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If Joe Biden is not the real Joe Biden
- By imsaneru
- Conspiracy Theories
- 17 Replies
Don't want to be an I told you so fellas , but you should have watched the vid.
Ahh well , no more Joe as expected.....
Ahh well , no more Joe as expected.....
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K9 Officer Rescues Lost Non-Verbal Child by Following the Boy’s Scent in Reverse to Find His Home
- By Michie
- Pets & Animals
- 2 Replies
Thanks be to God! Dogs are a gift!
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Another jesus. Another gospel.
- Sabbath and The Law
- 86 Replies
Ok thanks for sharing.Hi Maria Billingsley,
Here we go. Instead of just letting the text read the way I just quoted it, you just put your own twist on it in order to make it more align with your aberrant belief.
Yikes! It's just fascinating how some false teachers are so willing to overtly manipulate the Bible to make it say things completely opposite to what it clearly says and means. On discussion forums, icy this a lot. In your case you not only REJECTED Paul's completely OPPOSITE version of Jesus's relation to the law, you leaned into your previous FALSE TEACHING and added more of the same to make it doubly heretical. "Born INTO it"? Why can't you just let the Bible say what it says? Why? Because a plain reading of the Scriptures doesn't allow you to lovingly embrace your heretical teaching.
- Paul says Jesus was, "born under the law."
- Maria says Jesus was, "above the law though BORN INTO IT."
Maybe this might seem like a plausible explanation for those who are not well-versed in their knowledge of the Scriptures. My feeling is that the way you just rejected Paul's clear statement above in favor of the contradictory nonsense you spouted after being corrected gives me the impression that you're already aware that what you're promoting is a false teaching. Thus, my responses to you are mainly for those lurkers who may not have a good response to how to rebut your heresy, even though they know it's heresy when they read it.
Certainly Jesus was sinless (although there's a current thread on this forum in which "Christians" are making Jesus into a sinner because they claim He transgressed the Sabbath law He was "born under."). So, here's my response to your premise that the law was made for sinners and thus it doesn't apply to Jesus.
So, according to your precarious premise, why is it that our perfect, sinless Savior needed to be baptized? Was He a sinner who needed to repent? According to you, that's the only possible option if we read the passage exactly how it's written.
- First, Jesus was "fully human in every way."
- Second, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
- Third, "John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance."
I pray this helps.
But for the grace of God go I,cyspark
Be blessed.
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Tear Off the Roof by Brandon Lake
- By AlexB23
- Christian Music
- 1 Replies
Brandon Lake is a good artist. I might have heard this one recently.
Chris Tomlin and Brandon Lake can bring tears to anyone who is Christian. By the way, the song was released around the time of the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
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Anatomy of a 'conspiracy loop': Do we need a new way of looking at the spread of fake claims?
- By BobRyan
- General Politics
- 1 Replies
In US politics, conspiracies are rife – and many more emerged in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Tackling them requires us to see conspiracism differently, says researcher Sophia Knight.
Within minutes of Saturday's attempted assassination on former US President Donald Trump, conspiracy theories started to swirl online.Without any evidence, people spread claims that the incident was everything from a hoax to a plot. Swept up in a divisive presidential campaign, online voices spun up explanations to fill in the details of the day's shocking events.
Conspiracy theories are not new in American politics. Adherents of QAnon – a wide-ranging political conspiracy movement – were among those who caused chaos at the Capitol on 6 January 2021, while there are many still invested in conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of former President John F Kennedy more than 60 years ago. From such experiences, we know the division, discord and disintegration of trust they breed can be extremely damaging to a democracy's health.
So, what do we do about this rising tide of conspiracism? Most importantly, the answer is not to just try and prove people wrong. Any attempt to debunk a conspiracy has a good chance of backfiring, playing into established narratives of "the elite" or "deep state" censoring the truth.
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Anatomy of a 'conspiracy loop': Do we need a new way of looking at the spread of fake claims?
Researchers say they understand how fake claims and wild theories surface – and then take hold. But can anything be done about them?www.bbc.com
Step 1. Wait for balancing info to come out - don't assume every conspiracy claim is true until proven false. Wait a bit.
Step 2. Tend to believe what you actually see on the screen - without dismissing everything you see as fake or conspiracy. Then watch for info that might indicate that the video is manipulated in some way where the information trying to debunk the video - is itself very credible.
Step 3. Use critical thinking when extreme claims show up. The most reasonable option is usually the right one.
Step 4. don't be led like sheep to discount evidence just because someone "claims" to have debunked it with their own "I prefer not to believe that" argument. Preference is not proof of something other than proof of free will and the ability to have a preference.
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