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I think Trump is referring to people he considers to be corrupt and are abusing their authority to interfere with elections and falsely prosecute him and others.This dumb sub-thread started with political differences between pro-gay and anti-gay people, and Trump is talking about political differences between red-people versus blue-people.
Medical abuses are the choices being made there.So what then.....is it better they shoot them in the head? Wounded vs being dead?.....hmmm, hard choice to make there.
What was the significance of this pouring of water?3 Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only.
5 Then Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will intercede with the Lord for you.” 6 When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord.
Water symbolized their heart.and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord] A symbolical act which has no exact parallel in the O.T., but was probably significant of the outpouring of their hearts before Jehovah in penitence and supplication. … The paraphrase of the Targum is, “And they poured out their heart in repentance before Jehovah.”
Water signified blood for cleansing. The act showed their sincerity and commitment to God. The Lord accepted their offering of water.As an external sign, whereby they testified and professed both their own great filthiness and need of washing by the grace and Spirit of God, and blood of the covenant, which are oft signified by water, and their sincere desire to pour out their very hearts before the Lord in true repentance, and to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit.
The Israelites put away their idols and turned to the Lord. Samuel performed a symbolic act of pouring water out before the Lord for their cleansing. The Lord saw their repentant heart and worked with them to fight against their enemies.10 While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the Lord thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.
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It's now clear that this "analysis" is not some reasoned academic or scholarly ranking, but rather one of the many "scorings" of legislators provided to supporters to help them pick candidates. It is no different than similar rankings from groups from NARAL to the NRA and every group in between.Number 4 in the Senate on the Conservative side is one, Tommy Tuberville, who, as memory serves, single-handedly snafued the Pentagon’s hierarchy (for something like 15 months), by placing a “hold” on the promotions of thousands of people in the armed services, which is hardly what a “small-government” conservative (which seems to be the only metric involved in this “ranking”), would likely do.
Whew, any classic 1950s-1960s Spanish-language songs that you liked? I like Los Lobos - La Bamba, the 1980s cover of a 1950s Ritchie Valens cover of a classic Mexican folk song.All the way back to the '80s. Wow. I used to listen to them all the way back to the 50s--before the Wolf Man.
Out of curiosity, could a moon be made of gas?
That's an intriguing question. I'm interested in planetary formation from the standpoint of an armchair amateur, but the proper answer is probably above that paygrade.
The gas planets are thought to form at a stage in the process where the stellar nebula of gas and dust still has a substantial mass. The dust accumulates into clumps, through collision then gravitational attraction, which build up to form planetesimals, which accrete to larger bodies which may go on to become asteroids, moons, or planets. But some become the core of the gas and ice giants that attract the remaining gas within the nebula. These planetary cores are thought to be five or ten time the mass of the Earth.
I find it unlikely that these could then wind up as a moon - they would just be to big - but that may simply be lack of imagination on my part. And I don't think they could accumulate significant gas without being massive to begin that process. On balance, then, highly unlikely, but in a rather large universe I hesitat to say impossible. Fortunately there are others on the forum who likely know the answer.
An Early, Successful Evangelical Outreach
Acts 4:
1 Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,
2 being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
A common Evangelical message during an outreach to the unsaved consists of a simple decision involving some form
of admission to being a sinner, accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior, and inviting Him into your heart and placing all
your trust in Him alone for Salvation.
A familiar passage from Paul makes this clear statement:
Romans 10:
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
I have heard that anyone who is predestined for salvation and places their trust in Christ will naturally also believe in His resurrection, and therefore this is not a necessary element of the Evangelical message. This in spite of the fact that many in the early church began to entertain doubtful disputes over the issue, to which Paul addressed with this statement:
1 Corinthians 15:
12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead,
how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.
14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.
15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God
that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise.
16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.
17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
With faith the key element for Salvation and imputed Righteousness, of what value
is a faith that is rendered empty and futile by a failure to accept the Resurrection
as a basis for that faith?
My contention today is that if the original apostles, evangelists and teachers taught
the Resurrection, as did Christ Himself, how can a modern attempt to "get people saved"
exclude this from their message?
The OP will now present a survey of Gospel messages preached in the book of Acts as evidence.
The replacement for the fallen Judas must as a qualification be a witness to the Resurrection.
Acts 1:
21 Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time
that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us,
one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.
Peter's sermon on the Day of Pentecost
Acts 2:
22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles,
wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know;
23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken
by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death,
because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
25 For David says concerning Him:
I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. [prophetic fulfillment]
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’
29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David,
that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath
to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh,
He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ,
that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.
32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.
33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father
the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.
Peter and John before the Council
Acts 3:
14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.