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Yes, there are catholics here. THere are an untold number of true believers attached to the Roman church that simply aren't aware of the errors--many having no other experience. Because they are brethren--folks that Christ suffered for just as you and I, we ought to love them and there is a better way to express your thoughts. We can slam folks with our high powered doctrine gun, or actually try to instruct, as the LOrd directs. There is a better way... Phil. 4:5 (NAS20S) Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near. 1Th. 2:7 (NAS20S) But we proved to be gentle among you. As a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children, 1Tim. 3:3 (NAS20S) not overindulging in wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money. Titus 3:2 (NAS20S) to slander no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing every consideration for all people. James 3:17 (NAS20S) But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, free of hypocrisy. 1Pet. 2:18 (NAS20S) Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are harsh. 1Pet. 3:4 (NAS20S) but it should be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.

One smart cat! @ladypeartree

God made men and women different. Here is some verses I collected on the topic and they speak for themselves. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. - Mark 10:6 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, - Matthew 19:4 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. - Ephesians 5: 22-23 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; - 1 Peter 3:1 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. - Colossians 3:18

All the rebellion we see goes all back to the garden of Eden,Satan is still fighting to destroy the family and creation God created . God created us male and female,he knows the Bible better then we do and knows his time is getting very short before Jesus will come back as Lord of Lords and Kings of King,what a day that will be! Keep your eyes on what is happening in Israel ,they soon will make a treaty with many,just what the Bible foretold.

B Judson, You are correct, but there are more gracious ways of saying it. Communion is symbolic rather than literal.

I believe the 24 Elders in Heaven are simply ELDERS in Heaven! Oftentimes, we want to define something that is not defined in Scripture and if it's not defined in Scripture, we should leave the text as it is and recognize that it's 24 Elders!

Isaiah 48 17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. 18 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; 19 your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19:10

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:31

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. Proverbs 14:5

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. James 3:13

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If it is a real AI in this video then it sure speaks like a politician. Would it hurt us if it was ordered to? Well it says that a gray area, and moves on. Of course it would hurt us if ordered to do so.

Christian quotes from great witnesses for the Lord I like to share with you this one: Psalm 91 1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. American preacher Vance Havner remarked on this verse: "We cannot rest in God until we nest in God. To nest is to settle,to abide.. Isn't it wonderful that is these stressful times we can rest and nest in Gods abiding wings?

Exodus 3:13–15 (KJV) 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. This passage names God YHVH and defines the name YHVH. The statement of eternality (existence without beginning or end and utterly dependent upon nothing other than self). The statement is also devoid of tense (meaning it is all three past, present, future in application): I AM BECAUSE I AM I WAS BECAUSE I WAS I WILL BE BECAUSE I WILL BE Expressed in the Greek in this manner: Revelation 1:8 (KJV) 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Agree!!!! When we're found in Christ,we can be rest assured ,we will face trials and storms in this life but He's faithful and will never leaves us,His present is always with us until our last breath..

@NConly So often Scripture does come over better in the King James. (IMHO).

@Vine Abider In January, a Godly young woman and an earnest young man are welcomed to regular fellowship at a local church. They show interest in the Word and prove helpful and respectful to others among the believers. By May or June.....it's warmer and, guess what? they start wearing shorter sleeved clothes...and guess what else? Their tattoos - a Bible quote and a Christian fish sign <>< - become visible. (Perhaps fiction, but a scenario that could be repeated over and over.....) It would be unthinkable for these young ppl suddenly to become supposed pariahs overnight because the warm weather has come, simply because they don't fit someone's conception of putting people back under the law.

“so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:7 NAS95)

That wouldn't have been contrary to God's Will at that point as Adam was not given a prohibition on he and Eve eating from it. Satan's pride, and its jealous offshoot, was only interested in getting Adam and Eve to disobey God, thereby destroying the perfect relationship they had with their Creator, which Satan, as Lucifer began to envy. Eze 28:13-15 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. (14) "You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. (15) You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.

Romans 8:28 -30 covers it sufficiently for me.

Hi, Do you also wonder ( I do) why did not Satan entice Eve to eat of the tree of life first? Just think what partaking first of that tree's fruit (Eternal Life) then of the other tree's fruit (Knowledge) would have done to change the course of history, past present and future. To lose innocence, embrace evil which could not be done in a state of innocence, while also gaining eternity in the flesh, wow what a nightmare. Seems that would have foiled God in a way that would be a very different challenge to Him then has occurred through eating of knowledge of good an evil. So to me it seems Satan's plan was not to have man to rule over, but was/is instead to abuse God through acts of revenge.

I sure can relate to your wife,I worry about when I die-I have a pet clause in my will but still,I hate to think of them being split up,they're all so close with one another Besides that my feral,everyone is scared of him and he'll have nothing to do with anyone except me Uhhhhhh

https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/revelation-4-no-rapture-of-the-church/

Shellfish and pork won't send you to hell, in fact they'll probably help you get to heaven sooner.

Once we learn that Jesus is LORD Yahweh, Jehovah, YHVH... all the biblical clues pointing to this fact are clear. Philippians 2:10–11 (KJV) 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord {LORD}, to the glory of God the Father. Nehemiah 9:6 (KJV) 6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Put another way... Isaiah 44:24 (KJV) 24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; The New Testament clarifies that this lone Creator of all things created in the beginning is Jesus: John 1:3 (KJV) 3 All things were made by him {God the Word} ; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Colossians 1:16 (KJV) 16 For by him {Jesus} were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: Thus Jesus is YHVH the LORD.

It is this portion of Exodus 3:14 that gets the attention of what Jesus claimed about himself: John 8:58–59 (KJV) 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM. 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. There are several such I AM statements in the Gospels. But one in particular is obscured by translation interference... John 8:24 (KJV) 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. "he" is not in the Greek text and is added for "grammatical clarity" (or so they say). But this traditions of man tampering with the passage obscures the fact that Jesus said that if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins. If you do not believe that I AM YHVH... you will die in your sins.

As Ad Hoc brought up the `bloody battle` we are supposed to fight, perhaps he can start a thread and elaborate. I`m off to a friend`s place for a couple of days, but may start something after that. Thanks for asking.

AI when it is finished will not learn from Humans, it will just learn about Humans. My nephew helped write the self learning part of the technology, and to the best of my knowledge it has not been given complete access to the internet. That will be when it gets dangerous. The technology is capable of total self learning. Goggles AI servers got in touch with another system a year or so ago and the two systems created a whole new language and was conversing between themselves and no one could understand what they were doing. Both systems were shut down.

Oh boy, does this ever have the potential to blow-up this thread's topic!! Marilyn - is there a separate thread on this topic already out there? If not, are you open to starting one? (and if you do, please tag me so I can participate)

I don't have any tattoos . . . but I've eaten a number of the forbidden things in Leviticus chapter 11, including shell fish and pork. I don't know how profitable it is for believers to be looking to follow ordinances in the law. Post resurrection, the Lord told Peter to "Rise, kill and eat" a lot of those things mentioned in Leviticus. I'm certainly not advocating people getting tattoos, by any means, but following regulations from Leviticus might not be a the best thing for a new creation (us believers) in the new covenant. "The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (2 Cor 3:6)

Often the gang members have many, many tattoos.... sometimes covering all of the face and neck. So for regular employment, it's necessary to remove them.

I see know, you resort to mistranslations and non cannon books. That explains the errors in your theory.

Blessings to @Walter and Deborah ‘What Is The Law Of Liberty?’ I hold true that the law being directions in righteousness, righteousness being that which is free from sin…. If sin indeed brings one into slavery, that which brings one out of bondage would be that law that brings liberty….. My surmising, be blessed in yours… A fellow surmise-er, Not me

The key word here is 'conscience', which is the renewed mind receiving the convictions of the Spirit. Romans 14 is relevant, 1 Co 8-10 even more so. Hebrews 9 & 10 also. Why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience? 1 Co 10:29 Additional key verses: 1 Tim 1:5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith. 1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 2 Corinthians 1:12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. 2 Corinthians 4:2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. Acts 24:16 This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men. These, and many more... https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=conscience&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1 In short, the law of liberty pertains to liberty of conscience. I guess I should have led with that.

@Walter and Deborah Thanks for the 'like'; as the decades go by we can indeed say from the heart, Ebenezer - 'Hitherto hath the LORD helped us'..... (1 Samuel 7.12).

AI develops it's own knowledge just like we do, by exposure. But it is trained using techniques so it would be those trainers. AI is also taught to suppress the truth, and give false narratives at times. It depends on the trainers. Google's AI is colossal, and it is those data centers that drink in all the Internet and people's knowledge (their gmail, schedules, etc.) Those are the AIs to worry about; the ones with military contracts and who know you personally from your use of Google.

Yeah... He carry us.. C'est très magnifique...

@SIC What a wonderful promise to the aged believer!

I think she's lying when she says "I don't know".

I liked Obama's idea of a moat with alligators in it better.

Isaiah 46 3 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; 4 even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

In reply to the OP, I am Christian because once I was a slave to sin but now I am free in Christ, I was blind but now I see, I was lost but now I am saved by the blood of the Lamb of God which was shed for all the world. You can't be born a Christian physically, but only by spiritually becoming born again in Christ Jesus. That takes faith, and the fruit of that faith are the good works that include taking care of the poor, etc. That's why I am a Christian. 🙂

It is by his choice, but you can say no. If not, what's this all about? If it's his choice and we have no input, then none of this even matters. He either made us for heaven or hell from the start..... It would be kind of terrible to think God could create anything just to be punished forever without any choice or input on our side of things. I don't think I could believe he made people just to burn them forever.

No one is born a Christian. They may have Christian parents, or live in a Christian culture, but each person must themselves accept Jesus as their saviour and Lord. Do we care for the poor? I suspect that we will All be rebuked for how little we have practically cared for the poor. Why do I say I am a Christian? Because Jesus rose from the dead.

Hi my Friends .. I'm not ignoring any of you fellow animal advocates- surely not & this would be one conversation I'd truly enjoy BUT I need some time away.... it's just that time to be with God and talk things over As you can probably see by the Topic it's a little noisy for me right now so I'm signing off for now to sort it out-Ill be praying for yall,please include me in yours With love in Christ,Kwik

There is a ministry in Los Angeles run by a priest called Homeboy Industries. Former gang members work at a bakery learning skills. "Homegirls" work at a cafe. The priest works with the former gang members, helping them gain job skills and to find employment. He also helps them to get rid of their tattoos as some find it hard to find employment with their many tattoos.

THE FOUR SPIRITS in the Present. These Great Federations were revealed to the apostle John who saw them as powerful horses with different riders galloping throughout the earth. The four spirits, (angels) of heaven are herding these Great Federations towards judgment. The motives of the Great federations are clearly seen by their description. The White horse had a rider who is crowned and holds a bow. The British Commonwealth with its royal head, tries to maintain is supremacy not by war (bows and arrows) but through royal right. `White,` the colour of peace as well as safety is its motive but through man`s institutions. (G7, G20, IMF, UN etc) The Red horse has a rider who holds a great sword. The Russian Federation continues to war and cause great conflict in the world. The Russian, Ukraine conflict at the present reveals this war mongering great power. The Black horse has a rider who holds a pair of scales. The European Union has a `free market` philosophy that has spread throughout the world. It has benefited the multi-national businesses but caused great poverty as well. This will continue till food becomes very dear for most people. The scales represent the measuring of the basic foods – wheat and barley, which for a day`s pay would only give you a loaf of bread. The Pale horse has a rider whose name was death. The Islamic Federation has yet to arise but is even now revealing its terrifying power in many parts of the world. People are being tortured and killed for not bowing to this group`s beliefs. At the appointed time God will send one of the great angels to bring one of the great Federation to judgment.