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RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
When you use words like 'demonrats' you lose any chance of being taken seriously by the politically literate.RE: Joe biden’s puppeteer wants to turn America to Marxism. No one here wants to be marxist
You say you love your constitution but you also love the one man who is a danger to it, namely Trump.RE: Crocus
Not surprisingly Putin tried to blame the Ukrainians instead of ISIS, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if he did it himself in order to solidify support for his war.
RE: Joe biden’s puppeteer wants to turn America to Marxism. No one here wants to be marxist
Why oh why do you continually drag Europe into your blogs.Sort your own country out and frankly I'd say it's already moving towards Marxism with no help from Biden to be honest as your country is not totally Capitalist
Marxism is a social, economic and political philosophy that analyses the impact of the ruling class on the labourers, leading to uneven distribution of wealth and privileges in the society
Know anyone in the U.S that fits the above description ?
RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
I can't see any sign of any eclipse, the moon just rose above the ridge, three images with different ISO settings, otherwise same settings i use for my birding and wildlife photography. (See Picture Took in Australian Forums)
After writing a condolence letter
(author) this is a made up story, from A to Z
RE: Joe biden’s puppeteer wants to turn America to Marxism. No one here wants to be marxist
I love that news anchor sdar,And here is another one Trish Regan.
Trish Regan sings the national anthem
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RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
takes good stability, good lens etc etcHand held (resting against veranda post) I'm using Olympus Mk-ii camera with x2 teleconverter + a 300mm pro lens. Also I attached is Kenko UV-L41 filter.
The camera has 5 times stability built in and the lens has two times stability working in tantrum with the camera.
RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
I got a S23+ Samsung Galaxy and it managed to take photos of the Moon the other day (16th) this is a collage of some to pictures the phone took.
RE: Joe biden’s puppeteer wants to turn America to Marxism. No one here wants to be marxist
Right you all want to be Fascists under one dictator
The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
Rob, amazing photo clarity.Just past 2am my time, I went out under mostly clear skies and the moon was high in the southern part of the sky brightly illuminating everything. My cellphone camera is unable to focus on distance and it appeared to be a white ball. I didn't see any part of the eclipse with the naked eye.
The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
It's news... maybe not in your world.I've not heard Biden claim to want to change the constitution or take down the government.
Would you be satisfied if I post examples from the other guy?
Side note:
In any of your blogs or comments to blogs by others have you converted anyone to your political orientation?
RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
Wonderful photo, taking decent pics of the moon has always deluded me.
RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
Its afternoon here tonight around 6pm will be full Moonthis image taken last night 24th March
RE: New horror movie to my collection and a desire to go on a blind date at some point
Phil some Men should read your blog and try to be like you.The woman that date you will be happy as you appears to have High respect for a woman.
Take your time and do it right.
RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
OP the cult followers should post how much they donated to the rapist, etc. funds for his defense.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But hopefully we've got an overview of how to do that. And you've learned a few things about how to study the Bible more effectively.And so that would you just bow your head and close your eyes and let me pray for us. Father, thank you so much for your word.
And Lord, more than anything, help us not to simply be hearers of the word Lord. Our primary concern is not to be smarter. It's not to be greater academics. For the sake of our own ego, Lord, our desire is to be doers of the word. And so, Father, our desire is that the gospel revealed in your word, would grow in clarity and greatness in our lives. Lord, that it would rule and reign over everything, over every thought, over every deed.
So, Father, may we be led in everything we do by the Gospel?
May we live in light of the Cross of Christ, what it says about you, what it says about us, what it says about the world and what it says about our brothers and sisters. You are the way you are the truth and you are the life. And Lord, we just want more of you and we want to know more about you. So we ask even in this time of worship, Lord, would you just reveal yourself to us, give us a fresh in filling of your spirit right now?
Because we need it, Lord, wherever we are, we need it.
And Father, help us to just grow in our knowledge. One little bit more of you this evening, because as they would say of you in the days of old, your glory is like a multifaceted diamond being struck by the light. And every microscopic movement reveals a new angle of your glory.
And so, father. Just give us a different angle of your glory this evening, Lord, we love you, Jesus, we're in all of you speak to us now and your mighty name we pray. Amen.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Any more than I can hear someone speak in a foreign language I've never heard before and critiqued their grammar, I don't even know what they're saying yet.And this is going to help us understand what the word of God is saying on this issue next week. And when we do that, I'll tell you this.
You're going to find that a whole lot of these supposed contradictions disappear very, very quickly.
Now, at the same time, even if the contradictions don't disappear and I look at this and I'm like, I don't like what this verse is saying.
Heaven forbid that I read one difficult to verse I can't understand and say this cannot be from God, even though the text says it is. Again, humility is key.
And just because I find it very difficult doesn't mean that it's not from God. So for me, the bottom line is that there is not, in my humble opinion, a compelling reason to not simply take the Book of the Covenant at face value.
That is to say that God gave it to Moses at Mount Sinai and he read it to the people there. But as always, you study, you research, you pray, discuss with mature believers and come to your own conclusions.
I'm going to close with this one point of practical application, no matter what view you take on interpreting the Book of the Covenant.
One thing is eminently clear. God expects his people to live out their daily lives in light of his values. That is crystal clear.
Let me say it again. God expects us people to live out their daily lives in light of his values. What that means is that he expects his word to be the lens through which we perceive reality. He expects his word to be the lens through which we see him ourselves and each other.
And can I tell you, the Lord still expects that from his people, he still expects that from the church, from you and I, but there is a difference for us.
For the Old Testament, Israelite, the law, the Ten Commandments, were to serve as their lens on life for us, for the New Testament church. The gospel is to serve as our lens on life.
So would you write this down?
The gospel is the lens through which the church is to view all of life and all of reality.
It's the lens through which we ought to view all of life and all of reality.
Obviously, you can't know the gospel without knowing the word everything we do, everything we say, everything we think, every person we interact with, our relationship with God.
The goal is to perceive all of that through the lens of the gospel as revealed in the word of God. That's the goal.
And to help us do that moment by moment, day by day, we have his word. But yes, even in those moments where it's not physically with us, we have the Holy Spirit.
Should we choose to be led? The Holy Spirit will in any moment lead us in the way to live in light of the gospel. If we choose for the Christian, the question we must ask ourselves every day is not is this legal? It's not a bad question as a start, though, let me just also say that I saw some people who were like, really? No, no, no, no.
Let me say it's not the only question. OK, I heard Pastor Jeff say the question that we asked primarily should not be how does society say I should live? The question above every other question for the Christian every day is how does the gospel say I should live? How does the gospel say I should respond? How does the Gospel say I should treat them? How does the gospel say I should manage my time, my resources, how does the gospel say my relationship should function?
That's a sermon in and of itself. And because I'm a gracious preacher, I'm not going to preach it right now, but I'll ask you to think on that and pray on that this week. And so we had a lot of academic stuff this week going into the Book of the Covenant. And it's going to be fascinating. It's going to be a blessing. And we are going to get into the thick of some of the most challenging passages in the scripture.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
that's the problem. i do know that. many know that. now more truths are coming out. even some of the severely anti-trumpers are starting to speak out.that's how we're able to realize the real criminals are getting free passes while they fabricate and stretch in corrupt systems against one.
it's no secret they called o'biden , basically,too senile to be prosecuted and no secret what killary did with evidence. it's also no secret what type of people were in charge of the "investigations?" and pushing the bogus garbage else where.
many reasons why the demonrats are dropping in popularity. the real threats to democracy have to be removed. if they aren't, things will continue to get worse.
at least some people are finally starting to "see".
How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
All criminal court cases require the prosecution to build a case against the felon, that is creating a case, it’s the law pretty much worldwide.If the judge decides the case holds no merit, or is based on fraudulent evidence it gets thrown out.
I’m surprised you didn’t know that.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So is there a compelling reason? Let's take a look again at the first set of points we made.
The Book of the Covenant speaks to a context Israel wouldn't be in for decades. Therefore, Moses cannot have written it at Mount Sinai. Really? Really. God is incapable of giving Moses a revelation that pertains to Israel's future.
It would kind of seem that the entire biblical genre of prophecy would disprove this idea.
But why would God do it so far in advance? There are honestly lots of good reasons. Perhaps he wanted to give them time to digest his commands. Perhaps most obviously, it's because he wanted these standards to be in place long before Israel ever settled in the land, so that when they finally did, they would have a clear understanding and expectation of how they were supposed to build the society.
Perhaps it's because God just wanted to speak in one authoritative blast at Mount Sinai and cover all the issues that were going to come up for the next several decades, maybe he wanted to give all the instructions he needed to give for society in one go at Mount Sinai.
There's lots of good reasons. Well, why only these very specific random commands. Perhaps while these laws seem random, it's not really about the specific laws themselves, but about the principles that they reveal. Perhaps the point is that these principles and values behind these commands do actually cover all the different examples that can come up in society.
And as BJ and I journey through the Book of the Covenant, we're going to see concepts come into play like personal responsibility for livestock, children respecting parents in greater detail.
And so perhaps when you look at the heart behind all these commands, it really covers everything. And perhaps for the judges of Israel, these are the only examples they would need to begin to figure out.
Oh, this is the pattern of how you apply the Ten Commandments to everyday life. We've got enough examples in the Book of the Covenant. We can spot the pattern and we can begin to do the same thing and apply it.
Well, couldn't some of these commands have been stolen from other law codes that were around at this time?
Yes, but but equally and quite frankly, it's more likely that those cultures were borrowing from Israel and the best dating doesn't actually tell us which came first between the Ten Commandments or the Code of Hammurabi.
But additionally, some similarities in any moral law code are inevitable. Just because two cultures have laws about stealing bread doesn't mean that one stole from the other. Oh, my gosh. You have a command about not stealing. We do too. This is crazy. I don't know if you've noticed this, but sin is super prevalent everywhere. Every people, every point in history, sin everywhere, no shortage of it.
And then lastly, well, well, what about the seemingly contradictory hearts behind the different laws on slavery? As I said, next week, B.J. is going to lead us in a Bible study on the hot issue of slavery. It's so great.
I'm just going to sit back and watch him deal with that.
I'm really, really, really looking forward to it. It's going to be it's going to be a great study, because if you if you don't know, this is still a hot topic. There are people who say I could never be a Christian because the Bible condones slavery. Have you looked into it? No, I'm a spiritual sinner, but it's going to take it on for us.
He's going to walk us through what the Book of the Covenant has to say about slavery. And he's going to deal with the whole issue of slavery in the Bible.
And so I don't want to give away any spoilers, but I am going to tell you before we can address Verse is on the subject of slavery, again, we need a thorough understanding of who wrote it, who he was writing to and the historical cultural context, because we can't offer an opinion on a text we don't even understand yet.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
they're creating criminal cases. they don't actually have any. even as the truth that trump offered and wanted reserve troops for jan. 6th has come out, the lies are still trying to be pushed.o'biden is too senile for prosecution. killary has literally gotten away with murder and more. both protected under demonrat regimes when investigations started. both dismissed and white washed under the rug. even the Trump administration didn't enforce or go after killary. she did many felonious actions and no charges. she not only tampered with evidence, she destroyed it and more.
the only one being targeted is the one that fought to keep as many of their campaign promises as they could. also the only one with any executive privilege.
the real criminals keep getting a free pass. they have to stretch and fabricate against the one they're trying to stop.
RE: oregon farming laws
Yikes this is terrible situation there.RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
None of that is news. do you want e to post my photos of the event hear. Btw it is mumbling joes puppeteer who wants t eradicate our beloved constitution. Hopefully sleepy joe won’t be reelected to threaten his own people more.How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
I think you will find the criminal cases will start soon, US courts take a long time to get to action.RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
funny. demonrats cause and do the damages and trump gets the blame.pretty much expected. for someone every one says is a criminal it's awful fishy that all they can do push civil suits because they have nothing criminal to uphold. then they put the civil suit damages way over the top when they had no business being brought to begin with. all against one person. the one that had the best policies in over 30 years up to his ADMINISTRATION.
then lie about the current misadministration as being good and democratic as more wars have erupted and economic woes abound. more rights being stricken and the u.s. allowed to be invaded along with other countries to worse degrees.
hitler's playbook is winning. but only among the the people with TDS.
the demonrats started it with their character assassination from the day trump announced his run and the media helped feed the hysteria.
Trump helped the globe while the demonrats are keeping it in chaos. the hysteria plays out and not many can seem to actually think or see for themselves as they deny how much better trump's policies were.
carry on oh great sheeple. carry on. your mouth piece attempts are falling on more and more deaf ears as many others are starting to see the truth for themselves.
RE: New horror movie to my collection and a desire to go on a blind date at some point
Why a blind date Dan? More fun?
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
Well... Destruction will hit everybody, no matter their political preferences.I do doubt that Trumpistas have so much reflection on their deeds. I don't expect his supporters to be too intellectual a crowd. Then, I have a couple of FB friends from USA, who are totally decent people and anti-Trump. Plus, my Qigong teacher and Qigong group, whom I never will wish anything bad.
This day and age, you don't elect a person: you elect a direction and a team. Honestly, the team from the previous Trump election wasn't that bad (aside someone getting prison time on criminal charges). Now, we don't know who will run the show in case... but it will be the very same thing again: Trump will be uttering his nonsense while someone in the background gets the work done.
That's said, it doesn't mean that I want Trump to win. He's too loathable a figure to read news about him for the whole 4 years.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So write this down, the Bible contains different genres, and we need to be aware of what genre we are studying. We need to be aware of what genre we are studying. You know, you can't just read the Psalms and be like, I am so thankful that the Lord is here to smash the teeth of my enemies. I am so thankful for that.That's my that's my theme verse 8 right. Now, seriously, I got to say, there's like songs out there today, worship songs. Churches still sing about things like God's Smiting My Enemies. And I'm like, you've read the New Testament, right? Where Jesus says, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Like like, you're aware of this, that this was David's journal. He was having a really, really bad day. And he's like, God, would you just take this person out?
It's not a piece of theology you were supposed to actively apply, OK, genre. Genre matters. Now, when we look at the issue of inspiration, the key verse, of course, is second Timothy 316, which tells us all scripture is given by inspiration of God.
Some of you have like, oh, finally something I can say, amen to all scripture is given by inspiration of God. So write this down. Here's what that statement means. It means that God is the ultimate initiator. He is the ultimate author. He is the ultimate editor. And he is the ultimate preserver of his word. Now, here's what that means when we say the Bible is inspired, it means everything that God wanted to be in there is in there, and there is nothing in there that he does not want to be in there, including the poetry, including depressed Solomon, including all of that stuff.
The history is there because God wants it in there. The poetry is there because God wants it in there. The philosophy, the truth statements, the parables are in there because God wants them in there. When we say that scripture is inspired, we mean that God is the ultimate initiation initiator, author, editor and preserver of scripture.
If you subscribe to the first view of interpreting the book of the Covenant that I've talked about, it does not mean that you don't believe scripture is inspired. It simply means that you believe that the Book of Covenant, the Book of the Covenant, has a different purpose.
You may believe that these commands are recorded in scripture to make the point that God expects us to apply his word to our everyday lives, even though sometimes we get it wrong. So, Jeff. Kind of sounds like you believe this first few. I don't I don't personally, I hold to a second view, I believe that Moses received the Book of the Covenant on Mount Sinai and shared it with the people of Israel at that time. And I'll tell you what it's journey through this.
Write this down. It's wise to start a study of any biblical text by simply reading what the text says. It's wise to start a study of any biblical text by simply reading what the text says. You don't need to listen to somebody talk about a text without actually reading it.
You've got to start by reading it. And when we examine the text itself, in this case around the Book of the Covenant. We find two undeniable truths, undeniable even in the original language. In Exodus 20 22, the first verse of the Book of the Covenant, we read, then the Lord said to Moses and the commands that make up the Book of the Covenant follow. There is no break or interjection that ever changes the subject of who is speaking, it's all got all the way through and then on the other side of it, in Exodus 24/7, as we read at the beginning, we're told that Moses took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people.
This is telling us explicitly that Moses read from a list of commands known as the Book of the Covenant at Mount Sinai. That's what the text says, and so remember, the only reason to not interpret the text literally or plainly is if we find what a compelling reason to do so.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
Riz, if you are a close friend with Jaccan you write her some nice words in private you recon?
She may need some love.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Objection. So, so. So then, Jeff, after all that. Are you claiming that the Book of the Covenant is not inerrant? Are you claiming that it's not inspired by God or are you claiming it's not true because it may contain man's view and not God's?Now, for those who haven't heard the term ignorant before, when we say that the Bible is an errant, we're claiming that the Bible is without error in its original form, without error when we say that it's inspired.
I think we need to be very clear about what it is that we're claiming, just as we do when we claim that the Bible is true. What are we actually saying when we say that it can't be as simple as we're saying everything in the Bible is true.
It can't be that simple because the Bible contains different genres. In other words, not all of scripture is God declaring absolute universal truth. That's not what all of scripture is. And two of the most obvious examples are Psalms and Proverbs. Psalms is primarily poetry. A lot of it is David's poetry. It's a songwriting journal, and much of it expresses David's heart personally. And therefore, it's not always absolute truth. Not every statement in the Psalms is an absolute truth.
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes contain observations of general truths recorded by the wisest human, not named Jesus, who ever lived Solomon.
But guess what? Ecclesiastes and Proverbs there's still tainted by Solomon's personal emotions and sin. Let me give you an example.
When we read something like Proverbs 22 six, which says train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Let me ask you, is that an absolute truth? If a Christian set of parents raise a child, do their best to raise that child to love Jesus, is this verse 8 guaranteeing that without exception that child will end up following God? Is it guaranteeing that? Because if it is, then if you know any Christian's parents whose children walked away from the Lord and died in that state, then applying this verse 8 means that you can say to them, you did not raise up your child in a godly way.
That's what it means if this is absolute truth. Now, we all know this is not the case. We all know wonderful people. Unfortunately, wonderful godly parents and some of their children rejected God as adults and sometimes did not come back. What about To verse, where Solomon says Vanity of vanities all is vanity, where Solomon essentially declares life is meaningless?
No, no, don't try and get clever and be like will. I mean, without God, it is no the verse 8 itself. Is that an absolute truth?
Is life utterly meaningless? No, of course not, Solomon is writing this in a dilapidated, sin infused state, his mind is not right when he's writing this. It is not an absolute truth. And so what I'm sharing here to help you understand is the Bible contains genres. And when we say the Bible is true, we do not mean that every single statement in the Bible is an absolute universal truth.
We don't mean that. And if you're uncomfortable, that's because you've been taught something that's not true.
OK, now hang with me and then you're like, OK, everything's going to be OK.
The Bible also contains the genre of history, it records things that are true in the sense that they happened, but not true in the sense that they are right. So when we asked the question, is the Bible true, the answer is more nuanced than we might first realize when the Bible is dealing with issues of absolute truth and reality. Yes, the Bible is absolutely true. When the Bible is recording poetry, it's recording poetry. There may be truth within that poetry, but we would need to discern that by examining the parts of the Bible that are not poetic and that deal with absolute truth.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
That's the second time you say that.Noted and yes we're awaiting that destruction.
Do you think it will be much worse this time around
than when he destroyed America last time?
RE: Crocus
This attack was horrific and unnecessary but I've just watched the court appearance of these insurgents and frankly it was horrific. Whatever happened to "innocent before being proved guilty."