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@sadolite
World war 2 fought for nothing 6 million jews dead for nothing. Nothing learned at all from either.
The Bible teaches us that only dead Jews can forgive sins and uses the sacrifice of Jesus as an example. The belief was strengthened by the growing Christian population in Europe of sinners who sought atonement and the availability of Jews in Europe.
This might explain why the Jews found Jesus’s teaching dangerous and blasphemous that dead Jews could forgive sins and rejected Jesus’s message of sacrifice and atonement.
But that has not stopped the Christians from accepting the sacrificial atonement offered by Jesus and to replicate his success with modern Jews.
Lesson learned. Taking the Bible literally has never benefited the Jews.
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@Mall
Leave it up to the "white" folks that decides what qualifies as always.
The question is, will a white respond to a black first responder?
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@Sidewalker
I think poker is more difficult, mostly because I was a great chess player, and I sucked at poker.
Most player who play poker become suckers.
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@Best.Korea
Are you saying you speak German too?No, I say something in English and people agree with me without knowing that I am repeating what Hitler said in one of his books or speeches.
Hitler was fluent in German, Austrian, and Dutch. He was proficient in Italian, French, and English, and it knew a little Russian. People think that he only spoke German because we only ever saw him speak German, but he was fluent and proficient in other languages. As an Austrian, Hitler was only fluent in German and did not learn English in his life.
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@Reece101
They’re better athletes overall. DEI has to go.What are your thoughts?
But they are slow to respond.
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@Best.Korea
I dont think any of those are nazi. I mean, let’s face it, Trump maybe learned some rhetorics from Hitler, but Trump is too stupid to know all Hitler's strategies. Also, Hitler had much better speeches than Trump.
Hitler also never danced on stage like Trump a clown at best.
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@Best.Korea
I sometimes quote Hitler, but people dont know that I am quoting Hitler, so they agree with me.
Are you saying you speak German too?
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@Best.Korea
I am nazi, but I dont want to be punched.
Then show your Nazi salute!
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@FLRW
I think it is a Christian thing to have 5 kids with 3 different women.
You must be Muslim.
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@Best.Korea
So teaming up with Russia should be seen as success.
For North Korea or Russia?
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@FLRW
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” unless you are a Trump.
Or an American billionaire.
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@CatholicApologetics
John’s authority to baptize came ultimately from God, in fulfillment of his prophetic mission as “the voice of one crying in the wilderness” (Is 40:3; Lk 3:2–3). While John was indeed of priestly lineage (his father, Zechariah, was a Temple priest), the New Testament depicts his baptism primarily as a divine calling for repentance and preparation for the Messiah, rather than as a continuation of Old Testament priestly rites. Although the Old Covenant does not feature baptism as a formal sacrament, it does foreshadow purifying washings (see Lev 16:4, Num 19), which John’s ministry brought to a new stage by pointing to Christ. Finally, Jesus’ crucifixion by no means nullified His authority or any symbolic baptism He received; His Passion and Resurrection are what give true meaning and saving power to all Christian baptism.
John the baptist changed what was ritual cleansing to symbolic purification. Forgiveness of sins was a formal process requiring sacrificial offerings of animals and spilling of blood in the temple.
Even animal sacrifice was changed by Jesus to human sacrifice. Where he was the sacrificial lamb. All these changes were a perversion of the law which Jesus promised not to change or abolish.
Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
The priests had to be ritually clean (tahor) in order to serve at the tabernacle, and Israelites who had become ritually unclean (tamay) had to restore their situation with the passing of time and bathing their whole body in fresh, ritually clean (tahor) water, according to Leviticus 15.
Later, when the temple had been built, it was necessary for everyone to be immersed in a mikveh to become ritually clean before entering the temple. There are many ancient mikva’ot (plural of mikveh) to be seen in Jerusalem, and it is clear to see the two sets of steps for each one – a set of steps going down to the mikveh in an impure (tamay) state on one side, and on the other side, steps where the pilgrim will emerge fresh and ritually clean (tahor).
John had no authority from God. He was beheaded for his actions.
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What about the marriages made in heaven?An idiom . = happy marriage.There are no marriages in heaven.
Matthew 19:6
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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@Mall
Ok
Jesus moved from a Jewish asset to a Roman asset.
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@Lemming
But I think as well, that bad arguments hold less weight than good arguments.'Regardless, if they are not addressed.
Is you debate stats going up or down?
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@zedvictor4
If you're a trans, you just need to eat more hormones and less carbs.If you just want to look good in lycra or a swim suit. I would suggest either cycling or swimming.Go for that lean toned look, rather than a bulging veiny look.And do a few ab crunchers for that flat tummy, when on the beach in a bikini.Implants of course, not too big.And maybe get some of your fat transferred to your buttocks for that cute rounded look.Like those Thai Lady Boys that FLRW was telling me about.
None of your suggestions appears to be working for you. You still look like your pet.
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@Sidewalker
What Genesis is telling us is that unless we accept a deeper understanding of our profound interrelatedness with all of life, until we recognize that a part can never be whole, if we don't consciously "eat from the fruit of the tree of life" so to speak, we will never find inner peace and external harmony, we will continue to lay waste to our mother earth and go on killing ourselves and each other.
That is the opposite of what Genesis teaches us.
For starters God tells us not to eat from the tree of knowledge.
Genesis 2:16-17
The LORD God commanded him, “You may eat the fruit from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!”
Then God is afraid humans will live forever.
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
God stopped them from eating from the tree of life or they would live forever by banishing them from the Garden.
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@Sidewalker
Nonsense, you are imposing a puerile literalism that may sharpen doctrinal debate, might serve a contrarian agenda, might feel "cool" in an internet debate forum, but it has nothing to do with understanding, your misguided attempt at Biblical literalism is just ridiculous.Genesis is a foundational narrative to half of the world’s people; this would be completely unaccountable if it were merely a literal description of very unusual events that occurred in the distant past. A literal translation of Genesis makes it remote and irrelevant and quite frankly, doesn’t make sense. A literal translation could never account for its historical status as the western world’s foundational orienting myth for over three thousand years of mankind’s development, and to treat it as merely an historical narrative account alters its original intent and completely obfuscates the profound truths which the symbolic narrative imparts.
Literal and figurative are ways that the writer of Genesis refers to things, how Moses factually portrays the reality of God’s creative acts and infused things made with symbolism. God’s authorized realistic account of his creative acts employs literal representations and portrayals that entail various figures of speech. No one has the liberty to interpret any portion of Genesis 1–2, either literally or figuratively.We are obligated to read the text as written. Thus, the real issue under debate is not our interpretation of Genesis 1–3 but our submission to the biblical text’s factual and authoritative representation. The issue at stake is this: Do we believe the Creator’s authorized, factual portrayal of how God created all things, or do we prefer to believe modern scientists’ dubious and shifting representation of how all things self-assembled beginning billions of years ago, including both the world and all living creatures and plants that populate the earth? Which is the authority for our confidence? On what authority does our faith rest concerning the beginnings of God’s creation? Is it scientists’ fluctuating interpretations of God’s created world? Or is the authority for our confidence the factual account of Genesis 1–3authorized by God? Scripture, not the shifting sands of scientism, sufficiently grounds our faith.
Example: God even got jealous they became like Gods knowing good a devil.
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
God stopped them from eating from the tree of life or they would live forever by banishing them from the Garden.
Why did God wanted Adam and Eve to live like ignorant creatures become apparent? He put the knowledge in a tree and not in humans. Then banned them from eating its fruit so the knowledge would not be transferred.
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.
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Yes, the big balled Governor said to insurance companies, we can raise the fire risk through mismanagement, but you are forbidden to raise your insurance premiums to match the risk we created. And if you can't make a profit, fuck you. We dare you to leave the state.
Why do Americans vote misfits into office?
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@CatholicApologetics
Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden was a direct consequence of their own disobedience, which fractured the perfect communion they initially had with God. While God did banish them from the Garden and impose certain penalties (labor, pain in childbirth, etc.), it was ultimately humanity’s choice to sin that led to this rupture. God’s actions—barring access to the Tree of Life—reflect His justice and mercy: by preventing fallen humanity from living forever in a state of sin, He also set the stage for redemption (Genesis 3:15), pointing to the promise of salvation that would be fulfilled in Christ.
Here is a good example of God applying double standards. He punished Adam and Eve for desiring and gaining wisdom. Then send Jesus and prophets to teach humans gods morality.
Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
God even got jealous they became like Gods.
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
After expelling them from the garden God sent prophets to rein them back to heaven.
For what purpose did God send the prophets?
So God sends his prophets to warn his people, so they'll turn from sin and its destruction. When Israel refuses to listen, they experience the awful consequences of their own ways, just like the prophets warned. But when Israel listens, they receive God's promised mercy.
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@CatholicApologetics
The Church has always recognized Christ’s instruction in Matthew 28:19—“baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”—as foundational. References in Acts to baptism “in the name of Jesus” indicate baptism by Christ’s authority rather than a competing formula. Early Christian writings such as the Didache (late first or early second century) likewise attest to Trinitarian baptismal practice. Scholarly consensus supports that the Church did not “change” the baptismal formula in the second century; rather, it continued the command given by Jesus, even if early Scripture passages described baptism in the context of His name alone.
Who gave John the right to baptize?
Probably his father. They were Levites after all, which we believe to be the holders of the Aaronic Priesthood - which includes the authority to baptize. This is a great answer. Just to mention it: John and his dad were Priests not just Levites.
Baptism is not in the Old Testament as a covenant.
Jesus never baptized anyone not even his disciples. Being crucified as a criminal would have nullified his own baptism.
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@CatholicApologetics
Jesus’s original mission was more limited. t is recorded in Matthew 15: 24 “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” Remember, God chose the Israelite's as his own and He was their God. If you were drawn to God, you didn't remain a Gentile and worship God, you were circumcised as a male and became Jewish.Jesus expanded his mission after his resurrection. After he was rejected by the Jews and crucified. So the Jews should be credited for changing Jesus’s mind and not the Romans who crucified him. Mark 16:15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.Jesus’ initial focus on “the lost sheep of Israel” (Mt 15:24) did not exclude His larger mission to all peoples; rather, it honored God’s longstanding covenant with the Jewish people and fulfilled prophecy by first bringing salvation to Israel.
Bringing salvation to Israel was a failure.The Jews rejected Jesus and demanded he be crucified.
The universal scope was always implicit (see Isaiah 49:6), and Christ Himself hints at it throughout His ministry (e.g., Jn 10:16).
Why did Jesus tell his disciples not to go to the Gentiles and Samaritans?
Why did Jesus not send his disciples to Gentiles and Samaritans? The Gentiles were the people who knew the least about the true God. From a missiological standpoint, they were the least reached. The Samaritans knew something of the Law but were not accepted as genuine worshippers of the God of Israel.
The rejection by many in Israel and Jesus’ subsequent command to “go into all the world” (Mk 16:15) does not imply He changed His mind under human influence. It demonstrates the divine plan unfolding in stages—first announced to Israel, then proclaimed to the nations, fulfilling God’s will that all might be saved.
But Jesus was sent to save the Jews. He failed, he was rejected and crucified. Even to this day the Jews reject Jesus as the promised Messiah. The Romans never accepted Jesus. They had the power to save him,but did not.
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@Best.Korea
Was North Korea trying to weaken South Korea by splitting from it?North Korea tried to violently unite with the South, but US and allies prevented it.
So teaming up with Russia should be seen as success.
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@Best.Korea
But you are a trans. Why do you need muscle?I dont do it just for muscles. My brain needs to be smarter and this helps. Plus, muscles are good and desirable. Well, at least a bit more desirable than big tummy
By lifting some weight on your head you will be exercising areas near your brain. That will develop your brain muscle more that pushing a wall with your arms.
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@Best.Korea
But together they are stronger than one.Thats what Kim Jong Il said.When you add one drop of water to another drop of water, they are no longer two drops, but one bigger drop of water.When you unite two countries, they are no longer two, but one which is much more powerful.
Was North Korea trying to weaken South Korea by splitting from it?
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@Best.Korea
So you are actually testing the strength of the wall.?Just pushing 3 times less weight than when doing real push ups.I used to be able to do real push ups, but that was years ago.I have gained weight since then, so I am kinda hoping to gain more weight but also turn it into muscle and size.I dont want for all my weight to go in tummy
But you are a trans. Why do you need muscle?
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@Best.Korea
They why did North Korea choose to split up with South Korea.They disagree with each other too much
But together they are stronger than one.
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@Best.Korea
Isn’t it harder to push a wall down than to push yourself off the ground like in pushups?You still push yourself and your weight, just not against the floor but against the wall.
So you are actually testing the strength of the wall.?
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@Best.Korea
Korea actually thinks it can defend Russia?There is a saying: Two are stronger than one.
They why did North Korea choose to split up with South Korea.
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@Best.Korea
I guess. They are made for beginners and for those with wrist problems. I am both.
Isn’t it harder to push a wall down than to push yourself off the ground like in pushups?
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@Mall
I don't know where you're getting your information. I can tell you what scripture says regarding salvation
God had to save the Romans first so they could go on to for the Roman Catholic Church. We wouldn’t have 2 billion Christian’s today if it wasn’t for the Roman Catholic Church.
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@Best.Korea
But that is Russian territory why are the Koreans involved?Alliance between Russia and North Korea.If anyone attacks Russian territory, North Korea sends help to Russia, and if anyone attacks North Korean territory, Russia sends help to North Korea.Think of it like a version of NATO.
Korea actually thinks it can defend Russia?
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@Best.Korea
Lenin established a totalitarian state.
Who started communism in Russia?
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party.
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@Lemming
Course on another hand,When one is swimming in surplus, it can be easy to forget about other humans. Easy to forget empathy, forget to care."A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog" - Jack London.Sometimes one only bothers to achieve ideals 'in hardship.
Being as hungry as the dog creates competition for food with the dog.
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@Best.Korea
Plus, it’s their fault North Korea entered the war. They triggered the alliance by capturing Russian territory.
But that is Russian territory why are the Koreans involved?
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@Best.Korea
It was you who were extolling the virtues of Marxism and decrying capitalism.I was telling the virtues of Marx, not Lenin.
What did Lenin believe?
Leninism (Russian: Ленинизм, Leninizm) is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.
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@Best.Korea
Is it muscles or fat that you are trying to achieve?If you are losing weight, then muscles cannot grow properly, and the size of arms, chest and back wont increase much.
So you are shrinking.
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@CatholicApologetics
God wasn't the one to end the relationship.
God ended the days in paradise. And brought death into the world.
What did God do to Adam and Eve after sinning?
Subsequently, God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, condemned Adam to work in order to get what he needed to live and condemned Eve to give birth in pain, and placed cherubim to guard the entrance, so that Adam and Eve would never eat from the "tree of life".
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@zedvictor4
Yep, marriage is either a binding contract under State Law.Or not worth the paper it's written on.
What about the marriages made in heaven?
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@Tradesecret
The NT sign of the covenant is baptism. Same as Jesus also said this is the new covenant - when he ate the bread and drank the wine - referring to himself at the last supper. the New Covenant which is what Christians - whether Jew or Gentile follow. Circumcision, the old sign, puts one under the law. Baptism puts one under grace.
Matthew5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill
Jesus could not abolish the old covenant of circumcision made by God, nor could he change it by replacing the covenant with a new one.
The covenant of circumcision was made between God and Abraham. Baptism is a covenant made with Jesus.
But since Jesus never baptized anyone. That covenant was never established.
The gospels give no indication of Jesus ever baptizing. Many of his disciples were baptized first by John, but both Orthodox and Protestants agree this was a baptism of repentance from sin, in preparation for Jesus' ministry, of whom John said would baptize with the Holy Spirit.
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@Tradesecret
We say that God's rules of ethics and morals and justice belong to him, and not the same as humanity. God is never and can never be held to a human account.
Romans 9:
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
The verses prove the Jews were punished for both following gods commandment and by works unlike the gentiles who only pursued it by faith.
Jesus concludes by saying that many are called/invited to the kingdom, but only those who have been “chosen” and have received Christ will come.
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@Lemming
I assume Humanistic Organizations usually have the goals of making specific human activities and standards of life more prevalent.
People act to fulfill needs. Maslow's theory explained that every person is born with a set of basic needs: (1) physiological, (2) safety (3) belongingness or love, (4) self-esteem, and (5) self-actualization. He theorized that higher needs emerge as the lower-level needs are met.
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@CatholicApologetics
From a Catholic perspective, “spiritual death” refers to the loss of sanctifying grace and the original state of holiness—an interior rupture in one’s relationship with God—rather than a complete cessation of religious devotion or inability to worship. Adam and Eve, while they continued to believe in and teach their children about God, no longer enjoyed the fullness of communion with Him as they did in Eden. Their eventual physical death, along with the trials their descendants faced, flowed from this initial spiritual rupture. Thus, “dying on that day” should be understood in its deeper theological sense, where the immediate effect was the forfeiture of intimate friendship with God and the beginning of mortal existence apart from Eden’s privileges.
God paid an even higher price for ending his relationship with Adam and Eve. He had to offer his son as sacrifice to bring the descendants of Adam and Eve back to heaven.
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@Best.Korea
It’s a way to avoid US sanctions.
Ukraine wants to do a prisoner swap. Koreans for Ukrainian. What will the ratio be?
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@FLRW
I do pushups against the wall. I'm as old as Trump and this is how I look.
You won’t find Trump baring his chess anytime soon.
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@Best.Korea
If you are a Christian, are you responsible for what every other Christian does?
Am I responsible for someone else's salvation?
Yes, God will examine our works to see who we brought to Christ. While we do not “save” anyone, God does that, we have to do our part to help each other keep and find the faith.
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@Mall
Nope , never stated any of those words the way you put it.Put what you said side by side to what I stated and do a comparison. Two different paragraphs. You either want to learn something or reject what somebody tells you because you already decided the answer for yourself.
God took the salvation of the Romans who crucified Jesus seriously.
Roman Catholicism traces its history to Jesus during the period of Roman occupation in the early 30s of the Common Era. Over a period of years after Jesus' life and death his followers spread out across the world to form a “universal” (Greek, katholikos) church with the bishop of Rome holding primacy.
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This is what a real Democrat leader looks like. Not some Trump wannabe. He makes the real choices with big balls.
Trump appreciates big balls.
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