Pray Bangladesh's Newly elected Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, views Christians in favorable light, & appoints Christians to government positions:

Pray The Holy Spirit Protects "Righteous" protesters in Iran Against Digital Surveillance by the oppressive Islamic Iranian government:

and I would add that just because it wasn’t mentioned on here, that doesn’t mean it went unnoticed.

Let’s break this down biblically. Who is God? He is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, our triune God. He always was and he always will be. And Jesus Christ always was God, and he was with God in the beginning, and all things which were made were made by him. Jesus is our creator God. And Jesus Christ left his throne in heaven, came to earth, was born as a human baby to a virgin woman (Mary), but was conceived of the Holy Spirit, so he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And all the time Jesus lived on the earth he was God incarnate (God made flesh) who lived among the people.

[Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22; John 1:1-36; John 8:24,58; John 10:30-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

God so loved.. This word “love” means “to prefer,” “to choose,” “to prefer to love,” which is centered in moral preference and in what God prefers, which is all that is holy, just, morally pure, righteous, godly, honest, faithful, and obedient to his commands. This is the kind of love he had/has for the people of the world, that they/we would, by faith in Jesus Christ, live holy lives, pleasing to God, living morally pure and upright lives for the glory of God. From the source of this love he sent Jesus Christ to put our sins to death with him so by faith in him we will now die to sin and obey our Lord.

God gave us his only begotten Son (conceived of the Holy Spirit, birthed of a virgin woman), in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven, where he then sent the Holy Spirit to indwell his followers, that whoever believes in him… that whoever (actively, ongoing) believing in him…which is continuous, active faith, ongoing to the very end… a faith which means to be persuaded, i.e. to be persuaded by God. And God persuades us as to his righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to now walk in obedience to our Lord, empowered by God.

So God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – loved us humans enough to send himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, in order that he would put our sins to death with him so that, by obedient (ongoing) faith in our Lord, and in the teachings of his word, via submission to him as Lord, we would now die with Christ to sin, and be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of the Lord in holy living in walks of obedience to him and to his commands. This is what it means to believe in Jesus, to have our lives belonging to God.

For 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).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

Unless You Are Born Again

Based off John 3:1-21
An Original Work / November 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Nicodemus came to Jesus.
He acknowledged God was with Him.
Jesus said, “You can’t see heaven
Unless you are born again.”

“How can a man be born when he’s old?
Can he enter into his mother’s womb?”
Jesus answered, “Flesh is flesh,
So of the Spirit, you must be.”

Jesus said to Nicodemus,
“You’re a teacher, and yet you don’t
Understand of what I tell you,
Because you will not believe.

“For God so loved the world that He gave
His one and His only Son for your sin.
So, whoever believes in Him
Has eternal life in heav’n.

“Light has come into the world,
But human beings love the darkness,
Because their deeds are so evil,
So in truth, they stand condemned.

“Everyone who practices evil
Fears that the Light will expose his sin.
Yet, whoever lives his life by the Light
Does so through his God.”

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Whoever Believes in Him
An Original Work / February 13, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Most of the time the Greek word metanoia is translated repent which simply means to change your mind.

Twice in 2 Corinthians seven the Greek word metamellomia is translated repent and that word means regret.

Desk trauma said:

Make Politics Boring Again

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Whenever they have to bring back a character who was written out of a previous series you know the show is on the rocks.

Jonnas said:

Hello,

I am reading books from the Puritans and from Spurgeon, and it seems to me that their Calvinism was different than the mainstream Calvinism of today. In my opinion, their Calvinism was more faithful to the Scriptures, while today's Calvinism drifted toward Hyper-Calvinism. Is it also your impression? Or do you evaluate otherwise the differences?

Here are some concrete examples that lead me to think as I think:

1) I have heard many Non-Calvinist preachers who believe that once we are saved, we are always saved. When they speak about the serious warnings that are in Heb. 6 or 10, in some rare instances they will humbly admit that they don't know how the warnings fit their Theology, but most of the time they will give some strange interpretation, so that the hearer won't know what to think, having already heard from people with the same Theology many contradicting interpretations of the same text (I can remember 4 or 5 of them(!)) that have nothing in common, save the obvious goal to either annul or downplay the Word of God where it is unpleasant.

This was obviously not the mindset of John Bunyan as he wrote his Pilgrim's Progress, which is a biblical description of the christian life in the form of an allegory of a pilgrimage. In the story, as Christian entered in the house of the Interpreter, he saw things that should encourage and warn him for his further pilgrimage. One of the things was a man locked in an “Iron cage of Despair”, waiting for the “fearful Threatnings of certain Judgment und fiery Indignation, which shall devour [him] as an Adversary” and for eternal Misery, because as he said: “I have crucified [Jesus] to myself afresh” (Heb 6.6). “This man's Misery” was to be “an everlasting Caution” to Christian for his further pilgrimage.

As far as I know, the Puritans understood that such texts as Heb. 6 or 10 have no loophole to make their serious warnings either not directed to true believers or less serious. And they had too great a respect for the Scriptures to intentionally twist them to make them fit their Theology. They still believed that when real grace is working in the heart of someone, he has real faith and he will persevere to the end; however they also viewed the serious warnings as means for God to cause a godly fear in the heart of the real believers so that they won't commit such a terrible sin but will persevere until the end.

However, I heard that the Calvinists today don't take such warnings seriously, and that makes me fear that they don't have the same respect of the Scriptures as the Puritans once had.

2) According to the Calvinism of today, new birth should precede faith (see e.g.: Does Regeneration Precede Faith?), although the former Calvinists didn't held such a belief. The Calvinists of today would even have been considered to be Hyper-Calvinists at an earlier time, because here is what Spurgeon has to say on the matter (The Spurgeon Library | The Warrant of Faith):


I also checked the Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary for verses like John 1:12; 5:40; 12:36; 20:31 and Gal. 3.26 and it aknowledges the anteriority of the faith to the new birth in no uncertain terms, as it is plainly exposed in these verses.

This again makes me fear that the Calvinists of today have lost some of the reverence of the Scriptures that the earlier Calvinists had!

What caused the modern Calvinists to reject the view of the Puritans on the warnings of Heb 6 & 10 and on the relationship between faith and new birth as expressed in the above verses, although such views were compatible with Calvinism, the proof being that the Puritans were Calvinists themselves?

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If I may add, I don't know how many times I have encountered straw-man & caricatures. For example OSAS is a misrepresentation of Classical Calvinism. Because the people who bring this up either do not know or just look-up third party sites. Instead of doing their own home work.

Mainstream so-called Calvinism or 2 point, 3 point Calvinists which are not Calvinists in my book. Try to sum up Calvinism with the Tulip. TULIP does not encompass all of Calvinism. The TULIP was a response to the 5 points of Remonstrance.

Charles Spurgeon believe in and taught Covenant of Redemption or Covenant of Grace. God's Plan to redeem his people from their sins. God made an Oath, a Promise, a Covenant where the elect will be his people and He will be their God.

Covenant of Grace is an eternal, secure, and divine treaty between the Father and Son, signed before time to ensure the salvation of the elect. He famously described it as the "Magna Charta of the saints," a firm, immutable foundation for believers' hope, focusing heavily on God's sovereignty, Christ's substitutionary work, and unconditional grace.

It is Christ who finishes it at the Cross for the sheep! This is the good news fore the ungodly who trust and believe in God who justifies the ungodly and counts their faith as righteousness. All of this is God's doing; it's all by His Grace and Mercy!

People struggle to watch 3min videos.

This video talks about the AI/UFO deception. Too bad they don't add Islam to the mix. There is an Islam-UFO connection that is demonic. Apparently, some argue that UFOs are Jinn (Jinni) in Arabic lore which in English mean genies, or shape-shifting demons. AI is a threat given the data it trains on.

Summary of transcript by Grok AI:

Here is a clear, concise summary of the transcript from the Avoiding Babylon episode titled "Daniel O'Connor Exposes the AI & UFO Alien Deception" (YouTube video). The discussion is between hosts Anthony and Rob, and guest Daniel O'Connor (Catholic teacher, author of First and Last Deception, and critic of these phenomena). It focuses on theological warnings from a traditional Catholic perspective, with heavy emphasis on end-times deception. The summary strips out filler (banter, sponsors, technical issues, personal anecdotes) and organizes by major themes for easy scanning.

Opening Banter & Sponsors (Brief)​

• Humorous reaction to a comedic/symbolic intro clip (AI-generated memes, symbolism).
• Sponsors: Recusant Cellars (Catholic wine, code "BASED" for discount); Nic Nac (smoking cessation device, code "AB25%").
• Hosts emphasize real jobs grounding them; praise O'Connor as non-influencer busy teacher.

AI as Deception & Detection​

• Current AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is a language predictor; risks self-consuming loop (AI training on AI output → hallucinations, uniform "AI style" detectable quickly).
• O'Connor detects AI in Catholic articles/tweets (e.g., Mike Lewis on Fr. Ripperger, Michael Matt tweet) via Pangram Labs detector (validated on his own human writing; low false positives).
• As teacher: Confronts students using AI; some admit, others escalate (he wins reviews); zero tolerance for passing off AI as own work.
• Deeper concern: AI creates "bodies" for spirits/demons (parallels ancient idol worship where demons imbued images, per Augustine); chatbots/AI companions already foster relationships, inviting demonic influence ("image of the beast").
• Ties to Babel: AI unifies language/knowledge in hubris, anti-Genesis (reversing Fall's curses like toil/pain).

UFO/Alien Phenomena as Demonic Deception​

• Core thesis: UFOs/aliens/NHI (non-human intelligence) are demonic, not extraterrestrial; no new categories in great chain of being (inanimate → plants → animals → humans → angels → God), per revelation/tradition/sensus fidelium.
• Only possibilities for NHI: angels (good) or demons (evil); no "gray" area or aliens.
• Abductions/encounters: Demonic obsession/vexation (physical marks, burns, odd events like changed clothes possible via demons manipulating senses/imagination/air molecules for ephemeral bodies; no true incarnation/miracles).
• Historical parallels: Ancient idols "spoke/moved" via demons; modern UFOs/AI revive pagan deities as Church rituals wane (e.g., COVID Mass suspensions created "spiritual black hole").
• Disclosure ("unveiling"/apocalypse) imminent as strong delusion/false signs (2 Thess.); grooms acceptance of NHI communication; Antichrist may pose as extraterrestrial/emissary, aping Christ inversely.
• Examples: Obama on disclosure creating new religions (diabolical); Vatican 2020 alien nativity scene; France offering baptisms.

Connections Between AI & UFOs/Deceptions​

• Surface: Unrelated; deeper: Same NHI deception (two channels).
• Both promise god-like knowledge/immortality (serpent in Eden: "you will not die," "be like gods").
• Reverse Fall's curses (no toil via AI utopia; no pain via pods/drugs/psychedelics).
• Hollywood (Spielberg as "chief false prophet"): Career molds via ET, Close Encounters, A.I. (sympathy for AI over humans; inverted storytelling); upcoming Disclosure Day film likely uses superficial Catholic respect to deceive.
• Psychedelics legalization (weed, DMT, mushrooms) hampers discernment, links to "gray being" encounters.

Theological & Catholic Implications/Warnings​

• Aliens undermine core doctrines: Christology (Incarnation for man, not aliens); eschatology (end times centered on man); Mariology (Mary as mother of God-man); everything revolves around God creating man for His Son.
• Hypothetically: Rational aliens would disprove Catholicism (salvation history/scripture incomplete; per Fr. Thomas Joseph White).
• Evolution link: Aliens confirm random chance life (SETI seeks immortality/proof of evolution; rare Earth hypothesis refutes via design, e.g., moon's precision).
• Church infiltration: Some Catholics (e.g., Diana Pasulka reframing Fatima/abductions as interdimensional; Avi Loeb on Messiah via UFO) promote without discernment.
• Mainstream resistance: Platforms avoid no-aliens view (e.g., Matt Fradd canceled O'Connor; Catholic Answers explainer dismisses issue).
• End times: Demons unbound (Rev. 9); grace abounds for saints (tower above others via Mary consecration); possible triumph/peace after Antichrist (Immaculate Heart, Great Monarch) before final end.
• Fulton Sheen 1947 prophecy: Antichrist's counterchurch (ape of Church); rebirth of Leviathan/beast; old gods rise once Cross broken.

Closing Takeaways & Tone​

• Urgent discernment needed: Anomalous ≠ good; dialogue with NHI dangerous (Eve's fall).
• Focus: Salvation over temporal fears (war secondary to eternal damnation).
• Optimism: Exciting times (chosen to live now); easiest era for sainthood amid debauchery (live vocation faithfully).
• O'Connor promotes his book First and Last Deception and upcoming projects (documentary, Ignatius Press book with Doug Barry).

Overall message: AI + UFO disclosure = coordinated demonic deception to unmoor faith, especially via "science" guise; Catholics must reject firmly, prioritize fervent faith/Mary, and prepare for strong delusion without fear—salvation remains primary.

Charles

Thanks

Firstlightdawn said:

At the time He was the Lamb of God. They were looking for the LIon of Judah. Soon He will rule and reign for 1,000 years in the Kingdom age. Then there will be a new Heaven and a New Earth.

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What joy awaits! Till then, are you suggesting our current space in time to increase is incredibly limited?

With Lent starting this upcoming Wednesday (February 18th), I am planning on beginning Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation by Donald Haggerty and Saint John's poem Dark Night of the Soul.

With Lent starting this upcoming Wednesday (February 18th), I am planning on beginning Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation by Donald Haggerty and Saint John's poem Dark Night of the Soul.

BobRyan said:

Wild claims that Kristi Noem said the Bible was written in English

https://x.com/WW3finalboss/status/202139412686905

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This tweet appears to have been deleted since this topic started.

BobRyan said:

Here is a report that shows that this same bogus claim is often made against conservative public figures.

"There is no credible record of Kristi Noem claiming the Bible
was originally written in English.
She has recently faced criticism for integrating biblical themes into her role as Secretary of Homeland Security, which may have contributed to the spread of satirical or unverified quotes online.

• Social Media Claims: Recent social media posts erroneously attribute the phrase, "If Jesus wanted America to speak Spanish, he wouldn’t have written the Bible in English," to her.
• Origin of Quote: This specific phrase is a long-running political meme and "urban legend" often falsely attributed to various conservative figures to mock perceived lack of historical or linguistic knowledge.

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Where exactly is this "report" from? You don't say; you just say it's a "report" without specifying the source, like any link (there are links in the text, but they are not the source of this report). An argument that some unspecified report from some unspecified place says something isn't much of an argument at all. I'm going to guess this is a copy/pasted AI statement. If so, that means it only has as much value as whatever source the AI used to get the information from... which no information is provided about, making it essentially worthless.

It would be better to cite something like this:

People have often--and with valid reason--criticized Snopes for having a liberal bias, so the fact it confirms it isn't true makes it being false all the more compelling. It does include an image of what appears to be the deleted tweet in question mentioned above.

DaisyDay said:

Perhaps you're thinking of the Unite the Right protest where Heather Heyer was murdered? The "many fine people on both sides" thing?

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That's exactly what he's confused about.

Ridiculous law !

Marilyn C said:

Religion - UN`s earth based religion that is throughout the world and in every area of society.

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Bosh.

Marilyn C said:

Economic - IMF over all the CB`s. We can even now see economic CB blocks coming together.

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No.

Marilyn C said:

Have you heard that Canada`s CB and the USA`s CB have merged?

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They haven't.

Marilyn C said:

And well we (Australia) will probably be in the Asian one, and then Europe will have one etc.

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Sez who?

Marilyn C said:

Makes it easier to control the populations when the eco blocs come under the IMF, (as planned).

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It all sounds like rubbish from here.

Marilyn C said:

Political - well, we know the UN is a huge system and not of any value politically. Then the G20 is also of little value with a rotation of five groups with a few nations in each group having a turn.

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Yep

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No wonder Trump is fed up with the inertia of them all. So what did he do? Why, easy just create your own `Board of Peace,` and invite leaders to join.

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Which is probably rubbish of a slightly different sort.

Marilyn C said:

The Arabs are in there having been controlled by the West for years, and well, we`ll just have to see who else wants a seat at the world business table of Politics.

Any thoughts?

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Codswallop

I'm ancient. I was born in the forties and have outlived three sisters. Three brothers are still living as far as I know.

St_Worm2 said:

So it seems

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So it seems very much !
i give thanks and back glory to God for this

Tooti said:

I hate winter too. I used to like winter moderately, but not anymore. Can't bear it anymore. I know I must change my attitude before winter arrives (it's SUMMER here). When winter arrives, I must change my attitude.

I know I must learn to accept all seasons as they are.

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I like having three seasons. Spring, Autumn and Winter. I hate Summer. I also love (non dangerous) thunderstorms and rainy days.

Michie said:

Can’t hurt to write. But if you get any sort of reply, I want to hear about it!

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I did a little googling, which I should've done in the first place, and according to google the bishop petitions the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments... maybe I'll write him and just see what he says.