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RileyG · 2025-09-09T16:11:24-0500

Good for you, POTUS!

RileyG · 2025-09-09T16:11:07-0500

Thank you, Holy Father!

RileyG · 2025-09-09T16:10:35-0500

johnnypapa said:
U.S. Department of Justice report faults Biden administration for anti-Christian bias

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Surprise, surprise!

fhansen · 2025-09-09T16:09:59-0500

Clare73 said:
Are you saying that because some misapply those passages to themselves, those passage are to be discounted?

If they are not to be discounted, why so much discounting of them?
The error does not lie in the passages.

Where there's error, it always lies in humans. The point is that there's no such thing as 100% knowledge that one will have eternal life-and the best reason for having confidence that we've correctly applied God's word to ourselves is in the evidence of good fruit produced. The reason that eternal life is tied to faith is because eternal life is directly tied to communion with God, the Vine, apart from whom we can do nothing, and apart from whom we have no life. In fact, that union, with everything that it implies, is eternal life. And as a gift of grace accepted and acted upon by the person, faith is the appropriation and realization or establishment of that union, of that gift of God to ourselves. It's to experience reconciliation between Himself and alienated man. And that union is the ground of justice/righteousness for man; it's what we were made for and from it all authentic righteousness flows as love flows from the Vine to and through man.

FAITH-IN-HIM · 2025-09-09T15:54:15-0500

Michie said:
Last week, the shooter in Minneapolis of little children in a Catholic church-school during mass was discovered to have written on one of his weapons, “Where is your god [sic].” He used a picture of Jesus on his target in practice before the big day of shooting last Wednesday.

And now the left says to us in effect: “Don’t pray, just prey.” The last part refers to allowing unfettered evil to flourish — to continue to prey on the weak and vulnerable.

As Gary Bauer noted last Thursday: “Satan wrote the script for the atrocities that transpired yesterday at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school. The transgender shooter’s message, ‘Where’s your God now,’ wasn’t referring to Allah. It was referring to the God of the Bible, the God Catholics, Jews, and Protestants worship. The only God, by the way. ‘Where’s your God now’ was Satan mocking God.”

It’s amazing to see how swift the condemnation from the Left was against even the idea of prayers — as if prayers alone were the solution offered to try and stop these things. They do hint at the solution: to get back to the knowledge of God, the one who is there and who will hold us all accountable one day.

As to the condemnation of prayer, consider these examples:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frei, who almost single-handedly destroyed his city in the wake of the George Floyd riots, spoke of prayer as if it were nothing. After all, the children in the church-school were literally playing when the bullets began to fly.

Continued below.

The Left belittles prayer. Are they right?

I think we have no clue how many times God spares us from the complete ravages of sinful attempts to kill

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“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."

Over the past fifty years, there has been a noticeable emphasis among some Christians in America on public prayer—in schools, at political events, and even during sports games. However, such practices are not necessarily rooted in biblical teachings. As a born-again Christian, I pray regularly: when I wake up, while waiting at a coffee shop, standing in line at the grocery store, or during activities like walking, driving, or exercising at the YMCA. My prayers are private because I seek to communicate only with God, and He hears my prayer no matter where I am. .

My question is: If a Christian wishes to pray, what prevents them from doing so? Why should Christians be concerned about the opinions of liberal lefty or heathen democrat’s views regarding prayer, or about when and where those individuals believe Christians ought to pray?

If a Christian decides to pray, it is recommended that they do so with sincerity and respect, following the teachings of Jesus, which emphasize not announcing their prayers publicly.

Strong in Him · 2025-09-09T15:43:32-0500

Clare73 said:
Bonded Leather is on the back cover, denotes the end of the Bible.

Revelation is the end of the Bible - but whatever.

Clare73 said:
You have presented only part of what Scripture says about God, I suspect it is the part which you like.

You want me to write several long posts explaining who God is?
Look it up for yourself - or better still, look at Jesus.

Clare73 said:
But we can at least know the full picture of Scripture, which you do not present.

There isn't enough space and I haven't enough time.

I showed you what pertains to our discussion; that God is love, that he is patient, merciful, compassionate, forgiving etc.
Which means that I do not believe he would choose Judas, whom he knew to be a devil, give him the ability to drive out demons (which Jesus said is impossible) and then, when Judas had fulfilled God's purposes - presumably betraying Jesus - toss him aside and condemn him.

That is the impression I had after reading your posts. I asked a few times if you were saying that God is like this and got no answer.

Clare73 said:
Is that all it shows you?

What I said is entirely Scriptural and entirely relevant.
The message I've been getting from this recent discussion is that Hebrews 6 can be applied, retrospectively, to Judas, because Judas was evil, a devil and was never saved. I asked why Jesus would have deliberately chosen someone he knew was a devil - i.e. belongs to Satan - how he, who is light, could have fellowship with darkness and why he would have given him power to perform miracles.
Your answer was this this was all part of God's purpose - which suggested that God deliberately chose evil to fulfil his plan of salvation and then got rid of Judas when he didn't need him any longer.

I don't believe that Judas was evil from the beginning and Jesus deliberately chose to have fellowship with a devil.
I don't believe that he gave a devil power to cast out demons, as he had taught that Satan cannot drive out Satan.
I don't believe that Judas was one of the 12 only because God "needed" someone who would betray Jesus and bring about the cross.
I am not sure, although I don't know, that Judas deliberately turned away from, and rejected Jesus. I think it possible that he believed Jesus was the Messiah, everyone knew the Messiah would be a military king who would defeat the Romans and he tried to force Jesus to fight back when he was arrested.
I believe these things because a) I have read various commentaries and b) this fits with the God of amazing love and endless compassion and forgiveness who I know, trust in and serve.

I also don't think that Hebrews 6 can be applied to Judas - but as he, and everyone else, is dead, it doesn't matter.

Rescued One · 2025-09-09T15:33:33-0500

Italian operatic vocal trio! WOW!!!

A New Dawn · 2025-09-09T15:13:56-0500

bling said:
I have taken a lot of my research on this subject from Jewish Scholars (Some being Messianic Scholars) and especially some individuals I corresponded with in Jerusalem who had access to untranslated Hebrew writings.

The Jews are mostly wanting to understand why Jesse and David’s brothers treated him so poorly.

Psalms 51:5 is a problem translation for Jews and Christians, so this one verse takes a lot of explaining, but it also has to be consistent with all these verse in Psalms at least.

It has been decades since I did my study and I have many pages of notes.

This could all be a very poetic hyperbole David is using and he should be allowed some poetic license.

We have similar verses:

Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Ps 22 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.

On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.

Ps. 139: 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

I argue that a child is Innocent:

Spiritual consequences of sin cannot be transmitted from father to son but only falls on the one who committed the act: Ezek 18:1-4; 18-20; Jer 32:29-30

Sin is committed by individually breaking God's law: 1 Jn 3:4

The spoken and written gospel message is God's power for salvation: Rom 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:18

God said that the king of Tyrus was "blameless in your ways from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you." Ezek 28:15

"God made men upright but they sought devices" Eccl 7:29 (plural can't refer only to Adam)

Jer 19:2-6 human sacrifices of children to Baal is called the "blood of the innocent"

Jesus teaches us that we must become as little children to enter the kingdom of God (Matt. 18:3- 4; Lk. 18:16-17)

Apostle Paul: Rom 7:9-11 "Once alive" "sin killed me"

Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Ps 22 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.

On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.

Ps. 139: 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Looking Deeper into Psalms 51:5

This is a Hebrew poetic parallelism, with the second line of the verse saying the same thing as the first line in a slightly different way. The first verb, of which David is the subject, is in the Pulal tense (as is "made" in # Job 15:7 ), which is an idiom used to refer to creation or origins, and is the 'passive' form of Polel ("formed": # Ps 90:2 Pro 26:10 ). TWOT, #623, 1:270.

The subject is, as the verse clearly states, the 'circumstances' of his conception- the sexual union which produced him was an act of sin, and addresses the unrighteousness of his mother's act.

Read some of the English translation Psalms 51:5

KJV Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

YLT Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

WEB Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin

RSV Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

KJV Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Granted some translators have a problem with the sin being David’s mother’s problem and will point to verses like these:

In PS 116:16, David refers to himself as "the son of thy handmaid", which would seem to testify to his mother's positive relationship with the Lord.

Psalm 86:16 Turn to me and have mercy on me; show your strength in behalf of your servant; save me, because I serve you just as my mother did. She sounds righteous to me.

Thus, they majorly change the translation to be David’s sin, But are these translations the result of preconceived ideas?

The wording seems to be saying: the sin is the mothers at conception.

What do we know which could show it to be David’s mother and a problem?

David had two half-sisters (Zeruiah, Abigail)…..:

1CHR 2:13-16 13 “And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third, 14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh: 16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. 17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.”

Again the translators do not like the idea of these sisters only being David’s so the change the wording and meaning, but the better translations is:

KJV Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

Why might these two only be David’s sisters and not Jesse’s daughters: 2Sam 17:25 “And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.”

Nahash is king of the Ammonites.

1 Chronicles 19:2 David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s envoys came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,

Why did Nahash show kindness to David?

David’s Jewish mother seems to have been previously married to Nahash the Ammonite and later was the second wife of Jesse, this was not a “sin” most likely but later could have been perceived as a sin, thus Jesse not counting David as one of his sons and all his brothers treating him badly.

A lot more can be said, but it was not David being conceived a sinner, but his mother conceiving him could be perceived as a sin.

Now we can go further into scripture showing how David was treated and persecuted as an outsider by his family and loved only by his mother.

OR it could mean what it says in relation to a fallen world.

I am not sure why people assume when we talk about a fallen world that we are talking about being responsible for Adam’s sin. We are not talking about that at all. We are responsible only for our own sin, the only thing Adam has to do with the conversation is that he is responsible for sin being in the world. He paid for his sin, but that doesn’t change the fact that sin is now in the world and we all must be responsible for the sin we commit.

To better understand the concept of the fall, there is the Genesis 3 passage and Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 that speaks to how that event impacted the world.

The Bible is silent on the state of babies, so I am not going to go out on a limb on this, BUT we need to remember that they are also born into a fallen world. And a child doesn’t stay a baby for long.

DaisyDay · 2025-09-09T15:08:29-0500

Always in His Presence said:
No - that is demonstrably false:

No, it's still true.

Always in His Presence said:
6 years of Trump tax documents released by House Ways and Means Committee

The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee on Friday publicly released documents related to former President Donald Trump's tax returns covering the six years from 2015 to 2020.

The move comes after committee members voted 24-16 last week to release the documents after sensitive information -- like bank account numbers and Social Security numbers -- had been redacted.

That's not Trump releasing anything. And he has yet to release 2020-2024. Promise made; promise broken.

Always in His Presence said:
Not C'est la vie - no - the correct term is C'était embarrassant

Here is where some will argue timing as an excuse.

Whose embarrassment? He bragged about his cleverness in paying only $750 in income tax despite his income and wealth.

Always in His Presence said:
Do you know why the left stopped talking about Trump's taxes three years ago? Because he didn't do anything wrong -

The zone got flooded. Three years ago Trump was prosecuted for other crimes. Alas, however, he won the election and it all went away like magic.

Michie · 2025-09-09T14:19:52-0500

@johnnypapa

A question to anyone who is thinking about rejecting Jesus (or has accepted him for that matter): have you even met him? Do you know who you are rejecting? You might think the answer is yes. The answer might even be yes. But Fr. Mike has something that every single one of us needs to consider before deciding whether or not to stick by Jesus and his Church.

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honey badger · 2025-09-09T14:11:40-0500

Aseyesee said:
The Word is quite literally the door ...

i was pondering this today going deep into the singleness of it all ... as you know there is no way i could type\nail down what i saw in the moment ... its funny because in the moment if asked what i saw i could have in words but now i cant ... if that makes sense ...

WELSian · 2025-09-09T13:55:52-0500

WELS recently got a Discord up. Join the This We Believe Discord Server!

Anonymous9090 · 2025-09-09T13:23:53-0500

In the article associated with the following link, it says that in today's modern secular music, female singers and male singers are harshly insulting each other:

Why female pop stars are lambasting mediocre men

Judging by her lyrics, Sabrina Carpenter (pictured) has mixed feelings towards men. She finds her paramours attractive, exciting—and disappointing. In “Manchild”, the lead single on her new album, she complains her lover is “stupid”, “slow” and “useless”. She asks, mocking a caveman, “Why so sexy if so dumb? / And how survive the Earth so long?”

“Manchild” is not the only track on the record to lambast mediocre men: time and again Ms Carpenter takes aim at blokes who can barely “do the dishes” or “assemble a chair from IKEA”. The American pop star suggests her beaux are dumb, as when, in “Sugar Talking”, she says: “You’re having these epiphanies, big word for a real small mind.” Some do not understand basic grammar. In “Slim Pickins”, a hit from last year, she complains about a man who “doesn’t even know the difference between there, their and they are”.

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Men are pushing back, at least musically. In August the top album on the Billboard 200 chart was “I’m the Problem” by Morgan Wallen, an American country singer. “If I’m so awful,” he sings, “then why’d you stick around this long?”

It's Not merely fun-loving teasing. When people ( especially young adults, teenagers & kids ) listen to the aforementioned songs, opposite sexes subconsciously learn to mistreat each, and disrespect each other. This is what leads to marriages breaking up.

( Important Side Note: Nowadays, we have to be concerned about people listening to modern music that has lyrics with inappropriate sexually-related lustful words and phrases, but we also have to be concerned about the aforementioned. It's becoming a complex, scary & frightening world ).

There is Nothing wrong with fun-loving teasing between men & women, & even a civil healthy debate about the role of men vs women in society. However, it's bad if it turns into extreme disrespect and/or abuse. Pray The Holy Spirit encourages more respect & sensitivity between the male and female sexes/genders:

Why female pop stars are lambasting mediocre men

The trend may reflect the growing gulf between young men and women

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Jan001 · 2025-09-09T13:21:48-0500

Maria Billingsley said:
The olive tree as a metaphor for Israel speaks to God's faithfulness to His promises and the unity of all believers—both Jewish and Gentile—in Christ. Gentiles are grafted into the "olive tree" of Israel, which represents God's people. This means that believing Gentiles become part of the spiritual family of Abraham, sharing in the blessings promised to Israel. A "remnant" of Israel, those who believe in Jesus as the Messiah, remains on the tree , showing that God has not abandoned his people. Paul explains this in Romans 11, emphasizing that God's plan includes both Jews and Gentiles and that the "natural branches" (unbelieving Jews) can be grafted back in. " And thus all Israel will be saved" are his words. This is the Church which supersedes Israel.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

I think the olive tree is comprised of all of God's faithful people. The natural branches are faithful Christian Israelites/Jews, and the wild branches are faithful Christian non-Israelites/Jews.

Hebrews 11:25 choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Grafted In · 2025-09-09T13:20:48-0500

I'm beginning to understand.

Pommer · 2025-09-09T13:04:18-0500

FreeinChrist said:
Or is it breads and circuses?

The BBB took away SNAP benefits…no bread.

Jan001 · 2025-09-09T13:01:22-0500

Douggg said:
The Romans did not destroy Jerusalem and the temple because Jesus returned and was in their midst.

The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the temple because the Jews were rebelling against Roman rule and occupation.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Clare73 · 2025-09-09T12:57:55-0500

timothyu said:
Anybody can claim to be Christian but few are followers of the Father”s will and Jesus. Christianity is just a name used both by those who do His will or use God to justify themselves.

Assuming that you are the judge of both the Father's will and the heart of the individual.

FAITH-IN-HIM · 2025-09-09T12:53:40-0500

Oompa Loompa said:
Keep up with the discussion. Posters have stated that city mayors are somehow powerless when it comes to law enforcement due to the legal powers of the state governor. But the fact remains the same. Biden pleaded for immigration reform to fix the border only for Trump to show that the only problem was enforcement of existing laws. Likewise, Trump has proven in DC that the there isn't a crime problem, but a lack of leaders willing to enforce the existing laws on the books. The country is waking up, and even Chicago residents are screaming for their mayors to do something. Not because the mayors are unable, but unwilling.

I am the poster you were replying to, so it appears you may not be aware of whom you are addressing or the topic being discussed.

I mentioned that the highest crime rates in the city are found in states classified as "red." You responded by noting that these cities are managed by Democratic leadership, with mayors holding significant authority. In reply, I pointed out that a governor's power typically supersedes that of the mayor.

If President Trump's objective is to reduce crime, he should consider deploying troops to Memphis and New Orleans, as these cities have some of the highest crime and homicide rates in the country.

The Barbarian · 2025-09-09T12:22:28-0500

Servus said:
It doesn't say, but best guess is Maya Jean is a registered Democrat.

Yes, she turned herself in, but that alone doesn't mean she's a democrat. There are republicans with a sense of guilt as well. On the other hand, she might have done it to degrade confidence in elections, which would indicate that she's a republican.

Hard to say. Conflicting evidence here. Apparently, she registered her dog as a democrat, but dogs are generally republicans. WFTH-I

Grafted In · 2025-09-09T12:21:09-0500

stevevw said:
Not for some time and I love this music. I like his early stuff the best. I like how he transitions from folk hillbilly to blues/folk rock and gospel. Always wanting to reinvent himself.

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I can hear a bit of the bands influence with the piano as well. I think he started jaming with them around the same time.

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The Hawks,

Jan001 · 2025-09-09T12:16:46-0500

RandyPNW said:
The *vision* takes place in heaven. And it may concern those who have departed in Christ, who are now with Christ in heaven. And being that it is a vision, the vision that follows may be a confirming vision, adding details, without a necessary chronological sequence between them.

In other words, the vision 1st acknowledges the departed saints in heaven. And the next vision shows how these saints are to join their fellows at Christ's 2nd Coming.

Rev 19.6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
7 Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready....

The wedding has come, but it has not taken place yet. Then the ensuing vision provides more detail as to *when* it will take place, namely at the 2nd Coming...

11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.

So, the departed in Christ are in heaven, awaiting the wedding, but it has not taken place yet in the vision. It is being anticipated.

What follows, then, is the 2nd Coming itself, which is the means by which Christ obtains the format in which the wedding takes place. And that wedding could very much take place *on the earth.*

Matt 25.The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet.

So, here is indicated that the wedding banquet takes place *after the Return to earth.* It is when the bridegroom comes.

Luke 12.35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

Here, the indication is that the weddding banquet is perhaps another occasion from which Christ returns? Perhaps it indicates that Christ has already had a wedding banquet of sorts before this final one, to take place on the earth. Otherwise, the virgins would not have been awaiting the coming of the bridegroom.

I'm supposing that Christ himself probably had his own wedding feast of sorts, following his ascension. That is when he obtained his own resurrection body. The wedding he returns to involves our resurrection bodies, so that we can feast with him.

I don't think the idea means to indicate how this final wedding banquet will look. It may take place in a spiritual dimension, for all I know? But it seems to require his return to earth, where we can feast with him with literal earthly food and drink.

Mark 14.24 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. I appreciate your input.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-09-09T12:04:10-0500

Hans Blaster said:
And for each of them caught we turn on oprah-mode:

You get a thread.
And you get a thread.
Everybody (arrested) gets a thread.

Oh, and they will all get a thread. That is for sure.

DaisyDay · 2025-09-09T11:57:03-0500

JSRG said:
The problem I have with the issue of Biden is the cover-up, or perhaps more accurately the obvious attempt to look the other way by the mainstream media. Biden's aides being quiet about it is something I don't like, but it's expected. The fact is, I expect the staff of any President to do their best trying to cover up that sort of thing. I'm sure there's stuff about Trump they're covering up.

But the press? The mainstream media by and large tried to ignore the issue; it was only the right-wing media that were pointing out the obvious questions about Biden. Why was the media so derelict in their duty to be asking serious questions about Biden's acuity? And why should people trust them now after this dereliction of duty?

Derail continues......

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