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Recent content by FredVB

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    'Be filled with the Holy Spirit'

    Living for God will always have us involving others.
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    Two MN Dem Pols + Spouses Shot in Targeted Shooting

    There is real mismanagement of government, and issues to be addressed, overreach will be a problem to all of us. Attempting assassination of anyone is never the right approach in any case. Hence marches for protesting are a fair approach, while courts might be used for rectifying misuse of...
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    Some contend against Blessed Mary

    Faith in Christ, which is essential, while faith before the revelation that finally came of the mystery of Christ's atonement could be adequate for being covered in Christ for salvation, and may be enough for those where the gospel of Christ has not ever reached, still does not depend on what if...
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    Hebrews 8 shows us that Christ gave the TEN Commandments - Christ's Commandments

    Indeed Abraham is the father of faith. It was such a great example to us, believing in one God among a polytheistic pagan society and faithfully leaving it when called out from it. And now we who are believers are among an increasingly atheistic secular society where we do not belong, with all...
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    Annihilation=No Wrath

    Justice from God must come with God being judge. Christ bore penalty from that for those with repentant faith who come to him, that they turn from known sinning to be in Christ, that they come to God in the needed way restored. Those that do not repent to do this are still subject to that just...
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    Hebrews 8 shows us that Christ gave the TEN Commandments - Christ's Commandments

    Alright, you did not say commandments came to an end. A number of others do say that. Jesus clarified the meaning of commandments for us, and that was not limiting them. Love is important and necessary, but it was meant from the beginning. After the fall, people did not love enough. So further...
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    How Can Molecules Think?

    I responded to something just on the previous page of the thread, which was about our reality being simulation. I do not believe there is software or hardware of whatever meaning I found for it needed in God's creation, which was by God speaking it forth. The first day with light on earth was...
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    I give up: I'd rather go backwards, than forwards (in Evolution)

    Last I heard. But who can judge disordered thoughts? Who has everything right?
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    Conclusion to a warning to not depend on use of animals from the environment

    "The volunteers went on, and much further they found those three at that furthest occupied place, a sort of camp. A dozen others had been living there, subsisting on the clams and gathering nuts and berries growing in this area. Epeden said to remind those three, 'You were expected to return to...
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    Hebrews 8 shows us that Christ gave the TEN Commandments - Christ's Commandments

    As far as what to eat, all the things claimed to be permitted only after the world wide flood and thousands of years of previous human history are concessions from God that more would not perish, yet not of God's will shown in the perfect design, showing with this same basis that God does not...
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    I give up: I'd rather go backwards, than forwards (in Evolution)

    I will try being persuasive when I see him communicating next.
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    Do we lose our sexuality in heaven?

    We in this world easily think there cannot be greater bliss than what we have with sex. But God is not limited. In heaven we may be provided, as I believe we really would be, with what gives more bliss, which we cannot think of in this world. Paul wrote what we have in the Bible at 2 Corinthians...
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    I give up: I'd rather go backwards, than forwards (in Evolution)

    I have seen Gottservant posting and he seems to be well enough, doing so. He just had gone to another forum. Perhaps I might talk to him about returning here. But then if I do, it will be entirely up to him if he would do so.
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    How Can Molecules Think?

    No, I was not saying that. There might be an issue with reading comprehension or else just not caring to look. I pointed out that I was responding to something just on the previous page of the thread, which was about that which is not my own position. There is no software or hardware of whatever...
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    So far, at least nine (now ~40) (now ~160) (now hundreds) judges, including Trump appointees, have ruled against Trump orders

    Trump doesn't bother to check what changes from him would be constitutional or not, surely. Maybe some advisor's from all the appointed yes-men would say if they are not, but then Trump overrides that anyway. So many changes are violating what was in place previously that includes protections...