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RE: So where's THE DUKE
Oh okay I just posted on Chat's blog then went looking for the accuser he mentioned, well, those two do have a history of animosity.
Hey, Itchy!
Yup, I want Luke back too, I don't agree with him on US politics but much much MUCH rather have political blogs banned (I'm sure the mods asked people to quit the political blogs already) than bloggers! US politics has pretty much destroyed what used to be fun reading, every blog on the foul topic either punching or poking or needling or bellowing. This is not a political site! Go find political sites!! 
And give us Luke back. If there's a petition, tell me where to sign -
RE: False accusations...
I read this blog without logging in but as I hadn't commented on anything in a couple of days I couldn't see my own name on anything to check whether I had been deleted or not
Not sure who you're talking about but did notice Luke quoted in the comments, and had already noticed he had gone off-air, Hope he's taking a break, either by choice or a short CS jail break, and hope to see him back again.. I've said before and will say again I don't go a bundle on the political blogs FROM ANYONE because of the aggressive reactions they cause but I've always read and enjoyed his other blogs and his comments over the years. To quote another blog, you get back what you put in, with Luke. If you are aggressive, expect aggression, but the same goes with debate, with considered opinions, with humour. He's an honest straightforward WYSIWYG* and hell they are rare here and to be valued, not poked at or fought with.
Also don't know who has accused you of ridding the blogs of members but hey, you've blogged quite often about reporting fake profiles and them vanishing so - if you want a reputation of policing CS, you have to expect you will be accused when others vanish? You are obviously in with the mods.
but I do believe you stick to fake profiles rather than frequent bloggers. I HAVE reported a few blogs which I thought crossed even the CS line, where almost anything goes. Sometimes the blog vanished, usually not, although a couple of the more offensive comments might. Once or twice the profile vanished, at least for a short time, but in those cases there would have been many complaints. I'd like to think so, anyway - the thought one person could obliterate another's established longterm profile on one complaint is not a comfortable one.
*Everyone knows this marketing term, right? But in case - What You See Is What You Get
RE: Auntie D and Al
Ah, antidepressants for 3 years (work-related stress) - they don't seem to make much difference at the time (everything grey, no black or white) but breaking the habit was horrific - it's like you are expected to be on them for life, nobody warns you when you are put on them how violent the effects (for up to a month) are when you stop. Wake-up call of note and I would never go there again, there are better ways of handling stress!! That was, count on fingers, 12 years ago so yup, I piss clean. I drink occasionally, enjoy the slight buzz, don't enjoy brain getting silly. I do know a few ex-pats who drink a lot and segue from subdued to merry to manic to maudlin and self-obsessed, wake up the next day, repeat.But I am addicted to smoking so there's no smug.here.
RE: Evidence that Scripture is Divine
“The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin …” Exodus 34:6-7.
RE: I do not like the idea of Marxism and Communism anywhere in the United States of America.
Down with communists. Down, down, down.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But if you made that decision today, if you gave your life to the Lord, reach out to us, send us a message, send us an e-mail, a phone call or something, and let us celebrate this decision that you've made following Jesus. Now, I'm listening to this and I invite you to pray, let's close this message and prayer,Father. Thank you for your word. Lord, you didn't leave us. You didn't make us.
And then leave us scrambling around in the dark, trying to figure out up from down and left from right, trying to make sense of this world, try to make sense of existence. You've revealed yourself. You've revealed your will and your word. You've spoken and you've recorded it for us in in a book. We can know you and know your ways. And I pray, Lord, that you would open up the hearts of people all over the world to love your word, cherish your word, obey your word and be changed by your word.
Do that for those who don't yet know you, but continually do that for your church. Make us a people marked by the word of God. Do this Jesus. We pray. We always pray this Lord for your glory, but do it for our deepest joy and satisfaction. We pray all these things in your name, Lord Amen Amen.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But if you can't, if you're in a place in your life right now where you want a Bible and you and you actually can't afford one, please reach out to us and contact us at Gospel City Church and we will do our very best to make sure we put a Bible in your hands.We will be committed to doing that for anyone who needs one and can't afford one. So you have a Bible in question one. Here's my second question I want to ask. In light of a message like this, have you ever heard and believed the main message of the Bible? The Bible calls it the gospel, the good news. Have you ever. Have you ever heard and believe the gospel that you are a great sinner and you've sinned against God in vile ways in your life, but not just you.
All of humanity the Bible says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And the Bible says that the wages of sin is death. And if God gave you and me and all of us what we deserved, he'd give us justice, which means an eternity in hell, set apart from his grace and his glory and his presence. That's if we got what we deserved. But the goodness of the good news is this, that God loves you so much that he doesn't want to give you what you deserve.
He wants to give you what you don't deserve. He wants to give you mercy and grace. Instead, he wants to lavish love upon you. Instead, he wants to give you himself instead. And so this is what God did. He sent his only son and Jesus was born of a virgin, born into a sinless life. And then he lived his life from beginning to end, completely, senselessly, perfectly. At the end of his life, he traded his life for ours.
He substituted his life by going to the cross. And the Bible says that while he hung on the cross, the sins of the entire world were put on Christ, your sins and my sins. And everyone's were put on to him. And when they were on there, the father crushed the son for our sins. Jesus died on the cross after paying for the sins of the world. He was buried in a tomb, and on the third day he rose to new life, conquering sin, conquering death forever, appearing to his disciples, appearing to crowds of people for a period of forty days before you send it back to heaven.
And before he left back for heaven, he gave this charge to his disciples, which rings true for disciples. Today you go to the ends of the Earth and you tell everyone that God has made a way for sins to be forgiven. God died on the cross and God rose. And how can sinners have their sins forgiven? Confessing and repenting from your sins, coming to Jesus in faith, asking him to apply the forgiveness that he purchased on the cross for you, ask right now in this moment,
Jesus, I'm a sinner, but I want you to forgive me.
I believe that you did what was needed in order to give that to me. You died on the cross to forgive me. And here's the rest of my life. Whatever I have got is yours. I'm going to follow you forever. If you do that simply by believing in the message of the gospel, your sins are removed, you are made a child of God and what the Bible says, you're born again. The spirit of God comes to live inside of you.
You're given the gift of eternal life and friendship with God. And now you get to spend the rest of this life growing in your knowledge and love of God. And then you get to spend all of eternity basking in and enjoying the presence of Jesus. That's the core message of the Bible, if you're hearing this for the first time, if you're believing for this for the first time, we celebrate with you and praise God with you. And if you want more information about this good news, this gospel, I'm going to invite you to head over to Gospel City, see a gospel, and they're going to be more information there for you.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
We believe it thoughtfully, using our minds with the much and necessary, needed help that the Holy Spirit gives us. We should believe the Bible humbly, we put ourselves underneath the authority of the word of God. We don't put ourselves over it, determining what parts we like or what parts we're going to be obey or not obey. We put ourselves under it in humility, the term meaning to do whatever it says. We should believe the Bible graciously, we extend grace to those who don't believe what we believe, if you're not a Christian and you don't believe the Bible, but you're curious about it and want to check out the church, come, come.We do not expect you to believe the Bible if you are not a Christian, come to church believing whatever you want. You are so welcome here among us and with us. Just come and we extend grace to other Christians who don't believe the same way that we believe there are parts of the Bible that are non-negotiable, meaning there are parts of the Bible that you need to believe in order to be a Christian. These include, but are not limited to, believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, his sinless life, his substitutionary death on the cross for our sins, his physical resurrection from the dead, just to name a few.
There's no wiggle room when it comes to believing these truths and being a Christian. But there are disagreements on how to interpret other parts of the Bible, parts that do not affect a person's right standing with God. A great example of this is the study we are about to launch into in just a few weeks here at Gospel City Church. We're going to walk through the Book of Revelation front to back. And do you know that not every church agrees with what the Book of Revelation actually means?
And did you know that you can be a Christian and disagree about issues like this? This is what we mean by grace, Grace, and we need to show grace to ourselves to as we are going to make mistakes along the way to obeying every part of the Bible in every area of our life. There's a lot of room to grow in our lives in understanding the Bible and doing the Bible. We can't forget that we need grace. We need to believe the Bible graciously.
We should believe the Bible stubbornly, most people in the world today do not believe the Bible that we do here at Gospel City Church, and do you know what? That has no impact on us continuing to believe every single word of it. Even when the pressure rises to change our views or our beliefs, we never will. Why? Because this is God's word. What are we going to believe in? And instead, other people's opinions about life?
No. We should believe the Bible expectantly, we believe that God will do what he says in his word he's going to do, we believe what he says he is going to do in our lives individually. We believe what he says he's going to do in our life together as a church. And we believe what he is going to do in the world on a global scale. We expect God to be faithful to his word. And we should believe the Bible sacrificially, it costs to believe the Bible sometimes, sometimes it's going to hurt to obey God, but we're going to do it anyway.
Why? Because what else are we going to do instead? Not believe and not obey the Bible is the word of God. It's our treasure. It's our life. It's our joy. We give ourselves to obey it at any cost. This brings part one of our series, who is Gospel City Church to a close. This is the first big thing we want people to know about gospel, city, church, and it will shape everything we love and everything we do as a church.
We believe the Bible. So let me ask you a couple of questions. In closing, do you have a Bible? If not, do you want one after hearing a message like this? There's a couple of ways you could go about getting one. You could order one at a local bookstore. You can go online to Amazon or anywhere online that sells books and you can order a Bible.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
OK, admittedly, that's a lot, but I hope it answers the question I raised at the beginning of our time together. What does Gospel City Church believe? We believe the Bible. We believe the facts about the Bible as a piece of literature. We believe the claims the Bible makes about itself and we believe anything the Bible says about anything. But as I begin to wrap up part one of this message series, I need to highlight a second really important question that needs to be addressed in this conversation about believing the Bible.And the question is how? How do we go about believing the Bible, how you do something can be just as important as what you do? Let me give you an illustration to show you what I mean. Imagine I ask you to give me some bacon. I say, please give me some bacon. There are a few different ways you could give me some way. Number one, you drive to the supermarket, you go to the refrigeration section, you pick up some bacon, you drive to my house, you cut it open while it's still cold and raw and you cut it open and you take it out of its package and you just throw this lump of cold, raw bacon.
Just throw it in my face. That's one way you can give me some bacon. Here's another way. A second way. You could go to the store again, like in the first example, and you could buy some bacon. But this time you bring it over to my house and you turn on the stove top and you throw some you throw the pack of bacon into the frying pan, fry it up. And when it's at its highest possible heat with the frying pan full of hot grease, you can take the handle of the pan and you can throw all of the bacon with the grease right in my face.
You can give me back in that way or option three, you could prepare the bacon perfectly, not too soft, not too crispy, and you can place it on a platter and you could serve it to me kindly in each of those examples, you'd be giving me some bacon. How you give the bacon to me matters, trust me. How we believe the Bible matters, so how do we believe the Bible? There are a few ways. We should believe the Bible gratefully, gratefully, I don't have to figure out how my life is supposed to work.
We don't have to figure out how the life of the church is supposed to work, God tells us in the Bible. All that's left for us is to figure out just what it says and then do what it says. We should be grateful for that. It takes all the guesswork out of figuring out life. We should believe the Bible actively as opposed to passively, we don't just say we believe the Bible then and then go home and live our lives however we want, even if it's a way that contradicts what the Bible plainly says we give ourselves to apply what the Bible says to our lives.
We do this on an individual basis. We do this collectively as the church. We study to learn how to live out the implications of the Bible. So we should believe the Bible actively. James one twenty two says do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. We should leave the Bible thoughtfully, we don't believe the Bible blindly, we believe while using our minds, that means that we don't simply believe what it says.
We believe what it means. We need to interpret the Bible in order to figure out what God is saying to us in it. We take into account things like historical context, literary context, literary genre, author's intent, grammar and so on and so on. We don't believe a passage of the Bible has 10 different meanings. We believe it has a primary meaning behind it, but it may have several different applications for our lives. How do we know what the Bible means?
Right on...
RE: I thought you were my friend......................
Watch your friends and your enemies can't hurt you
Evidence that Scripture is Divine
Are you listening, Celtic? You keep making excuses.You have only this one life, no second change for anyone, so that includes you!
We will never be perfect nor will we know it all.
Some people get saved on their dead beds they may never have read the Bible.
All the scripture you need is;
For God so loved the world, YOU, that He gave His only son that who so ever believes in Him will have everlasting life.
Auntie D and Al
Hi rizThanks for the comment.
Last time I broached this subject I got shot down by the users and alcohol dependent here
RE: Auntie D and Al
I live on a tropical island, surrounded by coconut and papaya trees, I overlook a turquoise blue sea and a white sand beach, I have no need for any stimulants or alcohol.Having said that, there are many ex-pats here who cannot miss a day without beer and or rum, I feel sorry for them.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
there has never been a find that has disproven anything that the Bible has claimed, none.On the contrary, the more findings that come to light, the more the claims of the Bible are verified. The evidence that comes from archeology is a great test. The Bible passes with flying colors. Dropped to claim number six, the Bible claims that it's powerful, how can you test that claim? This proof they're going to give you is a little more subjective than fulfilled prophecy or archeology, but it's not any less profound. Born again Christians are the evidence that the word of God is powerful.
Sinners get saved by hearing and believing the word of God, and then over the course of the rest of their lives, they are changed continually by that same word. People get saved when they hear the word of God. They go from not loving Jesus to loving Jesus more than anything else in the world. What does that to a person? And sanctification, this is a fancy word to describe the process of a person changing to become more and more like Jesus, Christians who expose themselves to the Bible on a regular basis have their lives transformed in a way that people around them notice.
That's how you can test the claim that the Bible's powerful. You see people who love Jesus and are being transformed into his likeness right before your very eyes. The question is, are you looking and understanding that what you're seeing? The Bible makes some incredible claims about itself, but we don't have to believe those claims blindly. There are good reasons to believe them. This brings us now to our third layer of belief in the Bible, and this third layer is tied directly to the second.
If you believe the second layer, then chances are really good you're going to believe the third is your third and final fill in on your outline layer. Number three, we believe anything the Bible says about anything. We believe anything the Bible says about anything, the Bible doesn't speak on every single possible subject that can be brought up, but whatever the Bible does address and it addresses some big time issues like the biggest issues in the world, whatever the Bible has to say about anything, we believe it.
Who is God and what is he like, the Bible tells us. How did the universe come into existence? The Bible tells us what are human beings? Where did we come from? What's our purpose? What's the meaning of life? The Bible tells us what's right, what's wrong. The Bible tells us how are we supposed to live in this life. How are we supposed to understand money, sexuality, singleness, marriage, parenting? The Bible tells us where did evil come from?
Why is there suffering in the world? The Bible tells us, how is the world going to end? The Bible tells us what happens after we die. Is there a heaven? Is there a hell? The Bible tells us who goes to heaven. What does a person need to be saved? I bet you're not going to believe where we can find these answers. The Bible tells us the Bible has a lot to say about the most important questions people have in this life and gospel city church believes anything the Bible has to say about any of it.
OK, admittedly, that's a lot, but I hope it answers the question I raised at the beginning of our time together. What does Gospel City Church believe? We believe the Bible. We believe the facts about the Bible as a piece of literature. Not only that, but we believe the claims the Bible makes about itself and we believe anything the Bible says about anything. But as I begin to wrap up part one of this message series, I need to highlight a second really important question that needs to be addressed in this conversation about believing the Bible.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
It is my meditation all the day. John, 15, 11 it says that the Bible is our joy. And Psalm 119 / 72 says that the Bible is our treasure. It says The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. Did you know that even Leviticus and Chronicles and Obadiah were written to encourage you? Paul says this and Romans Chapter 15, verse four for whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction that through endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope.Everything, Paul is going so far as to claim the entirety of the Old Testament was written for you, to instruct you, to encourage you, to help you endure and to flood your heart with hope. And while we must avoid biblical illiteracy, a term that describes the idolatry of Treasury and scripture more than its author, it's striking to note how inseparably connected God's word is with God himself. Indeed, to abandon it is to abandon him. Or, as one great preacher remarked to me, the Bible is not God, but it's God's voice.
The Bible is a bottomless treasure chest of beauty and wonder. These are eight wild claims that the Bible makes about itself, the Bible claims to be inspired, true, authoritative, clear, sufficient, powerful, Christ centered and precious. And for the record, Gospel City Church believes these claims that the Bible makes about itself. Important question. Do we have any good reason to believe these claims?
Because anybody can make a claim. Making claims is an easy thing to do, claiming things to be true is relatively easy. In the cinematic masterpiece Napoleon Dynamite, Uncle Rico famously made the claim to his nephew Kip that he could throw a football over the mountains. That was a bold claim to make. But the question is, could he actually do it? There would have been only one way to find out. Give Uncle Rico a football and have him validate his claims by actually doing what he said he could do, throw a football over the mountains.
If he could do it, then his claims would be proven true, if he couldn't do it, then his claims would be proven false. It's that simple. And we have reasons to believe the claims the Bible makes about itself. There are ways to test the claims and claim. No one says that the Bible is inspired, meaning it's God's word, maybe the boldest of all the claims. How can we test such a claim if we wanted to?
Well, since the Bible is the very word of God, it should contain things in it that no other book has. And it does. The Bible is chock-full of fulfilled prophecies. A prophecy is the foretelling or prediction of what's to come. And the Bible has hundreds of them, most of them have already come to pass. The only ones that haven't come to pass are the ones that are still to be fulfilled in the future. Every single prophecy that could have been fulfilled has been fulfilled perfectly and you can verify this, you can look at the date, the Bible records of prophecy, and then look at the later date to see when that prophecy was fulfilled.
The most famous, fulfilled prophecies are the ones fulfilled in the life, death and the resurrection of the Messiah. Jesus Christ. All you need to do to discredit the Bible is to find one prophecy God makes in the Bible and prove it didn't happen exactly the way God said it would. Good luck with that. Chuck Miller says the Bible is the only book that hangs its entire credibility on its ability to write history in advance without error. Claim number two says that the Bible's true in every word.
That's a bold claim to make. Here's a way that claim can be tested. In archeology, the Bible talks a lot about ancient cultures, peoples, kingdoms, events, things that it says happened in history. The more that archeologists dig and study certain areas in the world where the Bible says certain things happened, the more we can test the claims that the Bible makes to date,
By all means
Chat . I do not know what 60 or 30 feels like , not being vain , but I am not stressing about anything . Thank you for the compliment though and yes keep them coming , hahaha.
RE: By all means
It's true, women of color don't normally show their real age. I know, I married one...By all means
Track . The only person would be on that list is him . Thank you for the compliment.By all means
Friendship. I was amazed at his boldness. But his profile says that he is divorced.
RE: False accusations...
I think perhaps your kindness and socially skilled management of potentially volatile confrontations may be mistaken for agreeing with others.Personally, I like to watch when you're coaxing the best out of someone, even if I want to slap that person with a wet kipper.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. The Bible is an instrument in of action in God's all powerful hand.It's crucial to realize that God intends His word, not simply to engage our minds, but to change our hearts. As one person put it, the Bible was not written to satisfy your curiosity. It was written to transform your life. The Bible claims to be powerful enough to do that. Claim number seven, the Bible is Christ centered. Contrary to popular belief, the Bible is not simply a collection of ethical principles and moral platitudes and abstract life lessons.
It is a thrilling story. And the story is not ultimately about you and me. In Luke, 24, the resurrected Jesus appears to two followers on the road. Luke recounts what happens in Luke Chapter 24 starting verse twenty five. Jesus said to them how foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things, then enter his glory? And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself.
Later, after appearing to his 11 disciples, Jesus says to them in Luke twenty four, verse forty four, this is what I told you while I was still with you, everything must be fulfilled. That was written about me in the law and the law of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms. Then you open their mind so that they could understand the scriptures. It wasn't just after his resurrection that Jesus spoke this way during his earthly ministry, he explained to the Bible experts of the day, his central place in the great story, John, Chapter five, Verse thirty nine to 40 and verse forty six.
Read like this, Jesus said. You study the scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. If you believed Moses, you'd believe me for he wrote about me. It's been rightly noted that the Old Testament is Jesus Christ concealed and the New Testament is Jesus Christ revealed from beginning to end Genesis to Revelation, the plot line of scripture anticipates, spotlights and finds his ultimate resolution in God's redeeming son.
And perhaps the most stunning thing about this story is that the central character of the story loves you. He loves you, Jesus loves us, and he is the one the Bible claims to be all about. Claim number eight, the Bible is precious, the Bible is the most valuable treasure in the universe. Here are some things the Bible says to us and these references will be on your outline. Matthew, chapter four says that the Bible is our food.
It says, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Deuteronomy Chapter 30 To verse forty six to forty seven says that the Bible is our life. So verse 50 says that the Bible is our comfort. This is my comfort in my affliction that your promise gives me life, 28, says that the Bible is our strength. It says my soul melts away for sorrow.
Strengthen me. According to your word, Psalm 119 Verse, one of five says the Bible is our guidance. It says your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Verse 20 says that the Bible is our desire. Psalm one thirty five says that the Bible is our hope. It says, I wait for the Lord, my soul waits. And in his word, I hope. the Bible is our love, oh, how I love your law.
RE: False accusations...
I haven't a clue what you are rambling on about to be honest. I've been off site for 3 years and only came back recently.My best friends are where I live not on C.S.I live in the real world not on here and am not responsible for what others choose to write.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Because the Bible claims to be God's word. The Bible claims to be the supreme authority in all things. Claim number four, the Bible is clear. The Bible is an ancient document. It can feel foreign and some parts are confusing. Nevertheless, the Bible is clear enough, as the Psalmist says, and so on. One 19 Verse 8, one 30, the unfolding of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. Sometimes scripture is difficult to understand because it's talking about complicated things often, however, it's hard to grasp because we simply don't like what it says.As Mark Twain famously quipped, it ain't those parts of the Bible I can't understand that bother me. It's the parts I do understand. Often it's not that the Bible is unclear, it is that we're unreceptive claim number five, the Bible is sufficient. Scripture contains all the words from God that we need in order to know him, truly trust him, fully, obey him perfectly and enjoy him abundantly. While the Bible may not tell us everything we want to know, it does tell us everything we need to know.
The Bible contains all we need to know in order to be saved. Second, Timothy, 3/15, says how from childhood you've been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ, Jesus and in James, chapter one, verse eighteen and twenty one of his own will. He brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures, therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls.
And first, Peter, chapter one, verse twenty three since you've been born again. Not of perishable seed, but of imperishable through the living and abiding word of God. The Bible contains all we need to know in order to obey God in faith. Second, Peter, chapter one verses three to four, says this; His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises so that through them, you may become partakers of the divine nature.
And having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. The Bible claims to be sufficient in it. We can find everything we need to know in order to be saved and everything we need to know in order to live the life. God is calling each one of us to live. Claim number six, the Bible is powerful. Since the Bible's ultimate author is God, it is a book of unparalleled power, its words are strong enough to change lives.
John 17/17 once again, Jesus said to the father, sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth in Romans 11/6, Paul says, For I'm not ashamed of the Gospel. Why, Paul? For it's the power of God, for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. First Thessalonians, chapter one, verse four to five says this for we know brothers loved by God that he's chosen you because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.
You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. And the book of Hebrews States the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to divide in soul and spirit joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Saying the Bible is powerful is another way of saying it's a fact of the Holy Spirit uses the word of God to accomplish God's plans.
Isaiah fifty five, 10 and 11. for as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goes up from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose.
RE: Need cash? Who ya gonna call...
"Trump is in need of quick cash and only a few wealthy people on the planet who can pull from their pocket to help him out on a loan."He is on a losing streak. Trump ordered to pay $382,000 after losing UK lawsuit over Steele dossier.
He had a visit from Hungary, Viktor Orban.
Could he be selling out our country to pay his legal bills? It seems the rich are in contact with him as they may think he will win the 2024 election.
Could it be they are saying "let's play ball?" America will be change as we know it today. Enjoy these last few months if that rapist etc. is elected.
RE: So where's THE DUKE
Butcher also appears to be missing like Luke he to was honest and sensible, both good blokes
RE: False accusations...
Chat this isn't the real world so don't allow keyboard warriors sitting behind a screen to get under your skinThose kind of people want a reaction so don't give them what they want
You & many others know how decent & respectful you are
RE: False accusations...
You're not too selective You jumped on the bandwagon with a member who had Tourette's when it came to the word wanker as well as other vile slurs aimed at a particular member whom constantly bullied & trolled a particular member Enablers are just as bad as the wanker himself I didn't report your best friend in fact come to think of it I never once reported your best friend when he would troll me referring.to me as a an Aussie slut or other vile slursWhat Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
The entirety of the Bible is God breathed, exhaled from God, no wonder is commonly referred to as God's word. If God authored it, though, then what were Moses and David and Paul and John and all the rest doing? Weren't they writing Holy Scripture to. Exactly. The Bible was written by God and humans, or more precisely by God through humans. The apostle Peter explains it this way. Second, Peter, chapter one verse 20-21Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the Prophet's own interpretation of things, for prophecy never had its origin in the human will. But prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. In other words, God made sure that human authors wrote exactly what he wanted them to write, no more, no less. These authors weren't passive robots, though. God didn't erase their personalities or commandeer their minds.
They wrote as thinking, feeling human beings. God worked through their unique personalities and educations and backgrounds and experiences to enable to inspire them to write divine truth in this way that the Bible claims to be inspired. Claim number two, the Bible is true, the Bible is true, God's word is true because God's character is true. He's not a liar. The God of truth cannot speak false words. And to doubt the truthfulness of God's word is to doubt the truthfulness of God himself.
Looking to scripture itself, we find numerous claims to pervasive truthfulness. The law of the Lord is perfect. Reviving the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right. Rejoice in the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure and lightning. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. And Proverbs Chapter 35 says this, Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Jesus affirmed this concisely, listen to the words he prayed to the father on the night of his betrayal. Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.
When properly interpreted, the Bible will never mislead you, what it says, God says. Claim number three, the Bible is authoritative, God owns the universe he verbalized into existence and his loving authority intended for our good is exercised through his word. In fact, God has so identified himself with scripture that to disbelieve or disobey it is to disbelieve or disobey him. It's true that the Bible isn't the only authority that exists in our life. There are other rightful authorities.
Parents are in authority. The Bible says this in the six church elders are in authority. The Bible says this in places like Hebrews 13 and first Peter five. And government officials are in authority. God says this in Romans Chapter 13. And first, Peter, Chapter two. None of these how authorities, however, is above God's word, the Bible is the Supreme Court. This means the correctness of every belief, value, opinion statement. And the sermon is finally settled by the question, what does the Bible say?
Jesus himself appealed to each part of scripture and to each element of scripture as to an unimpeachable authority, kings don't give advice, they give orders and obedience to the word of God, therefore, is not optional. As J.C. Riley remarked, happy is the man who possesses a Bible. Happier still is he who reads it happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it as countercultural and counterintuitive as it may feel at times, submission to God's word is where true life and freedom are found.
Because the Bible claims to be God's word. The Bible claims to be the supreme authority in all things. Claim number four, the Bible is clear. The Bible is an ancient document.
RE: I like the idea of Trump 47 / Agenda 47 listed by a Woke influencer herein
... by any means possible
RE: I like the idea of Trump 47 / Agenda 47 listed by a Woke influencer herein
Nonono, haha. They just there to get a better life, is all .. no worries..
I like the idea of Trump 47 / Agenda 47 listed by a Woke influencer herein
Many sane people living in the contiguous United States fear that hundreds of thousands of these illegals have brought parts of very smart explosive drones with them to be reassembled once here and then used to take out our infrastructure (electric power generating plants, wastewater treatment plants, cellular phone towers, gas refineries etc.) We are screwed.
once the USA is disabled then all travail will fall on Nato countries not friendly with Russia, China or the Muslim Brotherhood.RE: I like the idea of Trump 47 / Agenda 47 listed by a Woke influencer herein
I can't understand anybody in their right mind would ever again vote D.If you vote Biden(nomics
) does that mean you don't gve a fouk about the hard woking labor class that will be the most hard hit by this ilegal influx?
It's the blue collar ones, of whom many are Hispanic and Black, who will lose jobs
to these underpaid new arrivals.
What next, bring in a 100 million unemplyed Chinese maybe lol.
I like the idea of Trump 47 / Agenda 47 listed by a Woke influencer herein
Anyways, hopefully Agenda 47 will provide means to end the destruction of American cities like N.Y. City. Maybe the biden family and Ukraine should pay for the damages done?
What does the democrat party expect to happen when there few jobs for all the millions illegal immigrants they are bringing here.
False accusations...
suzie, thanks for your comment.Historically, I've avoided making comments on religious and political blogs, especially ones that are extreme or differ with my views. I got along with Luke, we could disagree on a topic without having an argument.
I noticed his disappearance and after hearing it from others did I realize it must have been a decision from administration and not closed for vacation.
I miss him. I also miss Butcher.
As far as reporting fake profiles goes, here is an example: 4 new profiles appear within minutes of each other. They usually have different photos, often the same age and sometimes the same location. When you read each profile and see they are identical with opening line, more about me, more about my match, occupation, it's obvious these profiles are created to scam someone.
Who checks this?
It's beyond the means of CS to monitor such fraudulent activity, yet it's a
whackingtalking point for one member who calls me the self appointed sheriff, done in a negative way. I'm knocking out more than 1,000 fraudulent profiles a year and ONE GUY has nothing better to do but complain about it.