin.
With Christ, your new lives begin.

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FireDragon76 said:

You can make Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) projects for LLM's to use. They are called CustomGPT's in OpenAI's ChatGPT system, and Projects in Anthropic's Claude.

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Hmm. Are we at the point where videos can be used to train A.I.? Maybe we could just upload the Bibleman episodes as training data for how it should act. If a video doesn’t work, maybe a transcript could be used.

I do think that this thing should eventually be built on an open-source base or just developed by itself with no commercial dependencies. Having it dependent on a commercial subscription or system gives Satan some obvious attack vectors to take it out: the Christian operator’s wallet or just the commercial system itself. However, I am willing to tolerate some messiness and incomplete development solutions along the way to a more resilient structure.

Eventually I want to own my own server rack, in spite of the constant security babysitting they require. Programming an A.I. to manage the firewalls and attack vectors into that system would be helpful, and throwing intruders out with Bibleman lines would be the icing on the cake.

U.N.I.C.E also runs physical security for the Biblecave, detecting intruders and having a laser security system. So a crude start would likely have some sort of LLM base model, an Alexa-like system to allow it to listen and talk the way U.N.I.C.E does, and some sort of Nest-like home management system all hooked together like string cheese, throwing in a security camera system and a modified drone. It would seem to require a lot of hacking. Not sure that is possible yet - and even if it was, I might need 50 more server racks to run it, unlike the simple website hosting rack I had planned. I’m just starting to think about feasibility.

I mean, programming an A.I. for spiritual cyber warfare and to follow Christian ethics may not be such a bad idea. Might as well employ the technology to help humans rather than exploit them. And we do actually have a personality base model to work with. I think it’s exciting.

stevevw said:

OK you have lost me with all the corporate law stuff and who owns who.

Are you saying that whatever the connection is that makes a third party connected or interested in the content that is put out. Don't have a say or cannot have a say in what content is put out. That they cannot complain if they disagree.

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It is my understanding that when companies make large ad buys on TV networks (ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox) they pay a rate based on the number of viewers who are expected to see the ad and the demographics of the viewers. The higher the ratings the higher the fees. Advertisers do have preferences and sometimes do pull ads from specific shows in "controversies". (One recent example was on cable with the Tucker Carlson where there was a period where there were virtually no ads on his show.)

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Ok, I thought it was the bosses of the organisations that were connected to the TV shows.

We actually had a boss of a corporation threaten to pull funding because they did not like certain points of view. It happens. I think the corporate world is a bit murky. They have a lot of influence but not many checks and balances.

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Not enough for him to sort of admit he offended a lot of people. Thats why he had to do the whole fake tear performance as part of coming back.

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I don't know what you are talking about. I watched it on YT (my local station was owned by one of the local owners that wasn't airing it) and saw no such thing.

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They certainly did after he made that remark.

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You need to watch your use of pronouns. The only "he" in the sentence you were replying to was Kirk.