Fantine said:

Insurrection is treason. In the 19th century he would have been hanged.

You spin these lies without one tiny particle of truth.

We have thousands of pages of hard evidence. Note his $100 million lawyers tried everything but never said he's innocent.
A criminal who commits 93 felonies but is "immune" is still guilty on God's and men's eyes.

They aren't even good lies. They aren't even delivered by good liars. Such transparently obvious lies a 4 year-old could see through them.

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If you believe this, organize or support an effort to physically prevent Trump from taking office again.

I had an experience with God. It resulted with me going back to church and getting involved. Good fruit because I believed it was God.

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If you don't know, which you don't, then don't assume. Try to be reasonable every chance you get.

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I believe that my assumption is reasonable.

We are presently living in the last days that this is talking about. We are living in a time in history when the commandments of the Lord and what is moral, upright, pure, righteous, godly, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord is being twisted, altered, torn down, and nearly destroyed. This is happening in the gatherings of the church (not all, but probably the majority), in church denominations, in the government, in the media, in the educational system, including Christian schools, and in the field of medicine.

There is a massive web of deceit at so many different levels of government, religious institutions, and the media, et al. And there are people at these high levels within these institutions whose goal it is to deceive the people and to lead them to a false light, a false truth, a false gospel of salvation, and a false image of government and control. And so lies and liars abound just about everywhere you look these days. So it takes much spiritual discernment to distinguish the lies from the truth, for they are blended together quite craftily. We just cannot believe everything we hear.

And even though I am seeing that some prominent people in places of government and the media, in positions of power and influence, are currently making professions of faith in Jesus Christ, and we are hearing about very large gatherings of people worshiping Jesus, and of a spiritual revival taking place, be very guarded about this. Look into what they are actually believing and teaching to see if it lines up with what the Scriptures teach in their full context. For many are teaching and spreading an altered gospel message absent of death to sin and walks of obedience to God.

A lot of these movements are also very emotionally driven. And you will hear of large gatherings of people singing praise and worship songs and swaying to the music and lifting their hands in the air, and of baptisms, and they will claim that they are worshiping God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. But worship of God first begins with self-denial, dying with Christ to sin, and surrendering of one’s life to God to walk in purity of devotion to him in walks of obedience to his commands. It is not worship of God if all it is is singing songs and waving arms, but without submission to the will of God.

So, just because someone claims to be a Christian and a follower of Jesus Christ, it does not mean that he is one, in practice. Sometimes people will claim to be Christians because they want Christians to vote for them, or to follow them, or to approve of them, or to believe them and what messages they are spreading. But know that the Scriptures warn us of those who have an appearance of godliness, but who deny its power. Outwardly they give off an image of being Christ followers, but inwardly some of them are ferocious wolves out to trick, to steal, to kill and to destroy the church.

So, as the saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” And that goes both ways. What you may think you see outwardly may not be what is really taking place. You may be misjudging some people, accusing them of being false, when they are those who are telling the truth. Or you may embrace someone who has the right appearance outwardly, but who is a devil in disguise. And just because politicians proclaim what they are going to do for you, it doesn’t mean at all that they are really going to do that if elected. Words can be cheap if they are not followed up with action, in other words.

So, in order to not be deceived by other humans you must first of all be a genuine follower of Jesus Christ who is listening to what his word teaches us in how we are to live, and who then is walking in obedience to our Lord and to what his word instructs us who are followers of Christ. And then you must not accept everyone or anyone at face value for who they claim to be. But you should look into who they really are, and what they are teaching as the gospel message. And then ask the Lord to show you who is on his side and who is not, and what is really going on inside religious institutions and the government and media and the world of education and medicine, etc.

Pray for your eyes to be opened to the truth and that you would not be led astray by liars (thieves and robbers) who are out to destroy the church. And be willing to have some of your belief systems or concepts altered by the truth. For many people here in America, anyway, have been brainwashed from birth to believe certain things about our government and media and the church, and not all of it is the truth. Much of it is not. There is so much deception out there. We just need to pray for eyes to see so that we are not caught in these webs of deception by people who, in truth, hate us.

But, with regard to the subject of the gospel, it is not true that you can just make a public profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all your sins are forgiven (past, present, and future), and heaven is now secured you, but regardless of how you live. The Scriptures teach that genuine faith in Christ Jesus results in self-denial, dying daily to sin, and following our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. We may not do this perfectly all the time, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin. For if sin is what you practice, you do not have eternal life.

[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]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Well, I just read a little bit about what Aristotle and Plato actually believed. One interesting item is the thing about Plato's FORMS and Aristotle's forms.

Plato seems to say we can have a FORM in our minds about a thing. It is an ideal of what a physical thing can be. For example, in our minds we can have a FORM of what a woman is. And this is our ideal and to this we compare each woman we see and maybe share with. Something like this.

But this seems like a secular way of experiencing, with us humans being our own gods who can create our own imaginary things, to which we compare outward things.

What God is concerned about is how Jesus His own Son is. Jesus is the One to whom we are compared. And God is working in us His children to *con*-form us to the image of Jesus. This is what needs our main attention, versus being so busy with comparing things and people of this life to what we imagine we want and maybe would rather have.

Now, Aristotle seems to have been a student of Plato, and he went a different way from Plato's FORMs idea. But it, still, seems secular.

So, what I get from this is we need to not be so busy with evaluating if outward things suit our fancy. Instead, our attention needs to be to how our character is becoming like Jesus in His love . . . or not. And other stuff might be some . . . form . . . of seeking knowledge of good and evil so we can stay busy and tangled and even mangled with being experts about all the wrong and inferior stuff of this world.

Our attention needs to be to God, instead.

And they seem to talk about what makes us able to be happy and have a pleasant life. There is the idea that a person needs to have virtue in order to be happy. Well . . . again it seems the attention goes to what humans can get our own selves to understand and how we can get ourselves to become. But God . . . is able to change us to be not only happy for our own selves, but pleasing to Him like His own Son in us is so pleasing to our Father and in us can make us more and more sharing with Him in how He is so pleasing to God. And this is very pleasant and soul-resting and soul-soothing, how Jesus has us becoming.

So, from the little I saw, I suspect Plato and Aristotle are secular, observing how secular humans can function. And, like how Aristotle went a different way from his teacher, Plato . . . humans secular can split up as they individually invent imaginary *but subjective* forms and ideas and desires and preferences for how to get pleasure.

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EVERY DAY IS THANKSGIVING DAY

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

It's thanksgiving day in the USA soon, a time for giving thanks for all of God's blessings to us. Most of the rest of the world, does not celebrate this holiday, some do.

It's not just a good idea to give thanks to God, it's a command of God. In fact it's his will for us to give thanks, it's not an option for us.

God wants the church and us as individuals to give him thanks, we give thanks when we receive something from someone and we have received so much from the Lord, just look at the verses in Ephesians 1:3-14, to see what you have received from Him.

Every good and perfect gift is from the father of lights:

James 1:17
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17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
If the gifts, we receive from God are so good and perfect, how much more should we give thanks for them.
Not only should we give thanks for everything God has given us, but we should thank Him everyday for all his good and perfect gifts.
Thanking God is one of the best practices, that we can have, make every day thanksgiving day.
In America, they have a big table filled with many dishes, think of every dish on that table, as a gift from God, the table is filled with so many dishes, every day God fills our table with so many good things, let us thank Him everyday for everything and make every moment and every day:
THANKSGIVING TIME
Think of all the blessings, God has given you, if you need to, write them down.
Are you thanking God, for everything he is giving you?
Let us finish with one of the greatest psalms:
Psalm 100
King James Version
100 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
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GospelS said:

To the world, it is Caiaphas.

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High priests in some "high places" of worship judged the Sons of God and handed them over to Romans.

lifepsyop said:

This hypothesis doesn't seem to hold much water because Trump still got 74 million votes, and still did significantly better with minority groups than past Republicans. The supposed anti-Trump sentiment was not reflected in his numbers.

Then there's this little doozy...


From 1980 to 2016, 19 counties voted for the winner of the presidential election every single time. The most impressive of those was Valencia County, New Mexico, which voted for the victor in every presidential election from 1952 to 2016.
But in 2020, 18 of these 19 “bellwether counties” voted for former President Donald Trump. Just one — Clallam County, Washington — voted for President Joe Biden."

Where Did All The Bellwether Counties Go?

Many counties used to vote for every presidential winner. What's changed?

fivethirtyeight.com

Let that sink in.... for the past forty years 19 counties have voted for the winner every single time... It just so happens in 2020, almost all of them voted for the loser.


Is it really that hard to believe that people cheated in order to "save democracy" ?


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From the charts in my previous post, there were 16 million more people who voted in 2020 vs 2024, is the quibbling over the other 4 million?

based on the math however, taking 168 million and cutting it in half does explain why Biden got more votes that election. However, for the non-Trump fans, there was a factor of provocation to counter the voter apathy that was setting in prior.

The real failure of democracy is in comparing the number of eligible voters vs how many tend to show up.

Lord have mercy!

Lord have mercy

rjs330 said:

Can I join you? We'll eat and drink while democracy burns.

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Indeed, while the radical liberal version of democracy burns.

notreligus said:

The Restoration Movement began in Scotland in the late 1700s. Look for references concerning John Glas and Robert Sandeman. Sandeman migrated to northeastern America and brought New Presbyterian followers with him.

The "Resoration Movement" that is thought of in reference to Independent Christian Churches, Disciples of Christ churches, and Churches of Christ began when Walter Scott came to Alexander Campbell with the idea that "the ancient order with water baptism for the remission of sins" needed to be restored.

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Actually, Campbell had made the acquaintance of those early Scottish reformers Glas and Sandeman, as well as a related movement formed by James and Robert Haldane, while a seminary student in Scotland.

Acts2:38 said:

There isn't one account of worship in the NT that supports music in worship.

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And therein is the basis of the split between the Independent Christian Churches and the Churches of Christ.
David Lipscomb and other leaders saw the absence of such mention as prohibiting musical instruments in worship.
Others in the RM took that lack of mention as "well, the Bible didn't say we COULDN'T use them..."

May God give blessings to the children of Jacob ✝

May God guide all of our leaders so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives

hislegacy said:

There is also nothing Trump about Project 2025 - repeating the lie does not make it real.

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Project 2025 is not the place you need to look for what to expect. P2025 is the Heritage Foundation's Christmas list. They put some version of this out every election cycle and have done so since Reagan was in office.
Where you really should look is a much shorter manifesto put out by the America First Policy Institute,

and a website called "Agenda 47"

that was posted by the Trump campaign after P2025 became such a talking point. Compare the two and you'll find they're roughly identical. This would appear to be what the new Administration's priorities would be.

You can thank me later for saving you reading 900+ pages of REALLY BORING POLICY WONK language. All Project 2025 is good for is relieving insomnia.

tonychanyt said:

Caesarea was not in Galilee.

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You're right; thanks. I was thinking Capernaum and wrote Caesarea. It was at the intersection of important trade routes. The amphitheater was naturally formed, lending itself to rhetorical events.

Tinker Grey said:

And the Yankees; don't forget the Yankees.

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What about them?

Nithavela said:

Fiat justitia ruat caelum.

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Wonder what Obama would look like in prison garb?


Looks nice on him......

essentialsaltes said:

Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company.

According to RBC’s sources, Google began accumulating daily penalties of 100,000 rubles in 2020 after the pro-government media outlets Tsargrad and RIA FAN won lawsuits against the company for blocking their YouTube channels. Those daily penalties have doubled each week, leading to the current overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles.

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Given the state of Russia's currency that comes to what......about $.50$ ?

essentialsaltes said:

Kari Lake fails yet again to convince court that she’s rightful Arizona governor​

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake has lost yet another appeal in her effort to overturn the 2022 election for Arizona governor.

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AZ Supreme Court rejects Kari Lake’s last remaining bid to overturn her 2022 loss​

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake has lost yet another appeal in her effort to overturn the 2022 election for Arizona governor.


Still not clear whether she will follow this up with a two-year battle to overturn her 2024 Senate loss.

Glory to God!