Jhn 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
Jhn 17:18 As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
Jhn 17:19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
Jhn 17:20 "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,
Jhn 17:21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Jhn 17:22 The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

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JosephZ said:

There are many Glock models that are legal in California.

Fortunately, there are multiple Glock pistols and handguns that have been added to the roster of safe guns in California. These include the Glock 17, the Glock 19, the Glock 20, the Glock 21, the Glock 22, the Glock 23, the Glock 26, the Glock 27, and the Glock 29. There are plenty of newer models that have been added to the list as well. Notice that the Glock 18 is not on this list. This handgun is only for military and law enforcement use. The roster is updated regularly, so check back often to see if new handguns are added.


Any older models that may have been banned would have been grandfathered in for those who already owned them. The gun VP Harris' owns would no doubt be legal for her to possess.

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Trump’s small-dollar donor fundraising is beset by confusion and fatigue​

Harris' political operation crosses $1 billion raised for the 2024 election​

Wolseley said:

Says the pope who dragged "Pachamama" idols into St. Peters, and issued Fiducia supplicans.

I wish he'd make up his mind.

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7thKeeper said:

Watched that earlier and some reactions from lawyers, a lot of which was wondering why is she trying to anger the judge with her comments and actions.

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Michie said:

“most of the rudiments of my faith in Christ as Savior and the Son of God are still shared without serious question by Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Copts, Seventh-day Adventists, and many other religious people.”

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• Psa 18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
• 2Ti 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

1. Php 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention (provocation), not sincerely, supposing (wanting) to add affliction to my (Paul) bonds:
2. 1Th 2:2 But even after that we (servant leadership) had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as you (Christians) know, at Philippi, we (servant leadership) were bold in our (Christian) God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention (conflict).

• 1Co 1:11-13 For it has been declared unto me (Paul) of you, my (Christian) brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe (Christian acquaintance of Paul), that there are contentions among you. 1Co 1:12 Now this I (Paul) say, that every one of you (Christian Brethren) says, I am of Paul (denominational division); and I of Apollos (denominational division); and I of Cephas (denominational division); and I of Christ. 1Co 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
• 1Co 3:2-8 I (Paul) have fed you (immature Christians) with milk (basic doctrine), and not with meat (doctrine): for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able. 1Co 3:3 For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you (immature Christians) envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men? 1Co 3:4 For while one says, I am of Paul (denominational division); and another, I am of Apollos (denominational division); are you not carnal? 1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase. 1Co 3:8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor (Rom 14:10 2Cor 5:10).
• 1Co 15:58 Therefore, my (Paul) beloved (Christian) brethren, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you (Christian) know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

1. Pro 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
2. Joh 15:25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, they hated me without a cause.

1. 1Co 3:20 And again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
2. 1Co 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you (Christians) are yet in your sins.
3. 1Ti 1:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
4. Tit 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
5. Jas 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
6. 1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as you (Christians) know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your (Christians) vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
7. Heb 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

• Isa 28:15-15 Because you have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Isa 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste. Isa 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
• Mat 26:14-16 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, Mat 26:15 And said unto them, what will you (chief priests) give me (Judas), and I will deliver him (Jesus) unto you? And they (chief priests) covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. Mat 26:16 And from that time he (Judas) sought opportunity to betray him (Jesus).

1. 1Co 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you (Christians), that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
2. Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh (sin nature) are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Gal 5:21 Envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like: of the which I (Paul) tell you (Christians) before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
3. 2Pe 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you (Christians), who (false prophets) privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
4. 2Co 13:2 (1) I (Paul) told you (Christians) before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; (2) and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned (carnal), (3) and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
5. Mat 18:15 Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother.
6. Rom 16:17-18 Now I beseech you, (Christian) brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them. Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus (the) Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
7. 2Th 3:6-7 Now we (servant leadership) command you, (Christian) brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus (the) Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us (servant leadership). 2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8. Jer 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

1. Tit 1:11 Whose (denominationalism) mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not (1Tim 3:8 1Pet 5:2), (for filthy lucre's sake. see Heb 5:12-6:1-6 paper (GAIN IS NOT GODLINESS)

• Luk 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves (sect-Pharisees), being not baptized of him (John the Baptist Matt 3:11).

1. Act 15:24 Forasmuch as we (servant leadership) have heard, that certain (false teachers 2Pet 2:1) which went out from us (Christian Assembly Heb 12:23) have troubled you (immature Christians) with words, subverting your souls, saying, you (immature Christians Heb 5:12,13) must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom (false teachers) we gave no such commandment:

• 1Jn 2:19 They (false teachers) went out from us (Christians), but they were not of us (Christians Acts 20:28 Heb 12:23); for if they had been of us (Christians), they would no doubt have continued with us: but they (false teachers) went out, that they might be made manifest that they (false teachers) were not all of us.

1. 2Ti 2:14-16 Of these things (true doctrine) put them (false teachers) in remembrance, charging them (false teachers) before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit (Gal 5:4 1Cor 1:18 (Isa 29:14), but to the subverting (overflow-propogandist-subtill Gen 3:1) of the hearers. 2Ti 2:15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman (mature Christian) that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2Ti 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
2. Eze 21:27 I (God) will overturn (overflow), overturn (bow down), overturn (do wrong), it: and it shall be no more, until he (Son of God-Jesus) come whose right it is; and I (God) will give it him (Son of God-Jesus Matt 16:13-20).
3. Job 12:15-16 Behold, he (God) withholds the waters (teaching of true doctrines), and they (waters) dry up: also he (God) sends them (false teachers) out, and they overturn (Rev 2:20-23) the earth. Job 12:16 With him (God) is strength and wisdom: the deceived (2Tim 3:13) and the deceiver (false teachers) are his (God).

• Isa 28:20 For the bed is shorter (Isa 28:16-18) than that a man can stretch himself on it (the bed): and the covering narrower (Isa 48:22 Isa 57:20) than that he can wrap himself in It (covering).

1. Luk 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers (see Matt 23 paper) rejected the counsel of God against themselves (Pharisees and scribes), being not baptized of him (John the Babtist Matt 3:11).

• Jer 8:8 How do you (false teachers 1Pet 2:3 2Tim 4:3 Isa 30:10) say, we are wise (Acts 17:28), and the law of the LORD is with us (false teachers Eccl 12:12)? Lo, certainly in vain made he (false teachers) it (doctrines of men Matt 15:9); the pen of the scribes (parallels books used in denominationalism) is in vain.

• 2Co 6:14-18 Be you (Christians) not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness (Gen 1:4 Isa 10:1-2 Matt 23:23)? 2Co 6:15 And what concord has Christ with Belial (Lucifer Rev 2:24)? or what part has he (Christian) that believes (Rom 10:9-10 Eph 2:8-10) with an infidel (idolator)? 2Co 6:16 And what agreement has the temple (Christians Acts 17:24 Eph 2:18-22) of God with idols? for you (Christians) are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them (Christians), and walk in them (Christians); and I will be their (Christians) God, and they shall be my (God) people (Christians). 2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them (denominationalists Col 3:5), and be you (Christians) separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing (1Cor 10:20 James 3:15 filthy lucre); and I (God) will receive you (Christians), 2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you (Christians), and you (Christians) shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty (Rev 1:13-18).

1. Rom 3:18-20 There is no fear of God before their (rejectors Rom 1:25 Rom 3:4) eyes. Rom 3:19 Now we (servant leadership) know that what things soever the law says, it says to them (rejectors) who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty (Rom 3:23) before God. Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his (God) sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Rom 3:21-31

1. 2Ti 4:9 Do your diligence to come shortly unto me: Jude 1:3
2. 2Ti 4:21 Do your diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. Heb 12:15
3. 1Co 16:8 But I (Paul) will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. 1Co 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries (enemies 1Pet 5:8). 1Co 16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do. 1Co 16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the (Christian) brethren.

1. 3Jn 1:6 Which have borne witness of your charity before the (True) church: whom if you bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, you shall do well: 3Jn 1:7 Because that for his (Jesus) name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 3Jn 1:8 We therefore ought to receive such (the same-nothing), that we might be fellow helpers (1Cor 9:12) to the truth (John 14:6). 3Jn 1:9 I wrote unto the (True) church: but Diotrephes (opponent of Christianity {parallels denominational preacher John 12:43}), who loves to have the preeminence among them (church members), receives us not. James 1:4

1. Rom 13:3 KJV For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same:
2. Eph 2:10 KJV For we are his (God) workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we (Christians) should walk in them.

• 1Ti 5:10 KJV Well reported for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

1. 1Ti 6:18 KJV That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
2. 2Ti 3:17 KJV That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2Tim 2:15).
3. Tit 2:14 KJV Who (Jesus) gave himself for us (Christians), that he (Jesus) might redeem us (Christians) from all iniquity, and purify unto himself (Jesus) a peculiar people (Acts 20:28 Heb 12:23), zealous of good works.
4. Tit 3:8 KJV This is a faithful saying, and these things I (Paul) will that you (Christians) affirm constantly, that they (Christians) which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
5. Tit 3:14 KJV And let ours (Christians) also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they (Christians) be not unfruitful.
6. 1Pe 2:12 KJV Having your (Christians) conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they (rejectors) speak against you (Christians) as evildoers, they (rejectors) may by your (Christians) good works, which they (rejectors) shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation (Rev 1:7 1Cor 15 1Thess 4:13-17).

• Gal 4:17 They (rejectors) zealously affect you (Christians), but not well; yes, they (rejectors) would exclude you (Christians), that you (Christians) might affect them (rejectors).

1. Rom 15:20 Yes, so have I (Paul) strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I (Paul) should build upon another man's foundation: Rom 15:21 But as it is written, to whom he (Jesus) was not spoken of, they (people) shall see: and they (people) that have not heard shall understand.
2. Rom 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my (Paul) helpers in Christ Jesus: Rom 16:4 Who (Priscilla and Aquila) have for my (Paul) life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I (Paul) give thanks, but also all the (True) churches of the Gentiles.
3. Rom 16:16 Salute one another (Christians) with an holy kiss. The (True) churches of Christ salute you.

1. Pro 14:12 There is a way (denominationalism) which seems right unto a man (see 2Pet 2 and Heb 5:12-6:1-6 papers), but the end thereof are the ways of death. 2Tim 2:4 entanglement of the sin nature
2. Act 9:4 And he (Paul) fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you (Paul) me (Jesus)?

• Gal 1:13-14 For you (Christians) have heard of my (Paul) conversation in time past in the Jews' religion (denomination), how that beyond measure I (Paul) persecuted the (True 1Pet 4:17 1Cor 6:16) church of God, and wasted (Acts 9:2) it: Gal 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my (Paul) equals (Pharisees) in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions (Mark 7:8 Col 2:8 Jud 9:4) of my fathers. True Church Matt 16:13-20 Acts 20:28 Col 1:13-18 Heb 12:23)

1. Act 9:5-6 And he said, who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you (Paul) to kick against the pricks (Acts 1:20 {John 2:14,15}). Act 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do. Acts 9:1-6 Acts 26:14

• Acts 9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their (rejectors) own heart, and after Baalim (Num 24:14 Rev 2:14), which their fathers taught them (rejectors):

1. Mat 7:12-14 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Mat 7:13 Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in (Luke 13:24) thereat: Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate (Rom 1:16 1Cor 1:18), and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.

• Mat 22:37-40 Jesus said unto him, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment. Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
• 1Co 2:4 And my (Paul) speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1Co 2:5 That your (Christians) faith should not stand in the wisdom (denominationalism) of men, but in the power (Matt 19:26 1Cor 1:18 Rom 1:16 1Cor 15:50-53 1Thess 4:13-17) of God. John 15:5 Acts 7:48 Acts 17:24

1. Heb 12:10-11 For they (physical fathers Heb 12:5-9) verily for a few days chastened us (Christians) after their own pleasure; but he (Jesus) for our (Christians) profit (Rev 21&22), that we might be partakers of his (Jesus) holiness. Heb 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it (chastening) yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them (Christians) which are exercised thereby. John 3:6
2. Rom 6:21 What fruit had you (Christians) then in those things whereof you are now ashamed (Phil 1:20 Heb 11:16)? for the end of those things (Isa 1:13-15) is death (1Cor 15:54-56).

• Hos 10:13 You (see Mark 12:1-12 paper) have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit (Deut 32:31-33) of lies (John 8:44): because you did trust in your way (denominationalism), in the multitude of your mighty men (Militaries).

1. Rom 7:4-6 Wherefore, my (Paul) (Christian) brethren, you also are become dead to the law (Col 2:14 Rom 10:4) by the body of Christ; that you (Christians) (John 1:12 1John 3:2) should be married to another, even to him (Jesus) who is raised from the dead (Eph 4:8), that we (Christians) should bring forth fruit (Matt 7:20) unto God. Rom 7:5 For when we (Christians) were in the flesh (sin nature 2Pet 2:19), the motions of sins (Acts 17:28), which were by the law (Jam 2:10 Gal 3:24-27), did work in our members to bring forth fruit (Gal 5:19-21) unto death (Rev 20:14-15). Rom 7:6 But now we (Christians) are delivered from the law (Rom 3:20 Gal 5:18), that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit (John 3:3-8 Gal 5:22-25), and not in the oldness of the letter (Col 2:14 2Cor 3:6 Jer 14:14-15).
2. Jer 5:24-28 Neither say they in their heart, let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks (Isa 28:15-18 Scourge {Jer 30:7 Mark 4:29 7-year Tribulation Dan 9:27}) of the harvest. Jer 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

• Jer 5:26 For among my people (Jews) are found wicked men: (1) they lay wait, (2) as he that sets snares (Isa 28:13 see snared paper); (3) they set a trap (1Tim 6:9), (4) they catch men. Jer 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Jer 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 2Pet 2:12

1. Pro 12:15 The way of a fool (1Cor 1:18) is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel (Luke 7:30 Isa 9:6) is wise.
2. Pro 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud (Job 41:34 Isa 28:1): but he will establish the border of the widow.
3. Pro 30:12 There is a generation (future Isa 30:1 Matt 15:8) that are pure in their own eyes (Gal 3:10 Rom 9:32 Rev 2&3), and yet is not washed (Isa 29:13 1Pet 3:21) from their (rejectors) filthiness (2Cor 7:1).

1. Gal 6:2-4 Bear you (Christians) one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ (Matt 5:17 Matt 22:37-40). Gal 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Gal 6:4 But let every man prove his own work (Matt 16:6), and then shall he have rejoicing (2Tim 2:15 Acts 17:11) in himself alone, and not in another (Jer 17:5 2Tim 3:6 Psa 17:8).

• 2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers (2Cor 11:13-15 1Tim 4:1) shall wax worse and worse (Isa 30:10), deceiving, and being deceived (2Tim 4:3).
• Jer 17:9-10 The heart (Rom 1:28 Jer 6:30 Matt 26:15) is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Gen 6:5 Pro 8:36): who can know it? Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart (Rev 3:20 Heb 12:6-10), I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways (Matt 11:15 John 10:27), and according to the fruit of his doings. (Rom 14:10 2Cor 5:10 Jam 1:22 )

1. Eph 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words (1Cor 15:2 Jud 9:4 2Pet 2:3): for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience (Rom 1:21-32 2Cor 11:13-15).
2. Jas 1:22 But be you doers of the word (Matt 22:37-40 John 10:24), and not hearers only (see Heb 5:12-6:1-6 paper), deceiving your own selves (Jam 2:26).
3. Jer 7:4 Trust you not in lying words (Isa 28:15 Gen 3:7 2Tim 3:6), saying, the temple (Matt 23:21 Rev 2:13) of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, are these. Titus 1:11 Isa 2:8

• Eze 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. see Titus 3 paper, subverting Titus 3:11
• Mat 26:34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I (Jesus) say unto you (Peter), that this night, before the C*ck crow, you (Peter) shall deny me (Jesus) thrice.

stevevw said:

Studies have been done on young children which shows they have a fairly sophisticate theistic belief that is not the same as human made beliefs about Gods (Anthropotheism). So their belief is not taught and its something they naturally come up with as a result of being human.

It is this natural belief that is later encultured in various ways such as Hindu, Muslims, Witchery, New Age Mysticism or Christian ect. Or none at all. But the study also found that trying to get belief out of a child is near impossible. In fact when people say that kids are indoctrinated into believing in God or other beliefs its really the other way around where you have to indoctrinate a child out of belief.

Thats because they their mind is attuned to belief and teleology and in the supernatural, something behind what we see and a disembodied existence like a soul.

The studies also go into how children know the difference between false beliefs and knowing how humans believe as opposed to their natural theism. Theres also studies on adults which show we are natural theists. Theres common core beliefs throughout all cultures and religions.

Born believers: How your brain creates God

Born believers: How your brain creates God

Michelangelo's painting The Creation of the First Man is in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Human beings have a natural inclination for religious belief, especially during hard times Read our related editorial: The credit crunch could be a boon for irrational belief WHILE many institutions...

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Humans 'predisposed' to believe in gods and the afterlife

Humans 'predisposed' to believe in gods and the afterlife

New research finds that humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife. Research suggests that people across many different cultures instinctively believe that some part of their mind, soul or spirit lives on after-death. The studies demonstrate that people are natural...

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Religion is natural

Religion is natural - PubMed

Despite its considerable intellectual interest and great social relevance, religion has been neglected by contemporary developmental psychologists. But in the last few years, there has been an emerging body of research exploring children's grasp of certain universal religious ideas. Some recent...

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Also we are also born with a sense of morality and empathy. Which seems to go hand in hand with our belief. Studies have shown even babies cry at the pain of other crying babies. Children have this strong and developed sense of justice, kindness and fairness well before being taught it.

I guess thats why Christ said we need to become like little children.

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1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

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3 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”

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4 Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

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5 And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.”

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  Couple Resists Persecution, Shares Gospel in Village​

  [4] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for Pastor Prem and family.
  
  Since 2011, Pastor Prem and his wife, Amala, have served in an area of India where pastors and Christian organizations serve for a short time but then leave because of persecution. The area is the central hub in the district for the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Prem and Amala now lead a church with about 35 believers. Prem has been beaten four times, faces constant pressure from the community and is continually watched. Read More.

• Oct. 10, 2024 | Indonesia​

  Attack Survivor Finds Faith Is Stronger​

  [2] prayers in [1] nation have been posted for Kila.
  
  Kila, who is in his late twenties, survived an East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) terrorist attack on a small group of Kalimago villagers in 2022. His friend, Marten Solon, was killed in the attack. Kila shared about the experience and how God used it to motivate him when he was a nominal Christian to live his life for God rather than himself. Kila is still experiencing some ongoing health complications due to the trauma of the attack. Read More.

Michie said:

Be sure to read the rules here Dan. I do not believe Mormonism falls under the Christian banner here.

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The Liturgist said:

I’m thinking more of the confirmation services for teenagers, which generally require or required the youths to memorize the Creed and a few other things, and we don’t do that.

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