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    What, exactly, is virtue signaling?

    Virtue signaling is creating a false sense of Virtue to impress others. In your husband's case adding a cross to his signature can be virtue signaling or could be a genuine expression of faith.
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    We need to explain HOW God knows the future?

    God's foreknowledge is the same as the foreknowledge of a master home builder. A home builder has a vision of what his next home will look like and takes the steps necessary to build it. He can describe in detail what it will look like because he is the one causing it to be. Amo 3:7 Surely the...
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    Virginia school puts up controversial ABCs display on Women's History Month, starting with 'A is for Abortion'

    "M" is for "mansplaining". Can we get one of those toys where you pull the string and it says "the cow goes mooooo" but only it says "M is for mansplaining".
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    Is Salvation Forever?

    The new testament is filled with warnings against falling away into condemnation through sin or apostasy. That has been the teaching of Christianity since the beginning. It is best summed up here; Rom 11:22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but...
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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    Isaiah 56 refers to a gentile proselyte to Judaism or at least a gentile who has chosen to live among the Jews. Now, if you look to Hebrews: Heb 7:11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law)... The parenthetical statement for...
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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    Abraham's dietary laws: Gen 9:3 “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    You're a bit weak on Judaism. Of course my go-to authority on Judaism is Chabad Lubavitch. Maybe you have some other authority. As to gentiles in the synagogue on the sabbath, it makes sense that they would be there on that day because that's the day everyone else would have been there. It would...
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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    Abraham did in fact keep the statutes and commandants of God. But the sabbath was not one of them. No one was given the sabbath until Exodus. And even today Jews will tell you that the sabbath does not apply to gentiles as it did not apply to Noah.
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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    Well you mention Abraham. No sabbath was given to Abraham. He lived in the time of Melchizedek. And I don't know how you equate asceticism with the Colossians but you are way off on that. Asceticism has always been a part of Christianity.
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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    Jesus wasn't against following anything in Deuteronomy. In fact he at first preached adherence to the law to the Jews. But after the had been rejected by the Jews and was about to be crucified he instituted the new covenant that had been prophesied by Jeremiah: Jer 31:31 “Behold, the days are...
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    The doctrine that Black People are the Beast of the Field in the Bible (Not Human)

    I don't need to watch videos or listen to the rants of lunatics concerning black people and their place in the bible because I know the bible and Church history. By way of example, the Ethiopian eunuch Philip baptized in Acts 8 was a black man, else he wouldn't have been called an Ethiopian...
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    Are we saved, or being saved?

    That is a typical Orthodox response to "are you saved". We are being saved. We enter into salvation in this life by grace through faith, but salvation is only attained on the day of judgement when we will be judged based on our works. That is abundantly clear in Matthew 25:31-46.
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    'Won't Renew': Panama Withdraws From China's Belt And Road Deal Amid US Pressure

    Panama's President announced the country 'will not renew' its participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative after meeting US Secretary of State https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/won-t-renew-panama-withdraws-from-china-s-belt-and-road-deal-amid-us-pressure
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    Is Evangelical Criticism of the Medieval Church Just?

    The worst thing you can say about the medieval Church would be that it was a product of its time. Heresy and blasphemy were felonies punishable in the same manner as all felonies.
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    The old Roman virginity cult

    To believe that we would have to believe that at least Jesus and Paul were "were attached to the old Roman virginity cult, and allowed their attachment to dominate them". Jesus himself was unmarried in keeping with the tradition of the Essenes. Paul continued in celibacy and encouraged other to...
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