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The_Patriot21

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The_Patriot21 last won the day on July 9 2023

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  • Birthday 02/27/1985

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    Church, spending time with the family, Hunting, Fishing, shooting, camping, anything outdoors really, occasionally dabling in the finer arts of computers.

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  1. Ok, so what's stopping you from going and doing so?
  2. You went from jezebel to influencers, with no mention of it being used for good. The natural assumption in your natural post is your talking about all influencers, and going back and reading the comments it's obvious I'm not the only one who came to that conclusion. While I believe you when you say that wasn't your intention, that was how it came across, and it maybe wise to make your intent a little clearer in the future. It's the curse of online forums like this, in that were depending on the written word to coney our message and intent. If we don't use enough words we often fail to convey our intended message, but if we use to many the post goes to long and people stop reading before getting a full understanding. It's a fine line we all walk my friend. Im not saying this as an attack, but merely a suggestion for you in the future. Have a good day.
  3. Well, that is not the message that is conveyed in your original post-which is what I was referring to when I said OP. Most people aren't going to take the time to read 5 pages of comments to figure out if your backtracked your initial post, so in the future you may want to take that into consideration when making your first post.
  4. You know we're all influencers in one way or another. Are we mass murderers? Now on to the ops definition. I watch a lot of FB reels and find a lot of christian influencers on there, spreading Christ's love. Are they mass murderers? I would say no. I would say the ops claim is a unscriptural generalization at best. Social media is a thing now. It's an integral part of culture and it's not going away. It's where the people are, like it or not. And If we hide from it that doesn't do anything to further the kingdom of God. Because social media isnt inherently evil or good. It's a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. And it's largely used for evil, that is true. But going through the reels I see many Christian influencers using the platform of their choice to spread the gospel. They're being in the world but not of it, using the tools available to them to preach Christ to those that will listen, just like the apostle Paul did on Mars hill. I myself have used social media for good. It's a powerful tool that can indeed be used for good, hence why it's being censored so badly. So to compare influencers to mass murderers, isn't scriptural. At least not as a blanket term, there certainly are a great many of them that are following selfish desires, but they aren't all doing so and it's a disservice and a false claim to paint them all under the same flag.
  5. Interesting notion, had gollum not gone after the ring, it would not have been destroyed. It would have taken frodo, and ultimately fell into saurons hands. Hobbits had more resilience to the ring then humans, but they were still susceptible to it. It would have even taken sam had he been the ring bearer. There were people in middle earth who could. The ring held no power over dwarves, for example. However most dwarves would not have tried to destroy it but rather bury it in their treasure heap. The few that would, such as gimli, would have never have been able to get it there, as they would have killed gollum on sight and as such never found the secret entrance. Outside of dwarves the only person that was impervious to the ring was Tom Bombadil, who according to Tolkien's other writings was a equal match to sauron in power If not more powerful, as long as he stayed in his woods. Keyword there. He lost his power if he left, and even if he did was far to absentminded to be able to make the journey. Gandalf of course knew all this, including that frodo wouldn't be able to destroy the ring on his own, but that's a study for another time.
  6. Interesting. The white house has proven it can actually run a budget and cut costs when it comes to circumnavigating congress, but not when it comes to eliminating national debt.
  7. I should add, that Tolkien didn't intentionally write analogies into the LOTRs like lewis did with Narnia. in fact, in an interview he was asked about analogies and he denied it, according to him the LOTRs was intended for entertainment purposes only. However one can easily make analogies out of a lot of the content, I believe a lot of that was because his faith just naturally flowed into his writing. But it was not intentional, and there certainly are elements that cannot be made into analogies at all.
  8. You've completely missed my point but that's ok I see no further point to this discussion. Have a good one.
  9. I would say don't blame him for the actions of others. Now I don't condone all of his actions, but his actions did lead to a lot of good as well. I mean he's not even the first man of this nature that God's used. Abraham was a horrible father. Moses was a murderer. King David was an adulterer and a murderer. King Solomon was a womanizer. Samson was not only selfish but also a womanizer who let his lust control him. Matthew was a tax collector. Paul before coming to Christ was a persecutor of the saints. In fact going through the Bible many of the people God chose to use would not only be considered immoral by our standards, but they would make Calvin look positively tame by comparison. God has His plan, and He uses corrupt men to do it. Which is good, because we are all corrupt. None of us are perfect and we all come with our own moral baggage. Calvin was a product of his time. We look back on him and say hey look at all this evil he did, but to many don't take into account the time he was in. Luthor and Armenian were every bit the extremists Calvin was, but I don't see you going after them. None of us are perfect. But it helps to take into context the world historical figures lived in to understand the why they did what they did, and it helps to remember that just like them, were sinners to, and we are all in need of the same grace.
  10. Fast food isn't the devil everyone makes it out to be. No it's not "healthy" but it's also not an instant heart attack, especially if you eat it in moderation and excercise properly. I remember as a kid they came out with that supersizeme show where a body builder ate nothing but McDonald's for 40 days. Well, first off it was kinda rigged. The guy first off only ate 100% healthy before, so going from that to 100% junk food naturally would cause a shock to the system. Then he stopped excercising. So naturally he had massive weight gains and loss of muscle mass. Now the reason for that was they didn't want to take years to show what the effects can be so they went to the extreme to speed up the process, so they accomplished the goal. Shortly after that another bodybuilder decided to do a similar experiment. He again ate only McDonald's for 40 days, but unlike the first guy he didn't just eat the burgers (though he certainly ate a lot of them) but he also balanced out the diet with some of McDonalds side salads. Not a lot, most of it was still cheeseburgers and fries, but he ate some salads. The second thing he did was keep up his exercise routine. Every day. At the end of the 40 days his muscle/body fat ratio was almost the same. In fact he actually gained a little muscle mass, because while not necessarily healthy McDonald's burgers are still high in protein. That guy didn't get a reality show. Go figure. I wouldn't recommend a solid fast food diet. But eating out occasionally isn't going to hurt you, especially if your in decent shape. Sometimes after a long day at work it's nice to swing through a drive through and grab a ready made double whopper or a cheeseburger without having to cook it myself or sit around in a diner for 30 minutes. That, and where I'm at, while fast food has indeed gotten pricey it's still cheaper then sit down restaurants, and sometimes if you want to go out to eat with 4 kids, McDonald's is the only affordable place to go.
  11. Well, you are indeed proving it. I said nothing about homosexuality I simply answered the question. The truth of the matter is I made a single, factual statement. You inferred things that weren't even hinted at in my post, and now your trying to make it like I was at least partially to blame. While there are certainly times where I have been guilty of such, it is not this time. It seems to me your simply trying to prove your point and not actually caring about what I said, and as such the only out come is further division. So I'm out. Have a good evening.
  12. It's inferred. I made a comment and you brought homosexuality into it by asking if I was ok with it, even though I never said anything about it. You brought it up, the inference is that it's in response to what I said, I.e. I must be ok with it even though I provided no context to suggest that. It's not a example of division it's an example of you failing to properly communicate online. Now with that said, it's easy to do online. It's often very easy to misunderstand others intent when one only has the written word, and it's even easier to read into it. It's something all of us, myself are guilty of. Have been, will be, again. So if it's anything it's an example of why we should be careful of how and why we write what we do online.
  13. Nope. Never said anything about that, all I said was at some point Jesus will unite His church. Which is true Jesus is coming back for His bride, and those that are not of His church will be left behind Where did you get that I'm ok with homosexuality in the church from that?
  14. He definitely took it to the extreme. But he was the right man for the job. At the time the roman catholic church would kill anyone who stood against them if they could. The only ones who weren't were those that could garnish enough of a following that the church wouldn't move on them for fear of backlash. And extremists attract followers. Calvin dragged heretics behind horses, Luther would as soon burn them at the stake. It's amazing How God uses us, despite ourselves.
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