Media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in Hong Kong​

Lai was found guilty on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. He had pleaded not guilty.

It is the harshest sentence delivered to anyone under the sweeping national security law since Beijing introduced it as part of crackdowns in 2020.

The sentence has been widely condemned by human rights groups, with Human Rights Watch calling the length of the sentence "effectively a death sentence." [Lai is 78]

Amnesty International said it was "another grim milestone in Hong Kong’s transformation from a city governed by the rule of law to one ruled by fear."

Meanwhile, Beijing and Hong Kong officials welcomed the penalty, with Hong Kong’s leader John Lee saying Lai deserved the 20-year prison sentence for his "evil deeds."

jacorian said:

It's not the whodunit that one may think. See the folks keep thinking that someone who is adulterous is automatically a pedophile. They are 2 very different behaviors if you open up an abnormal psych text. That goes for Clinton is well. Pedofilia is a much different problem & frankly I don't think Trump or Clinton fit that bill. The reason why it's played up so much is because the people are acting on emotion, not cogent arguments. They want it to be true. Now we do know that some of the victims have already received a payout. If there was an unusually young female, I doubt very much that 25 years later they would remember any particular details.

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So as long as it’s not pedophilia, by which you presumably mean here sex with anyone under 18, it’s really OK? If that’s your standard then Bill was cool too. Maybe. Then nothing sordid happened.

Praying for you, your niece and her daughter and that they are given a comfortable home that meets all their needs.

H. E. Bishop Fellay on the Episcopal Consecrations
Sermon given on Sexagesima Sunday - 2/8/26

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Peace in Christ.

“Into the age” in several verses found in John is in the Greek manuscripts but is not translated whatsoever in most Bible translations (such as the KJV).

"into the age" = Greek: eis ton aiona.

In John 8:51, "into the age" (or "to the age") in some literal translations refers to a temporary state, meaning those who keep Jesus' word won't "see death for this age," , for this age we are currently living in, highlighting a significant difference from translations who just say "never see death" without including “into the age”.

If we keep His saying, we shall never see death (mortal death) but shall continue to live here “into the age.” We shall have an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”.)

John 8:51 KJV
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death (INTO THE AGE).

Most of the “literal” translations include it though:

Literal Standard Version
truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone may keep My word, he may not see death—throughout the age.”

He gives (present tense) us an age-lasting life so that we shall never perish (our mortal bodies will not be destroyed) but shall be living INTO THE AGE.

John 10:27-28 KJV
(27) My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
(28) And I give (present tense) unto them eternal (AGE-LASTING) life; and they shall never perish (INTO THE AGE), neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

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and I give continuous life to them, and they will not perish—throughout the age, and no one will snatch them out of My hand;

The Lord is the Lord of both the dead and the living.

John 11:23-26
(23) Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

“AT” or "IN"…the Greek word “ἐν”.... is NOT a textual variant here in verse 24. The dead….even though they believed in Christ but mortally died…shall live again. They shall be resurrected AT the last day. The first shall be last in the resurrection.

(24) Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

The “dead” who believed in Christ shall be raised to life again AT the last day.

They believed in Christ as the Son of God but they listened to false prophets who led them astray from the path that leads to His life (an age-lasting life).

They were sown in dishonor. They were sown in weakness. They were sown in corruption. They died mortally in such a way.

Yet, they will live as they will be raised in glory. They will be raised in power. They will be raised incorruptible. All this is to be done to the "dead" AT the last day of this age when the last enemy (DEATH) is destroyed. The resurrection of the dead. Though they had mortally died (perished), they shall live as they will be resurrected AT the last day of this age. The Lord is Lord of both the DEAD (who mortally died without having an age-lasting life) and the LIVING (who shall never die throughout this age).

(25) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

But the “LIVING” shall never die….INTO THE AGE. They shall not mortally die (perish) but shall have an age-lasting life TO THE last day of this age where their mortal bodies shall then be changed into immortal. They will have circumvented death completely in Christ.

(26) And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die (INTO THE AGE). Believest thou this?

wing2000 said:

Nope. Memory gaps are consistent with head trauma.

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Yeah but usually those gaps are short term memory and mostly fuzzy when the trauma occurred.

What is faith, in this biblical context? What does this faith look like, in word and in deed? Well, the word “faith” means “persuasion.” In this case, since it is faith in Jesus Christ, it is the divine persuasion of God as to our sinfulness, of God’s righteousness, and of our need to repent of (turn from, die to) sin, by the grace of God, and to commit our lives to following our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, empowered by God. We believe God and his Word, and so we surrender to God and we obey the teachings he has for us.

So, if we who believe in Jesus are increasing in faith, what should that look like? Well, the more that we know God and what God has for us to be and to do, because we want to know and to do his will, because we are studying the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, the more we should be obeying him in doing his will. We should be maturing in our walks of faith on a daily basis, becoming more and more like Jesus in godly character and in doing and speaking the kinds of things he did and that he spoke to people.

We should be stepping out of our comfort zones more and more, even more willing to speak truth to the people, many of whom we know will not listen to us, and some of whom will mock us, laugh at us, disregard us as crazy, and otherwise just ignore us because they think that we are religious fanatics of some kind. And some of them may rebuke us, and treat us like trash, and lie about us, and treat us with disdain and abuse. But know they treated Jesus and his New Testament apostles and the prophets before them the same.

But Christian persecution isn’t just about attacks on us and on our character because of what we believe and put into practice. But this about attacks on the truth of the gospel of our salvation. This is about people falsely claiming to believe in Jesus and to speak the truth of the gospel who are, in reality, “wolves in sheep’s clothing,” out to steal, kill, and destroy, not only the people of God, but the message of the gospel of our salvation. And so they teach the Scriptures out of context, and they speak lies disguised as truth.

So they teach God’s grace as free license to continue living in deliberate and habitual sin against God, only now without feelings of guilt. And they teach that, even if you are living in deliberate and habitual sin, that you can just “claim who you are in Christ” to relieve any feelings of guilt. But we are not “in Christ” by lip service only. “In Christ” means we have died with Christ to sin and we are now walking in obedience to his commands, by the grace of God, in practice. So don’t believe the lies! Believe God’s Word (in context).

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]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Is Your Faith Growing More and More
An Original Work / February 9, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

That whole argument is a thinly veiled strawman. I don't see anybody suggesting they have their own reality.

Valletta said:

Fifty agitators were arrested.

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Looks like they are going to make some money. That will help them to keep their job secure if they are able to bring in money like that.

Welcome aboard 'Poetrob'! What a rich background you bring!

We are born again by believing into the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. We were raised together with Him. He is the head, we are his body.

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,


Ephesians 2:5-6
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved; )
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

John 3:15-18
15 that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world that He might judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 The one believing into Him is not condemned; but the one not believing has already been condemned, for he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.

As followers of Jesus Christ we must guard our hearts and minds against relying upon Scriptures, taught out of context, to teach us the truth of the gospel. So many people today are creating a gospel of salvation that is not of God, and that is not consistent with the teachings of the Scriptures, because they are teaching the Scriptures outside of their correct biblical context. And some (or many) of them are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who are doing this purposefully in order to lead the people to believe the lies.

Here are some of the Scriptures that are typically taught out of context:

I Give Them Eternal Life


Taught out of context, this is typically used to assure all who profess the name of Jesus that their salvation (genuine or not) is secured for them for eternity, and that not even their deliberate and habitual sinful lifestyles and practices, and their refusal to surrender to God to obey God’s commands, in practice, will keep them out of heaven for eternity. But why do they leave out verse 27 which tells us who “they” are? Mostly this is done by liars and deceivers in order to give a false message of grace. For Jesus said,


So, it is not all who say they believe in Jesus who have this promise, but all who are truly his followers (his sheep) who are listening to the Lord, who are heeding (obeying) his commands, and who are following him in living self-controlled, upright, and godly lives, for his glory. Yes, it is possible that we might still sin (1 John 2:1-2), but if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God (Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Galatians 5:16-18; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 3:4-10).

In Christ Jesus


Taught out of context, often this is used to assure all who profess the name of Jesus that they truly are “in Christ,” and therefore they are not under the condemnation of God, so no matter how much they sin, those sins will not be charged against them, and heaven will still be secured for them no matter how they live. And it is very popular today to tell people who are, indeed, deliberately and habitually sinning against God, that they should just “claim who you are in Christ,” as though that covers all their deliberate sins.


So, those who are “in Christ” are all who, by the grace of God, no longer live (in practice) according to the flesh (in sin) but according to (in agreement with) the Holy Spirit, in surrender to our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, in the power of God. For “our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin” (Romans 6:6). For we are slaves of the one we obey, either of sin, leading to death, or of obedience, leading to righteousness and to 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]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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An Original Work / February 9, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Thanks for the contributions to the discussion.

Brunner downplayed propositional doctrinal knowledge and placed his emphasis on the need for a Divine-Human encounter as more important than assent to propositions. Protestant system building he suggested could at times be like a frozen waterfall, great shapes of movement but with no movement.

I have to say when I read of conversion accounts like Joy Gresham's where she described it as "God came in" Brunner may have a point, but he probably goes too far. However nowadays the problem may at times be more doctrinal indifference, than when Brunner wrote. Or on the other hand a sort of doctrinal eclectism.

That Brunner's Christology may lean towards Docetism I have heard suggested (sorry cannot recall where I read that).

Anyone any thoughts on any of that?

Chaos is often the bogieman of the faithless and unimaginative that needs the heavy boot of the law for what anthropologists have dubbed "terror management". But what happens when increasingly it seems the terror management itself is terror? "Are we the badguys, Hans?"

Now, the Lord led me to do a video talk on this subject, and unless I am reading in the video what I wrote here, which I have not yet written anything, I am usually just sharing in the videos what God gives me to say at the moment that I am recording. So rarely will these writings and the videos be exact copies of one another. So, while the video is being uploaded I will write here whatever else the Lord puts on my heart to say on this subject, some of which may or may not be the same as on the video.

Basically, the picture the Lord is giving me from this passage of Scripture is not so much centered on talk that is corrupt, distasteful, and unethical, but on talk which is just wasteful. Obviously I am on the internet, and I am in the world of blogging, and on social media, and on Christian discussion sites, and so I get to see a lot of what other people are writing and posting on the internet, including what others who profess faith in Jesus Christ are posting on the internet for others to read. And so much of it is just pure junk!

Now, I feel as though I have a fairly good (healthy) sense of humor. As the mother of 4 (+4) and the grandmother of 14 (+2), and the great-grandmother of 2, I have to have a good sense of humor. Right? Children are always going to do things to make us laugh. And laughing can be very healthful, if what we are laughing at is not what is crude, distasteful, unkind, immoral, and/or mocking of others who are just different from us. But humor is not to be what we live by and all that we talk about and share on the internet.

For God did not put us on this earth to be entertainers who everybody loves. God put us who believe in Jesus Christ on this earth to die with him to sin, and to live with him in righteousness and holiness, and to walk (in conduct) in obedience to his commands. And he put us on this earth to be his witnesses in sharing with the people of the world the truth of the gospel of Christ, which is that Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so by faith in him we will die to sin and live for God and obey our Lord.

So, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we need to be doing what God has called us to do as his followers. And we need to not be wasting time and speech and writing on what is pure garbage, or on what has no eternal value, or on what is just empty and does nothing to help anyone. And I am certainly not saying that we can’t talk about what is going on in our lives, or that we can’t share pictures or human interest stories, and the like. But we need to be sharing Jesus with the world and not just what is of this flesh.

We need to be writing about and talking about what is beneficial to us spiritually, morally, ethically, and of great importance, like sharing about what is going on in the world and how it relates to what the Scriptures teach about the last days. For we live in very troubled times, and it is looking more and more like that rule of the beast is already on our doorsteps and is about to consume the nations and peoples of the world. So time is not on our side. So we need to be about the work of the Lord and not waste away our time.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

[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]

Being Made Right

An Original Work / September 8, 2019
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, lover of my soul,
Cleansed and saved me,
Made me whole;
Purified me, now new within.
By His grace, I’m free from sin.

Holy Spirit lives within,
Teaching me to walk with Him,
Guiding me each step of the way.
Living for my Lord each day.

Father God, He is my Lord.
Walk with Him in one accord.
Follow Him wherever He leads,
Living holy, Him to please.

Witnessing for Him each day,
Loving others in His way,
Telling them about Jesus Christ,
And how they can be made right.

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An Original Work / February 8, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

We should leave Australia Day as it is. We should celebrate the arrival of the British, along with their rule and culture.

I'm an immigrant myself, yet I respect local tradition & customs.

To change Australia for the sake of immigrants or aborigines does not seem reasonable to me.

FireDragon76 said:

Jesus explains the parable further in 16:9, "I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.". The parable's situation is not meant to be taken literally, but point to a deeper truth, that the "children of this world" are being wiser in material things than the Pharisees

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i agree

FireDragon76 said:

the Pharisees, who see themselves as "children of light".

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This i'm not sure, for i've got no hindsight as regard this terminology

FireDragon76 said:

Everybody understands the value of a good reputation in Jesus' day, and Jesus is saying "look, by being stingy with mercy, you are not honoring God, you are merely being stingy, and you won't inherit anything in the age to come".

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Yes, if such is what Jesus means, but i don't see what more contribution it makes

The Chicxulub body that ended the Cretaceous period and likely killed off all but avian dinosaurs was at least 150 times larger than the rock that's approaching Earth now. It would still have a profound effect, but wouldn't end civilization.

Pommer said:

Oh boy another round of “welfare-queen”?
All the oldies are making a comeback!

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I think we stumbled into the "immigrant crime" section of Brietbart CF.

The Righterzpen said:

The propensity to transgress had to "come from somewhere" though. Somewhere outside of the good intention God created with. Could any creature created "good" generate out of "only good" "evil"? And thus the framework I'm thinking of as to why "the absence of good" is "evil" could be an "opposite reaction" byproduct of God's creative action.

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I actually explained that here:

Arial-byGrace said:

On the other hand, only God is the measure of good and that measure is himself. Anything he creates is good, but if he creates something with moral agency---which he did, angels and humans that we know of---now they have a responsibility of perfect moral obedience. And if there is present with them in the Garden of Eden, one who has already transgressed moral obedience, which there was, and God gives them commands and duties, which he did; dominion over the earth to care for it. And one specific command that if disobeyed will change the course of history, and they disobey, the result is a corrupted creature who will now someday die, and who loses that face-to-face relationship with God, and the two, man and God, become enemies. So that is the origin of evil in our world.

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The Righterzpen said:

Now, obviously because God possessed the knowledge of evil; we know that "evil" "existed", at least in theory; even in the absence of any material creation.

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Evil doesn't exist as an entity. It is an action contrary to God's holiness and we as his image bearers are obligated to bear that image. Satan's rebellion against God was to leave his assigned duties and position, even though he was not an image bearer.

The Righterzpen said:

Agreed, the central purpose of the design of the cosmos was to destroy evil; and in doing so prevents the "reinfection" of hecorruption of the recreated cosmos.

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Exactly. That is why he created humanity mortal (able to die) but wouldn't as long as he had access to the Tree of Life, and corruptible (not corrupt but able to be corrupted). It is Christ's resurrection and his glorified body that guarantees ours. He the firstfruits of the resurrection.

The Righterzpen said:

I know there was a divine plan among the persons of the Godhead that existed before action was put to the creation plan. Assuming that's what's meant by Covenant of Redemption.

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Yes. But it was a divine covenant. The Father would send, Jesus would do the work, the Holy Spirit would apply that work and seal the believer, and bring about sanctification. The plan is what we see unfolding in history.

The Righterzpen said:

Light coming forth to dispel darkness though would mean darkness preexisted light and I don't see how that's possible; as nothing existed before God was. And light can't expel something that doesn't exist prior to lights existence.

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That darkness that was over the earth simply means God had not yet brought light to it. It does not speak to the pre-existence of darkness. Darkness is not something that exists, it is the absence of something that does exist. Take the darkness of a shadow. It is only dark because something is blocking the light. If nothing is blocking the light, there is no shadow.

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Thus why it makes the most sense that "darkness" comes about as the "reaction" to God's action of creating. Thus why I think the "darkness / light" duality, is not only the commencement of something created; but also the commencement of time. Because darkness and light both existed before God separated them into "day" and "night".

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Not on the earth because he hadn't created it yet. He separated them into day and night on the earth and for the earth.

The Righterzpen said:

Well first, we'd need to define what purpose the "seed bearer" idea occupies. Jesus tells Nicodemus "You must be born from above." If Spiritual rebirth is the requirement for redemption; what's the point of there being a "seed bearer" and what is the "seed" that bearer is bearing? All humanity, except Jesus conceived by the Holy Spirit; came from Adam. And this included Seth. So the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" all come from the same "seed".

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That is not the first thing. The first thing is why I mentioned the seed bearing line of Seth that is given in Gen4 and 5 and how it relates to the "sons of God" in Gen 6. You have switched from the category of it intent to "what is meant by the seed bearer and jumped again in one sentence later to Nicodemus and being born again. Then to spiritual rebirth and redemption and back again to "what is the purpose of "seed bearer", and then back farther to "therefore, it can't apply to Gen 6 and "sons of God" and "daughters of men". Yikes!

So once again, providing a cogent response to such a jumble of collapsed categories is impossible. I tell you these things out of kindness, because evidently you are not aware you are doing it. An editor would have a field day with it. So, I will just give you the Scripture reference concerning the Seed and leave it at that. I will let you put it together as to how it relates to the geneologies in Gen 4-5 and the sons of God in 6.

Gen 3:14-15

So the LORD God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

cursed are you above all livestock

and every beast of the field!

On your belly will you go,

and dust you will eat,

all the days of your life.

15And I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your seed and her seed.

He will crush your head,

That btw is the beginning of the redemption part of the plan moving into history, The first announcement of it.

and you will strike his heel.c”

Pray The Holy Spirit guides Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, whose party recently had a greater victory in elections, to appoint Christians in government:

It probably wasn't Ukrainian HUR (mil-intel) -- He's still alive.

Peace in Christ.

We have 2 “wills” of the Father here in John 6.

John 6:37-40
(37) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
(38) For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

The 1st “will” of the Father is for the Son to lose nothing that has been given Him…that it should be raised (to stand up) TO THE last day.

It is not to raise it up “again” but “to stand up” TO the last day…the last day of this age. "Again" is found in some translations (such as the KJV) but does not show up in the Greek. "Again" is implied (erroneously).

We are to be kept standing here in this mortal body in this current age TO the last day of this age.

It is not “at” or “on” or "in" the last day but TO the last day. The “last day” is the last day of this current age that we are living in now.

This 1st “will” applies to Christ the firstfruits….the 144,000….the vessels of His mercy.

We who are “Christ the firstfruits” HEAR and believe on Him and have an age-lasting life now in this age. We do not mortally die but will be kept standing up here in this earth to the last day of this age (having an age-lasting life).

(39) And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up/stand up TO THE (τῇ) last day.

TO THE = Greek - τῇ : The actual dative singular feminine article. Because it is a dative form, it is often translated as "to the" or "for the" in English. In this context, it is “TO THE”.

“at” "on" =[ἐν] “the last day” = τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.

Some manuscripts have this variant text “ἐν” inserted in them giving us a reading of “ἐν” τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ (at or on the last day), but some manuscripts omit the article or use slightly different phrasing (e.g., τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ).

Textual variants are differences in wording, spelling, word order, omissions, or additions.

The variant text (“ἐν” ) is an “addition” and should not be found there as it changes the whole meaning dramatically. We are to be stood up TO the last day and not "on/in/at" the last day.

This is not a “minor” textual variant (“ἐν” ) as supposed by many (and overlooked by all) but a MAJOR one that changes the verses of John 6:39-40 dramatically.


The 2nd “will” of the Father in verse 40 is that everyone who SEES the Son and believes into Him may have an age-lasting life. The people of the outside world are the ones who will SEE and believe.

We, the 144,0000 under the 1st “will” of the Father, manifest Him in our mortal flesh to the people of the outside world (the subject of the 2nd “will”) who will then “behold” Him through us. They behold the Son by beholding us.

(40) And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth (beholds) the Son, and believeth on him, may have (PRESENT TENSE) everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life: and I will raise him up TO the last day.

BOTH SIDES NOW: What will sanctify the Lord's Day when Super Bowl LX comes on?​

Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend . . . so which comes first? Beer, chicken wings, and pigskin, or Mass and rest from servile work?

It’s possible that football is the perfect opportunity for Catholics to bring their families together and even bring Jesus to their friends and extended relatives. Or maybe our culture makes it impossible to carve out football time on Sunday without obsessing over the game, at the expense of what we owe our Creator and our loved ones on the Lord’s Day.

Today’s edition of Both Sides Now—call it Super Both V—explores a touchy subject for Catholics and sports fans, particularly in America. What are we supposed to be doing on Super Bowl Sunday? Does football fit?

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YES: Seize the Chance to Share the Faith​

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