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What broadcast? The one you know nothing about. Nothing you state there is accurate, true, or credible. As a brother said of that other one, I shall take my leave of you. You know nothing about what you're talking about but it seems very important to you that you keep talking.

I am a Christian. Sin has no dominion over me and the penalty of death does not apply. Christians are under grace, not, as you appear to try to insist, under the Law. Perhaps if you would spend time in the word you would not be afraid of life and death. Jesus knows his sheep and they know him. Hearken unto his calling if it is there for you and seek not to try to mislead those who are under the care of the Shepherd. You are in my prayers.

Romans 6:14 "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace."

My own thoughts were arrived at due to knowing what I was talking about .

I don't blame you. While the phrase, legalism, is not in scripture, the law is referred to quite a bit in the OT. This is a topic under discussion quite often among people in Christ. BING link Galatians 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

I don't think you realize what you wrote there.

You've not heard him preach obviously. Otherwise, you'd be able to answer what he was not able to. Even when prior to his teaching of this falsity he charged his congregation in the church and watching, to confront their pastor or bishop if they declared something in God's word as there when it was not. "God created Hell to get even with man." Legalism is a veil over the minds of those not in Christ. I pray you open your eyes to realize that. Though there are men who uphold legalism because they think if God gives them power over women they can get away with telling women they are second class. And this not by that man's opinion but by God's decree. Which is false of course. We are all one in Christ. That puts legalism where it belongs. In the OT.

There is an Apostle that broadcasts out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania and, The First Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, ministry. He's what I'd call a legalistic type pastor. He's also what I'd call, false. He teaches that women should have their heads covered in church. That idolatry includes stained glass windows, which is why the new former Catholic church and campus his ministry just acquired in an all cash sale, has had the gorgeous stained glass windows removed. And that women are forbidden to preach in church. That divorce is strictly forbidden. And that a woman is to be a servant unto the man. There are a number of things he teaches that fall under the umbrella of legalism. I tend to watch him to listen to his latest outlandish claim using God's word as the truth behind it.

And by the way, nothing says you have to stick around toxic people. Toxic personalities are contagious. If you've ever watched that classic cartoon series, Peanuts? Remember, Pigpen? The little boy that had that cloud of dust following him everywhere? Think of that cloud as toxic personality surrounding the toxic person or persons in your life. Just like dust, that energy of negativity can cling and effect you. You can love people who are toxic from a distance. Think of yourself first. Because toxic people are consumers of good energy. Their allergic to it so they devour it into their dark field when they encounter it. Happy people make them mad. And they get madder when their negativity doesn't draw the negative response they crave and thrive to acquire for themselves. See my signature? Click the link for the image she created from a pic she found on the Web. And then added that signature text to. My sister sent me that after having a one on one with her boss. A person who was in a very bad place and made life for his employees very difficult at work. That signature quote is true. Negative people feel better when they spew their negativity upon someone who lives joy , peace, happiness. They walk away satisfied with themselves if that person they targeted leaves that happy place due to their words. Don't ever give anyone that power. Happy is far better than miserable. And misery loves company. That's why the miserable work so hard to bring down the happy. It's lonely at the bottom.

Forgiveness doesn't mean you have to buddy up to those who you forgave for their viciousness. It means you have released yourself from the power those vicious words had, as intended, over your state of mind and happiness. If you don't forgive those who offend you, hurt you, they keep the power their behavior and/or words had upon you from that moment they were expressed. And beyond. Every time you see that offender your mood will revert back to how they made you to feel. It's like time travel to a dark place. And they can only have that power over your emotions if you grant their state of mind the capacity to overcome yours. When people lash out with hateful words, in life or even on the Web, they're first telling you where they are in their heart, mind, and life. Why would someone example hate when love feels so much better? Especially as a family member. And also, this is key and something offenders don't likely realize, if you, the object of their scorn, step back and let those words of theirs flow without taking it personally, you will likely see that they're telling you in words how miserable they are inside themselves. Whereas you are not those words they cast upon you in their outrage , mockery, or contempt. You're not that. What you're hearing is their telling you where they're at when they look at you. Hate filled words from family is outlandish. Who seeks to hurt someone of their blood with hate filled words? And why? And that's the thing to consider. Why. Why is this person in this place in their own life? That they would think they are entitled or hate the power to verbally form, shape, effect, mine. You are not what someone says about you. What you're hearing, witnessing, in someone who thinks they are able to convince you you are, is someone who is hurting. And that's how they let it out. They in their life think they have a right to harm your own with their opinion of it. Can you imagine how mixed up you'd be if your life altered according to someone's scolding you over it? You'd live in a moving jigsaw puzzle that never stops shifting. You'd lose your personal identity as you twisted, and turned, and followed all those things any one is saying about you and your life. And in a sense that is what hate filled words from hate filled people intend to do. Make you change your mind, emotion, life, due to their wording about it. Forgive them. Not for their sake because you cannot change anyone. That's God's job. But for your sake, forgive. Live your life in defiance of all enemies aligned against its happiness and peace. The great joy you may find doing that is in realizing you choose how you feel. And you also choose who's feelings you allow to intrude. And really, forgive and thank God you're not in that offenders head space. They live with that chaos that swirls inside them as they think those dark thoughts about you. You, praise God, do not have to. Just as you do not have to agree with their intention to bring you down to their level. Pray for those who live hate. Living grace is far better. And, it's a choice only you can make. Because you know you're worth that and God knows it too.

No. Mary was the chosen vessel of God to deliver his holy spirit incarnate into the flesh of a male child to this world. To deliver in person sort of speak, his new grace filled covenant for the world's sins. That is all. I believe Mary would be without the words to respond would someone in her time have foretold to her this practice of Mary worship today. We should never judge the Catholic their being led away from the truth of God in Christ. Rather, at any opportunity we should avail ourselves of the opportunity to witness to them while they still have time to repent. 1 Timothy 2:5 5For there is one God and one mediator (*intercessor)between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,

I think it is easy for people to attach such an accusation against the Apostle because it takes more to realize Paul was no such thing at all. Paul wasn't saying women have no voice in God's church. He was telling women, in a segregated church environment where men and women were often seated separately to avoid distractions with one another from the word being taught, that the women should not ask for clarification of a teachings points while in the church. Which often happened in that day. Sort of like a question and answer session in lecture series now. Rather, they should wait until they can inquire of their husbands for clarification later. The system Jesus was born into was strict patriarchal with defined roles for men and women, deemed lesser vessels. Jesus however was a revolutionary in that regard, as we learn when he had women walking with him in his ministry. The Magdalene, his mother Mary, as example. This being something that would not have been witnessed of the Rabbi's serving the temple at that time. A woman discovered the tomb empty remember. And she went to the upper room to inform the Apostles of Jesus body having gone missing. Mary the Magdalene informed the males in that upper chamber and they in turn followed her to the tomb to see for themselves. Women in that era did not lead men to do anything. But these men having been taught by God himself in Jesus were different. And of course as you note, women did minister the Gospel's good news after Jesus returned to the Father. Though there are critics that will try to lay claim that those verses do not refer to women as pastors. When in fact the word pastor no more existed in that era than did the word, trinity. And yet, Trinity is bandied about in the Christian church as a known fact without issue. Therefore, when God's word tells us women were ordained by the holy spirit to deliver the Gospel good news , I would suggest that being Biblical factual history that if you encounter that which attempts to disparage women as true pastors today, that it may be wise to realize the M word likely resides within them. Because Paul also stated there is no Jew, Greek, male , nor female, but that we are all one in Christ Jesus. When Paul states we are all one in Christ, then those one's who are women serving God's purpose in the pulpit today are one of His chosen to be there. And that there is one at all rebukes any naysayers who would dare lay claim they know better than the God that called them to that service. As if sex precludes someone from being a servant of the creator. Those one's are in need of having their eyes opened to the true word of Christ. Who by his living example served the Father with women in his company. Something the patriarchal system of the time, like those naysayers referred to today, would never concede was proper in the eyes of their ideal God. However, Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us, showed them the truth. Woe to those who deny the truth then. And now. You'll never convince someone opposed to women being servants of God to think otherwise. It is they who do not respect God's will. For the truth is not in them. That God's truth is within women who serve his purpose is all that is important.

The last POTUS is a mark in American history that shall long be one of shame and voter responsibility for thinking it righteous to elect a first, rather than one worthy. God bless President Trump and his family. And VP Pence and his family. May the righteous path beset on all sides by their enemies be guarded by archangels ready for the battle the dark left so obviously publicly intends to bring for four years and beyond.

I don't believe it would be a universal absolute one way or the other. As in, yes, no. It is an individual thing based on empathy and parental bonding. My view.

Baptism is an outward sign of an inward covenant. Luke 3:1-22 No, Baptism isn't necessary to be saved. Imagine in countries where missionaries work and there is very little water. Would their work be in vein if there was no capacity to submerge a new convert in Baptismal waters? No. We are saved by faith not by works lest anyone should boast. Lest a man be born of water and spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. Some schools of thought take that to mean if we're not Baptized we are not really saved and shall not enter Heaven. However, the water being spoken of is the first birth into this world. The womb. And when we come to Christ we are sealed by the spirit the moment we believe. Because God called us to him because he knew us first.

linked:"Some people can't function without negativity because bringing down others makes them feel better."