Nice video. Waterfalls are a popular subject for many landscape painters.

Hannah66 said:

She told me she isn't into witchcraft yet she continues to post this comical drawings of little witches, etc

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Witchcraft can mean a lot of things. Today it is mostly associated with Wicca. In the Bible it is associated with taking drugs. Some people believe it has to do with controlling and manipulating people.

The Greek word "pharmakeia" (φαρμακεία) appears in the Bible, particularly in the New Testament. It is often translated as "sorcery" or "witchcraft". The word is derived from "pharmakon" (φαρμακον), meaning "drug" or "spell-giving potion". In the context of the Bible, "pharmakeia" refers to the use of magic, potions, and spells, often associated with idolatry and illicit spiritual practices.

Pommer said:

I would imagine that putting together a non-leaky (financial), Presidential campaign in a few days/weeks must’ve been difficult if not impossible to accomplish.

Knowing this will likely salt some wounds but that’s just tough because feelings are on the back-burner again, for some reason.

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The guilt trip didn't get much mileage.

keras said:

So; what Paul said in Romans 9:27, gives us the impression of a quite small number of people from the House of Judah, who will rejoin with their Christian brethren. Jeremiah 50:405

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There has been six extinctions where only 10% survive to repopulate the earth. There are some that think only 10% are saved because that is our concept of few. But few can also mean one third and many would be two thirds. One third consider themselves to be Christians. But I get nervous when Jesus tells us that many who think they are Christian are not a part of the bride because they do not have oil in their lamp.

There are those that believe only a remenant or 10% will be saved. I would like to see everyone saved.

Aaron112 said:

Vessels of honor and vessels of dishonoer (unclean, unrepentant) all are allowed to post ad infinitum.
When trying to test one to verify a source, this is difficult, as the set up is encouraging more posts , more threads, negative and positive, unhealthy and healthy, but seems to be many times more in the negative due to being outnumber by such a huge ratio ?

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Sir, this is the internet. If repeating the post is the main discussion mode, then probably an AI.

Pommer said:

Agencies existing (by literal Acts of Congress) are “disloyal” because the President-elect would like them to cease existing.

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Yeah, I think we're going to see how much the current President-elect values loyalty much more than he values competence.

-- A2SG, be an "interesting" four years, though, no question.....

Satan's throne is not in hell.

King James Bible
And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

King James Bible
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

public hermit said:

It's a question with no context. Make it straightforward by giving some context. Why does it matter if he did or did not?

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You either think He did, didn’t, or don’t care.

Who is right and who is wrong?
It’ll be written in a song.
Who’s pretending he is right?
Who from truth has taken flight?

Who are actors playing you,
Hoping you will think they’re true?
Stage productions wearing thin
While they look at you and grin.

Does deception really exist?
Do you in your thoughts resist?
Do you live in fairy land
Thinking all is surely grand?

Idols have you made of man,
Thinking on them you’ll depend?
Think that they’ll not fail you,
And that to you they’ll be true?

Not a good idea to do,
Set up humans as gurus.
Blindly follow, stay in line
Without question who’s behind.

Testing, testing, that we’ll do,
Ask our questions, through and through.
Don’t believe them just because
They are someone with a cause.

Check them out. Listen to their words.
Learn to listen and discern.
Watch their patterns, watch their gates,
Who they love and who they hate.

Pray to God in heaven above
Ask for wisdom. Ask for love.
Make decisions prayerfully,
And keep testing dutifully.

An Original Work / September 26, 2021

Both are correct for a christian, a believer believes in God, because we need to have faith, to reach him,
also we can know Him, because we have His spirit, so that is good too.

I’m so sorry that you’re going through all of this.

Loving One Another


When we read this passage of Scripture, in the English language anyway, it is easy, if we are not careful, to interpret this word “love” according to our human flesh, and according to our culture and the standards of the world (including the worldly church) rather than according to God, who is love, and rather than according to the teachings of the Scriptures. And that is what many people do, including many who are teachers of the Scriptures. But this is not a love which is of human flesh, but which is of God, and is holy.

In the Greek, this is agape love which means to prefer what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord, in practice. It is loving others the way in which God loves us and gave himself up for us on that cross for our salvation from sin. So when we love with this love we are not going to deliberately and habitually sin against other humans, but we are going to speak the truth of God’s word to them, in love, for their salvation and eternal life with God.

So many “Christians” today have this concept of love that it is to do and to say what other people will like and what will make them feel good about themselves, and it is to avoid speaking the truth that people do not want to hear and/or which might offend them. But Jesus told people the truth, all of it, which was hard for many of them to accept, and that is partially why he was hated and why he was persecuted and put to death. And if we are being like Jesus, we will speak the things that he spoke that people need to hear.

So, “doing wrong” to people is not just obvious and blatant sin against them. But it is also deliberately withholding from them the truth that Jesus taught, and that his NT apostles taught, which can save their souls from hell and can assure them deliverance from bondage to sin and eternity with God. Love that comes from God is willing to be hated, rejected, persecuted, and lied about in order to tell people the truth they need to hear, i.e. the gospel that Jesus and his NT apostles taught, and not the diluted one offered today.

Wake Up From Sleep


With regard to our salvation from sin, this is not a one-time event which takes place in our lives which assures us of heaven as our eternal destiny regardless of how we live. When Jesus died on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we would now be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands.

And the gospel that Jesus taught was that if we are to come after him that we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in walks of obedience to his commands, then we have the hope of deliverance from slavery to sin and empowerment of God to live holy lives, pleasing to God, provided that we continue in walks of obedience.

So, if you are believing a different gospel from that, and if you are convinced that a mere profession of faith in Jesus Christ now guarantees you heaven as your eternal destiny, but that how you live does not matter to God with regard to your eternity, then you are someone who needs to wake up from your slumber and to study the Scriptures (in context). And then you need to do what Jesus and his NT apostles taught we are to do as those who are genuine followers of Jesus Christ, and that means death to sin.

For the salvation message that Jesus and his NT apostles taught is not the one that is so popularized today here in America. For what they taught was progressive salvation (sanctification) whereby we must continue in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, and not in walks of sin and disobedience, if we want to have the assurance of salvation from sin and eternal life with God when he returns for his faithful bride, which is when our salvation will be completed, and not until then. So know the truth and obey the truth.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

I Stand in Awe

By Mark Altrogge

You are beautiful beyond description
Too marvelous for words
Too wonderful for comprehension
Like nothing ever seen or heard
Who can grasp Your infinite wisdom?
Who can fathom the depth of Your love?
You are beautiful beyond description
Majesty, enthroned above

And I stand, I stand in awe of You
I stand, I stand in awe of You
Holy God, to whom all praise is due
I stand in awe of You

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rambot said:

And if you are worried that you think that means there will be less minority CEOs you just think minorities aren't good enough to earn those positions on their own accord.

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Almost as white as a Mr. Clean convention.

Im not saying he's racist. Maybe he just doesn't know enough minorities that make the cut to be good enough to work for him.

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Didn't 86% of Black voters vote for Kamala?

If the available pool is much smaller - isn't it only logical that there would be less exceptional individuals to choose from?

Bannerman Warrior said:

Am I wrong for wanting more from her?

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God gives us the desires of our heart. You should continue to pray about your situation until God gives you peace.

Michie said:

Now in order to understand what is taking place in the reading, we have to tell the backstory. King David, like a coward, stayed home at his palace while his army went off to wage war. Soon he spied a married woman, Bathsheba, bathing outdoors, and the text offers a stark portrayal of his response: “so David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her” (2 Sam 11:4 RSV). Through this power-rape, she becomes pregnant, so David tries to cover his tracks by bringing Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, back from the battle, hoping that he will sleep with his wife and hide the evidence of David’s dalliance. Yet Uriah is a brave, battle-hardened man and refuses to go to his house while his comrades are out in the field of battle. David realizes that his cover-up plans have failed, so he turns his heart to murder. He sends sealed orders by Uriah’s hand (!) to his general to put Uriah in a vulnerable spot on the field and then withdraw the other troops. Uriah is thus murdered “with the sword of the Ammonites” (2 Sam 12:9). After Uriah’s death, David steals his wife as his own.

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So now, David is a rapist and a coward ?

Michie said:

David was a fallible man with a heart for the Lord.
Remember: this is the Catholic forum.

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I was not aware of that.

The bubbles look like grapes

com7fy8 said:

You want me to care about others, in prayer, and not only about my own self doing what You desire.

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com7fy8 said:

in this peace with almighty power we share with God in His own almighty immunity

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If we pray in all-loving love, we are in God's almighty peace to keep us safe from anti-love things >

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7)

So, while we obey how God wants us to pray . . . we are guaranteed how His peace will guard us . . . in our hearts and in our minds.

And this is commanded in God's word; so this is a miracle that God guarantees us while we obey how He has us doing this.

So, we trust You, O God our Father, to succeed in doing all You mean by this, in us all who have trusted in Your Son Jesus. The glory is to You.

newton3005 said:

What part do we play in Jesus’ crucifixion?

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Jesus died for our sins; so our sins are guilty of the crucifixion of Jesus. Our sins helped to put Jesus on the cross. So, any person who has ever sinned is guilty of the murder of Jesus who is God's own Son.

God's part is He wants to forgive us and change us into the likeness of Jesus so we are pleasing to God the way Jesus in us is so pleasing and He in us shares with us how He is so we can be so pleasing to our Father.

It is written >

"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2)

So, if we have trusted in Jesus and are following His example of how He was loving, on the cross, now our part is that we are honoring Jesus by loving any and all people the way Jesus loved while crucified. And Jesus in us affects how we are so we can sweetly please our Heavenly Father the way Jesus on the cross was "a sweet-smelling aroma".

And this includes how we obey God's rule not to argue or complain >

"Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation," (in Philippians 2:13-16)

By not arguing or complaining we can become blameless and harmless and without fault . . . so we are sweetly pleasing to our Father. And so we can be honoring the crucifixion of Jesus, by following His example of how He was pleasing our Father and loving us while on the cross.

Yes, and amen ✝

tonychanyt said:

Jesus focused on his own gospel teachings, not Moses' OT.

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Jesus adds to what we receive from Moses. He does not take anything away. Paul quotes David, but people have trouble understanding. Under the Law we can be good and reap the benefits of being good. With God it is through faith and the grace of God working in us that we become right with God so we abide in His righteousness. That is why Paul says: "It is written". He is quoting Psalm 14:1-3 and Psalm 53:1-3. David loved the law of God, David delighted in the law. But he understood that: Psalm 51:16-17 (NIV): > "You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; > you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. > My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; > a broken and contrite heart > you, God, will not despise."

If someone does what is wrong, this can exercise the person to get weaker so he or she can be more and more able to suffer emotionally and miss out on how God's love can make us creative for solving problems and relating with other people.

There is "the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience," we have in Ephesians 2:2.

So, no matter how cleverly we argue for any sin, even only agreeing with it can have us functioning in Satan's spirit of disobedience. So, agreeing with wrong things is also wrong. And it can be spreading the effects of Satan's evil spirit. And then children can be affected by this, so they likewise are weak enough to suffer deeply and be desperate to seek pleasure in order to feel something nicer . . . instead of finding out how to love.

And in less than God's love, people can give in to fearing and arguing and self-righteously criticizing others, instead of praying with hope for any and all people.

So, this is included in what is wrong with anything that is wrong . . . no matter how cleverly anyone argues otherwise > we can see how people are turning out because of what they hold to and how ones hold to their things.

Wrong people can attract problems, plus self-righteous people can be correct about what is wrong but they are not the right way about what they know.

Three-Hundred Sayings of the Ascetics of the Orthodox Church

This is powerful.

tonychanyt said:

Jesus said in Matthew 19: 5b ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’

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God divided them into male and female so He could unite them back together again in Him. We are all born into this world because of the union of a male and a female that united becomes one.