We will probably hear crickets instead of any condemnation from progressive, feminist groups. Probably if somehow this can be spun to implicate Trump at maralago , then it will be aired on The View.

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I might well have come to refer to myself as a Pyrrhonist if I'd ever encountered the term, but only having a ninth grade education high falutin philosophy terms are above my pay grade. So at this point, when called upon to do so, I just refer to myself as one of these three, a Christian, a Stoic, or a Solipsist, in that order. The last one being by far the least important. They each represent some aspect of who I am. To wit, my avatar is both a rather decent physical representation, and a brutally honest psychological/spiritual portrayal of who I am as a person.

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Fair enough, I generally simply refer to myself as a (philosophical) skeptic given the unfamiliarity most have with the Pyrrhonic movement and its heritage in philosophy. I suppose the terms are not all that important, other than a possibility for confusion. Solipsism, for me, is far too heavily related to Matrix-style thought experiments for my tastes. I consider myself a Christian, a Eudomonist(virtue ethicist), and a skeptic. Though as with you, they are not of equal importance.

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When the bible speaks of the least of these my children, it's referring to me.

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Me, as well. And when it says I am the worst of sinners, that is also me.

partinobodycular said:

My approach is to accept the pagan prophets for who and what they are, for I of all people have no right to judge someone in whose shoes I've never walked.

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My aim is for the philosophies that hold folks captive, rather than a judgment on the individuals themselves. Though separating the two is often not possible in practice, so I operate as I feel led. Sometimes I am overly zealous, though, I must admit.

Fact is, even "identical" twins aren't genetically identical, because of mutations after the division of the fertilized egg.

Glory to God!

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If they're the drivers of MAGA it's just because there's more of them. In 2015 I intentionally talked politics with Arab immigrants at coffee hours after church, asking who people were planning on voting for. Two younger Arabs liked Rand Paul and Fiorina, but every older Arab was voting for Trump. No one was voting for a Democrat. My deacon from Syria voted for him and joked "If you don't see me after January, I didn't run off. You'll know I got deported".

I'm aware that some don't think we're real Christians, but I think those folks are a minority. Over the last five years we didn't have a church, and an SDA and then a Methodist church graciously let us borrow their space to have our services. (The SDA church worked out nice since, as I'm sure you know, they meet on Saturdays. )

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Our Antiochian Orthodox parish going back to 1890s Syrian immigration , I believe, is probably majority democrat although we thankfully keep our faith free from politics. Personally, I am conservative and vote mostly republican ( including Trump ) or 3rd party. Our parish is also patriotic and 6 of its sons were killed in combat in WW 2.

Going back to 1990 Desert Shield, US involvement in the Middle East probably began the final phase in a death sentence for Middle Eastern Christians.

The only fair thing is too do, is the popular vote only. And make sure, there's stricter requirements to be a president.

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We don’t go to Mass because we’re perfect. We go to Mass because we’re broken.

It is, perhaps, more important than ever to bring children to Mass. Beyond being our weekly worship, beyond the sustaining power of receiving Our Lord in the Eucharist, and beyond just establishing family traditions, Mass is often the one place children can truly witness their parents putting their beliefs into action.

But taking kids to Mass isn’t easy. And I’m not talking about the inevitable theological discussions with pre-teens and teens who would much rather sleep in on Sunday and follow their friends’ more worldly paths. I’m talking about taking my three children age 6 and under to weekly Mass, even when sometimes it seems I might never actually participate without spending half my time hissing all manner of pleading and threats at the trio who are just moments away from inciting pure chaos.

On All Souls’ Day, though, my son was photographed by the Nashville Diocese’s own photographer, pious as an angel, kneeling in the aisle, eyes raised to heaven, so that he could witness Bishop Mark Spalding. He later told our pastor at the Cathedral of the Incarnation that he wanted to be a “baby priest” (which is what we call the seminarians we pray for, pictured on a holy card taped to our fridge) and planned a “priest outfit” for a special “What do you want to be when you grow up?” dress-up day at school.

You’d think we were perfect pious parents! Our little 6-year-old so enchanted by the Blessed Sacrament that he moved where he could see it clearly, my husband and I behind him in the front row.

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Clare73 said:

Yes, our understanding of the Trinity is from Scripture.

Jesus brackets together the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the Triune name of God (Mt 28:19).
Paul uses all three interchangeably (1 Co 12:4-6);
they are linked for prayer for divine (Godhood) blessing (2 Co 13:14),
they are linked in pronouncement of divine (Godhood) blessing (Rev 1:4-5).

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Likewise: Eph 4. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all....

Although, the primary text for Trinitarian usage is Matthew 28 as it commanded to be specifically used in every baptism of every Christian.

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I suspect she thought there was a mistake in the teleprompt, so she hesitated and then spoke to fix it.

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Yes. I agree.

Washington and Rome see Nigeria’s crisis through different lenses — but each perspective highlights part of a deadly reality facing the nation’s Christians.

It should come as little surprise that Rome and Washington recently articulated very different approaches when it comes to addressing the murderous campaign of violence against Christians that’s ongoing in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.

According to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, the underlying issues are “social” in nature, not religious. According to President Donald Trump, the matter is primarily religious, and the Nigerian government is to blame for allowing the killings to continue.

But, actually, the Vatican and the U.S. government both make good points about the situation. In combination, their differing approaches could assist in improving conditions on the ground for Nigerian Christians as well as for the country as a whole.

Nigeria is indisputably the world leader when it comes to killings of Christians, with tens of thousands murdered there since 2000. Yet Cardinal Parolin pointedly declined last month to characterize the Nigerian violence as a genocide of Christians conducted by Muslim militants, noting an array of other factors are also involved.

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Despite being baptised in the Church of Ireland, the Irish writer Oscar Wilde was fascinated by all things Catholic. As a dramatist (in both his professional and personal life), Wilde may have been attracted in part by the high aesthetics of the Catholic Church. But when, on a visit to Florence in 1881, he stumbled on the Mother of God at her Annunciation, his expectations were upended.

You may know the Leonardo da Vinci painting of the Annunciation that Wilde saw in the Uffizi Gallery, and that he would later describe in his poem “Ave Maria, Gratia Plena.” Angel and Virgin are in classic Annunciation pose. Mary is seated at a lectern; the angel, with his mighty wings, kneels before her in obeisance. The angel is strikingly earthly (he even has a shadow). Mary seems to be, unexpectedly, the essence of calm.

The painting, Wilde’s poem suggests, is almost underwhelming. Of course, Wilde knew the scriptural story. He would have read Luke’s startling yet quiet account of the conversation between the angel and the girl that would change the world forever. Yet, as a dramatist, Wilde also knew how God could have had it play out.

In these lines he recalls the mythical, flamboyant impregnations of Danae and Semele by Zeus — how the Greek god arrived in a shower of golden stars for Danae and descended in the guise of an eagle to Semele as she bathed in a river. These scenes, he suggests, are worthy of the earth-shattering conjunction of god with woman; this is the imagery we might expect. Yet, when with such glad dreams (he) sought this holy place, the poet comes before a sign of the one God in the halls of an Italian art gallery and falls, at least metaphorically, before this supreme mystery of Love.

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Sheriff doubles down on arrest, cites state penal code

A Texas sheriff’s office is doubling down after deputies arrested a local activist and Navy veteran after he posted a satirical meme on social media.

Hood County Sheriff’s deputies arrestedKolton Krottinger, 38, of Granbury, on Nov. 5 for felony online impersonation after he allegedly created an Oct. 2 Facebook post that appeared to come from another local activist, showing her endorsing Granbury ISD school board candidate Monica Brown.

On his Facebook page, Krottinger is listed as the founder of Blue Branch Historic Ranch, a mental health retreat for veterans and first responders, and the owner of the Anxiety Hackers cannabis dispensary in Oklahoma.

According to a criminal complaint, the alleged victim, Tina Brown, contacted authorities about the post, stating that she did not support Monica Brown and “that the public is being misled by the post as to what [Brown’s] actual beliefs are concerning this particular election race.”

The complaint — which says the alleged victim obtained a search warrant for Facebook owner Meta, and later identified Krottinger as the owner of the Hood County Sheepdogs Facebook page — alleges the post was made “without obtaining the other person’s consent and with the intent to defraud the general public against the peace and dignity of the state.”

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I had heard that axis are accurate. My friend had one in 22-250. He only loaded it with unique. The barrel seemed a little heavy. It did pretty good. Do you like the creedmoor round? I think it’s kind of cute, but never shot one. I like anything 6.5 . Have only tried old calibers like 6.5x53.5R. They sure need jacketed bullets though and to go pretty fast. They are heavy enough to slow down a little but small enough to have slight recoil. Anyway I like the accuracy.

This would seem a fortuitous time for the rise of a third party like American Solidarity Party. But it would take prominent leaders.

Daniel Marsh said:

who is hte leader?

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What qualities are common? “Us” v “Them” rhetoric. “I” and “we” are unique and only right. It is simple as that. No complexity, no nuance, simple black and white, right and wrong, dehumanize and demonize those who disagree with us.

Christians still sin, so what’s the difference between them and the world when it comes to sinning? When believers sin it is not intentional, “willful,” (Heb 10:26) nor “presumptuous” (Num 15:25). Paul said he now never willfully sins. He reveals that it is the “old man” or sin nature within that sins, but not him in his “new nature” (Rom 7:15, 17, 20). Thus, the sins of believers are committed in “ignorance,” unaware that they were going to sin. I know of no Christians that admit they knew they were about to commit a sin, and did it anyway.

Paul said it is like one who is “captive” against his nature, which doesn’t want to sin (vs 23). “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I do.” This doesn’t mean he never does good, nor that all he does is sin; he is merely demonstrating the normal life of a believer. This could be paraphrased as, “the good I want to do I do not always do; but the evil I do not want to do, I sometimes do. Paul says he does not want to do evil.”

How can Christians say they do not sin with the “new man,” or new nature (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10)? 1John 1:9 writes, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin (perpetrate - “to execute, commonly in a bad sense” - The American Heritage® Dictionary); for His “seed” (“new man”) remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God:”

John Gill (1697-1771): “Doth not commit sin; does not make it his trade and business; it is not the constant course of his life; he does not live and walk in sin, or give up himself to it; he is not without the being of it in him, or free from acts of sin in his life and conversation, but he does not so commit it as to be the servant of it, a slave unto it, or to continue in it.

“For His seed remains in him; not the word of God, or the Gospel, though that is a seed which is sown by the ministers of it, and blessed by God, and by which He regenerates His people; and which having a place in their hearts, becomes the engrafted word, and there abides, nor can it be rooted out; where it powerfully teaches to avoid sin, is an antidote against it, and a preservative from it: nor the Holy Spirit of God, though He is the Author of the new birth, and the principle of all grace; and where He once is, He always abides; and through the power of His grace believers prevail against sin, and mortify the deeds of the body, and live (Rom 8:13): but rather it is the grace of the Spirit, the internal principle of grace in the soul, the new nature, or new man formed in the soul, is meant His “seed.”

Paul also wrote, “You are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit” (Rom 8:9). The “flesh” is in us, but we are not in it! To be in the flesh in this sense means to be after the old man, desiring it. In the NT the word “flesh” nearly always means the “old man” or sin nature. In the OT, flesh is always in reference to the physical flesh of the body.

Though we still sin, God never sees the Christian as a sinner, which answers to why there is no Scripture reference relating the believer as a “sinner.” “If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear” (1Pe 4:18)?

Please pray for a job, I have part time work but need more hours, thank you

Peace in Christ.

We are to bear about the dying of the Lord Jesus so that the life also of Jesus be made manifest in our body….in our MORTAL flesh. This is the revealing of the Son of man to the world. His manifest life gives our mortal bodies an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life.) We shall not die but will live to the last day of this age.

2Co 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

But right now, we do not see the revealing of the life of Jesus in anyone’s mortal flesh as His life is being actively cut off by the GREAT MULTITUDE who are following after Judas. This is a current situation.

The Son of man is being betrayed NOW into the hands of sinners. This is going on in the man-based churches.

Mat 26:45-47 KJV
(45) Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

This is why we must “RISE” and be going from the man-based churches where the sinners are giving up (betraying) the Son of man so that His life is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of any that they are deceiving. Behold, he is at hand that does betray Him. They are following in the footsteps of Judas by doing so.

(46) Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
(47) And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

They do not confess in their preaching that Jesus Christ IS COMING NOW in the flesh….in our mortal flesh. You do not hear this being preached in any man-based church.

They are leading MULTITUDES astray away from the way that leads to His life being made manifest in the mortal flesh and down the broad way to the destruction of the mortal flesh without His manifest life. There is no age-lasting life to be found among them. Why look for the living among the dead man-based churches?

The “Jesus” that they are preaching is “another jesus” and not Jesus the Christ. Their words are not of the spirit of truth but of error.

2Jn 1:7 KJV
(7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come (IS COMING)in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

If they do not bring this doctrine….the doctrine of the true Christ (that Jesus IS COMING NOW in our mortal flesh), then we are not to receive them in our house neither bid them “God speed”….that is, rejoice.

2Jn 1:10-11 KJV
(10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed (REJOICE):

If we bid them “rejoice,” we are partakers of their evil deeds. We bid them “rejoice” when we go to their “churches” and support their evil deeds of cutting off the life of Jesus from being made manifest in this earth.

(11) For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Judas wanted Jesus to REJOICE (“hail” = rejoice) when he came with a GREAT MULTITUDE to take Him away.

Mat 26:47-50 KJV
(47) And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Those who are flattered by the “great multitude’s” kiss of the flattering lips are having the life of Jesus being actively taken out of their lives by them. The Son of man is being betrayed by the hands of sinners who are following after Judas.

They come as “friends” and come to lead you away from the way that leads to His life. They are betraying the Son of man by what they are doing. They are actively cutting off His life from being made manifest in the multitudes of people that they are deceiving.

(48) Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

“Hail” = rejoice. They want you to come and rejoice with them in this terrible situation as they lay their hands on Jesus and take Him out of the lives of those they are deceiving.

(49) And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail (REJOICE), master; and kissed him.
(50) And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

They are REJOICING (nourishing their hearst) in this day of slaughter as the people they are deceiving are not having the life of Jesus being made manifest in their mortal flesh as they are not preaching the doctrine of the Christ to them. They condemn and kill the Just One...the Prince of life... and He does not resist them as they do this.

Jas 5:5-6 KJV
(5) Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
(6) Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

They come with a feigned kiss and with their “swords” as they cause divisions among us. Their “staves”…their handwritings of ordinances…are contrary to the doctrine of Christ. We must avoid them.

Rom 16:16-18 KJV
(16) Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
(17) Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

They are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly as they come to us with a feigned kiss…good words and fair speeches…to deceive the hearts of the simple.

(18) For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

The “simple” believe every word ….their good words and fair speeches….that they hear them saying.

Pro 14:15 KJV
(15) The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

They lead the simple away from keeping His commandments which are written upon our hearts and minds and into their church bondage of keeping their church handwritings of ordinances instead.

If we do not remember to keep His commandments, then the deceivers have power to deceive us. Remembering to always do His commandments shall keep us away from the “strange woman”….the strange “church” gathering where they are keeping and serving man’s written commandments rather than His.

Pro 7:1-10 KJV
(1) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
(2) Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
(3) Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
(4) Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

The “simple” fall for the good words and fair speeches of the deceivers whose words are directed at them. And so the simple of heart go to their “house”…to their churches. They believe “every word” that they say to them.

(5) That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
(6) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
(7) And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

The simple believe every word that the deceiver says (their flattering words) and go to “her house”….the harlot church… where they are serving the sin and His life is not being made manifest. Their “house” leads instead to our mortal death.

(8) Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
(9) In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
(10) And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

The simple of heart fall for their “fair speeches”….and they go straightway to their churches.

Pro 7:21-27 KJV
(21) With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
(22) He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

They do not know that is for their lives as the life of Jesus is being actively taken away from them by doing so. There is no age-lasting life to be had by going to the man-based churches where MANY are being cast down to the grave by them.

(23) Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
(24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
(25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Their “church”….the “house” of the harlot church….is the way to the grave…for broad is the way to destruction…going down to the chambers of death.

(26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
(27) Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Let us hear the commandment of the Father and do it. His commandment is to “ARISE and go from that place.” We are to arise and come out from among the harlot churches and be separate.

Joh 14:31 KJV
(31) But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

This is the “Holy commandment” that is delivered for us to keep and not turn away from. We must not keep company with them any longer.

2Co 6:16-18 KJV
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Let us hear the FULL knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and come out from them. Do not listen any longer to those who are speaking “great swelling words of emptiness.” Let us not return back to them.

2Pe 2:18-21 KJV
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

For this is the WAY of righteousness…to come out from among them and be separate and not be attached to the unclean church body that is serving the sin. This is the “Holy commandment” …to be separate from them for our sanctification…that is delivered for us to keep. Let us not turn from keeping it.

(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Let us retain His wisdom that we hear Him saying. Out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Pro 2:6-21 KJV
(6) For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
(7) He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
(8) He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
(9) Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
(10) When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
(11) Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

In doing so, it will deliver us from the way of the evil….who will not do His Holy commandment to come out from among the man-based churches. They will leave the paths of the uprightness as they will not do it as commanded by the Father.

(12) To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
(13) Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

They will rejoice to do evil towards what they will hear Him saying.

(14) Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
(15) Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

It will deliver us…those who love His knowledge … from the “strange woman”….the harlot church.

(16) To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
(17) Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
(18) For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

Those who are going to “her” are not taking hold of the paths of life. They will reject the way that leads to His life. They will turn from the Way of righteousness and will not keep it.

(19) None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

But those who walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous shall dwell in the land…in the earth…and the complete shall remain in it as they will receive an age-lasting life. They will depart from the “strange woman” who flatters with the lips.

(20) That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
(21) For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and transgressors shall be rooted out of it. They will stay put in the man-based churches and will speak evil of the way of righteousness and those who will go in that way

(22) But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

The shelters around here have received a lot less government funding this year--so it doesn't seemg to be "shifting" funds, but instead just cutting them.

Then they will call in the National Guard to get the homeless rounded up, deported, etc. Our cities will look like police states. No wonder why Boston, NY, and Seattle have all elected Democrat Socialist mayors. It's a trend. Momdani got all the publicity--but it's not one person--it's a growing movement away from what many (if not most) freedom-lovers call fascism.

Eventually the justifiable anger (and rage) of the cities will spill out to the smaller cities, and towns, and villages across the country. Hopefully it will be channeled constructively into votes.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway.

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Sounds like Operation Praying Mantis 2.0 is in order.

Good old Savage! Still making awesome sporting arms!
Thank you for posting!

hopeforhappiness said:

"For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,
was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried"
My denomination in its local expression really dislikes the atonement and I have been wanting to present source documents to preachers to challenge them. (I have even shown them their own official catechism). Most of our preachers would simply find comfort and support for their liberal theology from this section. What they DON'T like is the Father giving His Son in order in anyway to assuage His anger at our rebellion.
I wish this foundational creed was stronger on Jesus dying for our SINS (our rebellion against God)
Is this a problem for the reformed. or can we just say that this creed was put together in response to the attacks on the person of Christ rather than His work?

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What you describe is penal substitution. It's perfectly possible to believe that Christ died for us without believing that it was needed to assuage God's anger. E.g. one could take Paul's view that through union with Christ we pass from bondage to sin to freedom. Calvin proposed something similar to that: that our mystical union with Christ creates a "community of righteousness" with him.

"For our sake" doesn't commit us to any specific theory of the atonement. I don't think you need to apologize for it. It's not a Reformed confession. It's a more generic statement of Christianity.