Lord have mercy!

HARK! said:

I ended up running out and buying a 55 gallon steel drum; so I had the foil and the drum for protection.

Turns out that the solar storms didn't seem to do any damage in my area anyway. I didn't hear any complaints; but at least now I'm better prepared; and I'm leaving some items in the drum, so that I'm always prepared for a solar storm, or an EMP.

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There will some day be a direct and powerful solar flare that does damage. And it seems we are more at risk now for an EMP than in decades.

SavedByGrace3 said:

Or no reasons.... as we have seen before. If you cannot find something real, make it up. It is all for show. The Senate will never convict. And life goes on.
All impeachments in the House are political. Well-known fact.

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Even Bill Clinton's?

RileyG said:

This is awesome!

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Agreed 100%. This astronaut is living up to Psalm 111:2.

Chrystal-J said:

Thanks. I hope she is saved by Jesus too.

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Hopefully, but it is hard to convert these people. But, Jesus can do anything.

Halbhh said:

"Your Kingdom come,
your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."

To me this is us asking to be in God's Kingdom -- we long for it. And also that we want His way -- instead of just our own ways. We want His better way of life, we want to do His will, His perfect good way of life. Saying these words we are aligning ourselves to Him, His way, when we mean the words.

It's a hope, a prayer, a longing, and a path.

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My life is completely and utterly disgusting, and I hate waking up. So it's not like I'm caught between two ways No, it's all puke.

Jehovah Jireh, we pray you will provide for WindsweptDreams and their brother as only you can, in the Name of Jesus. Amen and Amen.

RileyG said:

Come, Lord Jesus!

Expect things to get worse and worse.

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Amen to the first part.

Michie said:

Grand Canyon waterfalls create astonishing, continuous cascades during an extraordinary day.

Waterfalls rip down the Grand Canyon's walls.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona – Photos and videos of the Grand Canyon usually seem pretty dry. Sure, there’s water down there, but the surrounding area feels pretty moisture-free. So when the entire canyon is covered in flowing waterfalls, it’s quite a mind blowing sight.

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Monsoon Season In The Grand Canyon Is Truly Incredible

Grand Canyon waterfalls create astonishing, continuous cascades during an extraordinary day.

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I hope people are careful, and do not drown during these rainstorms.

Alaska

OP complete. Part 7 is next, which will start at chapter 2 of Hebrews.

Diamond7 said:

Armageddon has to do with Jerusalem, not china. Taiwan has a lot of weapons and China is not going to attack them. Russia is the country that has the ability to blow us off of the map. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy, played a pivotal role during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was mostly an issue with Khrushchev.

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"Mutual Assured Destruction" was never an official US strategic doctrine.

The actual policy stated in US strategic documents was "Enduring Deterrence."

durangodawood said:

The job of Jesus is to save you, not to tell you how to live in the world among other people. Paul and the Old Testament have that 2nd job.

Thats the message I get from American Christians anyway.

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David Bentley Hart's reading of Paul is alot more coherent than what I hear out of Evangelicals. Paul is eschatological and mystical, and relatively disinterested in what Protestants think of as "justification" as separate from "sanctification".

chevyontheriver said:

I'm not that prone to trust experts,

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That is what my brother does for a living. He makes $500 an hour as a expert witness in court.
He has to put up with a lot of abuse so he is not willing to testify for any lesser amount.

Jacob worked for Laban for a total of 20 years.
Genesis 29:

20 So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

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At the end of this 7 years period, Jacob worked for another 7 years:

26 Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. 27 Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”

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So Jacob worked for 14 years for Rachel and Leah. During this time, Laban gave him Zilpah (v. 24) and
Bilhah (v. 29). Jacob's had children with them.
Did Laban give Jacob any other wages during this 14-year period?
Jacob wanted to leave Laban and return to Isaac, but then they struck a deal, 30:

31“What shall I give you?” he asked.
“Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: 32Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. 33 And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”
34“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

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Six years later, Genesis 31:

4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock, 5 and said to them, “I see your father’s countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. 6 And you know that with all my might I have served your father. 7 Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times,

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Laban was jealous of Jacob's reward from God.

but God did not allow him to hurt me. 8 If he said thus: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked. 9 So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

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God miraculously transferred Laban's wealth to Jacob to bless Jacob and punish Laban's cheating.
Later, Jacob fled Laban. Jacob said to Laban::

38 “I have been with you for twenty years now.

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7+7+6 = 20 years.
At this point, Jacob had a lot of possessions, Genesis 32:

13b from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16He put them in the care of his servants

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Jacob gave Esau 550 animals as gifts. He had servants working for him. Jacob still had plenty for himself, Genesis 33:

12 Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”
13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. 14 So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
15Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”
“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

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Jacob was confident he had enough men with him to defend his possessions against robbers.
It seems that he worked for 14 years and didn't have much. Then, in 6 years, he acquired much wealth in Paddan Aram. God seems to reward Jacob for the earlier 14 years of work and more.

Oh well. Move along. That’s her right.

Reasonably Sane said:

Regarding the Epoch times article, it's nothing but someone trying to "debunk" them without giving them the ability to respond.

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They just made up stories and put them forward. It's a cult that was looking to make some money. They've so far tried money laundering, and pandering to far-right extremists.

As you have not heard me.
God bless you.

Estrid said:

Play snark with someone else.

Maybe they won't notice you can't explain yourself.

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Sweetie. I did explain myself. You just don’t like the explanation. Go play obtuse with someone else.

Welcome!

Ignatius the Kiwi said:

In a Christian society you witches would not be tolerated. There would be legal and social consequences for being a witch.

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Correct.

Diamond7 said:

They were very hell fire and brimstone. I attended a funeral they preached at and that was all they talked about. I thought a funeral was to comfort the people for their loss. Not to threaten them. That is what drove my father away from Christianity. He liked the happy feel good Christianity, but not the hell fire and brimstone. He use to take us to see one of his patients that had polo. With all of their adversity they were still very happy people. They were so happy to see us and they were so glad my dad brought us and all of that. He attended the Baptism service for my son and he said he had never seen a happy church like that. WE would celebrate God, not the hell fire and brimstone stuff at all. Just the opposite of that.

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I believe we need a mix of every Bible truth. The people you knew may not have used wisdom in how they preached it but the declarations of truth need to come forth in some way, form or fashion. You can't just say we cut out hell or any teaching of Jesus which talk of potential judgement of one.

Remember Jesus teaching, remember Lot's wife? What should we remember about her? She compromised and received a judgement. Cut that out of the Bible and throw it away? NO. Preach it every single week in church? No but balance is the key.

Welcome to the forum...I must admit, I myself often struggle with thoughts that it might not be real. But in my case that's just the rebelious flesh speaking, rather than my own convictions. I am curious, what specifically is holding you back from believing in Christ? What's your biggest logical objection?

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Thank you for sharing.

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That theme, "Dangerous memory" of Jesus I am often finding referred to by other theologians. I a m currently excited about reading David Tracy, Analogical Imagination. Amazing. I am looking forward to reading Naming the Present. Then I will be eager to read more of Metz.

Keep praying until all members of the alphabet soup are converted and saved!