Michie said:

Yuval Harari cites 'moral mistakes' in Scripture on book promotion tour

A controversial Israeli professor is once again calling for a “rewrite” of the Holy Bible.

Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and bestselling author of titles including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, has a new book out in which he questions the process of the canonization of the Bible” and suggests that the “Bible needs a rewrite.”

In an interview with The Globe and Mail earlier this month, Harari, 48, explained why he devoted an entire chapter in Nexus, A Brief History of Information Networks to the process of the canonization of the Bible.

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Israeli professor, author repeats call to 'rewrite' the Bible

A controversial Israeli professor is once again calling for a rewrite of the Holy Bible

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Yes, the secularists insist on making a steady progression in undermining both Judaism and Christianity. But, it's to be expected from those like Harari who have their own liberal philosophy to tout.

Floridians Protecting Freedom, the activist group behind pro-abortion Amendment 4, claims to be a ‘grassroots movement’ but is heavily funded by out-of-state far-left interests, including George Soros, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the SEIU, and the Tides Foundation.

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Department of Defense Directive 5240.01.


Other sources:
From 2020:

To recapitulate:

In 2021, the FBI elevated racially-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) to the top priority threat level, the same threat level assigned to ISIS.
Since that time, there have been three RMVE terrorist attacks causing a total of 21 deaths, and zero ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks in the US.

Lord Alton told LifeSiteNews that 'the Vatican’s silence on human rights and religious freedom in China is profoundly disappointing and dangerously counterproductive.'

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Miguel Lopes positively shines as he puts on his vestments to take on his all-important role.

October is Down Syndrome Awareness month, and in honor of the occasion we wanted to share the joyous occasion when 9-year-old Miguel Lopes became an altar server at Paróquia Santa Rosa de Lima in Piracicaba, Brazil.

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Local, state, and federal officials are investigating an apparent act of arson that has shuttered a Massachusetts Catholic parish.

The Franklin Fire Department in Massachusetts said in a Facebook post on Wednesday night that it responded to a fire at St. Mary Church in Franklin in the Archdiocese of Boston.

“A fire in the rear sacristy was quickly extinguished by the initial arriving crews,” the department said. “There was a significant amount of smoke throughout the entire church.”

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Pursue your lawmakers to add a "5th Amendment" type rule like our US Constitution provides allowing a person to refuse to testify or admit a crime thereby self-incriminating. That doesn't constitute lying of denying by simply refusing to speak or sign. The word of God encourages private prayer in one's "prayer closet", not before people to be seen or heard praying unless called upon. Going beyond that doesn't necessarily prevent help from God, but we ought to obey what His Spirit is directing our spirit and mouth to do in everything. Whatever persecution coming from that obedience is in His hands, our great defense attorney/advocate in Heaven. We also are admonished to obey the powers of government allowed to exist.
Titus 3:1-2 (KJV)
1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Defying the government of your land carries potential curses from rulers and witnesses that could damage your opportunities to serve Jesus, being counted a criminal and bringing shame. Be wise, full of the Word of God, stay tuned in to His directives.

Jesuit priest and apostolic prefect of Battambang in Cambodia Father Enrique “Kike” Figaredo this week presented Pope Francis with a wheelchair made by land mine survivors in Cambodia.

The Spanish missionary traveled to Rome from the Southeast Asian country with a special gift for the Holy Father: a Mekong wheelchair, characterized by having three wheels and made of wood.

Figaredo, who is in the Eternal City to participate in the Synod on Synodality, had the opportunity to meet with the pontiff early in the morning of Oct. 23.

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Nagomirov said:

We need quotes from the fathers of the church who would teach the creation of the Tabor Light, the Light emanating from the face of Moses.

What is the position of the Catholic Church, does it teach that the Light of Tabor and the Light coming from the face of Moses are created or uncreated?

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согласно католическому богословию Фаворский свет тварен. Они отрицают учение свт. Григория Паламы о нетварности энергий

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rambot said:

Selective listening is a type of listening I suppose. You just get angry at Kamala for saying the same things as trump does so I just assumed you didn't care.

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Sadness is more like it. All of the accents and the evasiveness rather than truth.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we need to be people who do look carefully at how we live our lives. Our lives should be dedicated to following Jesus Christ in obedience and in living morally pure and upright and godly lives. And we should not be living according to our flesh to fulfill fleshly desires. So, this is something we have to consciously work at each day, in the power of God’s Spirit living within us. We can’t be casual about our Christian lives.

So, how do we do this? We must be consciously aware of all that we do each day, of the things we think about, of the things we say, and of the things we take into our eyes and ears and minds. And we must measure these against the teachings of the Scriptures and against the character of God and what we know of what the Scriptures teach about how we are to live as followers of Jesus. And then we must conform to the standards of the Scriptures.

In other words, we should not be worldly people and we should not be people who are just wasting our lives away on the pleasures that this sinful world has to offer. But we are to be godly people, people of integrity and uprightness who consider our steps and who follow in the ways of the Lord. And so we need to guard our eyes and ears and minds against feeding on the things of the flesh and of this sinful world.

Now this is not saying that everything we do has to be religious. But everything we do must be in accord with godliness and holiness and not in accord with the sinful pleasures of this world. And so we need to be discerning about the things we take into our eyes and ears and minds, because what we entertain with our eyes and ears, and in our minds, will be what comes out in our actions and in our words and in our attitudes, too.

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Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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They’re Liars, deceivers
Who mimic believers,
Controlling the masses
Regardless of classes

Thievery, trickery,
They’re from the enemy
They’re always so charming
It is quite alarming

They’re not to be trusted
For they will get busted
Think they’re invincible
‘Twill be a crucible

Have always excuses
For all their abuses
Recycled behaviors
Pay to them no favors

Although God is gracious
Still they are tenacious
They show they’re not willing
God’s Spirit infilling

For flesh is what matters
And people they flatter
In hopes to deceive them
So they will believe them

Their sins they do cover
So none will discover
Exactly what woos them
And who then did choose them

For, if they are truthful
To them will be hurtful
In self-preservation
Remain in their station

An Original Work / September 20, 2018

James 1:22-25 ESV


What I believe the Lord wants me to focus on today is this subject of self-deception. For many people are using the excuse that they are and/or were self-deceived and that is why they did (or do) all the bad things that they did (and/or are actively still doing). But look at what this is saying here. This is speaking of people who are hearers of the Word. They know the truth. They know right from wrong. So, it isn’t that they don’t know that the evil they choose to do is evil, but that they choose to do the evil anyway.

They actively make a conscious choice to deceive themselves, not because they don’t understand good and evil, but because they want to do the evil and not the good. And it isn’t that they have not had a good hard look at themselves and where they are and the mess that they are in, but that they choose to block that out of their minds so that they can continue in their deliberate and habitual and premeditated sin without guilt and without conscience. They willfully lie to themselves so they don’t feel guilty.

So, when someone who professes faith in Jesus Christ continues in deliberate and habitual and premeditated sin, they do so knowing full well that what they are doing is wrong. When they commit adultery against their spouses over and again, they know that they are hurting their spouses, but they do it anyway. And when they lie to themselves and to others in order to cover up their sin, or to make excuses for why they are still in bondage to sin, and for why they are not yet free, that is a conscious act of their will.

So, if this is where you are, continually making excuses for why you are still living in addiction (slavery) to sin, claiming you are self-deceived and therefore you didn’t know how bad you were or how wrong it was what you were doing, and especially if you have been doing this for many years fully knowing the truth of the gospel and what it teaches, you are definitely without excuse. So stop the sham! Look into the gospel and be no hearer who forgets (deliberately) but a doer who acts. You will then be blessed.

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Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018

Your bond is broken
With your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is
Separate from Him.

Your words not matching
Your actions today.
Repent of your sin and
Bow down and pray.

Live what you testify
In truth always.

Purity’s lacking in
Your life and witness,
For you profess one thing,
But other you do.

Not moral, spiritual.
Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to
What you confess.

Lying about it
Puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice,
‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness –
None of it true.

Your heart is not given
To your Lord God.
Because of how you live,
You are a fraud.

Turn from your sin and
Give your life to God.

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Lord have mercy!

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, ora pro nobis.

Stop experimenting on children! It's vile and child abuse!

Satan is going after Latin America. Next he will go to Africa. Be prepared.

Christ, return! Your bride is ready!

Boys don't need menstrual products. SMH. What would they use them for? There's nothing "compassionate" about such a silly action. H. Clinton needs to move on and just retire. She's no longer relevant.

SMH

Praying my state does the right thing and bans abortion completely!

Wolseley said:

And that is precisely what Satan wants them to do: stay home, so the amoral population is the only one with any voting pull.

Very sad. It's also sad that we live in a country where we're allowed to vote in elections, and people don't bother. Maybe if they lived in some repressive regime like Iran or North Krea, they might appreciate the privileges they have here more.

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Agreed. The last few years have made me decide to vote in every election.

I sincerely hope he comes back in communion with Rome and is repentant.

That's my only comment.

Praying and hoping my state does the right thing- as well as the rest of the united states!