Pommer said:

Count down to being told that this case was incorrectly decided…

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By a corrupt Barack Hussein Obama judge.

Leo Sorokin - Stephen Miller: switched at birth?

Anyone can sue anyone so opposing lawsuits. The courts will decide. Medical malpractice is already rampant in the US.

essentialsaltes said:

It looks like their PragerU/Hillsdale propaganda roadshow won't visit the West Coast.

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And skipping spots in New England.

Freedom 250 truck in CT town this week; Backlash cancels nearby stop

GoldenBoy89 said:

Many don’t realize that SS officer trench coat of his is actually just a normal size leather jacket.

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I think his tailor and his web developer must be sharing the same ruler.

essentialsaltes said:

The military has responded by removing Christian from all of them. Note the rationale that it was redundant. They put Christian on the Christian ones and didn't put it on the non-Christian ones. So the 'mistake' was not misclassifying the LDS.

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The Book of Job

Many of us have read the book of Job and have seen the trials God put him through,we can all agree Job was hard done buy and whilst we feel sorry for Job, we cant help but think about our ourselves and if ever we found ourselves being in that situation wondering how we would react,or what we will do, at the end of the day it is a scary thought to have your whole life ripped away from you without explanation and in Jobs case being a righteous man made it all the more confusing.

What once was one of my most feared books to read in the Bible was the book of Job,like myself and many others we have what we value most to us and that is in the form of family,our jobs,children,possesions and so on,to suddenly have these things taken away from us would cause all types of grief in our lives

Now what was once the Bible story that I feared most has now become the Story that gives me the most peace and assurace,that is because their is a greater message in the Book of Job one that offers peace and guidance on how we can build and maintain a relationship with God.

We as humans tend to look at and react to what we can relate to and whether or not a situation like Jobs can become our reality,we become hyperfixated on the what ifs of life and sometimes don't see the greater picture or message.but what God has revealed to me I plan to reveal to you.

Now one day the angels came to present themselves to God and Satan came along with them,Satan on face value seems like he's trying to manipulate God into striking down Job because He Thinks Job is righteous only because God has blessed him in many ways,but before that God says to Satan,have you ever considered my servant Job? Their is none like him on earth,God being all knowing and all powerful knew what tactics Satan was up to but beat him before he could get a word out, When God gave permission to Satan to destroy Jobs life Satan thought he got his way and would prove his point.

Now at this point Job had his family taken away all his land, his animals,his wealth, everything that belonged to him except his life,after more heckling from Satan God gave permission to Him to inflict wounds on Job and make him ill, that was the final straw for job, job at this point was at his wits end he finally snapped,he went through a barage of emotions he went from crying out to God screaming why me,wondering what he did wrong, pleading his case with his three friends explaining to them he had did nothing wrong to deserve this affliction that came upon him,he went as far as cursing his own life and cursing the day he had been born, he asked God to take his life because their was no point of living anymore,he even went as far to say if God was before him he could honestly say he has done nothing wrong enough to deserve this,his three friends rebuke job they go back and forth for days deliberating amongst themselves trying to work with job to find out what Job had did wrong, they were defending God to Job saying that Jobs reaction is over the top almost to dramatic and that he needs to look deeper in himself because a righteous God doesn't pay back evil with good, they kept coming up with reasons all whilst Job kept hitting back with Raw emotion and defence for his case.

After many days of deliberation God shows up in a whirlwind and rebukes Job he opens Jobs eyes to the reality that Gods wisdom and reasoning surpasses all human emotion and interlect,he asks Job a simple question, Where were you when I laid the Earth's foundation? God went through a series of Questioning to Job challenging him on who knows what,and on who knows best,He shows Job that Gods reasoning for what he does is beyond human comprehension at times,God doesn't even justify himself to Job and give him the reason why this all happened to him instead he overwhelms job with questions about creation, nature, the seas, the stars,and the animals itself,He shows Job that he does not have the knowlege required to accuse God of injustice,Jobs suffering is real but does not have God like understanding and that it is better to Trust the wisdom of God who sees what he cannot. After the lamenting and lessons taught God gave back to Job two times more than what he lost.

Now this part here is what myself and what I think everyone misses this part is what should give us believers peace and clarity that yes their is a great lesson here to trust in God's wisdom and that we should humble ourselves to God and trust his understanding and reasoning even when it doesn't make sense and even when it is so hard. But when God was done with Job he turned his attention to his friends specifically Eliphaz,God said I am angry with you and your two friends,because you have not spoken the truth about me,as my servant Job has.

Hang on a minute? Job was the one with his first clentched to the air accusing God for what he had done, he was the one cursing his life and everything in it, he was the one back chatting to his friends when they would defend the case of God to him, yet instead God turned around and rebuked Eliphaz and his friends for speaking wrongly about him? You would think it would of been the other way around.

But through this sequence God has shown us what is acceptable to him,he has shown us a way to pray, to draw near to him,he has taught us how to build and maintain a relationship, and that is through one word, HONESTY, right through the book of Job, Job maintained his position he would not stray away from the fact that he was hard done by and he let God know all about it through his raw emotion but ultimately he was honest. And although God still rebuked him and put him back in his place, God still had him ahead of Jobs friends who were their offering up shallow excuses as to Why God did what he did,mainting their own self rightousnes, leaning on their own wisdom and understading as to why God does what he does..God ultimately said you guys are worse, Job was in the wrong but at least he poured out his heart and was willing to wrestle with God to gain understanding but you guys sat their claiming that you know me and my ways when in fact you have no idea.

The greatest thing we can take out of this is that Yes Jobs story is sad and it is a scary position to think about let alone be in, but the hidden message in all this, the assurances of knowing that God has called us into a honest relationship with him gives us so much peace and hope,to know that when we are going through tough times we can lean on God and sit their and lament with our hearts, we can pour out our hearts and know that he is right their,this type of Honesty goes beyond just when life gets hard,it is a blueprint for how we ought to approach God and the relationship we seek to have with him, whether we have done wrong or wrong has been done to us,whether its small details in our lives,whether it unconfessed sin,or the daily fleshly battles we face everyday,a honest relationship with God is what matters most. The fact we can be so honest with a all knowing all powerful God is such a luxury and I truly believe, that gives freedom, knowing that we've poured out our hearts and given it to someone who is so much more capable than we are is what should give us rest,

So yes Jobs story is sad and so are many of our own, but knowing that Gods wisdom and understading goes beyond ours gives us hope, knowing that we are called into a honest relationship with God,that gives us Rest.

The Church Divided

This was the apostle Paul speaking. The church in Corinth was divided because the people were largely becoming followers of man. For they associated themselves as either being of Paul or of Apollos or of Cephas, or some said they were of Christ. So this would be a lot like the church today claiming to be Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Charismatic, Presbyterian, and the like. So, he asked them if Christ was divided and if Paul was crucified for them and if they were baptized in the name of Paul.

1 Corinthians 1:17-19 NKJV


So, first of all we need to understand that “the church” is not these individual organizations largely of human origin which are incorporated underneath (joined/partnered with) the state (the government) which are largely being marketed to the people of the world, which God forbids. The church is the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ who have died with him to sin and who are obeying our Lord as a matter of life practice. We, the people of God, are his church of which HE alone is to be the head.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

False Teachings of Man

But this isn’t just about the church being divided by denominations and partnerships with the state. This is about the body of Christ, his church, being divided by theologies and doctrines and teachings, many of which are not of God, and which are taught out of their biblical context in order to deliberately and habitually teach lies to the people. For many are avoiding many of the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles in order to deliberately lead the people to accepting what is of Satan, instead.

For many are teaching a “gospel” of salvation totally absent of God’s requirements that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God, in practice, if we are to have deliverance from sin and the hope of eternal life with God in heaven when we die, or when Jesus returns. So what they are teaching is of this world, and of the flesh nature. And so many who profess the name of Jesus have continued to live according to the flesh, doing what their flesh desires, living in sensuality, idolatry, immorality and in deceptiveness.

Thus, they are not in love with Jesus Christ, but they are in love with self and with the flesh. And what they desire is not to be like Jesus in character, but they hunger after what and/or who is wicked, evil, corrupt, immoral, lewd and dishonest. They hunger and thirst after what is sinful, and they embrace evil, and they want what is of the flesh more than they want anything else. And so much of what is called “church” is giving its stamp of approval on addictive sin and moral corruptness among its “members,” too.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Testing the Spirits

Paul was a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ in its purest and most biblical sense, as he was led by the Holy Spirit, and not of the flesh. His wisdom did not come from theologians and debaters of the Scriptures, but his wisdom came from God alone, by the Spirit. He did not use words which would attract the world to himself, but he spoke the truth of God’s word for the salvation of human lives out from under their addiction to sin so they will now serve Jesus Christ in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands.

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).

So, if a pastor or a preacher of “the Scriptures” is telling you that you do not have to repent (die to sin) and obey God, in practice, and that if you profess faith in Jesus Christ that God is now going to overlook all of your future sins, and heaven is still your eternal destiny, you are being lied to big time! So go to the Scriptures yourselves. Read them in their correct biblical context. Read them under the direction of the Holy Spirit. And then surrender your lives to Christ to obey him and to no longer walk in sin, all in his power.

Testing the Spirits: [Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-14; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

The Letters

Based off Revelation 2-3
An Original Work / December 17, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

To the angels of all the churches write:
These are the words of your Lord and your God.
I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,
And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.
I know all your hard work and your perseverance,
Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me.
Listen to what I say to you.

You have people there who deny My name,
And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.
They entice the people to Me, profane,
And their worship of Me is all in vain.
They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,
And you put up with them easily enough.
Listen to what I say to you.

You give off an image of godliness,
But what you present is so fraudulent,
Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ,
So you look to others to tell what’s right.
I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.
He who overcomes will have eternal life.
Listen to what I say to you.

I know your afflictions and poverty;
How you suffer for your Lord patiently.
Do not fear the devil and company.
You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.
I know all your weakness and your dedication.
You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.
I will write on you My new name.

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Followers of The Flesh
An Original Work / June 9, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Paulwat said:

Charges dropped against Budapest mayor over 2025 Pride march

Budapest's liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony had been charged with helping to organise the banned 2025 march.

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Good. He should never have been charged and the only reason he was because Viktor Orban was an evil dictator. Now that Orban is thankfully gone common sense prevails

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Seems like equal parts EU and local regime change. I hope society continues in this direction.

Helg said:

I was sick from being alone for many years, about ten years ago, so I was in hospital for a short time. They gave me an apartment when I came out to ease the transfer back to society. This is now ten years ago like I said, what baffles me is that over these ten years renting normal apartments, is that there`s always druggies nearby. Druggies always instantly dislike me for some reason, and I dislike them sort of, but I`m surrended by them for ten years now for some reason.

They say God gives the strongest ones the most challenges, but it`s unworthy. Druggies should have their own building in my opinion. I got a place now just temperarly before moving to a bigger place and I thought I was safe for three weeks, but here they are again ...

The ganitor in the new place smelled of alcohol, but I thought it wouldn`t be a problem, but I`m not so sure anymore. All of my life will be ruined just to serve God? Most people in societies are godless people, why should I suffer for them?

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Unless we are wealthy, rich, earn enough money for what we consider as the better things in life we are surrounded by those you call druggies, or alcoholics. Then even many of the wealthy, the rich, those with better things in life have problems with alcoholism and drugs they just hide it better.

There is only one human who walked the Earth that was sin free, suffered a horrific death, and was resurrected. He was and some like to say God incarnate. He walked around, ate with people who for that day and age would be viewed as the people you are speaking of.

If we all could live the way God would have us to live we wouldn't have any problems but we can't and we don't; therefore what we see is what we get.

Wishing you better

jasperr said:

I must have misunderstood.

On re-reading, the BBC article states that the 17,000 years applies to the oldest known date for rock art in NW Europe .

I had understood it to refer to human presence which may well have been detected as far back as you say.

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Key part of the phrase is "oldest in NW (North-West) Europe". As @Gene2memE pointed out, there is a lot of evidence to show that humans have existed in North-West Europe, specifically Wales itself (since this country doesn't get enough positive news), for substantially longer.

It is very interesting that there's been no cave paintings from before the 17,000 year mark found though.

Thank you for the post, It's great food for thought but I had a question. I noticed you referenced The Complete Jewish Study Bible. I recently came across it (CJB) and I've been using it lately and so far, I'm liking the translation. What is your opinion of it vs other translations?

ThatRobGuy said:

It's inferred from the inverse.

For the graph where you highlighted (from the MIT link) the authors explain:
This means that Muslims in the UK and France who have the same income and education levels as American Muslims are remarkably more religiously intolerant. Turning next to questions of identity, we find that American Muslims are more likely to identify strongly with their country than Muslims in the UK and France. The differences are substantively smaller than the gaps in religious tolerance, but they are still substantively and statistically significant (approximately 0.25 on a five-point scale). When we use weights to control for demographics, the average identification of French Muslims with France increases, but still remains significantly lower than Muslim-American respondents. The identification of UK Muslims with the UK does not change. This suggests that demographically similar Muslims are more likely to identify with their country [if] they live in the United States than in Europe.

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No, we have no idea about countries of origin, that is not what is displayed in Figure 1. It is not an competitive question, they can be uninterested (or identify with both) in both their current country and their country of origin (which for many muslims in the UK and France is UK and France, for both France and the UK it is more than or approximately half iirc). The data doesn't put them in competition to each other.

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Turning to questions about identity, we find that Muslims in Europe identify more with their ethnicity and religion than non-Muslims. American Muslims are relatively similar to American non-Muslims

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This is discussing Figure 2.

This was why I pointed out to you earlier that Figure 2 was a comparison between muslims and non-muslims in their respective countries. You can see directly in Figure 1, that UK muslims and french muslims straddle US muslims on the questions about ethnicity and religion.

"The results are shown in Figure 2, where we plot the difference in average responses to each question between Muslims and non-Muslims in each country."

This is the relevant quote (in relation to Figure 1).

"On questions of ethnic and religious identity, American Muslims are not distinctive from European Muslims (French Muslims identify with these groups less, UK Muslims identify more)."

On May 27 an article by Brian Williams and Sharon Kirkey that was published by the London Free Press on May 27, 2026 reported on the euthanasia deaths by Dr James MacLean.

Dr James MacLean is one of the few doctors to be sanctioned for unprofessional conduct related to his euthanasia deaths. One of the complaints included a euthanasia assessment that was done at a Tim Horton’s coffee shop while another concerned a “botched” euthanasia death whereby MacLean declared the man dead, when he wasn’t dead…

Sharon Kirkey wrote a difficult article that was published by the National Post on June 3, 2026 concerning euthanasia complications that challenges the “good death” paradigm that is sold by the euthanasia lobby. Kirkey wrote:

An Ontario man groaned, grimaced and repeated “help me” while undergoing doctor-assisted death after one of the drugs didn’t produce the anticipated level of sedation, initially leaving him conscious.

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Kirkey suggests that people should be informed that some euthanasia deaths involve significant suffering.

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p/c Globe photo/Lisa Kay, St. Luke Institute, Silver Spring, MD.

Some priests were sent by their bishop to the funny-farm to heal them. Others were sent there to break them of their intransigent orthodoxy.

By now, most American Catholics who are at least 30 years old know of one Catholic priest (or two) who has been sent away for “treatment” by the diocese. If the priest was liked by the parish, most of the faithful remained hush-hush about why he got sent packing. If he was a distrusted priest, well, lay-lips might be a little looser: Was Father sent away for alcoholism? Did he have a girlfriend? Did he have a boyfriend? Did he harm a child? Maybe he just reached a point of burnout and needed a break…

The world of behavioral care centers or psychological care centers for priests is a mysterious world for most lay Catholics. The 2015 movie Spotlight starring Michael Keaton opened up a bit more on this front. The movie covered the true story of the Boston Globe “Spotlight” section which released the names of priests across the Archdiocese of Boston who had molested children for decades. Many of them were sent to such a psych unit, but only until being recycled back into active ministry.

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Genetic researchers are experimenting on unborn children in trials that could have been done on animal embryos, according to one bioethicist.

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Adam Sheafe, who admitted to the “heinous” murder of Arizona Pastor Bill Schonemann and who planned to kill 13 other church leaders in 10 states, will receive a life sentence without parole after a judge accepted Sheafe’s plea deal. The pastor’s son, Randy Schonemann, has said the family is “content” with the decision.

Adam Sheafe To Serve Natural Life Sentence for Murder of New River Pastor Bill Schonemann​

In April 2025, 76-year-old Pastor Bill Schonemann was found murdered in his New River, Arizona, home, his body staged to resemble a crucifixion. Six weeks later, authorities arrested Adam Sheafe, who revealed that Schonemann was merely the first target in a planned multi-state killing spree aimed at executing 14 total church leaders.

Sheafe, who has “Yahweh” tattooed on his neck, claimed he targeted Schonemann because Sheafe believes Christian leaders are leading people astray by teaching that Jesus is equal to God. Prior to his arrest, Sheafe was moving forward with plans to murder two church leaders in Sedona, Arizona. He later expressed a desire to “execute every single priest and burn every church to the ground.”

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation has agreed not to provide transgender-related surgeries and hormone drugs for minors and give $2 million to fund detransition care as part of a legal agreement.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the Cleveland Clinic entered into an agreement with federal authorities and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

Under the agreement, the Cleveland Clinic will pay $308,000 to resolve allegations that it submitted false billings to public and private payers to secure insurance coverage for so-called gender transition procedures on minors. The facility has also committed $2 million to provide care for individuals who regret their gender transition, commonly known as detransitioners.

Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said in the announcement that he was grateful for the clinic’s decision “to be part of the solution” and “not part of the problem.”

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Now I put the state of the dead in the Wikipedia back then and in the explanation I put it this way...

The state of the dead (and the Millennium)​

Adventist believe that scripture reveals that the eternal God is immortal (1 Tim. 1:17). He is uncreated, self-existent, and has no beginning and no end.[21] In fact, He "alone has immortality" (1 Tim. 6:16)

"The Scriptures nowhere describe immortality as a quality or state that man—or his 'soul' or 'spirit'—possesses inherently. The terms usually rendered 'soul' and 'spirit' ... in the Bible occur more than 1,600 times, but never in association with the words 'immortal' or 'immortality'".[22] Adventist hold that scripture shows that human beings are mortal. Scripture compares their lives with "a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away" (James 4:14). They are "but flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again" (Ps. 78-39). Man "'comes forth like a flower and fades away; he flees like a shadow and does not continue'" (Job 14:2).[21]

Adventist believe the Bible declares that God is infinite, human beings are finite. God is immortal, they are mortal. God is eternal, they are transitory.[21]

The doctrine of the immortal soul caused much controversy in the early church and slowly was brought in from pagan sources. Origen was the first person to attempt to organize Christian doctrine into a systematic theology. He was an admirer of Plato and believed in the immortality of the soul and that it would depart to an everlasting reward or everlasting punishment at death. In De Principiis, Origen wrote: "... The soul, having a substance and life of its own, shall after its departure from the world, be rewarded according to its deserts, being destined to obtain either an inheritance of eternal life and blessedness, if its actions shall have procured this for it, or to be delivered up to eternal fire and punishments, if the guilt of its crimes shall have brought it down to this ..." ( Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4, 1995, p. 240).

Later Augustine continued to expand the false pagan ideas of the immortality of the soul and death. For Augustine death meant the destruction of the body, but the conscious soul would continue to live in either a blissful state with God or an agonizing state of separation from God. The influences of pagan Platonic philosophy on Origen and Augustine was extensive. Centuries later Thomas Aquinas put their ideas together in the doctrine of the immortal soul in The Summa Theologica. He taught that the soul is a conscious intellect and will and cannot be destroyed.[23]

Adventists teach that the resurrection of the righteous will take place at the second coming of Jesus, while the resurrection of the wicked will occur after the millennium of Revelation 20. They reject the traditional doctrine of hell as a state of everlasting conscious torment, believing instead that the wicked will be permanently destroyed after the millennium. The theological term for this teaching is Annihilationism.

The Adventist views about death and hell reflect an underlying belief in: (a) conditional immortality (or conditionalism), as opposed to the immortality of the soul; and (b) the holistic (or monistic) Christian anthropology or nature of human beings, as opposed to bipartite or tripartite views.

Adventist believe the Bible clearly teaches what the "spirit" that returns to God at death is. The body without the spirit ["breath,"] is dead." James 2:26. "The spirit of God ["the breath which God gave him,"] is in my nostrils." Job 27:3. They hold that the spirit that returns to God at death is the breath of life. Nowhere in all of God's book does the "spirit" have any life, wisdom, or feeling after a person dies. It is the "breath of life" and nothing more.[23]

Adventist hold that what happens when a person dies is the body decays and only the "breath of life", the spirit goes back to God, who gave it. The breath of life of every person who dies—whether righteous or wicked—returns to God at death. Adventist believe they are restoring the true teachings of scripture when it comes to the state of the dead.[24]

BobRyan said:

The law/sabbath: CW 30, 31

The faith of Jesus: CW 30, 31

The personalities of God and Christ: YRP 235

The Sanctuary: GC 409

The non-immortality of the wicked: CW 30, 31

The three angel's messages: CW 30, 31

The testimony of Jesus: 1T 300


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I am going over them..

The law/sabbath: CW 30, 31

The faith of Jesus: CW 30, 31

The personalities of God and Christ: YRP 235

The Sanctuary: GC 409

The non-immortality of the wicked: CW 30, 31

The three angel's messages: CW 30, 31

The testimony of Jesus: 1T 300



Here is what 'CW 30, 31' Counsels to Writers and Editors has..

The Landmarks Defined—In Minneapolis God gave precious gems of truth to His people in new settings. This light from heaven by some was rejected with all the stubbornness the Jews manifested in rejecting Christ, and there was much talk about standing by the old landmarks. But there was evidence they knew not what the old landmarks were. There was evidence and there was reasoning from the word that commended itself to the conscience; but the minds of men were fixed, sealed against the entrance of light, because they had decided it was a dangerous error removing the “old landmarks” when it was not moving a peg of the old landmarks, but they had perverted ideas of what constituted the old landmarks.

The passing of the time in 1844 was a period of great events, opening to our astonished eyes the cleansing of the sanctuary transpiring in heaven, and having decided relation to God’s people upon the earth, [also] the first and second angels’ messages and the third, unfurling the banner on which was inscribed, “The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” One of the landmarks under this message was the temple of God, seen by His truth-loving people in heaven, and the ark containing the law of God. The light of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment flashed its strong rays in the pathway of the transgressors of God’s law. The nonimmortality of the wicked is an old landmark. I can call to mind nothing more that can come under the head of the old landmarks. All this cry about changing the old landmarks is all imaginary.

Now at the present time God designs a new and fresh impetus shall be given to His work. Satan sees this, and he is determined it shall be hindered. He knows that if he can deceive the people who claim to believe present truth, [and make them believe that] the work the Lord designs to do for His people is a removing of the old landmarks, something which they should, with most determined zeal, resist, then he exults over the deception he has led them to believe. The work for this time has certainly been a surprising work of various hindrances, owing to the false setting of matters before the minds of many of our people. That which is food to the churches is regarded as dangerous, and should not be given them. And this slight difference of ideas is allowed to unsettle the faith, to cause apostasy, to break up unity, to sow discord, all because they do not know what they are striving about themselves. Brethren, is it not best to be sensible? Heaven is looking upon us all, and what can they think of recent developments? While in this condition of things, building up barriers, we not only deprive ourselves of great light and precious advantages, but just now, when we so much need it, we place ourselves where light cannot be communicated from heaven that we ought to communicate to others.—Manuscript 13, 1889.

Let Pioneers Identify Truth—When the power of God testifies as to what is truth, that truth is to stand forever as the truth. No aftersuppositions, contrary to the light God has given are to be entertained. Men will arise with interpretations of Scripture which are to them truth, but which are not truth. The truth for this time, God has given us as a foundation for our faith. He Himself has taught us what is truth. One will arise, and still another, with new light which contradicts the light that God has given under the demonstration of His Holy Spirit.

A few are still alive who passed through the experience gained in the establishment of this truth. God has graciously spared their lives to repeat and repeat till the close of their lives, the experience through which they passed even as did John the apostle till the very close of his life. And the standard-bearers who have fallen in death, are to speak through the reprinting of their writings. I am instructed that thus their voices are to be heard. They are to bear their testimony as to what constitutes the truth for this time.

We are not to receive the words of those who come with a message that contradicts the special points of our faith. They gather together a mass of Scripture, and pile it as proof around their asserted theories. This has been done over and over again during the past fifty years. And while the Scriptures are God’s word, and are to be respected, the application of them, if such application moves one pillar from the foundation that God has sustained these fifty years, is a great mistake. He who makes such an application knows not the wonderful demonstration of the Holy Spirit that gave power and force to the past messages that have come to the people of God.—Preach the Word, p. 5 (1905).



Here is what 'YRP 235' Ye Shall Receive Power has..

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Ephesians 2:20.

Let not any man enter upon the work of tearing down the foundations of the truth that have made us what we are. God has led His people forward step by step though there were pitfalls of error on every side. Under the wonderful guidance of a plain, “Thus saith the Lord,” a truth has been established that has stood the test of trial. When men arise and attempt to draw away disciples after them, meet them with the truths that have been tried as by fire.

“And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee” (Revelation 3:1-3).

Those who seek to remove the old landmarks are not holding fast; they are not remembering how they have received and heard. Those who try to bring in theories that would remove the pillars of our faith concerning the sanctuary or concerning the personality of God or of Christ are working as blind men. They are seeking to bring in uncertainties and to set the people of God adrift without an anchor.

Those who claim to be identified with the message that God has given us should have keen, clear spiritual perceptions, that they may distinguish truth from error. The word spoken by the messenger of God is “Wake up the watchmen.” If men will discern the spirit of the messages given and strive to find out from what source they come, the Lord God of Israel will guard them from being led astray.—Manuscript Release 760:9, 10.



Here is what 'GC 409/410' Great Controversy has... (under Chapter 23: What Is the Sanctuary?)

The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and the central pillar of the advent faith was the declaration: "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." Daniel 8:14. These had been familiar words to all believers in the Lord's soon coming. By the lips of thousands was this prophecy repeated as the watchword of their faith. All felt that upon the events therein foretold depended their brightest expectations and most cherished hopes. These prophetic days had been shown to terminate in the autumn of 1844. In common with the rest of the Christian world, Adventists then held that the earth, or some portion of it, was the sanctuary. They understood that the cleansing of the sanctuary was the purification of the earth by the fires of the last great day, and that this would take place at the second advent. Hence the conclusion that Christ would return to the earth in 1844.

But the appointed time had passed, and the Lord had not appeared. The believers knew that God's word could not fail; their interpretation of the prophecy must be at fault; but where was the mistake? Many rashly cut the knot of difficulty by denying that the 2300 days ended in 1844. No reason could be given for this except that Christ had not come at the time they expected Him. They argued that if the prophetic days had ended in 1844, Christ would then have returned to [410] cleanse the sanctuary by the purification of the earth by fire; and that since He had not come, the days could not have ended.

To accept this conclusion was to renounce the former reckoning of the prophetic periods. The 2300 days had been found to begin when the commandment of Artaxerxes for the restoration and building of Jerusalem went into effect, in the autumn of 457 B.C. Taking this as the starting point, there was perfect harmony in the application of all the events foretold in the explanation of that period in Daniel 9:25-27. Sixty-nine weeks, the first 483 of the 2300 years, were to reach to the Messiah, the Anointed One; and Christ's baptism and anointing by the Holy Spirit, A.D. 27, exactly fulfilled the specification. In the midst of the seventieth week, Messiah was to be cut off. Three and a half years after His baptism, Christ was crucified, in the spring of A.D. 31. The seventy weeks, or 490 years, were to pertain especially to the Jews. At the expiration of this period the nation sealed its rejection of Christ by the persecution of His disciples, and the apostles turned to the Gentiles, A.D. 34. The first 490 years of the 2300 having then ended, 1810 years would remain. From A.D. 34, 1810 years extend to 1844. "Then," said the angel, "shall the sanctuary be cleansed." All the preceding specifications of the prophecy had been unquestionably fulfilled at the time appointed.

With this reckoning, all was clear and harmonious, except that it was not seen that any event answering to the cleansing of the sanctuary had taken place in 1844. To deny that the days ended at that time was to involve the whole question in confusion, and to renounce positions which had been established by unmistakable fulfillments of prophecy.



Here is what '1T 300' Testimonies vol 1 page 300 has...

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The only safety now is to search for the truth as revealed in the word of God, as for hid treasure. The subjects of the Sabbath, the nature of man, and the testimony of Jesus are the great and important truths to be understood; these will prove as an anchor to hold God's people in these perilous times. But the mass of mankind despise the truths of God's word and prefer fables. 2 Thessalonians 2:10, 11: "Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."

The most licentious and corrupt are highly flattered by these Satanic spirits, which they believe to be the spirits of their dead friends, and they are vainly puffed up in their fleshly minds. Colossians 2:19: "And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God," they deny Him who ministers strength to the body, that every member may increase with the increase of God.

Vain philosophy. The members of the body are controlled by the head. Spiritualists lay aside the Head and believe that all the members of the body must act themselves and that fixed laws will lead them on in a state of progression to perfection without a head. John 15:1, 2, 4-6: "I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."

David Sonnier, a 1981 West Point graduate, loved the Army and worked to be a model soldier. A bend in his career path brought him into contact for the first time with the traditional Mass. His life, with that of his family, was changed forever—something quite a few Catholics can relate to!

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Jesus was and is a healer. He healed when He walked among us and has continued to do so for two thousand years. He heals through love and empathy. The accounts of Jesus’ healing in the Gospels describe agape, or “descending love” according to Pope Benedict XVI in Deus Caritas Est. (The opposite being eros, or “ascending love,” the word used in most non-Christian ancient literature.) And as the Apostle John declared in his first letter, Ο Θεός είναι αγάπη: “God is love.”

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Today, however, the Evil One has a much more insidious method of attacking the Eucharist, and I’m sure it has never occurred to most of us. The Evil One wants to separate us from the Eucharist, so he uses Sunday sports and activities.

There. I said it.

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