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Recent content by JSRG

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    The Investigative Judgment or Pre-Advent Judgement.

    So there's a whole bunch of issues in your claims there--some of which other posters pointed out in that topic--but here's the thing. Even if all of your claims in that topic (which are mostly just copy/pasted material you lifted uncritically from often questionable websites) were true, it...
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    Adventist view on the thousand years of the Millennium

    The term "tradition" has several meanings, as my dictionary indicates: 1 the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way: every shade of color is fixed by tradition and governed by religious laws. • a long-established custom or...
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    Adventist view on the thousand years of the Millennium

    How does it start off stating things confidently as if they are fact? It says "According to a tradition, or rather a series of traditions combined at different epochs..." and then gives the account, then afterwards explains issues with the account. Where is the "stating things confidently as if...
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    Democratic candidates: You be the judge.

    Oh, obviously they aren't consolidating power into those things, because they're not in power. But when they were? Yes, they were absolutely consolidating power into the presidency and the person occupying it. The United States has been on a presidential power ramp for quite a while now, but it...
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    Democratic candidates: You be the judge.

    First, I should note that your descriptions of some of these are in the video a bit more nuanced than the descriptions you give (e.g. the "no borders" they mention as an eventual goal, not something they want to do immediately, and the question posed to them about prisons was not about getting...
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    Democratic candidates: You be the judge.

    Except if one looks at the stuff they're suggested, we'll see a lot of these were things that some of the founders wanted. The President chosen by congress? The Supreme Court chosen by congress? The Senate having its representatives per state decided by state population rather than each state...
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    Commandments of man or the commandments of God

    I likely speak for many when I say... AI;dr.
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    Commandments of man or the commandments of God

    See my edited post again at #67 where I added a little information. I edited to try to better clarify things, but it looks like you responded to it so quickly that you missed it. In any event, the question of whether it's found in scripture (a point I leave to others to argue about) is entirely...
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    Commandments of man or the commandments of God

    The statement (from a source I was quoting) that Catholic sources--with particular focus on the 19th and early 20th century--said a particular thing? I wouldn't expect scripture to say anything on the specific question of what some much later writings would say. If you were specifically asking...
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    Democratic candidates: You be the judge.

    Actually, there's sometimes a whole lot of electoral red tape that can make it difficult for anyone who's not a Democrat or Republican to be on the ballot. So a lot of times people don't even have that option. Even setting that aside, you still run into the fundamental problem of first past the...
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    Some contend against Blessed Mary

    There have been no posts in this topic for nearly three years. Why did you think there was any need to bump it, especially to make such a nondescript post? In fact, I've noticed you have a habit of doing this, going into long-dead topics just to make a post... is there any particular reason why...
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    Democratic candidates: You be the judge.

    Campaign finance laws have little to do with there not being a 4 party system. What causes that is the voting system. United States has first past the post voting. The way that works is you vote for one candidate and whoever gets the most votes wins. This is a voting system that is almost...
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    The Investigative Judgment or Pre-Advent Judgement.

    Well, in the first place, this doesn't seem to actually address the message you were replying to, as that person noted that a literal translation of the phrase in Hebrews 9:12 meant "holy places". But the big issue I need to point out is that your entire post here rests on a faulty assumption...
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    Democrats and Republicans

    I'm not sure I'd say that, because both Federalist (in the sense of someone who supported the Constitution against the Anti-Federalists) and Federalist (in the sense of someone who was a supporter of or member of the Federalist Party, whose opponents were the Democratic-Republicans) are both...
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    Democrats and Republicans

    Listing Thomas Jefferson as an Anti-Federalist seems inaccurate. I do not believe he was opposed to the Constitution (though he did want the Bill of Rights added), which was basically the definition of Anti-Federalist. That was indeed the distinction between Federalist and Anti-Federalist; the...
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