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Lol that reminds me of when I was 18 or 19 and cycling at 11 pm in the woods alone and I met a rapist. He did not dare to do anything since I said God is HERE and lol that God could heal him from that. Afterwards I was like: Maybe this is not my ministry and I shouldnt go bike alone at 11.

Don't throw it on one bunch. It's sin if men lay with men, but we're not living in Israel from the O.T. and judge those inside the church, not outside. A rapist who rapes young boys, the Bible in Dutch has a different word for that than for a homosexual. That is evil and should be punishable, just like rape of women. I think a lot is hypocrit. If your colleague lives together in sin with their hetero partner without being married or if they have sex before marriage you don't throw fire and brimstone texts at em and gays should have equal rights because they're human. https://samesexattractions.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/interview-chad-thompson-author-of-loving-homosexuals-as-jesus-would/

It doesn't say they immediately grew. Looks like it in Genesis 1, but I think Genesis 2 is zoomed in. This is the [a]history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Life in God’s Garden 8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

Could be but if you just get saved and know nothing you need someone to disciple you. Someone needs to help you. I got saved at 14. I had been reading occult stuff. How was I to know it was evil? I wasn't christian. My granddad had been into rosecrucianism where they curse their family members. I have gone to ministry weeks in England and Canada. Costs some money but you get great help, prayer and you renounce that stuff. My twin brother died in the whomb. They helped me with that in England. And what we learned in other countries my ex would share here, pray for people, ministry weeks, counselling, and yes also sometimes it's simply repent. Not gonna lay hands on people who don't want to repent. But they need to be told. And Bible study courses for new people, Bible school, all that stuff. Most churches here don't have any of that and there are so many people, especially youth, who need help and healing.

Most people don't really need someone, but what about those with mental health problems, drugs problems and such. It always amazes me how little they do in other churches in Holland. You get a preaching once in a while and for the rest good luck. Go to a psychiater. Good churches here are because of American influence. Mainly because of T.L. Osborn. Also the absurd rich nonsense nowadays, but most don't fall for that.

You don't need some selfless reason to get saved. There were revivals where people got saved because they didn't want to go to hell. Are you sure you were not really saved or is the devil just accusing you? In the church I went to you could pray the sinner's prayer again just to be sure, but in the time that satan accused me a lot and I listened to it, I would pray the sinner's prayer every week. Looking back I believe I was saved already.

They can have a good system to meet in small groups. The only really good church I know is mega for Dutch standards. That's a few hundred. He gets an income. His wife doesn't have to take care of him financially. Great church. People watch the service all over the country. Old people who can't go to church anymore watch him. A lot of youth gets saved there. I once visited a church from Larry Stockstill. That was quite mega. Great church.

Lol you call that small? I thought you meant 50 people or so. Those just quit. It's not doable. My mom was in one. First the pastor was a retired man with an income from his normal job he had had, but when he got over 90 another couple took over and they now quit. It's so annoying. The whole load comes on that wife. There was another bigger church in that town and they told the people to go there.

That doesn't work. They had people who gave them money. If you do it all for free and nobody pays for it you just need to quit or have different people preach now and then in a house. A guy in India asked me for money. He thought he could be a pastor because his dad was a pastor. His wife doesnt work. Well then too bad. Not my problem. Ask your mom. Blocked him.

I believe that. Was just wondering, but if you Google it you get craziness like a literal dome on a flat earth, operation fish bowl, so I stopped looking into it.

My christian geography teacher said that in high school, that there might have been a rakea before the flood, from hard water, because it never rained and they got very old, different atmosphere and then it was broken when the fountains of the great deep were opened. I know that any creationist now says it's nonsense and you may not say it, but you can't just skip that text.

A preacher always said: Don't win arguments. Win souls.

The Dutch translation says night ghost. Amplified: Indeed, [c]Lilith (night demon) will settle there

Fish bowl? Lately I had a dream. I saw an old clock in an upside down bucket, which was taken off and then the time started to tick. https://www.thetorah.com/article/my-encounter-with-the-firmament The Torah describes God’s fashioning the firmament (רקיע) on the second day of creation. This piece of the universe, however, doesn’t actually exist—a problem obfuscated in my yeshiva education. https://assets-global.website-files.com/5b8fd783bee52c8fb59b1fac/5f870cc49713c649d0c00e79_Firmament.jpeg A fish-eye view of the Red sea in Israel, early spring. Of all the vexing problems modern cosmology poses for the first chapter of Genesis, such as the insufficient biblical timeline of 6 days (as opposed to billions of years) until the appearance of humans, or vegetative bloom before the sun and photosynthesis, the most acute for me is God’s creation of the firmament (רקיע; rakia) on the second day. If you are unfamiliar with the firmament, then imagine for a moment the horizon, where the earth appears to meet with the sky. Only try and picture it as a connecting point between two solids: a flat plate like earth, and a rigid dome like an upside down bowl that vaults it, blue as ocean, from the vast stores of water it contains. This is what the Bible is describing when it refers to הָרָקִיעַ, traditionally rendered in English Bibles as “the firmament” (from the Latin firmamentum meaning “support”). If you can entertain this notion, and feel yourself underneath this massive curved wall of heaven, straining under the weight of the rainwater it holds back, then you are living on the earth our sages knew, for this is the world, the universe, of which the Bible conceived: The idea of a firmament is entirely contradictory to modern planetary science; yet there God is, in our Torah, spending all of creation day number two fashioning it. R. Isaac said: “[Shamayim should be parsed as a command:] Sa-mayim (“carry water”), i.e., it holds up water. [The heavens] were like milk in a dish; until a drip of rennet is put in it, [the milk] sloshes, but once a drop of milk is put in it, [the milk] congeals and becomes solid. This is the meaning of (Job 26:11): ‘The pillars of the heavens were shaky.’ A coagulant was placed in it, “and it was evening and it was morning, day two.” This follows that which Rav said: “They were liquid on day one, and on day two the congealed". Job 37:18 Can you help him stretch (ר.ק.ע) out the heavens, firm as a mirror of cast metal? Rashi went with the idea that the rakia is substantially the same material as the heavens, namely water, but that God congealed it so that it became “as hard as a mirror of cast metal” but as transparent as glass or clear water. I wonder if it doesn't simply look older because of the flood.

Which one is it? Why repent if you can't even have eternal life? Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” And he said, “Bring up Samuel for me.” 12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!” 13 And the king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What did you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I saw a[a] spirit ascending out of the earth.” 14 So he said to her, “What is his form?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is covered with a mantle.” And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed down. 15 Now Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” And Saul answered, “I am deeply distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and does not answer me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may reveal to me what I should do.” 16 Then Samuel said: “So why do you ask me, seeing the Lord has departed from you and has become your enemy? 17 And the Lord has done for Himself as He spoke by me. For the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord nor execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day. 19 Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.” The dead know nothing? and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:52‭-‬53 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.27.52-53.NKJV Even bunnies go to heaven: For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Romans 8:20‭-‬21 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/rom.8.20-21.NKJV

Yes and: for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Acts 17:28‭-‬29 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/act.17.28-29.NKJV

1. Is that a question? Don't you know we're all fabulous? Tssssss. 2. Yes do follow their lead but only if it's God using them and not into sin of course. Don't throw the wise advice from your mom in the wind, freely translated from Proverbs. 3. That demon came into existence in or after Genesis 6.

We always prayed with church that He'd wait a bit, because everyone needs to get saved, but that was until 15 years ago in Europe, which is easy talking here in freedom. I understand that the persecuted church prays Come Lord Jesus. But for people on Rapture ready who just wanted Him to come in 2012 for selfish reasons, to live happy in heaven and who cares about the rest, I have less understanding.

Not another 1000 years because of Hosea 6:2 After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.

I was wondering yesterday if He is in physical darkness. I was looking up stuff about the speed of light and the universe and saw texts I had never noticed: https://www.google.com/amp/s/adamjwalker.com/2014/03/god-dwells-in-thick-darkness/amp/ specifically when God is within the reaches of human contact, He dwells in thick darkness so that his glory doesn’t completely consume those He loves. A few examples of this: When the Israelites sent Moses to speak with God on the mountain because they were afraid of Him (Ex 20:21). Psalm 97:2 – “Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;” Deuteronomy 5:22 – “‘These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.'”

There are loads of generations to come. Those who survive the 7 years will get kids and live here 1000 years. Which is weird. Are we all gonna live here? Or is the new Jerusalem gigantic in height?

I just copied it from the link. He explains it further there. https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/starlight/does-distant-starlight-prove-the-universe-is-old/

Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out Isaiah 42:5 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/isa.42.5.NKJV who stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in isaiah 40:22 I—My hands—stretched out the heavens Isaiah 45:12 Psalm 8 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers The Dasha Theory by Dr. Dan Faulkner: Astronomer Dr. Dan Faulkner has come up with one alternative model which he calls the “Dasha Theory” named after the Hebrew word used in Genesis meaning “to grow” or to “bring forth” as in Genesis 1:11. God “brought forth” the stars and their light so Adam could see them on Day 4 of creation. Remember, creation is said to be a miraculous process, like the virgin birth of Christ, or the resurrection. So this is a model that accommodates the supernatural. In this model, the current laws of physics don’t come into existence until after the creation period. The Bible speaks many times of the heavens being stretched out during creation (see Isaiah 40:22, Job 9:8, Psalm 104:2, and over a dozen other verses). The light from the stars could have been brought forward (dasha) abnormally fast by a process that is undescribed, enabling it to be seen on Day 4. https://thebiblecanbeproven.com/does-distant-starlight-prove-a-billions-of-years-old-universe-part-6-of-series/ There was immediately light from the stars. https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/starlight/does-distant-starlight-prove-the-universe-is-old/ But some people have proposed that light was much quicker in the past. If so, light could traverse the universe in only a fraction of the time it would take today. gravity slows the passage of time. Since God created the stars on Day 4, their light would leave the star on Day 4 and reach earth on Day 4 cosmic local time. Light from all galaxies would reach earth on Day 4 if we measure it according to cosmic local time. Someone might object that the light itself would experience billions of years (as the passenger on the plane experiences the two hour trip). However, according to Einstein’s relativity, light does not experience the passage of time, so the trip would be instantaneous. Now, this idea may or may not be the reason that distant starlight is able to reach earth within the biblical timescale, but so far no one has been able to prove that the Bible does not use cosmic local time. So, it is an intriguing possibility. Since the stars were created during Creation Week and since God made them to give light upon the earth, the way in which distant starlight arrived on earth may have been supernatural. We cannot assume that past acts of God are necessarily understandable in terms of a current scientific mechanism, because science can only probe the way in which God sustains the universe today. It is irrational to argue that a supernatural act cannot be true on the basis that it cannot be explained by natural processes observed today. It is perfectly acceptable for us to ask, “Did God use natural processes to get the starlight to earth in the biblical timescale? And if so, what is the mechanism?” But if no natural mechanism is apparent, this cannot be used as evidence against supernatural creation. Many big bang supporters use the above assumptions to argue that the biblical timescale cannot be correct because of the light travel-time issue. But such an argument is self-refuting. It is fatally flawed because the big bang has a light travel-time problem of its own. In the big bang model, light is required to travel a distance much greater than should be possible within the big bang’s own timeframe of about 14 billion years