Comments by "David Parker" (@DavidParker-cf2km) on "Brainwashed by the Westboro Baptist Church (Part 1/2)" video.

  1. I feel sorry for the children of snowflakes and atheists.
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  2. ​ @leileep2787  Raising children to believe they are nothing more than an accident caused by atheists fucking is not raising children right.
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  3. Jesus was the Christ, The Messiah. The demonic Pharisees were typically called "Jews" by Jesus, himself wholly God and wholly man and so speaking with divine authority. So Jesus was not one of the Jews - "children of Belial", "of their father the devil", "brood of vipers", etc. Jesus could as easily be called an Israelite or Hebrew. So, you see how simple it is if you have the brains to actually understand what is plainly written in the Bible? Jesus was not a Jew at all, he acknowledged God as his father and God is not a "Jew".
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  4. God, not the WBC, determines who is elect to live before him and who is going to suffer his wrath for eternity.
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  5.  @sqacing6914  Define "Jew". Also the correct contraction for "you are" is "you're". Define "fact". Define "Judaism".
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  6. @Chelsea O Except the threats are from people in these comments who want to kill the Westboro congregation for exercising their right to free speech. Your quarrel is with God, not these mere messengers.
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  7. I always find it interesting that people who claim the Bible says something never provide the citations.
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  8. That sums up how pointless your life is. Sexual perverts are the most miserable people on earth.
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  9.  @beyondreception6681  You are so stupid you make chickens look brilliant. You know nothing of reality. The universe had a beginning. How did the universe begin? How did life begin? God is most surely omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. and eternal. The only possible refutation is for you to make something from nothing and show it to the world.
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  10.  @meowmeow2141  See how you are commenting to me and now I am replying to you? I did not start this, VICE is mischaracterizing the congregation of Westboro Baptist Church and my intent is to set the record straight. VICE throws stuff like this up because they make money on the site traffic. It's only pointless to you and a tiny part of what I do. Some people actually want to know what is going on. And, I am not the least bit afraid of sexual perverts, but as Patrick Buchanan said, "You don't have to lift the lid to the sewer to know what is inside." Sexual perversion is a stench to all of civilized society. Christians build civilization, and queers tear it down like mold on bread.
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  11.  @iamverysad9788  Interesting that "no one gives a fuck" what I say but it took you all of two minutes to prove that you do "give a fuck what I say" by your reply. Everyone who has a sexual interest in the same sex or argues that there is more than male and female as God created us, is a sexual pervert. Pure logic, nothing to do with me except that I point out the obvious. Surgeons will never be able to transplant ovaries and womb and all the special organs of a woman into a man neither is it within the realm of possibility to convert a woman into a man. Can't happen and anyone who pretends otherwise is demon possessed, aka insane. I am defending the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) although I am Reformed and do not hold to their position on baptism. You and your ilk are passing judgment on the WBC as witness how VICE depicts the WBC and the vast majority of the original comments.
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  12. God made us male or female, set at conception.
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  13.  @chickenpurple6704  You should read the Bible before pretending to cite it. God identifies homosexuality or sexual perversion in general as an abomination to him, God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - who created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days, the day one rotation of the earth. God created mankind male and female and ordained marriage as the only proper expression of sexuality.
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  14.  @thing8357  I am a Christian, roundly hated by orthodox Jews and Zionists. "Anti-semite" is what Jews call people they wish to defame. Like the word "racist", it is used by those with no rational rebuttal, as, for instance, you. I believe what God said in his Holy Bible. Just scroll down the comment section and you'll see what I wrote.
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  15.  @FiteMeM8Channel  Typical - you want to kill people who are brave enough to tell you the truth about yourself.
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  16.  @dustyn98  God instituted marriage to be between one man and one woman for life. Nothing else is marriage.
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  17. Good point. Gluttony does not glorify God either. On the other hand, having failed to maintain their body does not condemn them to silence, it means they are to repent and glorify God by obeying him.
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  18.  @slightlyokay9150  God never wonders what you are doing with the life he has given you. You don't need to wonder about your future either, because God is sovereign.
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  19.  @beyondreception6681  Christian of the sect of Jesus the Christ. I am like Peter asking "Lord to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." Christians look to Jesus as the author and finisher of our faith. I have been influenced mainly by R.C. Sproul, the scientists at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR.org) and Creation Ministries International (Creation.com), Greg Bahnsen, Robert Gentry (Polonium halos), James Jordan, Kenneth Gentry, Gary North, Gary DeMar, Otto Scott, et al. I read the 1599 Geneva Bible these days but love the language of the 1611 KJV. I have also read the NASB and like Shedd's Dogmatic Theology (which is a systematic theology), Daniel Whitby's Commentary on the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament, and many others who have helped me learn what I know.
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  20.  @beyondreception6681  Jesus is very God and very man, the promised Messiah, Lamb of God, who alone could and did redeem God's elect from the eternal punishment all rebellious mankind deserves. Your babble is completely irrelevant to that fact.
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  21.  @beyondreception6681  Thanks, but I am not young. Your question you are unable to even state clearly is "How can anyone know that he knows?" This is not a new question among people who actually can think - which excludes you - and as far as I am concerned was best answered by Dr. Greg Bahnsen. As for your further babble, to the best of mortal understanding, God has revealed himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three Persons in one essence. Jesus the Christ, Messiah is very God and very man. Satan is a created being, just as we and all living things on earth are created beings. Satan is not autonomous as is demonstrated in the Book of Job: He has to get permission to attack men and his desire is to torment all mankind as he is going to be tormented when he has completed the purpose for which he was created. None of this is a mystery or hidden knowledge. How is it that you are to ignorant of these basic facts? A mark of stupidity is the failure to recognize and learn from your obvious mistakes.
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  22.  @beyondreception6681  See how stupid you are? I continually point out to you that assumption is a logical fallacy yet you continue to reply with assumptions. You ASSUME I call you stupid because I disagree with you but I call you stupid because you apparently do not learn from your mistakes. I cite verifiable fact and you reply with empty rhetoric: "Your arguments are based on hearsay and scripture. They have no foundation and like the hall of the philistines they shall collapse under the force of a serious foe." Did you fart? Because you wrote nothing of substance. My arguments are not based on hearsay, I cite and quote people who publish their findings in plain view and ably defend their work from critics. Neither does your babble rise to the level of criticism. You are not competent to judge anyone's discoveries having nothing of consequence yourself.
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  23.  @beyondreception6681  Ridiculous, you obviously haven't died yet. Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" After judgement is your eternity. You don't get to hop around like some wraith. Once again you ably demonstrate you have done nothing of consequence.
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  24.  @beyondreception6681  You are the most brazenly idiotic commentator yet plus you clearly know nothing of astrophysics. How did the first stars, the Population III stars, form? Better yet, back to the original questions you avoid: (1) How did the universe begin? (2) How did elements form into living things?
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  25.  @beyondreception6681  You are a complete idiot. Buzz off, I have work to do.
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  26.  @supervillain4611  People are already "doing what they want" or as it was described in the Book of Judges, "Every man did what was right in his own eyes." That's what happens when people stop hearing God's law. You keep missing the point, mere people do not matter, it is God you disobey and dishonor and it is God who holds your eternity in his hands - smoking or non-smoking? Again, it is you, not me, who is not calm. Considering your eternity at this moment, you have good reason to be alarmed at your inescapable future. Too bad you cannot pray to God the Father in the name of Jesus for your salvation. But, as with all the unelect, you cannot bring yourself to do that simple thing. We are all born rebels and only the Holy Spirit can regenerate us to realize how thoroughly we have offended God.
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  27. The Westboro Baptist Church is a congregation loudly proclaiming the Word of God to sinners who do not want to hear it.
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  28.  @beautyandbrains1695  Irrelevant. God is the one who is offended by the perversion of the sexuality he created in mankind and the purpose - marriage, one man with one woman for life. That is the only point I have to make and the only point the WBC is making. It is the duty of Christians to tell people what God decrees, not a fun thing either because invariably the affected people have a habit of killing the messenger to silence the message.
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  29. Sexual perverts and deviants among civilized people is like a pile of shit on the kitchen table: It negatively affects everyone.
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  30. Most people criticizing the Westboro Baptist Church in these comments are atheists. Such do not know Christian doctrine from the insanity that is Islam and Judaism, yet do not hesitate to post their wildly inaccurate myth as gospel. God declares sexual perversion in particular to be an abomination. Sin is disobedience of God's law and dishonor of God's sovereignty. Law: 1599 Geneva Bible, Exodus 20: 12: Honor thy father and they mother, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land, which the Lord they God giveth thee. 14 "Thou shalt not commit adultery" Case law: 1599 Geneva Bible, Leviticus 18: 22-26 "Thou shalt not lie with the male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination. Thou shalt not also lie with any beast to be defiled therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: for it is abomination. Ye shall not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the Nations are defiled which I will cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I will visit the wickedness thereof upon it, and the land shall vomit out her inhabitants. Ye shall keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments, and commit none of these abominations, as well he that is of the same country, as the stranger that sojourneth among you. God does not "love everybody". God created hell for the devil, his angels, and unelect sinners. God informs us that is where He is sending most people. In red letters, Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." If you want to know what God says, read the entire Bible Satan has been busy - read a literal translation of the Bible: The dynamic equivalents are merely commentaries, the "translators" making their bibles say what they want. The 1599 Geneva, the King James, the New King James, the American Standard, the New American Standard, the English Standard Version, etc. - are literal translations.
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  31.  @randomguy1928  Please do learn English someday. Whatever you might have intended to communicate is unintelligible. For example, what do you mean by "it" that might possibly have consequences? Bear in mind that Old Testament prophets were murdered by people who did not want to hear the truth. However, they really were prophets and could not be silenced by threats from mere mortals. God is not worried, there is plenty of room for more murderers, adulterers, child abusers, fornicators, sexual perverts, et al., in the lake of fire.
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  32.  @cowboylikeana  Of course, that's your concept of the highest good.
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  33.  @cowboylikeana  They have done absolutely nothing to you, so who's the "asshole"?
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  34.  @cowboylikeana  They haven't "harassed" anyone. Holding up a sign repeating God's judgment on sexual perverts is not harassment. Harassment is blocking people and throwing rocks and trash at them on Sunday morning as they are trying to get into the church building.
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  35. The first amendment prohibits Congress establishing a state religion (which the public school system is). That separation business was in a letter Jefferson wrote to the Barbary Pirates (raiding Muslims) explaining that the central government, the United States of America, was not a theocracy.
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  36. If you ever took the time to read the Bible, Jesus said that is where the unelect go. However, as Jesus pointed out, they, not Jesus, claimed they were Christian.
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  37.  @エイジャ  How would you know? Please define what you mean by "Christian".
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  38. Poor dear. Do something to piss off Antifa, who are allowed to be violent without fear of arrest, and you will have something to be terrified about. No member of WBC is going to beat the shit out of you or destroy your car and get away with it however.
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  39.  @supervillain4611  Too bad you are completely illiterate.
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  40. No people is "asexual". You are male or female and you cannot change that fact with surgery and hormones.
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  41.  @Dev-zd3rx  lol lol lol lol Did you think you wrote something intelligent ... or did you just shit on your keyboard again? lol lol lol rofl hahahaha
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  42.  @iamverysad9788  Did you miss the opening statements by Pastor Fred Phelps in the video and the topic of about 99% of the top level comments that follow? I am in defense of the Westboro Baptist Church when they accurately cite Scripture, and they are pointing out in a very blunt fashion that sexual perversion does not glorify God and is an abominable sin, not an "acceptable lifestyle" in the eyes of God. That fact is never going to change. God created male and female and God decreed that sexual relations are only good within marriage and God defined marriage to be the exclusive sexual union of a man and a woman for life.
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  43.  @iamverysad9788  And you prove once again how much you do not "give a fuck" (as if you get any) "about me" (what I write) by another instant reply. What do you mean by "God damn"? I thought you don't believe in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Are you now converting to Christianity? Anyway, I have to get back to work, so you get a break.
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  44.  @iamverysad9788  It's "ok" to MARRY a woman. Assumption is still a logical fallacy. The sexual drive is the first attraction between a man and a woman, sexual intercourse follows the lifelong commitment of marriage. Any same-sex attraction is "not ok" and I have made that abundantly clear, how is it you still attempt to twist God's clear mandate?
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  45.  @iamverysad9788  Good boy! I think you are catching on! It's God's business what you do with the life He gave you. You will answer to God regarding your eternity.
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  46. ​ @iamverysad9788  The abysmally ignorant speak yet again. As soon as you can make matter from nothing and make a sperm cell and an egg or a system of living cells from your matter, please do report back. Meanwhile all honest inquirers discover there is no possible "natural" process to do that. None of your atheist high priests can produce even a thought process as to how such can "just happen". Guess what? You WILL find out and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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  47.  @AlaricCaffyn  I'll post as long as I have time and desire. How about you "just stop" reading what I write if you can't handle it?
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  48.  @eddiefisher3093  I'm sure you even believe your assumptions. However, if you see hate and a sad and pathetic life, you're looking in the mirror.
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  49. The epitome of shallow aspirations!
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  50.  @magmacube8689  Don't be bothered about your sexuality! It's very simple, God created male and female, just look down if you are confused.
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  51. Hell is like solitary confinement in a blast furnace: It is not a gathering of like souls exulting in their rejection of God.
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  52.  @friendlywobbly9903  That IS "homosexuality"! Are you really so dense you cannot understand that? King James middle English, Leviticus 20:13 has it "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." You will drop your pretences when you meet God face to face.
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  53. Only the Holy Spirit can regenerate you.
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  54. Anyway, let's hear your "translation." Bear in mind that 4,000 years ago (100 generations) God had not yet written the Bible because people could memorize everything God taught them. God did not need to write the Bible until the time of Moses.
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  55.  @Phantom-hy2ix  As if you had a clue! The Bible has NOT "... been changed over the years." Christians today have the same Scripture the early church had from the Torah or Old Testament of Moses and the Prohphets who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost to the New Testament words of Jesus, very God and very man and the Apostles. There are now literal trnslations which are true to Christian doctrine and there are "dynamic equivalents" beginning with the NIV by Eugene Ndia, which should be regarded as saying what the translator wants people to believe. Literal translations are the 1599 Geneva, the 1611 King James Version (KJB) and its revisions, the American Standard Bible (ASB), the New American Standard Bible (NASB), and the English Standard Version (ESV), none of which deviate from Christian doctrine of the Trinity, original sin, promised Redeemer, Advent of the Messiah, resurrection of Jesus from the dead, and life everlasting.
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  56. Just imagine. Twenty-one centuries ago the most loving of all men, Jesus, very God and very man gave himself that God's elect can have eternal life with God. If you want to see the Christian church, look to Jesus, not fallible men. Most of the comments here are filled with hatred of Jesus and the churches in his name. Jesus said the world would hate Christians just as the world hated Him. Jesus also said "If you love me, keep my commandments." That is where the sexual perverts fall down, pretending that God didn't mean what He said. As you can see, Jesus sacrifice hasn't changed anything for the vast majority - you still choose eternal hell.
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  57. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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  58. Except God did not say that and God is not a man that He should be so limited. God is the one who made hell for the devil and his angels and for unrepentant sinners. Matthew 13:36-43 "Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
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  59.  @thing8357  Not me, I leave the hating to you. You keep intentionally missing the point that God, not me, said that sexual perversion is an abominable dishonor. Loving whoever chooses to be my enemy means telling them the absolute truth and what God said is the absolute truth, I am merely the middle man. Are you saying that telling the truth doesn't matter to you?
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  60.  @thing8357  Assumption is still a logical fallacy. What I know is that Americans have not fought a defensive war since 1812. As for right now, foreign wars of aggression mean we are the attackers and as bad as anything ever said about the Nazis, the Bolsheviks, the Soviets invading Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, etc. The U.S. military has attacked and killed over a million helpless innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and who knows where else. Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Al Assad, Milosovic, and their people did absolutely nothing to Americans and neither have the Iranians, but for sure the US military has done a lot to them. If you had a brain, you would ask yourself who benefits from all this murder and destruction of sovereign states? Dead soldiers could not care less what the WBC says or does. However, waging wars against civilians and more or less defenseless peoples does not glorify God.
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  61.  @thing8357  And one is too many from a Christian point of view. Keep counting, Afghanistan is not the Mideast.
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  62.  @gabrielalvarado3348  All the seeds were good. The difference is where they landed and what happened next. The WBC is among those that took root and produced an hundredfold more. The fact that they tell sexual perverts they lives are an abomination to God and condemn foreign wars of aggression is a mark of the true church and a condemnation of all the pansies who are afraid to tell the truth.
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  63.  @dustyn98  When have they not told the truth about everything?
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  64.  @dustyn98  Exactly what did Phelps preach that "misrepresents the Bible"? Of course you cannot be specific because you do not know what God has said in the Bible. You are merely one more barking dog in your attempt to skew the narrative to support your anti-Christ agenda.
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  65.  @dustyn98  Read the Bible and find out for yourself. I have already listed specific citations, you do your own research from now on: Leviticus 20:1317 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity." Deuteronomy (second telling) 22 Romans 1 - read the chapter, verses cannot be taken out of context. 1 Corinthians 6:9 -11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Revelation 21 - read the chapter, verses cannot be taken out of context
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  66.  @dustyn98  Then you clearly cannot articulate your "position". Are you on top or on the bottom? The "Clackamas Church of Christ" is clearly the Clackamas Church of Queers, merely one more anti-Christ organization. There are more counterfeits of Christian churches than there are Christian churches (church means congregation) these days. Most are euphemistically called "liberal" instead of anti-Christ. 1 Corinthians is a book, not a verse and you are too ignorant of hermenutics to have an opinion about the meaning of the Holy Bible (I defend literal translations only) or any part of the Holy Bible. Genesis is sufficient to settle the issue. God created man and woman (sex) and marriage, one man with one woman for one life, for the full realization and expression of sexual intercourse. The flood of Noah's day and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the five cities on the plain puts the lie to your proxy's attempt at eisegesis. Anything beyond marriage is condemned, not condoned, by God. QED
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  67.  @dustyn98  You pretend to pedagogy, it's not my problem you are so stupid.
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  68.  @dustyn98  Sodom and Gomorrah and the five cities on the plain were destroyed by God explicitly BECAUSE the inhabitants were sexual deviants, just as the tribe of Dan was almost completely eliminated because they chose to defend sexual deviants.
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  69.  @dustyn98  You are the one who keeps on saying "homosexuality". I use the terms "sexual pervert" or "sexual deviant" or "insane" or "demon possessed" or "queer" to describe you and your ilk.
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  70.  @dustyn98  Jesus' advent fulfilled the sacrificial and ceremonial laws and abrogated the bloodline laws. Later, in the vision to the Apostle Peter concerning the Gentile church, the dietary laws were also abrogated. Still a good idea to cook pork very well.
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  71.  @dustyn98  God judges you fool. As for me, what you write in these comments describes you and what you think and your ability to communicate. You put yourself on display, As the old saying goes, you are as plain as the ass on a goat.
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  72. @Icywolfe God creates people. People choose to lick assholes and eat shit. Real simple you illogical idiot.
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  73.  @Onneukbaar  God most certainly does and has eternal hell waiting for them after their individual "cup of iniquity is full". God gives people every opportunity to do right. They choose to impugn their creator, too bad for them.
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  74. @RiKk What is "sin"?
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  75. @RiKk What does the word "wrong" mean?
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  76. @RiKk That is not the answer. I thought for a moment you might be serious. The point is that God defines good and evil. "Sin" is a word the free will advocates - the late Billy Graham for example and there are hundreds like him - like to use without ever defining the word. Sin means to disobey and dishonor God. Nothing is good or evil, right or wrong, except as defined by God. Therefore the answer is that God did not create man evil but God did give Adam the freedom to disobey. Adam chose to believe he could be equal to God. Stupid or what! Satan also believed he could be equal to God. I say create your own universe and living things: If you think you can be equal to God at least take that step to prove it. Bad choice for Adam and all of us. Eve hadn't been warned by God but Adam had been and failed to properly inform Eve, then Adam did not protect Eve from Satan's lies, so Eve was deceived but Adam consciously sinned and is responsible for corrupting the then-perfect universe. It affected all of us genetically so that we age and die. It affected the once perfect earth and universe and the animals and plants. Christians call that original sin committed by Adam, our federal head. We do not have to disobey and dishonor God, but being born of man and woman is like falling into a pile of shit - our fallen world - (which can still feed far more people than now exist and give us amazing sunrises and sunsets to view) because we are conceived in iniquity. We are responsible for our thoughts from the moment God creates our souls. Eve must have been devastated by being part of the chain of events that led Adam to sin. Eve was responsible for advising Adam - she was created to be his helpmate - so God's promise to her of The Redeemer was the greatest comfort of all time: God would make things right again. That is why Jesus' propitiatory sacrifice was necessary and at the same time the greatest possible manifestation of love because God's standard is perfect obedience or his wrath eternally.
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  77.  @GALuigi  Right, so much that some endure his wrath for eternity.
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  78. ​ @GALuigi As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Romans 9:13
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  79.  @foxtrouble3823 People have free will to disobey God and we all have.
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  80. You get your time on earth and then you get to account to God for how you used what He gave you.
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  81. Christians are called to judge righteous judgment the only admonition being that by what standard you judge you will be judged. Cowards in the pulpit are the reason America has declined into a cesspool today, paper called money and evil called good.
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  82. The SBC invited queers to attend worship with the one caveat that they set quietly and do not disrupt the worship service.
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  83. There is no record of any blind woman approaching Jesus. That fiction exists only in your ignorance of history.
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  84. That is a Kinsey invented statistic. Kinsey was a fraud as well as a criminal child abuser. He got away with his child abuse by targeting poor black children for his "research". The actual number of people suffering from the insanity of sexual deviancy is about 0.1% of the general population. That is in spite of the best efforts of the mainstream media and the government over the last sixty years to promote sexual deviancy as "normal". The vast majority fo men are attracted to women and women to men, exactly as created.
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  85. Wrong. The actual figure is closer to one-tenth of one percent. The 10% figure is pure bullshit pushed by Kinsey, himself a closet queer, who got away with sexually abusing infants and children under the guise of "research." To this day Kinsey is uncritically quoted, proof positive there is no scholarship or integrity left in either academia or media.
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  86. That figure is a lie. The real number is one tenth of one percent, 0.001 of the population.
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  87. A lie. The actual number is 1/10th of one percent, 0.01 of the population are inflicted with the insanity of sexual deviancy.
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  88.  @FiendForever90  Actually 1/10th of one percent are so sexually perverted they are "same sex" attracted.
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  89. Hell is solitary confinement in a blast furnace.
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  90. Don't bother. Christians know how it all works and sexual perverts demonstrating their insanity in public is nothing new.
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  91. Right on. If God says some act is an abomination, why do people deny that? You're right, it doesn't make sense.
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  92. You should read the Bible someday just to see how far Fred Phelps strayed from God's word. Bet you can't make it past Numbers ... .
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  93. I feel sorry for all the people who are going to suffer eternity in hell. God, not Westboro, punishes a lifetime of sin.
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  94.  @obscuredenigma8361  Animals are not sexually perverted. Male and female mate and produce offspring - proof positive is that we still have mammals on earth, dolphins and whales included. It's called sexual intercourse, as created by God.
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  95. God said homosexuality is abominable - the worst of all the sins that can be committed.
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  96. There's no better help than to point out how to leave a futile existence and enter a fulfilling life.
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  97. No one is born queer. It is 100% a matter of choice.
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  98. ​ @dannyboi451  Sexual perversion is a form of insanity. The reason people put themselves through such a life of torment is that they are (1) demon possessed or (2) insane. You can't even blame the demons - you invited them to take over. I don't play with shit but that is not because I am afraid of it, so you can shove your "homophobic" where the sun doesn't shine. I am not the one you need to be concerned with - your inevitable meeting with God where you think you will explain to him how you were created queer should be your concern. There is no excuse, as in the New Testament "... and such WERE some of you ... ." Turn or burn shiteater!
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  99.  @generalblade7504  Typical functional illiterate. The essence of Christianity is salvation from the wrath of God by the grace of God through faith and not of meritorious works. That is the big deal. Your sexual perversion is a sideshow. The real issue is eternal life in the presence of God or eternal life suffering the wrath of God. God, not me, says that sexual perversion is an especially odious sin, an abomination. Take it up with God. I am a mere mortal who reads the Bible through every year and studies Christian doctrine and church history. You problem is not that I point out your insanity, it is that you are insane and for your own eternity you better do something about it. From what I read, hell is like solitary confinement in a blast furnace - you get a body that cannot be destroyed but experiences pain and every nerve is on fire.
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  100.  @generalblade7504  Liar. There are no atheists in foxholes as the old saying goes. The only reason you talk like that is precisely because you are in no danger. Functional illiteracy: "Growing up with abusive religious parents who lock their kids in thr basement tend to due to this me." This collection of misspelled words is meaningless. I am not "assuming" illiteracy, I am observing it. Christianity is about Jesus the Christ who was born of a virgin with no earthly father that he would live a sinless life of perfect obedience to God that he might suffer the punishment due to God's elect and thus redeem the elect to live in the presence of God eternally. The focus of Christianity is not on sexual perversion or any other sins - disobedience and dishonor of God: The focus is gratitude and praise of God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Christianity is all about love, real love - not orgasms in stinking assholes - real love that transcends all carnality. I seriously doubt you would know a Christian if you met one. Your problem is that Fred and his congregation have the courage to point out that sexual perversion is especially insulting to God. Your life is dedicated to insulting God as much as possible. Your intent here is to stifle free speech, particularly to stifle the truth that all unrepentant sinners have a future eternity of being burned alive and never dying. God created them male and female, created marriage - the lifelong union of one man and one woman, and sexual relation is exclusively between husband and wife.
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  101.  @generalblade7504  Speak for yourself.
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  102.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  Actually God has written his law in everyone: All are without excuse. Romans 1:18-21 " 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."
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  103.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  lol, lol, ha ha, I didn't say there was! I said that God has written his law in your mind so that when God finally takes you out of his earth to face judgment for how you have lived your life YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR YOUR DISOBEDIENCE - your sin. That is called dying in your sins. It is the fate of all atheists, non-Christians, not elect of God, who live to mock God, people such as you. Even an idiot should be able to understand that, what is your problem?
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  104.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  The Bible is the context moron and pure observation of the physical universe which you call science. All free, so soon as you get out of your mother's basement you will see a great big world outside. As for your eventual destination, as long as you have that attitude toward God who created you and only does good, hell is your destination, no guessing about it.
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  105. Right, people are born male or female.
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  106.  @julcan1987 There is none good but God. All have fallen short of the glory of God. That said, God's elect live the golden rule, as stated in the original, Matthew 22:37-39 "Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
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  107.  @kosog6584 "Groomed" refers to sexual deviants deluding children into being fresh meat for sexual deviants instead of living their own lives. It does not refer to learning the origin of the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind and in learning the rules for living the purposeful fulfilling life they were created to live.
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  108.  @kosog6584 "Grooming" is what sexual deviants do to children to rob them of a fulfilled live and divert them into being fresh meat for the sexual deviants. Being taught that we are all God's creation with a purpose for our lives serving God is not "grooming."
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  109. What is evil and where did evil come from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ir6pKEV0RQ
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  110. "Church" means congregation which is why King James insisted on the word church to give the appearance Christianity could be institutionalized.
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  111. The answer to the sexual pervert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYRXop7aPA
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  112. Telling the truth is the most loving thing anyone can do, especially when vociferous tiny minorities want the truth hidden.
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  113. Nope, but Christians can pray God to cure you of your insanity. Keep munching your turds until then.
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  114. You will.
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  115.  @beyondreception6681  Christian
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  116.  @beyondreception6681  The definition of stupid is unable to learn. Once again: The earth, the universe, living things and Mankind are proof positive that God created everything. Learn to think - how is it possible to form elements denser than helium? Realize that DNA is the most dense memory in the universe, is in every cell, essential for cell reproduction, and had to be programmed. Knowledge of the physical universe has increased enough that people such as you are plainly ignoring it. You are a case of casting pearls before swine. Wallow in the mud.
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  117.  @beyondreception6681  You don't even know what "time" is.
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  118.  @beyondreception6681  As if you could possibly map the conditions necessary to form other elements from hydrogen. Nickel Iron - atomic numbers 28 and 26 - is the most dense element that can be formed in a star, Elements between helium and carbon are unstable in a star and cannot exist. There is no process by which elements scattered in a supernovae can coalesce by gravitational or electromagnetic attraction into a planet such as the earth. Origins of anything, elements included, are studiously avoided in government schools, at any level: Origins expose the government religion of evolution to be a hoax.
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  119.  @goose4919  Funny boy! Have you ever defied "authority"? Have you ever demanded a cop identify himself with driver's license, proof of insurance, and current registration, the litany they like to throw at everyone else? Have you ever stood up to the IRS and told them to take a flying leap and lived without a bank account? No, you are the sniveling coward, cowering before false "authority". My king (and yours whether you like it or not) is God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I don't "follow what they say" whoever you mean by that indefinite pronoun "they". What you actually mean is that you have no idea what you are saying so you rely on some unknown "they" as your authority. I start with physical evidence. I can't know everything, but I can focus on details such as atomic structure to understand the rest. Not that you are capable of understanding what he meant, but what Lord Rutherford said, "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." is true. A point I have made over and over again in these comments is that from my experience about 99% of the people who claim to be Christian have never read the Bible, do not understand the meaning of Christianity, do not tithe, are committed to nothing, and are not Christian. The definition of Christian is elect of God. By their fruit, the degree to which they obey God, you can know them.
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  120.  @goose4919  I have no problem recognizing delegated authority. In the land of the free and the home of the brave there is supposed to be a rule of law. Encoded statute, bare edict, and the spleen of a functionally illiterate cop do not rise to the level of law. You are really dense if you still think that I would "blindly follow" anyone. I leave that entirely to you. Who is Fred? To the extent he accurately repeats what God has said, he speaks with the authority of God. I would also go to him for legal advice since he is a lawyer and has successfully defended in civil rights cases. You do not read the Bible. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you is not God's golden rule. God's "golden rule" is to love the Lord your God with all your heart mind and soul and to love your neighbor as yourself. The definition of neighbor was the Good Samaritan who ministered to his fellow man with no thought of recompense. You talk to me about works? Your fake religion is based on meritorious works. In your doctrine, Jesus' propitiatory sacrifice of himself was not sufficient for the salvation of God's elect, purgatory must be invented! It was just an accidental benefit that the doctrine of purgatory increased cash flow into the Vatican. Liberation theology? You mean socialist, a system where that collection of people who call themselves government plan how they can force productive people to support them in luxury. Your game is to rob anyone who has anything under the banner of the greater good. However, the only system that brings prosperity to everyone - rich or poor - is the free market. I mean free market - no government interference, everything anyone wants to exchange is for sale and is driven by the buyer, not the seller. If the buyer doesn't buy, the seller is stuck until he finds a buyer with whom he can agree. No coercion, no regulation, no taxes is the definition of free market.
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  121. ​ @supervillain4611 ​ Actually you have no choice in the matter. Salvation is by the grace of God which means God chooses whom He will to spare his eternal wrath. That's why Christians are grateful for salvation - there is absolutely nothing any of us can do to merit salvation from the consequences of our sin (sin is disobedience and dishonor of God, such as intentionally not capitalizing his name which is a proper noun.) I know of no one who is forced into Christianity. I know many who have left the church and all that means is that they were never elect in the first place. A Christian cannot stop being a Christian.
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  122.  @eclectic2327  No, the fact of the matter is that you don't want to acknowledge the fact you are created. All that means is that you want to believe the universe could create itself and that some "primordial soup" could arrange itself into the most complex structure in the universe, become alive, and form fantastically more complex systems that are the bodies of animals and mankind. That takes a special kind of stupid mixed with colossal ignorance. You are stuck in the blind-faith religion of evolution and too lazy to ever discover the physical evidence of creation. But all you pretenses are gone when you die. What is also gone is any possibility of changing your eternity.
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  123.  @eclectic2327  I didn't write "rare": I wrote impossible, as in that cannot be. God is not some "man in the clouds". God spoke the earth, the universe, living things and mankind into being without exertion or effort. Now you go off and make some matter and then make that matter come to life if you really believe what you write. Billions of dollars in private money and tax money have been expended in a quest to prove anything can exist apart from God. The entire mission to Mars is rooted in the hope that where scientists with unlimited funds have failed to create life using existing matter, they might find it on Mars. What really mystifies me, however, is why anyone would want a purposeless existence, why anyone would think being Carl Sagan's "star stuff" is satisfactory, with no ethics, no good and evil, love merely a biological chemical reaction, no afterlife, etc. There is a purpose for my life and it is outside of me. Ditto for you, too bad you refuse to admit it. Oh, best wishes for your homemade biological cell. All the elements you need are available, you merely have to put them together and make them come to life. Notice how the written word persists over millennia? God knows very well how to communicate with mankind, whom He made in his image and likeness.
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  124.  @cheemster2619  Because that is how you have been conditioned to think.
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  125.  @x2l149  Idiot, I didn't create the universe and rules for mankind - your quarrel is with God who decides what is good and what is evil. I cannot stop any sexual pervert from his disobedience of God, but the consequences of that disobedience are eternal punishment. Only Jesus can redeem mankind of sin. Barking at me and ignoring your personal responsibility to obey God will do nothing for you.
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  126.  @x2l149  Do you even have a brain? "Pinning the blame on God"? I don't know how stupid people can be, but you are setting a record. Who do you think made the rules the sexual perverts and atheists and evolutionists object to? I would say kiss my ass but that would be impolite and you wouldn't stop.
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  127. @Unnecessary As if that will help you. It's very simple, don't read my comments. That will not change the reality that you have an inevitable face to face meeting with Jesus and you get to explain why you shouldn't be punished for you cosmic treason against God.
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  128. @Unnecessary Do you even know what treason means? R.C.Sproul coined the term as far as I know and it means sin which is disobedience or dishonor of God. I know you are guilty because all men are guilty of sin. The difference is between those who relish sin and those who regret it.
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  129. ​@Unnecessary The covenant law of God still applies minus the sacrificial, ceremonial, and bloodline laws which were abrogated by the birth of Jesus - Jesus fulfilled all the requirements of those laws. The dietary laws were lifted in the vision to Peter while he was staying with Simon the tanner. In that vision, Peter was informed that the church is open to gentiles and that pork, lobster, catfish, snails, etc., are now on the menu. Acts 10, 11
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  130. @Unnecessary God created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind - the cosmos - and told Adam the rules by which mankind could prosper. These were later given to Moses. Mankind has degenerated so far that we have lost the perfect memory the ante-diluvian people had. Law had to be written so we can continually refer to it.
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  131. I feel sorry for the children who are not allowed to hear the ultimate truth - that there is salvation from sin through Jesus the Christ, Redeemer, who saved them from eternal hell.
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  132.  @keegyweegy7803  What did God say about that? See how you can read for yourself? Assuming you can read. Perhaps you struggle with Old English, so read the ESV. Genesis 1 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.*n15 29 ¶And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis 2 " 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 18 ¶And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
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  133.  @hneedham5116  If you meant to type "raising", then I agree. It is a good thing the WBC teaches God's love and forgiveness of sin to those who repent of their disobedience and dishonor of God. If only the sexually perverted were not so hateful and vicious when their sins before God are exposed the world would be much better.
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  134. @Unnecessary Like what? Like being taught the law is summarized by love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love our neighbor as ourself?
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  135. @Unnecessary How do you define love?
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  136. @Unnecessary You are saying absolutely nothing until you define what you mean by "the Irony". If you neighbor is "lgbtq? Or atheist?" love is expressed by telling them the truth. Truth is that which exists, it is absolute, and it begins with what God says and God says eternal hell is prepared for the unrepentant sinner which is what the WBC is saying with large high visibility signs. You keep trying to put the blame on the Westboro Baptist Congregation when your complaint is with God. You and your crowd are merely attempting to kill the messenger and obfuscate plain facts.
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  137. @Unnecessary Been there a hundred times in these comments. But you never study independently, you are only pretending you have some valid objection. Please do explain the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind. Oh no, you would have to study physics, and biology and social patterns! Much easier to post functionally illiterate comments. There is a word for people who say God is not: Fool.
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  138.  @hneedham5116  Obviously you have not read the 99.9% of the comments against the WBC which are hateful. If you read my comments you would discover that I advocate everyone read the whole Bible, as I do, at least every year. I do not cite verses out of context specifically to avoid establishing a false pretext. You on the other hand do not like what God has said to mankind and will cling to any pretext to avoid admitting that you are a sinner accountable to God for every thought and action in the life He has given you.
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  139.  @hneedham5116  You are not only confused, you are completely ignorant of "science". Sexual perversion is not "natural" - it's just what demon-possessed people want to force other people to believe.
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  140.  @eva8011  Holding up signs? Like at a "Gay Parade"? The WBC merely repeats what God has already said. As if you have any idea "what this church does" or even know the meaning of "church" or "Baptist".
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  141.  @juliegershenson7548  Who is being rude? If someone is facing eternal punishment it cannot possibly be "rude" to tell them about it! It is impolite to speak of a physical handicap because the victim can do nothing about it, but sexual perversion is a choice, not a physical disability. Sexual perverts need to be constantly reminded of that fact that they choose their adult misery even though they were molested and abused as children.
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  142. @brendon urie You are a bad joke, as if I would heed such an obvious functionally illiterate idiot such as you.
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  143.  @goose4919  According to God, God's covenant law is in effect forever. Matthew 5:17-20 "Matt 5:17 "¶Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Matt 5:18 "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt 5:19 "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matt 5:20 "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." All has not yet been fulfilled. Mankind is still bound to follow God's covenant law, which is in Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the New Testament.
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  144.  @goose4919  Joke! The atheist attempts to school the Christian about Christian doctrine. Get thee behind me Satan, your only intent is to deny God who made you.
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  145.  @goose4919  I said YOU are the atheist attempting to school me in Christian doctrine. I know very well that John Calvin is a Christian. I also know very well that Roman Catholicism is anti-Christian with their doctrine of meritorious works and their superstitions. Once again, God, not me, not the WBC, not any man, condemns sexual perverts to hell which is enduring God's wrath eternally, something like being confined in molten steel for eternity. You will eventually discover that God means what He says.
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  146.  @goose4919  God's covenant law is binding on all men for all time, no exceptions. God has also specified the consequences for disobedience and all your equivocations do not excuse you for breaking God's law. The penalty remains.
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  147.  @goose4919  Nope, as I already quoted Jesus - very God and very man - for you, Jesus said God's law is forever binding on mankind. As I also point out to you, Jesus' advent abrogated the ceremonial, bloodline, and sacrificial laws and later the dietary laws. The rest of God's covenant law stands. Since you atheists don't know Christian doctrine, when Jesus rules on something, it is because there is complete agreement on the something among the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Also, everything Jesus said trumps all mere mortals. I see you struggle with that concept, too bad, that is what God said and therefore that is Christian doctrine.
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  148.  @cheemster2619  That word is "rational". My interesting view is Christianity. The fact of the matter is that I have been lied to most of my life, believing the lies from such "authorities" as school teachers, university professors, "government experts", et al., ruined many of my years over what I could have done with my life. So it is that now my passion is to go after liars and deceivers as vociferously as they have treated their betters. I care because possibly someone who was in my situation may read these comments and stop believing the lie of relativism. No, I am nor concerned that sexual perverts will become such a majority that they will cause population implosion. I do not for a moment believe that I can change the character of a sexual pervert. What I can do is point out that sexual perversion is an especially odious affront to God who created them male and female. God, not me, does the judging, but I know He does and point that out. As far as the Sars COV 2 (Covid -19) "mediademic" is concerned, whenever the MSM brays in unison so loudly and so long, there is a hidden agenda. Too many actual medical doctors who have exposed the hoax have been shut down. To me, this suppression of free speech is one more indication that the doctors have integrity and are well informed. There are some 10 to the 17th power different bacteria in our bodies, a lot of them beneficial. There are some 10 to the 120th power viruses in our bodies, most of them detrimental. The Sars COV 2 (Covid -19) is a mildly infectious mildly fatal virus. For those with especially weak immune systems, who have a few months left at best, it is fatal. There are the usual exceptions. But, realize some 650,000 people in the US alone, not the world, die of heart disease. Where is the media outcry? Where is the demand that the scum who call themselves "government" immediately produce a cure? That is why Covod-19 is obviously a mediademic and a smokescreen for something the "powers that be" don't want we the people to know. In this case I believe the hidden agenda is bank bailouts in the range of $23 trillion, the sole purpose of which is to bailout, which means reward, the "bankers" for their deliberately "toxic" loans and investments. As usual, the burden will be shifted to the poorest people. Until we the people stop believing that pieces of paper and numbers in a bank account can be money, the official government counterfeiters will continue to rip us off. So, when I get a minute from working or have to look up a part on the computer and see that someone has replied to me, I answer, as in your case. Until the Alphabet demons take time to censor these comments, the may be a guiding light to the sincere inquirer.
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  149.  @cheemster2619  Your existence does NOT disprove my rationality. No hate here, I cringe at the thought of their eternity.
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  150.  @beyondreception6681  The key words are "... anything I said." You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, so I read to see what gross errors you are trying to argue and then dismiss your inanities and move on.
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  151. ​ @goose4919  Matthew 22: 35-40 "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." There is no possibility whatever of a free market in a socialist system. The free market means (1) private property and (2) no government interference. Socialism is the "state" ownership of property or the means of production or the utilities or anything that someone else built that can be stolen. The ultimate and inevitable end of "socialism" is a totalitarian government claiming ownership of all the people as well as in Eric Arthur Blair's novel 1984.
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  152. I shook off all my secular humanist government school conditioning. Too bad you can't.
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  153.  @匕卄モ匕卄丹れKち  And you are just a witless parrot in an echo chamber. About 99% of the comments about the WBC are hateful and are posted by such as yourself.
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  154.  @theartisthasarrived  Who obviously are stealing the oil and gas and minerals from foreign people who have done absolutely nothing to Americans. I did my time and figured out it was all just one big racket to make the rich more rich and more powerful, just as the present mediademic is a planned smokescreen to cover even more trillions handed to "bankers" of "too-big-to-fail" financial institutions and is on track to make trillions from forced vaccinations.
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  155.  @jonkragenkjvscripturesonly5060  Jesus did not die for everyone. But, even in your misinformed system where Jesus did "die for everyone" your sexual perverts would have to "choose Jesus" to be saved from eternal hell. I don't see that happening judging from the comments here. It seems sexual perverts are committed to their deviant pursuit of orgasms, drugs, and trying to force everyone else to be as miserable as they are.
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  156.  @goose4919  YOU go back through 180-some comments and find where I wrote it since you did not pay attention the first time. Your attempts to give me orders are beyond ridiculous, go straight to hell is my answer every time, as if I would pay you the slightest heed. Once more, sexual perverts, those who deny God's creation of male and female and God's institution of marriage as the lifelong sexually exclusive union of one man and one woman are sexual perverts. Such live to offend God. Go for it, but there's hell to pay.
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  157.  @beyondreception6681  Assumption is still a logical fallacy. I do "think for myself", too bad you cannot escape your hive mentality and irrational worldview. The chaos in your mind is not intelligence.
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  158.  @beyondreception6681  Because I looked for answers to my questions and refuse to accept more of the same secular humanism I got in the government schools and university. You will most likely never have an original thought. There are some 2,000 years of history since Jesus' advent. Serious people have been investigating ultimate questions before and after. Read and learn and do not exclude scientific research.
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  159.  @beyondreception6681  Your problem, perhaps you should learn to read someday because I write in plain intelligible English.
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  160. ​ @匕卄モ匕卄丹れKち  You are just another witless parrot repeating what you have heard. You have no knowledge of Christianity. Rather it is you who are so "brainwashed" you do not realize that 99% of the comments here are hate directed at the congregation of the WBC for carrying signs that tell people what God has already said. God has already said that sexual perversion is a particularly abominable offense. God also said not to murder which is exactly what the US military has been used for since 1814.
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  161.  @apersonwholikescats1979  Your labels mean nothing. I don't play with shit either, but that doesn't mean I'm afraid of it. I work for a living and only sit at the computer when I take a break. Just because I didn't see your comment until now does not mean a lightweight halfwit such as you "silenced" me. Rest assured any "orders" from you idiots who think gender is optional are summarily ignored as the braying of asses. If I spend no more time with you, also rest assured it is because no new ground would be covered by replying to you.
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  162.  @jamieh186  Right on, hate is pouring out against the Bible believing WBC congregation.
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  163.  @s.a.l.1974  Good idea. The Christian way is to train up a child in the way he should go, i.e., discern the child's talents and guide the child to develop them. Children are to be raised from total dependence to independence, able to fend for themselves against all the wiles of the devil, particularly against child predators inside and outside the family.
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  164.  @junkoenoshima429  I have, there is no such thing. ... it is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment.
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  165.  @Nolant.  Does your asshole exist? God made it for you
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  166.  @beyondreception6681  To you the religion of evolution - the magic of "time" creating everything from nothing - makes sense. Your god is time, your high priests are the secular humanists out to destroy civilization. I challenge your demonic bent and I'll stick with reality over magic. Assumption is still a logical fallacy and you are assuming, pretending really, that voicing your unfounded opinion makes it fact. However, that gambit doesn't work on me. Christianity is all about peace and love, completely foreign concepts to sexual perverts and other secular humanists whose only defense is to shout down those who speak the truth.
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  167.  @beyondreception6681  You roll back through 200 some odd comments and find out for yourself. However, I think the noise in your head is getting to you. I wrote nothing about not understanding you.
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  168.  @beyondreception6681  Because I looked for the answers to my questions outside the atheist bubble I was in. Because I was willing to study outside the atheist echo chamber and discover for myself what other people argued. I was willing to accept logic and physical data that refuted my previous secular humanist relativistic worldview. You don't. You merely want confirmation of what you have not even established. You will never know as much about reality as I do until you escape your secular humanist indoctrination.
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  169.  @beyondreception6681  What a joke! As if a lightweight atheist can even begin to comprehend the mind of God! Funny boy! Well, please do ask Jesus if He is disappointed in me when you meet him face to face and He denies ever knowing you. You will also discover what Jesus meant by "weeping and gnashing of teeth" and "outer darkness" mean.
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  170.  @匕卄モ匕卄丹れKち  Passing on hate and arrogance is the province of secular humanists. Mass ignorance, delusion, confusion, purposeless existence, and hopelessness are your province. Blunder along in confusion until you meet your sovereign Creator face to face and Jesus, your only hope, denies ever knowing you. Meanwhile, Christians pass on the love of God and eternal life in the presence of God for repentant sinners.
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  171.  @beyondreception6681  You were where (again)? If your refer to your insane claim that you are thousands of years old, you aren't no matter how vivid your delusion. You are mortal and the end of your earthly existence and self-delusion draws nearer every day. After the flood of Noah's day, the average lifespan of mankind was reduced to 80 years. Abraham made it to about 140 and Jacob to about 120 and there are other exceptions but the one thing all men have in common is death. In the end, Jesus judges the quick and the dead.
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  172.  @匕卄モ匕卄丹れKち  I think you farted.
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  173.  @hvctate  I think your brain is so dead you are beyond shock treatment. No, I am not a member of Westboro, too far away and too hick for me.
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  174.  @beyondreception6681  They weren't harassing anyone. Holding up a sign is not brazenly getting into someone's face the way queers do or threatening to deck a woman or someone weaker the way patridiots do.
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  175.  @itsmikeloll lol yes lol lol lol ad infinitum lol.
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  176.  @Johnsmith-hp6tw  There aren't "millions of" "beliefs of atheism" and you don't live long enough to process a million of anything. By definition an atheist denies the existence of God. Either you are an atheist or you are some other animal, but atheism is a very simple dichotomy: either you deny the existence of God or you are not an atheist.
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  177.  @DavidJones-ye2if  Telling the truth is the most loving thing a preacher can do.
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  178.  @tate392  Floyd committed suicide by drug. The idiot swallowed his own fentanyl stash and couldn't breath. He died on the way to the hospital where he was pronounced dead from his drug overdose, facts which were conveniently covered up.
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  179.  @amygriffith8224  And they are completely harmless! You are a wimp.
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  180.  @CaJoel  Conservatives? If they have a quarrel with the WBC, what are they attempting to conserve?
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  181.  @blockwarrior0088  You better learn what it means to be Christian because if you think Fred Phelps was "preaching hate" you do not know the gospel. Telling the truth is an act of love.
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  182.  @98dodgediesel5  You are lukewarm and likely to be spewed out if you attack the WBC. They preach it as it is and you are too cowardly to confront the monstrous evil of all this government sanctioned sexual perversion.
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  183.  @alexanderbarrientos8800  There is no such thing as "same sex marriage." Marriage means the lifelong union of a man and an woman in an exclusive sexual relationship. No one can change their sex either, we are born male or female and that can only be mutilated, not changed.
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  184.  @chicks4503  No one can work their way to heaven, so your "great reward" is a myth. God elects whom he will spare from eternal punishment and sends the Holy Ghost to regenerate them. The regenerate person then realizes he is guilty of offending God by his disobedience - which is sin - realizes he has been saved strictly by unmerited grace from the worst possible eternity, and then lives to glorify God. Guilt, grace, gratitude. Love the Lord you God with all your heart, mind, and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
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  185.  @bigoltits1880  Foreign invasions and the deaths of millions of innocent civilians at the hands of the US military are unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and should be protested, not celebrated in some bizarre secular "US government" ceremony. There is nothing whatever holy about the US military and they have not "defended our freedoms" since the War of 1812 and even then is was a volunteer collection of coon hunters and Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans who won that war against Wellington's troops, the very ones who defeated Napoleon. Civilians at New Orleans and civilians on the Great Lakes won the war while the "US Army" was defeated and Washington DC burned to the ground.
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  186.  @chicks4503  Hey Chickenshit, there are 334 replies on this thread, proof of what?
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  187.  @thervpshow9095  Who cuts grass for a living and how is that relevant to this discussion of the Westboro Baptist Church and their repetition of what God says?
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  188.  @chicks4503 God created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days for his own good pleasure. Now you get off your ass and study epistemology and microbiology and astrophysics so you can realize that fact.
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  189. I feel sorry for you on your way to eternal hell.
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  190. What is a chirch? You can't even spell the word let alone sit in judgement.
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  191. @alexandra galici You are so ignorant it hurts to read your ridiculous comment. Not allowed to leave? The WBC is not a reincarnation of the USSR. Pastor Phelps' own daughter (and husband or live in partner, whatever he is) "got up and left". Both of them were raised in that church of which you say "they" were "not allowed to leave". The WBC is not a cult, that congregation are all saints as the Bible, not Roman Catholic heresy, defines a saint who worship and serve Jesus the Christ. Christians are characterized by (1) love for the congregation and (2) tithing 10% of whatever they get to keep of their earnings. Christianity has nothing whatever in common with any other religion, it is the only religion that teaches salvation by grace alone through faith alone and not of works of any kind. The papists are NOT Christian, their doctrine denies the efficacy of Jesus' sacrifice and teaches that works are also required for salvation - the Catholics invented purgatory to sell their heresy. Actual cults are Mormonism "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", Jehovah's Witless, Scientology, ad nauseum.
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  192.  @Finni-boy  I did go to the WBC website - godhatesfags.com - and spent way more than five minutes looking and have yet to find an example. There is no doctrinal statement that I know of and it would take forever to go through all the sermons posted there. Since you know what you found, please show me. Thanks.
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  193.  @mlpprincessfan  As if you would know the difference. You don't even know when to use "less" and "fewer".
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  194. Learn to spell. I bet you do not even know the difference between a cult and a Christian congregation.
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  195. A church is by definition a congregation of believers..
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  196.  @haper3651  For those not functionally illiterate and terminally stupid, "God" and "Bible" are proper nouns and always capitalized. Jesus in no way intimated that sinners are to remain in their sin. Rather Jesus - God incarnate - said to repent of sin and follow him. repentance means that the sinner (1) recognizes his offense to God and (2) turns from that offense forever. Christians are not to simply tolerate sin - disobedience, dishonor, and disrespect of God - is the congregation and are not to remain silent about observed sin in society.
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  197.  @freememesfordaysdudes5901  As if you knew the difference.
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  198.  @balazsharkai5118  No pride here, just another sinner saved by grace. Your written testament to your ignorance of English is like a flare at night. I actually speak and write English so without effort I note your grammar and spelling errors.
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  199. Right, you of so great knowledge that you can't even spell simple words, those people are a church, not a chirch.
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  200. Every Christian has a duty to tell people what God decreed. The universe and living things and mankind are sufficient proof that heaven and hell exist. No one is forcing anyone to read the signs the WBC holds up or listen to what they say. On the other hand sexual perverts use the power of government guns to establish "hate speech", corrupt the meaning of marriage in the court system, force family health insurers to give low family health insurance rates to extremely unhealthy and expensive to treat sexual perverts, etc.
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  201.  @beautyandbrains1695  Church and congregation mean the same thing. King James ordered the translators of the 1611 KJV to use the word "church" which sounds more institutional than "congregation". James wanted to perpetuate the notion of the divine right of kings and pretend that he had ecclesiastical authority over Christians.
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  202.  @beautyandbrains1695  I quote: "No. It is not a church." However the fact is that there is a congregation - church - that is the Westboro Baptist Church.
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  203.  @beautyandbrains1695  I quote: "No. It is not a church." However the fact is that there is a congregation - church - that is the Westboro Baptist Church.
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  204.  @beautyandbrains1695  My original comment: "The Westboro Baptist Church is a congregation loudly proclaiming the Word of God to sinners who do not want to hear it." Your original reply: Beauty And Brains 2 days ago - "No. It is not a church." I wrote: "However the fact is that there is a congregation - church - that is the Westboro Baptist Church." You now write: "I was using the term Church as a synonym and I was agreeing with the original comment" Nothing you wrote before suggests in any way that you agree with my original comment. You may very well, but up to your last reply, you wrote otherwise.
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  205.  @beautyandbrains1695  There is no "other person". We are the only two in this thread. You have lost touch with reality.
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  206. @The Ledge And I can assure you his eternity is in hell - suffering the wrath of God. There's nothing funny about it and he was not a "genius". He made his money by doing his best to destroy what was left of the Christian culture in these united States.
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  207. @An Ordinator Didn't say he wasn't. I said Bowie was not a genius, he was merely acting out his atheism, ridiculing all that was good and decent because it wasn't perfect. Bowie did his best to destroy what was left of the Christian culture in these united States. Britain was already gone, exposed as having no moral fiber left thanks to being taken over by the Rothschilds and then Rhodes and twice attempting to destroy the German people.
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  208. Yes, like the creatures who call themselves government and the demons who decide what they want people to believe and present that as "news".
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  209. So I take it they captured your mind? What does Scripture say about sexual perversion, man lying with man as with a woman and woman seeking sexual satisfaction from other women? I think you have not read the Bible.
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  210. You should read the Holy Bible someday and see how far they deviated from what God actually said in his word to his creature mankind.
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  211. God, not Fred Phelps, says homosexuality is not only "wrong" but an abomination. God is the judge, not Fred Phelps, and the only "appropriate therapy" is Nouthetic - Christian - counseling. Freud and all his successors are frauds, denying sin, denying God, inventing dozens of "mental disorders" that can never be proven yet get state licensed and $200 per hour rates. As for the Army, Phelps was probably preaching to soldiers who di not want to hear him and maybe they gave him a blanket party. There is nothing whatever sexual about a blanket party, it means he was attacked while sleeping and his blanket held over his face so he could not see who was hitting him. It is very seldom that a soldier or sailor angers his fellows so much they give him a blanket party, but it is an effective form of non-judicial punishment. In all my time I only heard of one blanket party and the victim certainly was a third class prick who deserved every punch he got. I doubt that is what happened to Phelps.
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  212. The fool has said in his heart "There is no God."
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  213. God created hell for you and the demons to show how much he loves disobedient creatures.
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  214. Do you notice how comments from a year ago stay at the top of the list? Not so subtle censorship.
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  215. The entire point of the Bible is that Jesus is the promised Messiah who has fulfilled all prophecy about himself and rules heaven and earth at this very moment.
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  216.  @JSerrato289  God created hell for Satan and the angels who followed Satan in rebellion against God and for unrepentant sinners - those who disobey and dishonor God. I, whom you want to label a hypocrite, merely point out this fact. So does the WBC. You are a fool to pretend your quarrel is with men. If the WBC vanished today, as an unrepentant sinner you still face eternal hell. The only hope you have is for a Christian to pray to God to elect you to salvation because your sole motivation is to attack God, your only hope.
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  217. God hates sinners. Every Christian church has the duty to "preach" what God has decreed. Sinners do not like to hear what God decrees. In fact unrepentant sinners hate hearing that they will have to account to God directly for how they have lived their mortal lives in the time God gave them.
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  218.  @JSerrato289  Neither the Apostle John nor the Apostle Matthew ever "affirmed" the perversion of marriage. Marriage - the lifelong union of one man with one woman - is the only legitimate setting for sexual relations. Both Matthew and John and all other Christians proclaim that all are to obey God's law, that obedience, not sacrifice or works, please God. Christians want to please God out of gratitude for salvation. Unrepentant sinners don't, and cannot bring themselves to ask God for mercy - they are too busy hating God.
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  219.  @eric79boz  You remarkably so.
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  220.  @JSerrato289  There is no such thing as a "mortal sin", that is a Roman Catholic invention, not Christian doctrine. "Sin" is disobedience and dishonor of God. EVERY sin is a "mortal sin" - worthy of eternal punishment as witness the penalty when Adam disobeyed God: There was no call for it - Adam had every material need met and he had the perfect wife and the same is true for the rest of us, sinners all. In mercy God promised Eve a Redeemer. Eve was hoping sooner than later, but God is sovereign, Creator of all. What heresy on my part?
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  221.  @beyondreception6681  Tell God all about it when you have completed what God created you to do and God pulls you out of this mortal life for your face to face meeting. You are guilty of disobeying and dishonoring God. Unless Jesus is your advocate, you suffer the burning wrath of God for eternity.
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  222.  @johnmcglasson5444  I believe it is right for all Christian churches to repeat what God has said and God said that sexual perversion is such a particularly egregious sin that God calls it an abomination. It is God who created the universe and you that said so, not Fred Phelps or the WBC. I most emphatically am a "fan of freedom". However, regarding God's Law, "Disobedience begins with the illusion that God's covenant law is a restraint upon a people's freedom rather than the ground of it." I don't make the rules, but to the extent I can, I promote a free market which entails freedom of speech. Jesus - very God and very man - spoke with divine authority and said all the law is summed in this to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and to love your neighbor as yourself. The most loving thing you can do for someone is to tell the truth, particularly when their actions offend God who alone decides their eternal destiny. Jesus also said to hate evil. Hell is for evil doers. Your problem is you keep thinking it is people talking when it is God talking through his people. God is the one who laid down the law that the WBC points out with easily readable signs. However, that does not give anyone a right to fart in my face. Your rights end where mine begin.
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  223.  @goose4919  Because God said so. Leviticus 18:22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." Leviticus 20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." God's law given in the Old Testament still stands: Jesus, very God and very man, said "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matthew 5:18 As for your pathetic attempt to quote Jesus, here's how it actually goes: "But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matthew 22:35-40 Jesus, very God and very man, most emphatically did not equate "love" to sticking your dick in some sexual deviant's mouth or asshole. Love means to respect and obey God and to want to do the works God has appointed in the Great Commission, Matthew 28:18-20. Logic is also helpful - in the beginning God created them male and female. If you had a brain you might notice there are significant differences between men and women and that men and women automatically are sexually compatible. Jesus did not say anything about parking tickets either. Whom God elects escape eternal hell which is the wrath of God. I had nothing to do with it and neither do you. The only good that can happen for you is for someone to pray to God to save you from the consequences of your sins.
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  224.  @JSerrato289  God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - creator of the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind, "favors" obedience to his law. Matthew 28:16-20 "Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Christians are to institute the Kingdom of God. That means everyone acknowledges God is sovereign and God's law applies to all situations. Jesus advent abrogated the bloodline and sacrificial elements of the law, and the vision to Peter abrogated the dietary constraints of the law, and Jesus resurrection ended and Jewish claim to special status through the line of Abraham. The destruction of national apostate Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple in A.D. 70 ended the Jews role as custodian of God' law. The Jews had become the barren fig tree for the last time. I John 3:23-24 "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." People who obey God are called Christians, their salvation wrought in Jesus the Christ, very God and very man, second person of the Godhead, the way, the truth, and the life. Faith in Jesus is the only way to heaven. Ephesians 2:8-10 God determines who is Christian, that is not a matter of choice. James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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  225.  @JSerrato289  I have plenty of work to do and grandchildren to play with. What makes you think I spend much time writing comments? The comments are here for that 0.01% of readers who may actually want to know the truth. Your purpose is to show the world how shallow your opinions are. The term "useful idiot" comes to mind.
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  226.  @beyondreception6681  Ha ha, another idiot pretending to be a theologian. God is in charge of his creation and God is working out his will and God's kingdom is being established on earth even as you are serving the purpose for which you were created. You better use the life God has given you to glorify God.
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  227.  @beyondreception6681  I could not care less what Stalin said. My interest is in the physical universe, the cold hard facts. Notice that Stalin and his henchmen lived in vain. The New Communist Man myth has completely evaporated, the zionist sexual deviants are not being allowed to run the country and the Russian people by and large are returning to Christianity.
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  228.  @beyondreception6681  I do not regard the idiot and the insane.
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  229.  @goose4919  The definition of "anti-semitic" is whatever anyone wants to call anti-semitic. Since you add stupidity to your ignorance, Judaism is not some primitive form of Christianity. John called the Pharisees a brood of vipers because they contradicted the law of God while piously pretending to uphold it. Jesus did not call the Pharisees children of the devil as a joke, it is because they are. The Talmud is their book, empty, bizarre dialectical contradictions to the point that even when they proclaim the Torah, they mean the Talmud. The brood of vipers has taken on a secular coating and established itself in Palestine through blood and violence, just like the Muslims did in past centuries. Behind all the misery and destruction and violence and death in the Mideast is Zionist control of the US deep state and military. The Zionist has no use for God: As did Chairman Mao, they believe power comes from the barrel of a gun. Anti-semitic? What does it mean? It means those saying it have no grounds for what they want to believe, they cannot defend their actions and words, and must therefore silence truth and abandon logic. That describes you too.
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  230.  @goose4919  Assumption is a logical fallacy and you are assuming again. I want to know only facts. I never said that Eric Arthur Blair was not a discerning man. Solzhenitsyn pointed out that "socialism" in all its incarnations finally metastasizes into totalitarianism. Neither Lenin nor Stalin could possibly have pulled off the slaughters of 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 without an army of willing murderers, most of Jewish descent. Shocking isn't it? You have been conditioned against any mention of the word "Jew", yet it was the Jews who persecuted the early church until God finally destroyed national Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple (forever) in A.D. 70. The same murderous attitude against Christianity prevails in the Jewish culture today, most emphatically in the Zionist faction. Ariel Sharon was an outspoken example. Not that you are capable of hearing truth, but here are some gems: https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/ https://www.unz.com/ishamir/what-really-happened-in-the-yom-kippur-war/?highlight="What+really+happened"
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  231.  @goose4919  God did not take the crucifixion of his son lightly, which the Jews did even though they had been warned for a thousand years against apostasy and idolatry. National Israel, the custodian of the Abrahamic covenant and the Old Testament and the temple, are gone forever. What exists today is a satanic invention with no reverence for God. Israel is a cancer in the world, sowing death and destruction. It's as I said, God hates sexual deviants, fornication, lying, murder, etc., and God, not me, prepared the lake of fire for the devil and his angels and unrepentant sinners, such as you. Meanwhile, you are the perfect recipient for fake news. Enjoy your atheist echo chamber.
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  232.  @3irdcity902  Are you nuts? I never even hinted at such a ridiculous notion. God created hell - eternal punishment, the wrath of God forever - for the Satan, the devil, and his angels. Satan is not in charge of hell, God maintains it. Satan and the fallen angels with him will merely be cast into it, the lake of fire, on judgment day along with all un-elect unrepentant sinners of all time.
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  233. And neither does the WBC. You idiots keep sidestepping the issue that your quarrel is with God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - not mere mortals holding up signs that repeat what God has said.
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  234.  @mossypotato9899  Whatever your "dood" is. There is a definition of hate and hate is what the sexual perverts are pouring onto the WBC all through these comments and in real life. The WBC points out rather graphically that God, not mere man, punishes sexual perverts eternally along with all unrepentant sinners. Sexual perverts don't like to be reminded. Rather than free speech and freedom of expression, sexual perverts and liberals of all stripes want to restrict all speech to support their various perversions.
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  235.  @antrix1994  The intent of "public education" was and is always to eliminate the Christian influence in society and completely replace it with secular humanism. Secular humanist indoctrination, not education as in open-minded consideration of all points of view, is the object of government schools, the established religion of the united States.
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  236.  @antrix1994  Of course I do, I just don't let secular humanist political correctness get in the way of telling the truth. Just because you don't like to hear what God ordered doesn't mean that God or I do not forgive: It just means you can't handle the truth that you have an eternal destiny after this life and no joke eternal torment for all who do not acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Savior.
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  237.  @antrix1994  I read the Holy Bible and I keep up with scientific research. I forgive you for being a complete idiot.
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  238.  @antrix1994  As if you have a clue. There is Christianity and there are a lot of false teachers - anti-Christs - which is no secret at all to Christians. The Bible tells us so. That is why Christians adhere to the Holy Scriptures as authoritative for faith and practice and not to man's inventions, such as purgatory, limbo, Kolob, mind-over-matter, etc. There is no confusion in Christian doctrine. It is clearly summarized in the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, The Belgic Confession of Faith, the Canons of Dortrech, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Confession of Faith, etc. Those are faithful summaries of what God has spoken to mankind and what God expects mankind to know and obey.
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  239.  @aspectacle5589  Amazing. I read that God hated Esau before Esau was even born. Interesting you should believe sin can somehow be separate from the sinner. Since you probably do not know, sin is disobedience and dishonor of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For you information, I read literal translations of the Holy Bible such as the 1599 Geneva, the 1611 KJV, the NAS, the NASB, the NKJV, and the ESV. in which Jesus, very God and very man, refers to eternal hell fifteen times. How can the sinner be separate from his sin? How can sin be punished apart from the sinner? Repentance is the only escape from punishment. That door is narrow but always open ... .
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  240.  @aspectacle5589  Then you better read it! No hatred here!
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  241.  @aspectacle5589  The delusion is on your side. Try reading the entire Bible.
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  242.  @aspectacle5589  The only reason I bother to reply is that someone with a brain might read these comments. Assumption is a logical fallacy. God is logical and his orderly universe is proof of that fact. Therefore if you are going to pretend to be Christian please be logical. 1. I am not hateful. Read what Jesus-very God and very man-said to the Pharisees and other religious fakes if you don't think so. God does not flatter his creature Satan or Satan's spiritual children. 2. Hell is the eternal estate of unrepentant sinners. To tell a queer that he can get away with thumbing his nose at God by sucking another queer's dick or sodomizing him is not Christian. To tell lesbians that they can play with each other instead of marrying a man for sexual gratification is not Christian. Repentance means total rejection of such a dishonoring, sordid, pointless "lifestyle". God said to be fruitful and that means the other purpose of love and marriage is to have children.
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  243.  @aspectacle5589  The WBC merely repeat what God said in God's word the Holy Bible. Sin - the act of disobeying God's law and dishonoring God by pretending that marriage can be other than between one man and one woman for life with exclusive sexual relation, cannot be separated from the sinner and punished. It is the sinner, not the act committed by the sinner, who is punished. God hates unrepentant sinners enough to subject them to his burning wrath eternally. On the other hand, real hatred of the faithful Christians of the WBC is what I see right here in these comments.
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  244.  @aspectacle5589  And you continue to assume that I haven't. I have read the Holy Bible, literal translations as I have pointed out - the 1611 KJV, the 1599 Geneva, the NAS, the NASB, the ESV, etc., cover to cover for the last 25 years. In case you miss the point, Jude is one of the 27 books of the New Testament which is part of the Holy Bible which I read every day. I have read the single chapter of the General Epistle of Saint Jude to the Christian congregation every year and more often than that as part of any additional study. Have you bothered to read the rest of the Holy Bible, God's revelation of himself to his creature man no part of which is in conflict with other part rightly understood?
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  245.  @aspectacle5589  1611 King James Version: "THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JUDE Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not and the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."
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  246.  @aspectacle5589  Pointlessness is urging you to actually think or read the WBC statement of faith. You know nothing about the WBC except what VICE portrays in this video. If you had an ounce of integrity you would read what that congregation has posted on their website instead of swallowing whole all these comments from the sexual deviants commenting here who are equally ignorant. If you were not such a nitwit you would also realize invading other countries and wholesale murdering them to give their natural resources to oil and mineral barons is anti-Christian. You are a typical sheep, mindlessly following the bleating of the witless lost.
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  247. Every legitimate church hates sin and the devil and his angels. I don't like his disciples either.
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  248. And neither do they. They merely point out that queers go to eternal hell as do all unrepentant sinners. By the way, sin is to disobey or dishonor God, such as breaking his commandments. That's why all men except Jesus are born sinners, born under the curse of Adam until elect of God and regenerate by the Holy Ghost to salvation through faith in Jesus the Christ.
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  249. Telling the truth is the most loving thing anyone can do.
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  250. And neither does the WBC.
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  251. If you learned to read you would discover that the Jews used the Romans to crucify Jesus. Pilate had a problem - news of any more disturbances in Israel getting back to Caesar and Pilate was out of a job. The Pharisees were good at raising a mob, like BLM and Antifa, and they pushed Pilate into crucifying Jesus. The fact of the matter is that Jesus willingly sacrificed himself to redeem God's elect from the penalty of their disobedience and dishonor of God. To push Pilate, the Pharisees also shouted "Let his blood be upon us and our children!" not once, but twice. The idiots got what they demanded. It was necessary that Jesus die, but woe to those who brought it about.
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  252. Move.
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  253. God protects his faithful even through the times of trial and misery that he puts his church through to strengthen them.
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  254.  @woofawoof7616 I mean what I wrote. "God protects his faithful even through the times of trial and misery that he puts his church through to strengthen them." God's election is the definition of Christian. Also, no Christian is excommunicated for "showing kindness." Either the your supposed "excommunication" was a farce or there was some other charge.
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  255.  @woofawoof7616  Assumption is a logical fallacy. Vice called that church "hateful" because they have the courage to oppose the state religion of secular humanism with its legitimization of sexual deviancy as some sort of sacrament. You are a mindless yokel to parrot what the mainstream preaches and assume the WBC is "hateful" because they repeat what God already said.
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  256. You know nothing of how the Holy Canon was chosen or of Bible translation or Christian doctrine. For sane people there is more to life than hedonism.
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  257. God created male and female. God bashes sexual perverts of all stripes. God declares sexual perversion an abomination. I know nothing of the Westboro Baptist Church. I have read the Holy Bible, special revelation, God's revelation of himself to his creation, mankind.
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  258. "Religious environment?" Does that mean she was a Buddhist? Or a Hindu? Or a Muslim? Or a Jew? The Pharisees, ancient and modern, were children of the devil and put on a show of religiosity.
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  259. @Dani Slaughter Of course you would say so. Most people do who have not read the Bible. The word "elect" appears repeatedly in the Bible. Your problem is you do not read the Bible and so do not know what God says. You never read Ephesians or the rest of the Bible either. It is filled with examples of election - God choosing whom he will spare. "For by grace are ye save through faith and that not of yourselves lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 Therefore the elect do not boast of their salvation because they realize it is an unmerited free gift. No contradiction whatever with John Chapter 3 which is explaining the reason for Jesus's advent, not who is elect to salvation from the wrath of God. Hell is not "separation from God" . It is rather direct exposure to the eternal wrath of God: Very hot, not cold. You really should read the Bible and understand what it says before you comment on what the Bible says.
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  260. @Captain Cool Try again, I'm fully mature, there is one God, three persons in one essence as He has revealed himself to his creature mankind. The earth, universe, living things, and mankind are, to those who bother to observe them, obviously created. Only idiots and the self deluded would say otherwise, i.e., even you are probably not so stupid you really believe that a CPU or airplane or bridge can simply pop into existence by chance. Guess what? Nothing else can either. Even you have an afterlife, an eternity in agony and hopelessness and there is not one thing you can do about it. Like Satan, your days are numbered. Keep laughing, you get to retain your memory of this life.
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  261. @Captain Cool You are incapable of arguing. Assumption is still a logical fallacy and there is no possibility of argument until you agree to the rules of logic. You assume the Bible is not an accurate account of history but you have neither reason nor scientific observation to support your false man-made religion. My purpose is to point out that the Westboro Baptist Church is merely amplifying what God has already said. However much anyone does not like what they say in their posters, God's voice is the only one that matters and God made it crystal clear that sexual perversion is an abominable offense against God. God created male and female and marriage between one man and one woman for life as the only proper consummation of the sex drive. That's it. Your folly is that you pretend the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind "just happened". It is obvious to anyone who studies the physical universe and life that both were created whole, in situ, fully functioning, whether they want to admit it or not. There is no possibility of any part gradually "evolving" into ever more complex structures, i.e., from hydrogen to uranium or from an amino acid to a living cell.
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  262.  @marleye1765  Inventing slogans is not facing the facts. No one escapes God's justice. Laughing all the way to your grave only means you are amusing yourself
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  263.  @oliverbaggins2109  I expect no more of a rebuttal from the willfully ignorant and blatantly stupid.
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  264.  @oliverbaggins2109  I am not your "bud" and you have no idea how I was raised, but it was not in a Christian home. I was indoctrinated in the government school system to accept that "evolution" was "scientifically" proven. Later I learned to think and investigated the claims of evolutionists and sought proof from them. No scientific proof of anything, but they are all atheists. Evolution is the religion of the atheist, the materialist, the secular humanist, the socialist, etc., every ideology that denies God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - created the earth, the universe, living things, and all for mankind whom God created last. God created them male and female by the way in case your are still confused about your genitals.
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  265.  @oliverbaggins2109  Assumption is a logical fallacy. I am not the least bit interested in opinion, I stick to the facts. You should learn to distinguish between fact and fiction.
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  266.  @beautyandbrains1695  And none of the Westboro Church have harmed or hated anyone. Holding up a sign saying God does not condone your sexual perversion is not hate. At the very worst that is providing information about consequences that you really need to consider.
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  267. The hate groups are the ones who violently attack the people who are merely holding up signs. Haters cannot refute turth and cannot tolerate truth written or spoken. God's word is truth.
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  268.  @ashlyn203  You wouldn't know a cult from your ass. You know nothing of Christian doctrine and are completely incompetent to judge anything of eternal significance.
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  269.  @ashlyn203  Fred is merely preaching what God has already decreed - that perversion of the male and female relationship God designed to be expressed in the marriage of one man to one woman for life is an abomination to God.
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  270.  @goose4919  Of course, because you say so. However, reality to me is the physical universe that is obviously created and living things which are even more obviously created. You did not create anything and neither has anyone else - no one has made matter out of nothing and no one has made matter come to life. Start there and let me know when you have something. Meanwhile, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." is the only statement of origins that is rational and consistent with the observed physical universe.
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  271.  @goose4919  Of course I know what the law of conservation of matter and energy says. Do you? It was derived by observation of the physical universe, no mystery at all. Your string of words "Because the Big Bang wasn't even, energy clumped together and became mass." is complete nonsense. Observation of the physical universe indicates the universe had a beginning, i.e., there was a time when the universe did not exist. How did the matter/energy of the physical universe originate? Also, you are half a century behind the times. The "early earth" was never "hot" with "thousands of chemical reactions occuring due to the heat, as well as the presence of sulfur in the air, helped form DNA which made protein coats, becoming bacteria." That statement defines your ignorance of reality and exposes your government school indoctrination. For your information, there is no process whatever by which undirected chemical reactions could ever produce that most complex structure in the universe, a biological cell, let alone cause it to become alive. Also, there is no process whatever by which directed chemical reactions can ever produce that most complex structure in the universe, a biological cell, let alone cause it to become alive. You won't be able to follow Dr. Tour, but here's a lecture he delivered on the subject of what is chemically possible. Note that word "possible", it means something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg God had no problem creating the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind for His own good purpose. You will meet God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - face to face when you have completed whatever task God created you to do.
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  272.  @goose4919  You know nothing. I do not "defy science". There is no conflict whatever between "science" and Christianity, between observation of the physical universe and technological development, and living the Christian life. I am a welder, mechanic, and engineer, I work in complete harmony with science. In your ignorance you are apparently unaware that some chemical reactions are endothermic and some are exothermic, which does not explain the origins of the elemental hydrogen of the universe or any process by which hydrogen could coalesce and form elements more massive than Manganese, number 25 in the periodic table. Iron "poisons" the fusion reaction in a star, absorbing energy rather than producing energy by fusion reaction. Merely repeating yourself is not proof of anything. You can claim from now on that the "early" earth was "hot" without specifying any temperature, but that does not make it so. Roman Catholicism is anti-Christian and your attendance at some school operated by an order of masturbating monks was apparently a detriment since you neither know much about reality nor can you think. It makes no sense whatever for omnipotent God to use the death and decay hoax of evolution to produce ever more complex creatures. There is something else you do not know, which is called the second law of thermodynamics which states that entropy is the final state, the result of every chemical and nuclear reaction. How was entropy reversed in the creation of the elements that exist today? God hates sexual deviants none of whom are "gay" but are rather the most miserable people on the planet, defying the very purpose for which they were created, abandoning life for a bizarre form of insane nihilism. To state this truth is not an act of "hate". Love begins with telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Sexual deviants have their final destiny in the lake of fire, which means to experience the wrath of God for eternity. God's standard is simple: perfect obedience. "Sin" is disobedience and dishonor of God. God maintains perfect justice, sinners have no excuse for sinning, and, if not elect of God and regenerated by the Holy Spirit for salvation, the unrepentant sinner will experience eternity future in hell, the lake of fire, God's wrath, major pain. There is nothing you can do about it either. The best any sinner can hope for is that some Christian will pray to God to deliver their soul from eternal hell. There is no such thing as a meritorious good work. Good works are a result of, not a quest for, salvation.
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  273.  @goose4919  Except it did not and could not "happen" that way. "Physics, astronomy and biology" do not support evolution. God does NOT "forgive" unrepentant sinners. God created "hell" - the lake of fire- for the devil and his angels and unrepentant sinners. God elects whom he will spare his eternal wrath. I am saying that Roman Catholicism is a false religion. The very essence of Christianity is that salvation from the eternal wrath of God is by the grace of God alone through in the finished work of Jesus the Christ alone and not of any meritorious works. Tradition does not have any weight and neither do such inventions as purgatory, limbo, the veneration of Mary - herself a sinner saved by her son, Jesus the Christ, born of woman but not man. There is no such thing as "homosexual rights". They get to follow the same law as anyone else and have no "right" to corrupt children through government edict or any other way. I do not "attack" women. I am a Christian and Christianity is the only religion that recognizes women are the most essential member of the family and that men are to protect and provide for their wives at the expense of their own lives if necessary. Evolution teaches futility - utter pointlessness of life. You are completely ignorant of reality.
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  274.  @goose4919  "first physics and astronomy" DO NOT "prove the Big Bang" and biology DOES NOT "proves evolution". It is not because I am Christian that I believe God created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind. It is because I believed what I was taught in the government schools about evolution until I started investigating who had ever proved evolution. I discovered no one ever had and then I discovered, from the physical evidence, that God created it all and that is what the Holy Spirit used to regenerate me into Christianity. I used to be as stupidly ignorant as you, repeating the endless evolutionist mantras, trusting that since evolution is the government religion surely someone could demonstrate how it all "just happened" and repeat the process. Wrong! No one ever had and now I know from physics, astronomy, and biology that no one ever will. I could not care less about your vaunted diversity of opinions. The facts and physical data are the only meaningful starting points for analysis of the origin of the universe and living things. I did not attempt to "disprove evolution by saying that it teaches futility" - that is your strawman fallacy. I started from the physical evidence to prove evolution. I disprove evolution by pointing out that godless creation is physically impossible and the one and only way to prove otherwise is to (1) make matter and (2) make it come to life. So simple that you will dance around the facts forever because neither you nor all the other atheist/materialist/evolutionists can possibly do either. Meanwhile your evolutionist mantra is way out of date. Your high priests of evolution abandoned the "Big Bang" theory fifty years ago because it does not fit reality. That's why Lawrence Krauss is promoting quantum fluctuations as the beginning of the universe and the late Stephen Hawking proposed parallel universes, which also do not fit reality but do continue the charade for such gullible fools as you. If you want to learn what the arguments are, then go to Creation.com or ICR.org or http://nwcreation.net/scc15.html Christianity was never "feminist" as that term is used today and the Christian church (which means congregation) promotes women in business and as managers of industry, but, of course, you would have to read the Holy Bible to discover that.
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  275.  @averagewhiteman_2293  And you want to believe murdering unborn babies is just. Killing old people is just. You are demonic.
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  276. You don't have to be a member to walk into the church on Sunday.
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  277. Matthew 13:36-43 "Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
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  278. YOU scroll back through 180 comments and find out. Or, you could simply read the Bible where Jesus - very God and very man - says that he has come to fulfill the law and that not one jot or tittle will pass away from God´s law.
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  279. You know something is right when people have the courage to speak God's Word to people who do not want to hear the truth.
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  280. Laugh you way to hell.
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  281. No WBC member ever threatened to assault or kill anyone but that is all I see in these comments directed toward the WBC. To say that God sends sexual deviants - and all unrepentant sinners - to the lake of fire is not "hate". It is repeating what God said. Hate I see on here from sexual deviants and atheists directed toward the WBC congregation.
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  282. No Christian church is going to "accept" homosexuality. Habitual sin - disobedience and disrespect of God - is not to be tolerated among a Christian church = congregation. Such are NOT to be allowed in the family of God as they are and are never to be given the opportunity to prey on the church. 100% supervision for such. A former alcoholic or drug addict is not likely to corrupt the children, a child is always susceptible to sexual abuse and must at all times be protected. FROM such came we, the very meaning of repentance is that we realize how dishonoring our behavior was to God to the point we would never do that again. People who continue in sexual perversion or any other habitual sin are most specifically NOT Christian and are to be excommunicated when it becomes known after the procedure in Matthew 18. The question for you is are you actually a Christian? Zealous to defend the name of God? Jesus DROVE the merchants out of the temple. There is no question of "tolerance" in God's eyes - clean house is his eternal order lest the land become polluted and spit you out.
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  283.  @etsy3950  Bullshit. The Holy Bible - special revelation - instructs us: Sexual perversion of EVERY sort is abomination to God. Sexual intercourse is for marriage ONLY. We to live our lives to the glory of God, not walk some marginal path considering how much hedonism we should seek. The answer is fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, not spend a single thought on how much whiskey you can chug or assholes you can lick and still claim to be Christian. A Christian KNOWS the answer - zero - because gratifying the senses outside God's provision of shelter, food, and marriage is not something we are to even think about. We are called to avoid temptation to evil, not see how close we can approach it. Only Jesus could touch the lepers and dine with the sinners and maintain his untainted perfection. When we walk through shit, it sticks to us.
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  284.  Kiki Melendez  What "long history of genocide, slavery, and torture!"? Understand something, God would be perfectly just to kill all his unrepentant rebellious creation. Just like your dolls, you can do anything you want to them and not be wrong. Exactly the same for mankind - God doesn't owe you anything. It's not like you have "rights" at all: You have nothing God has not provided including the opportunity to work for a living. For example, people cannot make plants grow: All anyone can do is plant and fertilize and do what has promoted plant growth in the past. But God alone provides the life. People cannot make seeds sprout any more than they can make inert matter come to life. Understand? When the entire cities of people on the plain became to threat to Abraham's progeny, it was time for them to start their eternity in hell. When the Canaanites and the peoples living in the land promised to Abraham became thoroughly evil, it was time for them to start their eternity in hell. They burned their babies alive sacrificing them to idols, they were sexual perverts, they did it all, just like today's anti-Christs, and they were judged. Rahab, among other elect living among these evil people, was not destroyed in the conquest, but her eternity was entirely in the hands of God and God elected Rahab, the harlot, whose linage included King David and Jesus, to salvation. Entirely up to God. Your tiny circular restricted attempt at reasoning is ridiculously introverted.
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  285.  Kiki Melendez  Aw, no you just got a free lecture on reality. If you knew anything about "science" you would realize that Christianity is the foundation of science. The rule of law, logic, the idea that the physical universe is stable, the idea that benefiting others with the expansion of knowledge is meritorious, the right to own property including intellectual property, etc., are what made scientific research profitable and feasible. The great technological development in the United States during the 1800's was the result of freedom from government restriction and a right to own property in a Christian culture. There were plenty of atheist sharks swimming in the benevolent sea of Christian culture, but even so God's law was pretty much the law of the land. For example, murder and theft, except by government license and majority vote, are still illegal. But hey, if you want to remain ignorant that the Pope's circus - the Roman Catholic organization - is not Christian who can make you learn? Stupid usually stays ignorant too. The RCs deny the very essence of Christianity - that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone and not by meritorious works. So you and your sweethearts among the queer Roman Catholic priests doing your thing are not Christian any more than papal wars against the reformers and the Inquisition were Christian. Neither do Christians condone offensive wars - mass murder. That does not please God, whom you will inevitably meet when you have completed whatever he created you to do. Christians have nothing in common with the anti-Christs. Understand?
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  286.  @generalblade7504  What slave owners did (and do) is irrelevant to Christianity. Christians are called to be like Jesus, not like the next man. Christians are called to learn the Bible, not some convenient interpretation. Every major cult claims some commonality with Christianity while denying Christian doctrine. Racist? We are all the descendants of Adam and Noah and we all bleed red. Sexist? God created male and female, complementary with entirely different roles. Men cannot be women and women cannot be men. Sex is properly expressed only in marriage which is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. I'm guessing you're a typical racist and sexist socialist bent on destruction of every good thing.
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  287.  @generalblade7504  I do not see any possible logical connection between your appearance and sex and your paradigm. Your time would be far better spent pondering what is posted at Creation.com and watching the following video of an ominous discovery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY98io7JH-c
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  288. @Genexolev Ashtiani The Bible - God - says to stone them to death immediately upon conviction. When they go public, they get stoned. If they restricted their perversion to their closets, no one would know. By public exhibition the sexual pervert deliberately challenges the rest of society to abandon God's moral code and join in that sexual perversion. That pervert is demanding that everyone else condone that perversion, allow themselves to be degraded, and allow access to the children of other people. There is only one right way to answer that out-of-the-closet challenge: a large pile of fist-sized rocks delivered by the entire community so challenged.
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  289. @Genexolev Ashtiani Thanks for the information. Not that it is a point of faith, but I need more validation for the boulder theory than that one account. Please do not bother, I do not care enough to study that point. Stephen fell asleep when he was stoned. I believe crucifixion to be a most horrible way to die.
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  290.  Kiki Melendez  Look to statism and false religion for that. Genocide, slavery, and torture are not Christian regardless of what people who call themselves Christian do.
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  291. Telling the truth is an act of love. As a Christian, I compliment the Westboro congregation for their courage in standing against government instituted "political correctness". Hell was created for Satan and the angels and men who act for Satan. Pretending that sexual perversion is anything but sexual perversion is not Christian. God determines what is good and what is evil and God, not man, says open sexual perversion is so evil it is not to be tolerated. "Speakers" - gutless pastors - for all the rest of the 501(c)3 tax exempt corporations are too cowardly to tell the truth. Perverts reign and abortion clinics - murder mills - abound and it is far easier to preach "tolerance" than to stand for God's truth.
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  292. But Jesus was God incarnate, the second person of the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so that means what the WBC tells you should be verified against the Holy Bible and that is the only way to sort fact from fiction.
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  293. Question to the WBC: WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF A HOMOSEXUAL ATTENDED YOUR CHURCH? Any person who is willing to behave themselves and sit quietly and listen to the preaching done from the pulpit at our church is welcome to attend. Regardless of any person's private conduct, we would do unto them as we would have them do unto us. By a fear of God, we would declare the whole counsel of God to them, lest their blood should be on our hands. We would share the Gospel (good news) with them, and we would treat them like we would treat any other person on this earth. We would treat them with kindness and follow those scriptural injunctions that require that we preach the gospel to every creature. "For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" - I Corinthians 9:16. Knowing always that it is only by the foolishness of preaching that any man is saved, preaching a pure, complete, unvarnished gospel, is our duty, and it is the only hope for salvation for a homosexual or any other sinner. See Romans 10:17 - "So, then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
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  294. Getting in touch with my feelings the other day, I realized how I loathe homosexuals. All of them? Of course not. Some of them are funny, kind, intelligent, and otherwise pleasant. But homosexuals in general, yes. I can't stand them. Especially the ones who are organized under the rubric of gay rights.  I guess this makes me "homophobic." So what? Homophobia is one of those ugly cant-words -- like racist and sexist -- that no self-respecting speaker of the English language would use. (Try to imagine Abraham Lincoln calling someone "homophobic.") It's a verbal badge of groupthink.  Funny how the people who style themselves victims always want to bully everyone else. Diversity now means conformity. It means making sensible people afraid to contradict nonsense so obvious as to insult their intelligence.  Normal people find homosexuality, especially male homosexuality, repellent. We're supposed to apologize for that? Our slang words for the anus, and their use as insults, express our disgust with the whole idea of anal sex. Apart from the personal defilement it involves, it's grossly unsanitary.  My own feelings are intensified by personal experience. Believe me, when a child you love has been sodomized, it takes a lot of the romance out of buggery. What was merely disgusting becomes nauseating. You needn't hate the perpetrator -- who, in this case as in so many others, had been sodomized as a child himself -- to feel utter revulsion at the act, and contempt for those who try to endow it with dignity.  Will the victim now grow up to sodomize other boys? Will he come down with AIDS? Will he, on his wedding night, remember this first "sexual" experience?  Another instance of homosexual pedophilia has been in the news lately -- or rather, hasn't been in the news. In 1999, two Arkansas perverts raped, tortured, and murdered a 13-year-old boy; that crime has been almost totally ignored by the same news media that spent a year bewailing the murder of the homosexual Matthew Shepard. Because the boy was a victim rather than a victimizer of homosexuals, his story might hurt The Cause. No martyr he!  PEDOPHILES The standard "gay" line on pedophilia is that most child molesters are heterosexuals. This is sheer propaganda. Homosexuals are only 1 or 2 percent of the general population (despite their inflated claims -- also propagandist -- of 10 percent), yet they are wildly disproportionate among pedophiles. [2% of population commit 33% of pedophile acts.-hm] What is more important, though, is that most heterosexuals are more than willing to punish molesters of little girls. They don't make excuses for them or cover up their crimes. They recognize norms of behavior.  But pedophiles are an integral part of the "gay rights" movement. Does that movement repudiate them? Not at all. On the contrary, the North American Man/Boy Love Association is a regular and welcome contingent at "gay pride" marches. In England, organized "gays" agitate for lowering the age of consent for sex.  This stands to reason. Homosexuality is an abandonment not only of the normal, but of any norms. Once you approve of promiscuous anal sex with strangers, how can you draw a line against anything? Why not have anal sex with kids, if that's your thing?  And once again, the news media -- which love to highlight any "extremists" at conservative events -- refuse to report on pedophiles in the movement. It might embarrass The Cause. If it's "diversity" you want, don't look for it among journalists.  I used to feel sorry for homosexuals. However they became that way, it was an inclination I could only pity them for being saddled with, since so much of normal life was closed off to them. And I understand why parents who find out their sons are homosexual want to protect them, even if it means denying that homosexuality is a serious disorder. That's natural.  But no parent is glad to learn his son is "gay"; no parent would wish that condition on a child. This is why all the propaganda of "gay pride" rings false. Normal people aren't even proud of being normal; they take it for granted. But "pride" in an abnormality?  I don't blame anyone for being sick. I blame them for telling me that sickness is just another form of health. Joseph Sobran, The Sober Truth About Homosexuality and Its Perverse Promotion (July 4, 2015)
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  295. A vulgar slur? Calling a queer a queer? Is "sexual deviant" more acceptable to you? "Sexual pervert" maybe? Demon possessed is more accurate. If the truth offends, than change your ways. God created sex and Satan's followers pervert it and work day and night to corrupt others to share their perversion. The only fulfilling sexual relationship is marriage, the lifelong union of a man and a woman in their exclusive sexual relationship. Nothing else can satisfy.
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  296. They can't. That's why they call themselves "gay" while being the most miserable people on earth.
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  297.  @dr.vikyll7466  Wonderful. The fact remains that God regards sexual perversion, specifically "man lying with man" as an abomination. Abomination means God finds that disobedience or dishonor particularly offensive as opposed to theft, false witness, coveting, adultery, etc. Leviticus 18 is the case law. Sexual perversion is called abomination: "22 Thou shalt not lie with the male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination. 23 h Thou shalt not also lie with any beast to be defiled therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: for it is abomination. 24 Ye shall not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the Nations are defiled which I will cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I will visit the wickedness thereof upon it, and the land shall vomit out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments, and commit none of these abominations, as well he that is of the same country, as the stranger that sojourneth among you." 1599 Geneva, Romans 1:26-31 "For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burned in their lust one toward another, and man with man wrought filthiness, and received in themselves such recompense of their error, as was meet. For as they regarded not to acknowledge God, even so God delivered them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, 29 Being full of all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, of murder, of debate, of deceit, taking all things in the evil part, whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, such as can never be appeased, merciless. Which men, though they knew the Law of God, how that they which commit such things are worthy of death, yet not only do the same, but also favor them that do them."
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  298.  @jdatomic798  God does not "love everybody". He created hell. God informs us that is where He is sending most people. In red letters, Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
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  299.  @jdatomic798  Not at all. Satan is glad you are a sexual pervert. It puts you in his power until God pulls your chain.
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  300.  @エイジャ  How would you know? Amazing that people who are atheists, have never read the Bible, never studied church history, etc., are quick to tell me, a Christian by election of God, what Christianity is. "Christian background"? Right, so maybe you had to attend a boring Sunday School taught by some woman very dedicated but ignorant of Christian doctrine herself, so you learned the story of Noah and David and Goliath but absolutely nothing of election and sanctification and justification and fulfilling the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20, nothing of how microbiology and astrophysics show the hand of God in creation, etc. In a word: ignorant. No one can "misuse" Christianity. People can falsely profess to be Christian, commit atrocities in the name of Christianity, but Jesus the Christ remains the author and finisher of the Christian faith. Tolerating sexual perverts, tolerating a Zionist-controlled empire invading foreign lands and killing people in an offensive war is NOT Christian. Too bad Fred is the only pastor who points out what is anti-Christian and, in the case of wars of aggression, unconstitutional as well.
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  301.  @エイジャ  You make my case. Totally ignorant yet pretending the authority to judge how Christians should live. "... a true Christian is someone who acts in the image of God"? Meaningless. "acts in the image of God"? How does anyone act in the image of God? Gibberish. Jesus never once tolerated hypocrisy, i.e., the thoroughly demonic hypocrites who were the government. The "service" Jesus performed was to be the lamb of God, to suffer eternal punishment in the place of God's elect. Foot washing was an example of showing unconditional love. Sexual perversion is the very opposite of love. Love cannot be contrary to God's law which clearly identifies sexual perversion as an abominable sin. Jesus said the law of God will never pass away, the law of God for us being the law revealed to Moses minus the ceremonial, bloodline, and dietary restrictions that were abrogated by Jesus' advent. Another "unnecessarily long" reply, but it is not for you, it is for serious people who may read these comments.
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  302.  @balazsharkai5118  Not me! I am well informed, having escaped the shadowy world of evolutionist magic and chaotic inconsistency. I don't have to relearn the basics with every new scientific discovery. The mental process of manipulating into believing what is factually inconsistent, such as the notion that the universe created itself and some matter in that universe came to life without cause, is brainwashing. It keeps the tax dollars rolling in to fund the established government church - the public school system - which indoctrinates children into believing they are accidents, mere parasites, by their very being a threat to "nature".
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  303.  @SolPolaris  I think you farted, but you better check for lumps. If and when you learn English try again.
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  304.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  That's what you do, making God in your image and likeness.
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  305.  @splitsperm2769  You are unbelievably dense. One more time, idiot, it's because God said so. Whether you "believe in" God or not, he created the universe including you for his own good purpose and no one escapes God's judgement.
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  306.  @splitsperm2769  You are too stupid to know.
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  307.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  I leave that to you.
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  308. @Undead Tree Sexual deviants cannot be Christian. Repentance of sin is a necessary condition of being Christian. If you do not agree with God that your perversion is a sin, you have not repented. Here's what God says to you in I Corinthians 6:09-11- "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." Notice that he says "And such WERE some of you ... ." In case you can't figure that out, it means they were NOT that way anymore.
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  309.  @splitsperm2769  The definition of a fool is someone who denies God is.
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  310.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  You were looking in the mirror.
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  311.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  Christianity is the very foundation of science. "Science" is in complete harmony with Christianity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg
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  312. Then relax, they teach the love of God to the children. God said sexual deviants are an abomination, so the children are taught to obey God's law and avoid the empty hedonistic lifestyle of the sexual deviant who will never know the joy of marriage and bring new people into the world and raising them to obey God and prosper. Marriage is defined by God and means the lifelong union of a man and a woman in an exclusive sexual relationship.
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  313.  @BMcCosmic  They should think you chose to pervert the image of God.
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  314. The most loving thing is to tell someone the truth. Perverting the image of God which is in mankind is the worst insult to God who created male and female.
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  315.  @BMcCosmic  What "original translation"? Are you some rabbinical Zionist? Jesus - God incarnate - called them vipers and ruled against them 2,000 years ago and nothing has changed since. All literal translations agree on doctrine. ANY form of sexual expression other than the sexual intercourse of a man and a woman joined in marriage - the lifelong union of one man with one woman - is breaking God's law and particularly dishonors God. How do I know? Because God said so - the Bible is God's word. General revelation - male and female with obvious form, fit, and function for those not terminally stupid - is obviously God's creation as well.
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  316.  @BMcCosmic  I do know the truth and the truth applies equally to everyone in every time. The "original" was written in Hebrew and Koine Greek. The papists wrote the Latin Vulgate. John Wycliff ruined their game of exclusivity by translating God's word into everyday (14th century) English.
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  317.  @thenethralking6032  As if you knew anything about the Bible, had ever read it or spent one second learning any of the issues the church councils discussed as they were refining exactly what is Christianity. What verse did the Fred use to the exclusion of the rest of the Bible? Of course, you skipped over the parts in which God clearly calls sexual perversion an abominable sin.
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  318.  @thenethralking6032  Not at all quick to judge. I just happen to know the answers having thought about these things long ago and listened to the arguments on both sides. I did not just lately open the Bible and study Christian doctrine and church history and ponder what it means to glorify God. Therefore, learn. There is no difference between the "act of sexual violence itself" and sexual perversion. Also "gay intercourse" is impossible. Intercourse is only possible between a man and a woman and only permissible within the bounds of marriage. God is very clear that sexual perversion is an abominable sin against God, punishable by death of the sinner. Rape is a sin punishable by death, adultery is a sin punishable by death, but sexual perversion is an abominable sin punishable by death. God does not love everyone which you would know if you read the Bible. God does not condemn the people he loves to eternal hell. That's why we have a Redeemer, Jesus the Christ, Lamb of God. God does condemn the people he hates to eternal hell. Rom 9:11-15 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." That is what God says. What anyone else says is inconsequential. See? Very clear when you read the Bible. I am a Christian and tell it as it is
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  319. @r j The notion of judgment means condemnation which is what God does at Judgment day when he directs his wrath at the unrepentant sinners - the goats - for eternity. Christians are not to condone or tolerate what God plainly tells us is abominable sin. For example, Christians are not "judging" by acknowledging that sexual perversion is an abominable sin and holding up signs saying so. God has already told us that, the judgment part is all done and it is not like the sexual perverts are hiding and we have to ferret them out. That tiny minority who are sexual perverts are actively taking over that other tiny minority of demons who are the government and using the very power we have granted to "government" against us to silence us under penalty of "hate speech" persecution when Christians are simply pointing out the obvious. It isn't as though the sexual perverts are persecuted victims. The Christians are the ones under siege and the sexual perverts are persecuting the Christians at the Christians expense. Christians are the ones who paid for the very "justice" (just-us) system the queers are using against us.
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  320. I'm a Christian and I know right from wrong and I have a duty to tell people when they are not obeying God.
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  321.  @wolves-cv5mj  God judged homosexuality to be an abomination. God does the damming also. Preachers merely inform people of these facts.
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  322. ​ @Dev-zd3rx  lol lol Writes the functional illiterate who cannot even communicate a joke. lol lol lol R/whoosh Children say the darnedest things! lol lol lol lol ... lol ... and fools laugh at their own jokes. Are you actually so stupid that you believe "lol my essays don't...yet I'm in college lol" is expressing a joke? lol lol lol.
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  323.  @Dev-zd3rx  You didn't post any joke: You shit on your keyboard. " that's not a joke....that's for real, I'm in college and half of my essays requires little to no references/citations. So you didn't get the joke in the first place. R/woosh. Kids these days." If this is a sample of your "writing", you are functionally illiterate. Whatever "college" you are spending money to attend does not rise to the level of grade school in the fifties and sixties. I could write coherent sentences, properly capitalized, using proper tense, and properly punctuated, when I was in the third grade - age 8. You are an absolute disgrace. Are you majoring in masturbation or gender definition studies? lol R/whoosh. Kids these days.
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  324. ​ @Dev-zd3rx  If there is any point to your imitation of a perfect vacuum you hid it well.
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  325.  @lancewalker2595  There are no contradictions in the Bible. You have to know what was said, to whom, when, and in what context to understand what is written there. Several theologians have written systematic theologies to do just that.
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  326. God sends unrepentant sinners - most especially sexual perverts whom God defines as an abomination - to eternal hell.
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  327. God is angry with homosexuals and all other unrepentant sinners. Fred merely points that out.
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  328. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYRXop7aPA
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  329. You might be more convincing if you capitalize proper nouns such as God, and Jesus Christ.
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  330.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  Satan is a mere creature, God's pitbull.
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  331.  @wakeupandsmelltherain6351  What a blithering idiot. I said Satan is God's pitbull meaning what God uses to punish his disobedient people. Of course, I suppose I should make allowance for those too stupid to recognize an analogy. I get along fine with pitbulls and other animals. However, I do not tolerate Idiots and the willfully ignorant and the pretentious.
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  332. Brainwashed by sexual perverts is more like it! Marriage - the lifelong union of one man to one woman - is the only satisfying expression of sex.
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  333. 00:56 "It's amazing how much Bible a little child can learn and retain." Children should be learning how to harness government power to destroy Christianity. The people need some relief from Christianity, it's all over the place like this individual liberty thing was started by Christians or something. It's time to start putting Christians into re-education camps so the rest of the people don't have to endure their endless preaching and see those buildings all over the place. Free speech should be illegal for Christians because all they do is preach creation, original sin, life in a fallen world, and then go on forever about Jesus and how he died to pay the sins of God's elect. They ruin football games with their John 3:16 signs. They even say that whoever is not God's elect will be punished eternally by God in some insane burning agony. It's time the government stepped in. Some people don't deserve what little freedom still remains in this country and the people who are the Westboro Baptist Church are living proof that freedom should not be allowed for anyone who questions that the federal government has the right and duty to redefine marriage so that even queers can get on company family medical and dental plans. Sexual deviants can say they are married too, why should a same-sex couple have to pay more for medical coverage than a straight family man? Just because their lifestyle creates incurable lingering diseases? Not fair, make everyone pay the same medical! Yes, it is high time to start putting Christians into re-education camps so the rest of the population is not contaminated with the Gospel of Jesus and notions of creation, original sin, Jesus, resurrection, eternal punishment and the rest of that garbage. Evolution is the answer to everything and proof positive there is no God. The people who call themselves the government say so and that's that. Those people are very smart, they maintain the highest taxes in the history of the world and they get reelected so there, they are the ultimate authority.
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  334. Why shouldn't they? And how would you know? Did you have breakfast with Fred? The dietary, ceremonial, and bloodline laws were fulfilled by the advent of Jesus the Christ.
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  335. God says you are abominable. God alone has the power of eternal life either in his presence or suffering his wrath. The best anyone can do for the queer is pray that God would elect them to salvation, the Holy Ghost to regenerate them, and for them to then realize they have sinned against God almighty, repent, and turn from their wicked ways and live from then on to glorify God as God has commanded: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul and love your neighbor as yourself. That word "love" does not mean sexual intercourse or anything related to sexuality.
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  336. The atheists’ creation story1 by Dominic Statham Published: 12 July 2016 (GMT+10) The General Theory of Evolution (GTE) is the atheists’ creation story. As with the Bible, it begins with creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing)—and in the atheists’ view there really was nothing (and certainly no God) to act as first cause. The big bang, they say, produced the universe all by itself. Then, billions of years later we’re told, the first life formed spontaneously in some chemical soup and, without any help, evolved into all the plants and animals found on Earth today—including us. Contrary to impressions given by the media, never before has there been so much evidence challenging this story. Such are the problems secular cosmologists have in trying to make their big bang models work, they end up making desperate appeals to the most unscientific notions imaginable. For example, in December 2014, top cosmologist Lee Smolin published a book suggesting that the only way to solve the big bang’s many scientific problems is to argue that the laws of physics were different in the past.2 So, when the facts don’t fit their creation story, secular scientists must turn to alternative ‘scientific laws’ drawn from their imaginations. Similarly, leading origin of life researchers, such as Paul Davies and Stuart Kauffman, readily admit that no observed natural processes can produce life from non-life. Unperturbed, however, they do the same as the secular cosmologists—they take a gigantic leap of blind faith and believe that the required natural processes existed anyway and, for some reason, we just haven’t yet discovered them. Richards Dawkins is adamant that, once first life formed, Darwin’s theory can explain how this could have evolved into people. But why then are leading biologists such as James Shapiro and Stuart Newman quietly looking for alternative theories?3,4 Faith masquerading as science All this demonstrates a commitment not to science, but to a worldview that excludes God from one’s thinking, i.e. to philosophical naturalism—the doctrine that everything, including the origins of the universe and life, can be explained entirely by natural processes. It’s an ideology which is neither scientific (arising from blind faith rather than observations) nor necessary for scientific progress, as CMI has pointed out many times before. For example, Philip Skell, formerly Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, commented: When the facts don’t fit their creation story, secular scientists must turn to alternative ‘scientific laws’ drawn from their imaginations. I recently asked more than 70 eminent researchers if they would have done their work differently if they had thought Darwin’s theory was wrong. The responses were all the same: No. I also examined the outstanding biodiscoveries of the past century: the discovery of the double helix; the characterization of the ribosome; the mapping of genomes; research on medications and drug reactions; improvements in food production and sanitation; the development of new surgeries; and others. I even queried biologists working in areas where one would expect the Darwinian paradigm to have most benefited research, such as the emergence of resistance to antibiotics and pesticides. Here, as elsewhere, I found that Darwin’s theory had provided no discernible guidance, but was brought in, after the breakthroughs, as an interesting narrative gloss.5 The magnitude of the problems with the GTE are hidden from the general public, with popular science programmes almost always peddling the secular view as fact. At the same time, creation scientists are never given a realistic opportunity to present an alternative view. In universities, even non-creationists who dare to inform students of problems with Darwin’s theory can find themselves out of a job.6 In UK state-funded schools, Government regulations now prohibit the presentation of Intelligent Design or Creation as views which are supported by evidence. The antidote—promoting true science All this makes our youngsters very vulnerable. ‘Scientific’ explanations for the GTE can appear very convincing when only the evidence supporting this view is presented. In Proverbs 18:17, we read, “The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.” How much more so when nobody with contrary evidence is allowed to speak? Evolutionary beliefs are maintained by censorship—and with great effect. Christians, however, are not without resources to counter this secular onslaught. Our website (creation.com) has over 9,000 articles demonstrating the clear superiority of the biblical worldview over and against that of the secularists. Moreover, month by month more evidence challenging evolutionary beliefs is uncovered and Creation magazine puts this directly into subscribers’ hands, enabling us to “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God” (2 Corinthians 10:4–5). https://creation.com/atheists-creation-story
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  337. Invading foreign lands to seize the oil and minerals and land routes is not Christian or American. US military who volunteer to kill foreign people in their own lands who have done absolutely nothing to us are not heroes: Did he merely point out that the US deep state is NOT Americana and apparently under Zionist control? Did he point out that the US military did a very cowardly thing to destroy Yugoslavia, drop cluster bombs on civilians in the city of Belgrade (the size of San Francisco), bridges, roads, railroads, etc., hand Kosovo over to Muslims and recognize Catholic Croatia as a separate country (Roman Catholics are anti-Christian)? What exactly did Fred say about the coffins coming back from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria, etc.? At the very best such soldiers and bombers are gullible murderers, serving they know not who. VICE has an agenda and telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is not it.
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  338.  @eddiefisher3093  Wonderful. Me too.
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  339. Very simple, don't go to the rally.
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  340.  @danielberglund6611  None of my relatives are invading foreign lands and murdering people so the Zionists can have oil and minerals that don't belong to them. None of my relatives are fighting to maintain the Zionist federal reserve note as the world reserve currency (and I would add "you stupid son-of-a-bitch" but that would be impolite). And you?
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  341. That' right, God does not make mistakes. God created mankind male and female and as God has created each of us male or female, that is the way we are, change is not possible.
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  342. Vice is first and foremost atheist. Anytime they can attack the Christian church, they are going to do so. Vice makes money from the number of hits they get on their sites and they design their sites to get hits, not to inform. The Westboro congregation does not hate people. God tells all people very clearly who is going to suffer his eternal wrath. The Westboro congregation decided to tell those very people in no uncertain terms where God says they are headed. Telling the truth is not hate, it is love, very tough love and difficult to do considering how vehemently the wicked fight to avoid unpleasant truth being spoken.
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  343.  @OM-st6uz  What is a "boomer"? I speak English, not slang.
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  344.  @OM-st6uz  I learned English and I intend to use words that don't depend on your ilk to give them meaning. You're really fucking functionally illiterate dude.
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  345. You have indeed dropped too much acid. Meth will also do that to you. Too bad for your brain, kiss it goodbye.
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  346. Not a demand, an admonition that if they continue to insult God, eternal hell is their destiny. Telling someone the truth is the most loving thing you can do.
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  347. ​ @RandomDudeInTheInternet-bk9cu  You must be joking. No one can answer your assumptions. Define "God." Define church. What "things has the church done?" Define history. After you explain what you think those words mean I can answer your question about what I believe.
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  348. Why is it that my replies are hidden while the questions I answered are not? I selected to sort newest first, so, why is it that my recent comments are not at the top of the list but that inane post from "DarkLink1996" from a year ago is always at the top?
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  349. It's really crazy to think the children would abandon Jesus when they understand the world automatically hates all good things.
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  350.  @ShannonMichelle7937 Christianity is not a cult. Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Jehova's Witless, and Scientologists are not Christian.
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  351. Not a cult. Cults are such as Christian Scientists (not!), Scientologists, Roman Catholics worshiping Mary, etc.
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  352. Amazing the God created hell for the devil and his angels and unrepentant sinners. It is even written, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated before either were born. I suppose that part of the Bible doesn't count with you?
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  353. Jesus died for the elect, repentant sinners.
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  354.  @KelleyMakes Be sure to tell him that when you see him as he is. Meanwhile, God said in the Holy Bible several times even that he hates sin and consigns sinners to the eternal burning wrath of God. Maybe that's your idea of love, but not mine, justice, but not love.
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  355.  @KelleyMakes  Especially the ones he confines in eternal hell? I suppose that's your definition of "tough love?" Not so! God elects whom he will for salvation from his wrath and sends the Holy Spirit to regenerate his elect. Otherwise, no one would seek after God. It is our nature to hate God and rebel against his law and sovereignty until regenerate by the Holy Ghost.
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  356.  @AlchemistFL  Read what?
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  357.  @mikeymyers9617  Ha ha, good joke! Five minutes after you are dead you will be forgotten. On the other hand, barking dogs such as you have been saying Jesus is a fiction and you have all been refuted. There is more evidence that Jesus is indeed the Christ, very God and very man and did indeed rise from the dead than there ever will be that you even existed to pollute the internet with your ignorance.
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  358. You will die in your disobedience unless God elects you to salvation. You cannot escape eternal hell unless you are elect of God to salvation from the penalty for disobeying God.
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  359.  @bomtastic2380  I don't assume anything. What you believe is irrelevant to reality. God does not create atheists.
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  360.  @bomtastic2380  Wrong again. God created you for some purpose. Too bad if you won't figure out what was your calling.
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  361.  @bomtastic2380  In the first place, sexual perversion is not "gay". You cannot live in disobedience to God and discover your calling. You have to want to serve God and that is only possible if you are elect of God for salvation and regenerated by the Holy Spirit. When you agree with God that sin (disobedience and dishonor of God) is horrible then you repent, you repudiate those things that do not please God, and you want to do those things that please God. Guilt, grace, gratitude. As long as you persist in the fallacy of denying the very sex God chose for you, you will never discover the purpose for which God created you, your calling.
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  362.  Billie Joelish  As if you have a clue and I am not your "lad" you insane creature. You have no idea whatever how the Holy Spirit will use these comments. You, the fool, have said "There is no God." You will have a long time to think about who you now dishonor boy.
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  363.  Billie Joelish  The word is "bosom" and you know nothing of me. If you believe in God, you have a terminally demented way of expressing yourself. If you knew anything of heaven you would know that the greatest and eternal joy is to behold God. It may be beyond your jaded imagination, but we will have useful work to do and will never tire of beholding God as he is. In our mortal bodies and our fallen state, we cannot look at God. Hell is like solitary confinement in a blast furnace - no camaraderie whatever - isolation in extreme pain.
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  364. And that love was to go to the cross for God's elect, not engage in the very sexual perversion God declared to be abominable.
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  365. The entire point of the Bible is that Jesus is the promised Messiah who has fulfilled all prophecy about him and rules at the moment from heaven.
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  366. The point of the Bible is that Jesus paid for the sins of his elect. God did not create eternal hell for people he loves.
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  367.  @corvusfunghi  Satan is a chained rottweiler - he would like to kill more but isn't allowed to.
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  368.  @linqizhe  People keep inviting me, even when they are buying the booze.
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  369.  @linqizhe  Sorry to hear your parties are a drag. The parties I attend are fun, good conversation, people enjoying each other's company, probably too much booze, but as long as I make it to church on time all is well.
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  370.  @balazsharkai5118  Assumption is a logical fallacy. I am neither "sad" nor "miserable". I learned English grammar and how to spell. I am a technical writer and proofreader. You on the other hand do not have an argument worth expressing clearly and so it is you either cannot or you choose not to articulate it clearly. My bet is you cannot.
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  371.  @03kevinmatthew03  Correct as far as you go. However, please do note that throughout history all elect by God became, de facto, Israelite. The only restriction was that only Levites were authorized to be priests and serve in the tabernacle. Rahab, a harlot from Jericho, and Ruth, a Moabite widow whom Boaz married, were in the bloodline of David, King of Israel, Mary, mother of Jesus, and Joseph, stepfather of Jesus. In the New Testament, written of the fulfillment of all prophecies but one, it is stated that those elect of God from the creation are the chosen people, the New Israel. God utterly destroyed national Israel, that barren fig tree, that unfaithful idolatrous wife, that collection of unrighteous who killed the prophets, in AD 70. The collection of demons who today call themselves the government of Israel have no special significance in history. Whoever among the people who live there are elect are among God's chosen people. The rest are not.
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  372.  @sqacing6914  OK. Somehow missed this, you got another reply from today on this issue. When you write "Jesus believed in Judaism ... " you have to define what you mean by "Judaism". Jesus - very God and very man - embodied the law of God. Jesus is God incarnate, the living Word of God. Jesus condemned the Jews, the ruling class, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, and lawyers. This ruling class wrote their own bible, the Talmud, a compilation of statements so bizarre it is difficult to accept that anyone can take it seriously. Roughly, the Talmud is the Torah rewritten by Satan. That is the doctrine of Judaism, it is diametrically opposed to Christianity, and Jesus made that plain right to their pompous hypocritical faces. You also wrote "... and fought for the Jews in Rome because they were oppressed for believing in a monotheistic religion" is fiction." That is pure insanity. Jesus was born to live a sinless life, to be the Lamb of God, and to offer himself as the propitiation for the sins of God's elect. Jesus was not a mere soldier who "fought for the Jews in Rome". Where do you get such utter gibberish? As Jesus pointed out to Peter, he could call twelve legions of angels, when one angel is powerful enough to destroy the world. For the Creator of the universe to fight for an earthly kingdom of disobedient scheming rebels is ridiculous. Jesus purpose was to save God's elect from eternal hell. He stuck to his mission in spite of being a man and facing every temptation known to man, including the temptation to wipe out the ruling classes of oppressors which Jesus had the power to do.
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  373.  @sqacing6914  I see. Equally void. Amazing how blank these tenured "scholars" are, how ignorant of the very source text of Christianity, the Holy Bible. Harold W. Attridge: The Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament Yale Divinity School "What was the dominant religious influence on [Jesus]?" A ridiculous question. Jesus was God incarnate, the promised Messiah, the very giver of the Law to Moses, the creator of the earth, the universe, all living things, and mankind, the embodiment of "religion", and a brain-dead nitwit asks that question? What influence does God's doctrine have on God is how ridiculous that is. At the age of twelve, Jesus knew Moses, the law, and the prophets. The scholars of the day, who had spent their whole lives studying and copying the Torah, were amazed at his knowledge after three days of exposition. Luke 2:46-49 Shaye I.D. Cohen: (A Jew) Samuel Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies Brown University "Was Jesus Jewish and, if he was, how would that have influenced his experiences as a young man growing up in Galilee?" These people are nuttier than a fruitcake. "He preached from Jewish text, from the Bible." No, the Bible was not yet completed. Jesus read the Torah - Moses, the law, and the Prophets. "The gospels don't even have a sense that he came to found a new religion, ... ." Jesus did NOT "come to found a new religion". Jesus was born to live a sinless life as a man and die as the Lamb of God, a propitiation for the sins of God's elect to spare the elect from eternal hell. ".... found a new religion, an idea completely foreign to all the gospel text, and completely foreign to Paul." Not at all "foreign to Paul": Paul understood the notion of a false prophet and could not accept that Jesus was the Messiah because he too expected a military conqueror as the redeemer and deliverer of Israel. Paul made it his business to kill as many adherents of this "new religion" as possible. Paul (formerly Saul) was forcibly recruited by Jesus on the road to Damascus. "... Christianity becomes something other than Judaism ... ." Christianity was always "something other than Judaism". Christianity dates from Genesis 3, all God's elect are saved by their faith in the promised Redeemer. The anti-Christian tradition of the Pharisees, contained in their Talmud, dates much later. Paula Fredriksen: William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University "Was Jesus Jewish? Why is it so important to us and why would it have colored his perceptions?" Another ridiculous question. Jesus, son of man, son of David, son of God, cared nothing whatever about race. The only thing that "colored his perceptions" was obeying his Father in heaven while incarnate on earth. Jesus cared about doing his Father's will and keeping the law and that is exactly what he did to become the sinless Lamb of God. "He's not a Sadducee. He's not a Pharisee. He's always arguing with the Pharisees. He's not an Essene. He's not an insurrectionist. And the fact that he's arguing with other people who may be members of these other groups just simply signifies that he's a Jew, because that's what these Jews all did with each other -- argue with each other all the time... " This brain-dead moron should read the Bible before spewing out such a stream of blather. Jesus was completely above all such ignorant considerations. Jesus was the living Word of God, the very embodiment of God's law to mankind and he corrected rather than "argued" with the frauds who were in Moses seat with their bizarre anti-God Talmud and schemes for earthly power and wealth.
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  374.  @03kevinmatthew03  They were. Then after centuries of doing exactly the opposite of what God commanded them, Israel was the barren fig tree, the unfaithful wife, the whore who paid "the nations" for fornication. God gave Israel a divorce and the complete destruction of Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple was the divorce settlement. The Christian church is the Israel of God now and always will be.
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  375.  @sqacing6914  See? From you own mouth, Judaism is defined by the Talmud, the book of Pharisaical traditions which Jesus exposed as satanic. Jesus had nothing in common with the Jews- the Pharisees, the Sadduces, the Scribes, the Lawyers, and their traditions which were counter to the law of God. Jesus made that fact very clear to the point all the Jews could think of was how to kill Jesus who did only good.
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  376.  Smokey 420  If only you could understand what is written in the Bible! Jesus, very God and very man, definitely was about his Father's business and that meant among other things teaching the Law of God to his people. Here's the part you keep missing: The people who were drawn to hear Jesus were Christians above and beyond any lineage and whatever else they have been called. Their faith was in the future Redeemer, The Messiah. The term "Jew" implies adherence to Judaism which is counter to Christianity (as is Roman Catholicism). Judaism is not primitive Christianity: Judaism, in the Talmud, is rather a repudiation of Moses, the Law, and the Prophets - the Torah - our Old Testament, the exposition of God's law and the history of God's interaction with men before the advent of Jesus. Jesus condemned the Jews for their corruption of the law of God and their treatment of the very people they were to protect and sustain - widows and orphans.
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  377.  griffith did nothing wrong  I leave that to you: Psalms 53:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good." It is you who are without proof or philosophical foundation for your atheism.
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  378.  Chupa Cabra  Be sure to tell Him that at your inevitable face-to-face meeting. There is more evidence of Jesus' advent than of anyone else. Of course, you would have to not be stupid, lazy, and dissimulating to realize this.
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  379.  @bootdude7527  I agree that is the standard majority argument. However, there is no mention of "Jew" until the Babylonian captivity. "Hebrew" yes, children of Abraham yes, "Jew" no. As far as I know, the first mention of "Jew" is Jeremiah 34:9 The point is there is ever and always only one means of salvation and that is by the grace of God alone through faith in Jesus' atoning work alone and not of any meritorious works. On that basis I argue that Eve was the first Christian because she believed God when God promised her a Redeemer from her children who would nullify the death and entropy caused by Adam's disobedience. I first heard this from Dr. R. C. Sproul. Eve placed her faith in the promised Redeemer, Jesus the Christ, Messiah, which makes her the first of billions of Christians. I like to think Adam was the second and that I am in there somewhere.
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  380. ​ @bootdude7527  Great, then let's call "them" Hebrews. As I pointed out very plainly, all who place their faith in the atoning work of Jesus the Christ are by definition Christian. The Abrahamic Covenant included all nations and not just the pricks with curly locks hanging past their ears wearing white shirts and hats.
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  381.  @bootdude7527  Please do eat your word salad. As I wrote, Eve's faith in the future Christ, Messiah, is sufficient. That is the one and only basis for declaring someone to be Christian. Ditto for Abel, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Joseph, et al. before the advent of Jesus. Ha ha, Jesus, very God and very man, subscribing to Mohammed's insane rantings, murders, robberies, wife beatings, and child molestation! Do try again to think. It is absurd that the Creator of the universe and all living would be born of woman and become a disciple of the very Satan He was born to nullify. After Moses delivered teh Law of God to the Hebrews during the Exodus, no Hebrew ate pork. That does not mean the Hebrews were Muslim. It means Mohammed was forming his fake religion and borrowed as many customs and "laws" as he could to grow his army of cutthroats. By the way, to form the possessive of names that end in "s" add an apostrophe as in Jesus'. I had already given you an example.
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  382.  Skyler Rose  Delighted you agree!
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  383.  @goose4919  Fun fact. The text actually says "Exod 22:16 ¶And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife." Lev 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." God created them male and female for them to marry - enjoy their exclusive sexual relationship - for life. Only literal translations are accurate by the way; dynamic equivalents are what the "translator" wants the Bible to say.
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  384.  @goose4919  It was you who attempted to quote the Holy Bible. Meanwhile, I don't quote any "random book" and all I read is worthwhile. In your case, learn to read and think - after awhile your head might stop hurting from the effort.
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  385.  griffith did nothing wrong  You hope, but then again yours is a hopeless existence.
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  386.  @demoHous  No such thing. You want extreme, look at the SPLC! They successfully marketed $175,000,000 in hate in 2018 which Morris Dees & Co., salted away in offshore accounts.
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  387.  @maneckineckbeard1749  If Jesus returned today and the Jews could, they would crucify him again for being the Son of God.
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  388.  @goose4919  Laugh! Unless you are reading the autobiography of Eric Arthur Blair you are reading Orwell's FICTION. Have you finished Animal House yet? Most people can read it in less than three years, but you seem to be a special case, you can have more time. Another joke masquerading as serious! Sociology is a borderline pseudoscience - try to find a job as a sociologist (joke!), psychology is a pseudoscience along with political science and the rest of the fluff invented to keep the football team in school and cash flowing in to the school. Unless you are photogenic, born female, black, Muslim, and sexually deviant, you will never get a job as a sociologist out of your "skool". If you don't learn engineering, law, or medicine, you are wasting your mother's money. Of course, those disciplines are disciplines - they take a lot of work to master.
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  389.  Chupa Cabra  You are reading your own fiction. "Chance" is not a force, chance cannot effect anything. Chance is the word used when all the variables are not known so the effect of a cause cannot be accurately predicted. Chance is like you - it doesn't do anything. Meanwhile, please do explain the origin of the (1) universe and (2) living things. Pardon me if I don't wait for your exalted answer.
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  390.  @goose4919  I stand corrected, thank you, Animal Farm. But are you aware what Blair was describing in that book? Reading sociology? You need to learn grammar first it appears. Surely there is a title to whatever it is you are allegedly reading and that title, author, and copyright holder are the way to cite works. At any rate, sociology is statistics and hoping you are can actually observe the variables you and quantify those variables. Psychology is pushed in the mix, supposedly so you can understand the actions of the individuals you treat as an aggregate. But, psychology is a hoax, a general case of "The Emperor's New Clothes" story because some people wanted to promote Freud while actual scientists wanted to expose him and see if he was anally retentive of his lit cigars. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a work of very bad fiction, like the proverbial blind men attempting to describe an elephant. Whoever can read all the existing psychobabble and then imagine and describe an imaginary but sufficiently obscure anomaly can get a Ph.D., in psychology and a state license to "practice" that voodoo and claim a basis for handing people an invoice. There are demons, there are people possessed by demons, which Freud very well knows now. Everyone is a sinner and in a sense waiting for the other shoe to fall. Problem is that shoe falls when you are past the point of no return.
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  391.  @goose4919  My mother passed away twenty years ago. I waste my own money these days, some of it on my internet connection so I can refute functionally illiterate buffoons.
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  392.  @goose4919  If that's what you believe Blair meant, you better read it some more. In fact you should branch out a bit and learn history, I mean what really happened, not what the big newspapers were told to print and now what television talking heads say. From Under the Rubble edited by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is short, three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago is long. http://www.solonin.org/en/article_mark-solonin-25-june-stupidity3 codoh.com There's much more unless you prefer to keep you head where the sun doesn't shine.
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  393.  Chupa Cabra  You have no idea about "superstitious nonsense". And I am not talking about "religions" - I specifically address Christianity, which alone holds that salvation is by grace alone and not of works. So, let's do get on to "science" shall we? In the first place, you know next to nothing whatever about physics and chemistry, that's why you are wasting money on sociology. A person who claimed to be a scientist of some sort could tell you about anything and you have no way to discern fact from fiction. Face it, you can't prove or disprove that the chicken came before the egg. You believe the most superstitious thing of all - that the universe popped into existence with no cause. Right away you have a problem because "science" is based on cause and effect - for every observed effect there is a cause. Anything else is religious superstition. How did the universe originate? How did inert elements form into the most complex structure in the universe and How did the most complex structure in the universe become alive. You believe is a fake religion. I don't.
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  394.  @goose4919  Ah yes, the guaranteed response of the atheist. The facts remain, however, the universe had a beginning, elements do NOT arrange themselves into cells, still the most complex structure in the universe that cannot remain constituted unless it is ALIVE. You can as easily explain why new creatures don't crawl out of sanitary sewers of cans of soup. You a Christian? Christians do not reject the literal account of Genesis 1-3. That cannot be done and accept the rest of the Bible as having any validity at all. Genesis is THE foundational book of the Bible, the most quoted as fact by Jesus - very God and very man - and the apostles. So perhaps you also reject the divinity of Jesus the Christ, you professing Christian? Genesis contains no bullshit about the universe creating itself, heavy elements forming from elemental hydrogen dispersed in a vacuum, etc. Evolution is the religion of the atheists, not Christians. Evolution is anti-science, illogical, it has no basis in fact established by observation of the physical universe. The one (1) and only reason evolution was ever popularized is because of the facade of impartial science Darwin managed to weave to cover his materialism. Like a hit song, vociferous atheists immediately shouted to the world that "science" has obviated any necessity for God, it all just happened! Evolution has all the validity of the new ice age popularized in the '60s, to the holes in the ozone layer in the '80s, to the "global warming" of the '90s, to the "climate change" hype now. There was no basis in fact - according to those timetables, the earth is uninhabitable. Only problem is its still here and so are people and animals and plants. It was merely hype to justify a world tax by a world government which people who value their individual liberty do not favor. What do the evolutionists have to gain today? Unquestioned and continuous tax funding. The main function of the government school system is to indoctrinate children to support the government. The scum who call themselves government aim for the worship and tax support of the large pool of government-indoctrinated evolutionists firmly believing there is no god but government and "science" disproves the primitive religion of Christianity. Too bad for the scum that "science" says no such thing, there is nothing whatever "scientific" about evolution. The faithful atheist worshiping at the altar of the National Science Foundation has to take it on faith that someone in the future will "figure out how it all happened" because sure as they go to hell no one in the past 150 years since Darwin wrote his novels has. What you don't know is that I was once one of the zealots of evolution. I am very angry about being lied to all through my government school days and having to memorize that bad fiction foisted on innocent school children by smirking evolutionists. Now I want to get some ... . Pompous asses such as Pinker and Krauss and Dawkins deserve to be exposed as frauds in full public view and humiliated just as they seek to humiliate, not disprove, Christians. They are nothing but atheists, they totally step away from "science" when they attack people such as Stephen Meyer and the good physicists and biologists at Creation.com and ICR.org. Neither biology nor physics owe anything to the useless "General Theory of Evolution". You have a choice: Worship God or worship Darwinism. You cannot not do both.
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  395.  griffith did nothing wrong  And every one of your "quite a lot of reasons to live do so happily" is the very antithesis of your professed religion of evolution. Evolution knows nothing of "happiness" or good and evil.
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  396.  @goose4919  You cannot at the same time "believe Nicene Creed" and deny the veracity of the Old Testament. You keep forgetting that evolution was invented specifically to comfort evolutionists that they would not have to account to God for how they live the life He gave them. Evolution IS BASED ON SPECULATION, NOT OBSERVATION. The geologic ages are assumed, the baseline for the various radiometric dating methods are assumed, the "fossil record" is read according to bias, etc. Why do you insist on giving mere speculation the status of fact? I suspect you crave man's approval because evolution is the religion that is taught in the government schools. I say again, if you reject Genesis with the creation account which Jesus quoted as fact - and He was the Living Word by whom all was created, John 1 - you have no grounds for your professed Christianity. If you reject Genesis, you reject God who created it all and whom you will face one fine day. Ditto for any other parts of the Holy Bible you wish to pretend are irrelevant or in error.
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  397.  @goose4919  Which are nothing more than adaptation which is already programmed into the DNA of creatures which goes right back to the question of origins: Who programmed the DNA? Everyone with a functioning brain and some knowledge of physics agrees that the universe had a beginning. Every sane person accepts that the physical universe in which mankind lives is reality. This may be difficult for you to accept, but you will not raise one objection that has not been answered either decades or millennia ago. You biggest problem is that you have not a clue how much you do not know. Start here: Creation.com End of conversation.
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  398.  Chupa Cabra  You persist in your willful ignorance instead of studying to learn. I do not just hand out links to occupy idiots - those are to information you are missing. Your attempt at logic is circular, and you persist in justifying your indoctrination in the religion of evolution rather than learning. Joke, as if you knew the "scientific method". But, as usual, I will lay it out for you. Thanks to Christianity which assured people that the sun would rise every day, that God's creation is orderly and therefore worth the effort to investigate, logic can guide the investigation. Science - study of the physical universe - is based on the logic of cause and effect, as I already told you. Cause and effect are applied in the "scientific method" by observation, question what caused the effect observed, hypothesize what principles might apply, devise an experiment to account for all known variables, experiment, observe the results, see if a cause has been determined, repeat to test the conclusion. Again, atheists will try to bluff and feign "scientific authority" for their faulty beliefs by using scientific lingo to make themselves "sound" like they can use science to support their convictions ... but it is just linguistic legerdemain ... verbal hocus pocus ... that only superstitious rubes would believe! It takes an ignorant lout to actually believe that the universe created itself, that hydrogen in a vacuum can coalesce into heavy elements, that elements can randomly arrange themselves into the most complex structures in the universe through chemical processes that do not naturally form into even small parts of that structure, and then, the rubes are successfully indoctrinated to believe that the exceptionally fragile complex structure is programmed with about three millions lines of code, comes to life and evolves into atheists, with minds impervious to fact and logic. As I have already told you, all the objections you think are unanswered have been answered but you will never know if you cannot overcome your indoctrination into stupidity. You are just one more proof that people who reject God will believe anything at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=zU7Lww-sBPg https://creation.com/its-not-science
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  399. ​ Chupa Cabra  I believe in God because of the physical universe and living things. Until I realized the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind are obviously created, the Holy Bible wasn't holy to me. You are a mere child, a college student, which means you have little if any practical experience or knowledge and that you are incapable of earning a living. Maybe you could, Obama style - selling your ass or mouth - but you won't be young very long and I doubt you have been "deep selected" to be president). To summarize in the vernacular, "You don't know shit." The only people more willfully ignorant than you are your professors who are the thoroughly indoctrinated paid shills for the government religion of evolution. Who knows? Someone might be praying to God to save you from your willful ignorance and stupid rebellion against God. The Holy Spirit may yet jerk you out of your atheistic Google echo chamber. You too might be compelled to fact reality, you might also study physics (chemistry is a subset) and philosophy and actually learn to think. Or, most likely, you don't have a prayer. I'll think about it, but I do not appreciate a numbskull thinking to make light of what I have learned over the last 29 years. Meanwhile, you continut to evade the question: (1) How did the universe originate? (2) How did hydrogen coalesce into heavy elements which arranged themselves through forced chemical combinations into the most complex structure in the universe, program the internal RAM of DNA with some three million lines of code, become alive, mutate into trillions of specialized cells and finally evolve into the atheist you are? I won't wait for your non-answer. Your high priests and professors have no answer either because they refuse to apply Genesis 1 to physics and chemistry.
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  400.  Chupa Cabra  Good for you. What kind of engineer in what "high tech industry"? Software coders claim to be "engineers" but that is not hard-core like mechanical or electrical engineering. I worked in Santa Clara in the microchip fabrication industry but that does not mean I designed the interconnect of Intel and AMD CPUs or RAM or simulated the interlayer stresses in MOSFETs or designed photoresist chemistry. You said you were a college student studying sociology, so I assumed you were a mere child incapable of earning a living. Sociology - to the extent it relies on psychology, mere voodoo, to explain human action - is a pseudo science. To the extent statistics are used to explain mass behavior sociology is useful to bureaucrats who lust for power over everyone else. Assuming you are not lying, I was mistaken regarding your ability to earn a living. My mistake. To the extent (1) you cannot justify your atheism and (2) you ignore the fact that the universe was obviously created and that living things were obviously created, you remain a child. I really do know how the universe "came to be". Just because you won't admit the obvious does not disprove the fact that I do.
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  401.  Chupa Cabra  I think you farted. Better check your pants, if you are wearing any.
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  402.  Chupa Cabra  I apologize for confusing you with a college snowflake I have allowed to waste my time, but you two have a lot in common, you buzz in the same atheist echo chamber. Your strawman is burning. No Christian matches your stereotype images. Christianity is the very foundation of science, not at all inimical to discovery and expansion of knowledge. The scientists in the disciplines of mechanical engineering, physics, microbiology, astrophysics, etc., do not "disdain" science. Bleeding as a medical procedure was not proposed by Christian doctors nor a flat earth nor was a heliocentric solar system an article of faith. Ignorant Roman Catholic bureaucrats to not speak for Christianity. Meanwhile, neither you nor your religion of evolution can answer the question of origins or in any way assist in physical research. The religion of evolution is merely tolerated because the high priests of evolution vigilantly screen out all researchers who do not do obeisance to the altar of evolution.
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  403.  Chupa Cabra  Your strawman is still burning. Christianity is the very foundation of science. Christians are scientists too. They get paid and do useful work in their fields. It is rather your religion of evolution that meets the definition of "superstitious nonsense" - https://www.rae.org/essay-links/jaki/ At your inevitable death you will have definite knowledge. Too bad for you that is beyond the point at which your eternal destiny can change. Since you are unable to pray to God for mercy for your sins you better hope some Christian asks God to spare you from the punishment due your ignorant arrogance. Meanwhile, what are your "... more productive and true scientific explanations!" for the origin of the universe and the origin of life? You fail to reveal what sort of "engineer" you are that might give some credibility to your comments, and, common to all atheists, you persist in avoiding the question of origins as well
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  404.  @goose4919  Christians by definition do not reject the authority of the Bible. The "obvious" that you consistently ignore is that there was never a reason to doubt Genesis 1 EXCEPT TO ACCOMMODATE ATHEISTS who by definition hate God and seek to stifle all mention of Christianity. You are allowing atheists to dictate to you what the Holy Bible says. If you "believe in evolution" you cannot believe in God - Father, Son, Holy Spirit - Almighty beyond the ability of man to comprehend, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal - without beginning. God even now holds the universe together - all the sub-atomic particles and forces and quantum effects - without stress or exertion. You believe in some lesser authority than God, I think his name is Darwin or Hawking or Gould or Krauss or Dawkins or Pinker or some "science" teacher who didn't even realize that science glorifies God. Christianity is the very foundation of science - research into how the physical universe and living things operate. https://www.rae.org/essay-links/jaki/ The only people who "go to heaven" - live eternally in the presence of God in community with the rest of the universal church - are chosen by God. Most of mankind are not elect to be forgiven of their sins. All these facts are stated in the Holy Bible, which actual Christians understand to be the ultimate authority of God's word to mankind. Read all about it, in the Holy Bible, absolute truth, which by your definition is "hate speech", yet another satanic notion you embrace. You don't for one reason - you are not actually a Christian, a follower of Jesus the Christ, Messiah, who quoted Genesis 1 and the Old Testament as absolute fact. You are in the world and of the world.
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  405.  @goose4919  Wrong again. My first major was sociology and my objection is exactly as I stated before and you can wade though 145 comments to find it, but sociology relies on psychology - which is state-licensed voodoo - as the basis for individual action which sociologists then aggregate to predict general trends. You haven't even written a thesis - probably not even required to get a degree at your play skool - but mine was on applying Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance to predict election results. In the end, it was just statistical analysis of past voting records. As I also wrote before, good luck finding a job unless you are well connected, black, female, and vociferously pro-abortion. Poverty, racism, sexism, whatever, are government-nurtured "problems" which are cash-cows. Such carefully cultivated "problems" as racism, poverty, sexism, are created to disguise the real problem which is the scum who call themselves government and claim a right to the life and property of all productive people within their grasp. When I was young, we were headed for a color-blind society. Then racism became a political gold mine and now any hint of Darwin's "favored species" gets instant headlines from the government news agencies. (Darwin was as stupid as you. He was willing to sell his soul to ride a wave of popularity from preaching what atheists wanted to hear.) God is my comfort, not my excuse, in the midst of gullible idiots such as you whose only hope is to get on welfare so productive people can be forced to pay your bills.
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  406.  @kalleknall7804  Keep telling yourself that, your demon wishes it was true.. The fairy tales you believe are insane. 😂
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  407.  @kalleknall7804  Insane means telling yourself that God did not create you or the earth or the universe or living things. Turning water into the best wine, feeding crowds of 4,000 and 5,000 from a handful of food, healing the sick, restoring the dead to mortal life, casting out demons (you need this), walking on water, etc., are attesting miracles, things that only God can cause. Miracles, as opposed to divine intervention in answer to prayer to God in the name of Jesus to advance the Kingdom of God, are intended to authenticate that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, the Christ. They had exactly that effect in the early Christian church and it still took three years for the Apostles to realize that Jesus was indeed the Christ and that they were in the presence of God. Miracles also authenticated Abraham, Elijah, and Elisha.
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  408.  @kalleknall7804  Really? Where did mommy and daddy originate? Keep going and you finally arrive at Genesis 1. The miracles were such that men could never have thought them up in the first place and they were such that could not be faked in the middle of crowds of thousands of people in the open air. ... just ... maybe ... the Holy Spirit will regenerate you so that you are capable of realizing the Truth that is right in front of your face as He has done for the rest of the Christian congregation in the universal church (church means congregation).
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  409. @Ashley Drury Because no one else with a brain is. So many? I still work for a living so my time is limited to disassembling particularly egregious liars and fakes. I am surprised no one handed Hitchens his head long ago. Then again, Hitchens didn't go up against a trained theologian like R.C. Sproul or a philosopher such as Greg Bahnsen or Sye Ten Brugencate. Like Dawkins, Hitchens preferred the soft targets who knew little of physics and biology or church history.
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  410.  @goose4919  I am a mechanic and welder.
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  411.  @goose4919  I believe you make the atheist evolutionist's mistake of assuming that "people back then" were primitive. On the contrary, even in the 1800's it was not unusual for people to remember hour long speeches verbatim. Adam was an absolute genius, the world's only perfect man until the advent of Jesus and Eve the world's only perfect woman. That means they understood in a flash what today's physicists work to discover in a lifetime or multiplied lifetimes of previous scientists. Mankind has devolved rather than evolved. Genetic entropy is real. Serious Christian scholars attribute the Pentateuch to Moses and I am not one to question their work. The lifetime of Shem overlapped that of Abraham and Issac which means first hand accounts of life before the flood could very well have been passed directly to Abraham's descendants, one of whom is Moses. Meanwhile people holding up signs on the freeway off ramp look just like the artist's depiction of Neanderthal and CroMagnon men. The pepper moth story is a hoax, Darwin did not explain either finches or their beaks and there is no scientific evidence at all to support evolution. https://creation.com/origin-of-life Also, the general theory of evolution is useless to scientists. https://creation.com/atheists-creation-story
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  412.  @goose4919  On the contrary, dinosaurs are no mystery at all, antibiotic resistance has been explained - you look at the sources! I don't know what your "MB" stands for, but if you meant cosmic microwave background radiation, that was also explained at Creation.com and ICR.org on the basis of scientific observation of the universe. The story that the peppered moths exemplify evolution is a hoax. The coloration of the moths had nothing whatever to do with the industrial revolution in Great Britain and neither did the moths adapt as a result of soot. That was a completely contrived story which you are taking for Gospel because of your government school indoctrination. Adaptation is what you want to pretend is evolution. Likewise Darwin proposed that the variation in the length of the beaks of the finches at the Galapagos Islands were the result of the birds "evolving" according to environmental conditions of dry weather and wet weather which is also unfounded unobserved unscientific bullshit you believe because you want to believe God did not create everything. Genesis 1 explains dinosaurs and you. That is the only coherent scientific account of why anything exists and what has happened to the earth since based on scientific observation of the physical universe. Nature and Scientific American and the National Science Foundation are the most biased organizations on earth. Creation.com and ICR.org and CreationAstronomy.com present all the evidence - for and against creation. Your atheist sites never accurately and completely report any of the scientific evidence for creation. It would help your case if you would read the articles at the links I provided before commenting. You only expose your ignorance when you spout off with no study. Neither you nor your high priests of evolution and atheism can answer how the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind originated. Your high priests cannot even propose a process for the creation of matter and then the transformation of matter into living creatures - they cannot even come up with a good fairy tale. Of course, as long as the government schools keep producing useful idiots like you, they don't have to. Just keep believing the just-so stories and paying taxes! The National Science Foundation loves to spend your money.
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  413.  @goose4919  "Science" doesn't "teach" "us" a thing. I have to study to learn what has been discovered by scientists who contribute to the pool of knowledge about the physical universe and living creatures. Your "science" has not taught you at all. Based on your witless comment, you obviously have not been studying your alleged "science". https://www.icr.org/article/christianity-cause-modern-science/ In your ignorance you presume there is some conflict between Christianity and science. Assumption is a logical fallacy. The fact of the matter is that Christianity is the very foundation of science. I do not speak for any other "religion", particularly Roman Catholicism which is not Christian. Islam is a hoax as is Buddhism and Hinduism and the Mormon and Jehovah's Witless cults, etc. Christianity is the one and only valid religion, demanding worship of the one and only actual God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three beings in one essence. No, you never will be able to comprehend God but your incapacity does not negate God - it just means you are stupid to think so. God doesn't need you at all, but you exist because God created you for some purpose. Maybe you were created to be stupid in public, I don't know. For all time Christianity is the moral code for mankind and always will be. https://creation.com/review-krauss-universe-from-nothing
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  414.  @goose4919  Ha ha, a "Christian school"! You obviously didn't learn anything different from government skool indoctrination. Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss are two of the high priests of evolution. Some Creationists are biologists: Such is Dr. Don Batten - "Research fields Plant science and agricultural climatology. Environmental adaptation of tropical / subtropical fruit species such as mango, lychee and custard apple (Annona spp.); floral biology, floral induction; breeding; environmental physiology (water requirements, response to temperature, light), plant taxonomy (especially at the sub-species level), and mineral nutrition. Dr Batten’s research in floral induction of lychee and mango has resulted in a complete overturning of previously accepted thought on this (see Batten and McConchie, 1995), which was a big impediment to scientific progress in the field as well as a cause for economic loss to growers caused by erratic flowering due to inappropriate management of these crops." https://creation.com/dr-don-batten-cv Here's a short list of professional scientists who understand that God created it all: https://creation.com/scientists-alive-today-who-accept-the-biblical-account-of-creation You obviously are not reading the articles I point you toward because they answer every question you have posed and thousands you would never even consider with what little you know. I am not going to waste any more time with your stupid questions when I have already pointed you to the answers. Stay ignorant, it's your problem, not mine.
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  415.  @goose4919  You complete idiot, I keep telling you to read and you consistently will not read or even think. Dr. John Sanford is in the list to which my URL pointed you. Dr. John Sanford is a geneticist, specifically a microbiologist who worked splicing plant genes and is a geneticist. https://creation.com/john-sanford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY98io7JH-c I do not listen to Infowars. Is that some video game you play? Stay stupid stupid! Never investigate, never read, never study, never think, you are a waste of time.
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  416.  Andres Porras  Does willful ignorance cause stupidity or is it the other way round? Assumption is a logical fallacy and it is interesting to me how consistently sexual perverts are illogical. I know yours is only a functionally illiterate rhetorical question because if you actually wanted the answer you would have found it by now, but it is addressed to me, so you have an answer. For starters God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, maker of the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind - is not a man. God is sovereign over all His creation, in full control. God maintains ever force and sub-atomic particle and every living thing in the universe without effort or exertion, unlike any man. As promised to Eve, Jesus the Christ is the redeemer of God's elect, was necessarily God incarnate, a man born of Mary, a woman in the line of David, as God promised to David. You present the logical fallacy of the excluded middle: you do not list all possibilities. God created mankind, "jew, white, or black" are all mankind. In case you haven't figured it out yet, people marry people from the other side of the world and have children. We are all mankind, as God created us. Jesus is very God and very man. Like the Holy Trinity, the Second Person of the Trinity is incomprehensible. If you don't like it you can tell all Three in One when you meet face to face.
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  417.  Andres Porras  Another fiction as is Mohammed's invention of "Allah". The physical evidence is that the universe and living things are created. Go from there.
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  418.  Andres Porras  As for stupidity I mean that the universe and living things are obviously created and never investigating who created them.
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  419. ​ Andres Porras  Christianity is the only true religion. Christianity alone holds that salvation is a free gift of God, it cannot be earned. All else are man-made systems that ignore reality, that God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind for His own good purpose and to His own good conclusion. God gave us the law and we ignore it at our mortal peril but our immortal souls are never lost to God. Good works are only those mandated by God and are only done out of gratitude for salvation. Read the Bible. The Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, the Chalcedonian Definition, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession of Faith, the Canons of Dordrecht, and the Westminster Confession of Faith are summaries of the Bible, refutations of heretics, and answers to the objections of the Roman Catholic papists whose aim is to maintain their system of spoils and earthly power. Every earthly power is dedicated to the elimination of Christianity in the long war against God. All the adherents of false religions and cults inwardly believe that if they can kill every Christian they will somehow escape the wrath of God. It's impossible, but Satan and his disciples persist in their attack hoping to prolong the time before they begin their eternity in hell. But God has already set the schedule and the demons and their disciples kill and destroy in vain.
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  420.  @woofawoof7616  Question for you: Why do you spend so much time reading what I write, when it's clear that you would like to ban me? And, while we're at it, I repeatedly point out that assumption is s logical fallacy and yet you who accept the media rhetoric still assume those talking heads and writers are not lying through their teeth.! Case in point: "What do you get out of hurting people?" I add that you only speak for yourself. There are perhaps many more people who are rather encouraged to read someone articulating truth in spite of those people who are "put off" when the truth does not agree with their prejudices. All those "good" things you mention are only good when you first accept that God alone defines what is good or evil. Otherwise your opinion is your only frame of reference.
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  421. The most that can be said about Jesus ethnicity is that he was of the line of David, a Hebrew. Jesus is very God and very man, not a Jew. By definition Jews reject the divinity of Jesus, hate his name, hate Christians, and teach that Jesus is eternally boiling in a vat of excrement. God destroyed Israel, the real one, Jerusalem, and the temple in A.D. 70 and made the Christian Church the New Israel to evangelize the world. The present "Israel" is a counterfeit with no blessing of God and no divine claim to the land they have taken. The blessing of God and promise of the land was on condition of obedience to God's law which the Hebrews never kept more than one generation, the life of a judge or the life of a righteous king of which there were only three or four counting David. For example, there never was a Jubilee.
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  422.  @HiddenLotus111  A Muslim believes in some impersonal deity he calls "god," Allah. Jesus is very God and very man, second person of the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and not at all "a Muslim" or a "Jew" creator of the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days far above every ethnicity yet born a descendant of David on his mother's side, the Holy Ghost on his Father's side. Islam is a false religion as is Judaism because both deny the deity of Jesus the Christ, Redeemer of mankind.
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  423. God doesn't need "favors". Out of gratitude for salvation, Christians want to please God by obeying God's law. Only Jesus, born of a woman but not of a man, ever perfectly obeyed God. So it is that the sanctification of a Christian by the indwelling Holy Spirit continues until death.
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  424.  Billie Joelish  Au contraire, I point out God's standard of perfect obedience to God's law, met only by Jesus the Christ. Your standard of achievement is in the toilet where you easily reach it.
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  425.  @carterdotn3083  Perhaps you never knew the significance of the widow's son, the Centurion's daughter, Lazarus, and, to cap everything else off, the Resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead, all of which are proof of life beyond the grave. You will have your answer. That much is inevitable.
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  426.  @friendlywobbly9903  Be sure to do so.
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  427.  Amber Wallace-Mustufina  Your are pathetically ignorant! Your complete lack of scholarship is obvious, yet with no shame at all you continue to spout drivel. The denial of hell - eternal punishment for disobeying God - was Satan's first lie. Said he, "You shall not surely die!" when as yet no one knew anything about death because Adam's body was as immortal as his soul right up until he corrupted everything - including the once perfect earth and universe - by his willful attempt to make himself equal to God. Your blind speculation does not outweigh millenia of scholarly study. Your bald-face statements do not outweigh the scientific data accumulated to date that clearly shows the universe and living things were created abruptly. We now live in a fallen world. Demon possessed men have been killing men since the very first generation when Cain murdered his brother Abel. God allows Satan and his disciples to harass his disobedient church as an element of purification. God never "accepts" sexual perversion. His law is immutable.
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  428.  @rekkaauto  All of your pretended objections to reality have been answered in great detail by Christians starting with the prophets and then the apostles and Christian scholars. All who genuinely want answers will find them because there are no original questions about Christianity. In the first place God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - is not "the Abrahamic God", he is the creator of the earth, universe, and all living things, sovereign over all including you. In the second place all mankind is guilty of cosmic treason against God and deserves eternal punishment. There is no such thing as an "innocent". We are all "conceived in iniquity". In the third place existence in this fallen world is not our end. Because of Adam's disobedience, even though Adam had been warned that disobedience would bring death, his perfect body, Eve's perfect body and our bodies can no longer maintain themselves. That's what fallen world means and our mortal death is the only way out of this fallen world. God's elect get perfect and indestructible bodies in the resurrection. So do the unrepentant sinners which means they can endure the wrath of God for eternity. In the fourth place, mankind was created last of all, on the sixth day of creation, roughly six to ten thousand years ago and science, which is based on cause and effect relationships and logic, agrees. Genetic loading argues against any possibility of mankind being older, we are degenerating too rapidly since the flood of Noah's day and increased exposure to radiation and mutation. In the fifth place, God sent his Son Jesus to be born a man, fully God and fully man, in the fullness of time. I'll ask for you what constituted the "fullness of time" when I get to heaven since you won't make it there. In the sixth place, Jesus said: Matthew 23:36 "Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation." Matthew 24:34-36 "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." ¶But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." And so it did, Israel, the barren fig tree, was obliterated in AD 70 by the very hands the Jewish government used to crucify Jesus. There were plenty of "that" generation still living. There was nothing said about a bodily return in that time. Jesus is not returning until the great commission of Matthew 28:18-20 is fulfilled - not until the Kingdom of God is instituted on earth - which means all men will acknowledge God's law and most will respect that by obeying it. What do you mean by "The Ground of All Being"? The Jews of today do not worship God. They deny their very own Messiah because he would not do tricks for them and militarily defeat the Romans who were also fulfilling God's purpose in the Pax Romana and good roads if nothing else. The Jews of today go by the Talmud which is the very antithesis of of the Torah, the Christian Old Testament. I know for sure that Christianity is "the right faith" because it is the only "faith" that explains reality, the physical universe, the earth, and all living things (yes the dinosaurs, coal, oil, etc.). Science is what the Holy Spirit used to regenerate me.
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  429.  @rekkaauto  Not true! I am Christian by election of God and not because I deserved any special treatment, and I show people general revelation - the physical universe and living things.
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  430.  @rekkaauto  Not me! I do not believe in any "... flying man in the sky flying man in the sky who we can’t see, have no proof that exists and well, the only place where he exists is the Bible, ... ." created you! That is your fantasy, not mine. I believe almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, created everything that is for his own good pleasure. That includes you, however useless and ignorant you have grown to be. Satan serves God's purpose - always wishing to do evil, but inevitably working out God's purpose instead. If all the Bibles were burned, Christianity would still flourish. The Holy Spirit lives in God's elect. The Christian church - congregations - cannot be destroyed. The Jews, the Romans, the Roman Catholics, the socialists, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc, could not eliminate Christianity. Neither can your tax funded high priests of the secular humanist US deep state. You are not the first to suggest removing God's word from God's people. You will not be the last to discover that is impossible.
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  431.  @rekkaauto  Actually God is perfectly just. He created mankind with everything, Adam disobeyed knowing full well the penalty was mortality, all of Adam's descendants disobey God's commands, and on it goes. God does only good, you bring evil on yourself by your disobedience of God's commands which protect against evil WHEN FOLLOWED, and you blame God when you fall into the perversions he told you to avoid and you call God rude? Almighty God allows you a mortal life, you spent it claiming God doesn't exist or attempting to use his logic to build an argument against God's existence and you call God rude? You are like a brat - annoyingly disobedient and disrespectful - but God gives you every opportunity to wake up and you call God rude? Very primitive of you.
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  432.  @sugatea5411  Love is the very opposite of sexual perversion and depravity. I love my children, my brother, and my friends, but have sexual relations exclusively with my wife. David loved Jonathon but as an ardent fellow servant of the living God, who fearlessly fought the idolatrous enemies of God who corrupted life on earth, life which to this day will be very good when the corruption is rooted out. If you want to live a fulfilled life, learn and follow God's commandments. If you want to waste you life, be a sexual pervert and march in your "gay" parades, a hedonist. But, there are useful things to do with your life.
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  433.  @sugatea5411  Read Genesis. God created them male and female, God instituted marriage - the lifelong union of one man and one woman - the only fulfilling expression of sexual intercourse - and any deviation from what God established is harmful. All else will turn to your destruction, even as God warned Adam that in the day he disobeyed, he would die. As yet there was no death and it is true that Adam disobeyed but still lived 930 years, but in the end he died. There was no necessity for the misery that so many experience today. You have the choice to add to that misery by mocking God or doing your part to make this world a better place by obeying God. It's that simple and it's up to you.
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  434. @A fan of heavy music and Morrowind Your lucky day - salvation causes gratitude to God and service to mankind which explains why you do neither.
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  435. @A fan of heavy music and Morrowind Not me! The Bible tells you so.
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  436.  Amber Wallace-Mustufina  You hope. Why don't you find out? This life is your one opportunity to determine your eternity. Start with Genesis 1 and physics 101.
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  437.  @Mitchery  No such thing.
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  438. @Chicken Man Monsoon It isn't the Westboro congregation you are laughing at.
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  439. The facts matter, not your unfounded beliefs. You contradict yourself anyway: There is nothing "hateful" to an atheist because there is no right or wrong in your worldview. Right and wrong are a property of Christianity, not atheism. With you it's law of the jungle and anything goes. Bottom line, the Westboro congregation is not your problem, but you do have a huge problem unless your are going to be a complete idiot and say you like pain too.
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  440. @Chicken Man Monsoon All the "mother humping" is done by you (and Oedipus). I did however, learn good manners, to which sexual perverts are totally oblivious. Good manners among your ilk are like casting pearls before pigs or giving books to goats.
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  441. @Chicken Man Monsoon Ha ha, very funny. This too will be brought to remembrance on Judgement Day. Play with your genitals while you can, there's a reason this life is called mortal.
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  442. A sign warning queers that their eternal destiny is hell if they don't repent and ask forgiveness for offending their Creator by violating his created order? That's an act of love.
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  443.  @hello-gk5cz And you are borrowing from Christian ethics for those views. There is no "right" or "wrong" for atheists, no good or evil because God alone set the standard. According to atheism, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, et al. tyrants and their murderous henchmen did nothing wrong. You have your atheist views for no reason and they have their atheist views and none of you have any rational consistent basis for your views.
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  444. What a waste of time it is to focus on the Westboro congregation. You should instead learn something very important https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY98io7JH-c and spend time figuring out if there is any possible way to restore what has been destroyed. Maybe nanotechnology and then again maybe that cannot be applied. I don't believe the author was aware of nanotechnology at the time of this interview.
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  445. On what basis do you profess this? Deuteronomy 7:9-10 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face." And, New Testament: Matt 13:41-43 "The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." There are many more instances where God declares most people will face his eternal wrath after God ends their mortal life. How then do you write "... god (sic) loves everyone no matter who they are."? How do you deal with the Bible that says God elects whom he will to spare his wrath and that Jesus died for God's elect?
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  446. God does not love the unelect. Those he does not elect to be saved from his eternal wrath he condemns to the eternal punishment of his wrath - to hell - reserved for the devi, his angels, and unelect sinners.
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  447. ​ @ahmedshehab6297  I do not "use ISIS and Saudi Arabia" as examples of what is wrong with Islam. I use the notion of Islam springing from the demon possessed mind of Mahomet. Islam is nothing more than Mahomet's means of awing his army of cutthroats into the belief that murder, pillage, and rape are actually justified. Fatwas conveniently whitewash additional perversions and fetishes. "Islam" with the phony "Allah" are at best mere anti-Christs right up there with the Pope vying for world domination through violence. The very opposite of the one and only God of creation and Prince of Peace.
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  448.  @lad7436  Sexual perverts are demonic, lurking for an opportunity to prey on children and make them into equally miserable adults.
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  449.  @ahmedshehab6297  The warning against anti-Christs is the only prediction of Mohammed, as if you know anything at all about Christianity. I am the one who pointed out that about 99.9% of the people who claim to be Christian never even read the Bible much less read it all the way through. That means most people have not a clue how much of the case law in Leviticus still applies. However, all the bloodline and ceremonial law became null and void with the advent of Jesus the Christ, fully God and fully man, second person of the Holy Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - three distinct persons in one essence is the best mere mortals can conceive of God. certainly not your fake god "Allah" which exists only in the minds of those deluded people who call themselves Muslims.
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  450.  @DrTocan  The biblical meaning of a "man lying with a man as with a woman" is perfectly clear: It refers to sexual perversion - shoving a dick up another man's asshole or into their mouths or some other means of masturbation to achieve orgasm and ditto for women titillating each other sexually. Yes, men used to share beds for convenience and to save money on room rent because there was only one bed in the room. That is not what the Bible is referring to as an abomination in the sight of God. Also, sexual perverts are the most miserable of people. They are not "gay".
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  451. ​ @bluerose8255  Christians are called to judge righteous judgment. That means judge according to God's law and presupposes a complete knowledge of God's law. Jesus gave examples regarding the woman caught in adultery (where was the man?), taxation, the state of heaven, the existence of hell, etc.
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  452. I believe in God because of the physical universe and living things. Until I realized the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind are obviously created, the Holy Bible wasn't holy to me. The questions no atheist can answer: (1) How did the universe originate? (2) How did hydrogen coalesce into heavy elements which arranged themselves through forced chemical combinations into the most complex structure in the universe, program the internal RAM of DNA with some three million lines of code, become alive, mutate into trillions of specialized cells and finally evolve into you?
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  453.  @hopebgood  You are a blasphemous idiot for all your own personal petty reasons. God needs nothing, mankind needs everything.
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  454.  @worm3165  Do you think you are being clever? Stupid is more like it - God is eternal, the primal and ultimate cause without beginning or end, beyond comprehension.
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  455.  @worm3165  You ask Him.
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  456. You know there's something right when people have the courage to tell the truth.
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  457. I know there's something wrong with people who are offended by what God decrees.
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  458.  @tigerjackson7818  The hating is on your part. Someday you account to God why you think shit on your dick is a good thing when God created male and female and marriage.
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  459.  @andrewphillips470  Only your fellows because Christians are called to love their fellow man and pray for his salvation. That word "love" has nothing to do with sex either: It means telling the truth and meeting material needs Good Samaritan style.
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  460.  @kevinhicks8455  You said it not me! Keeping the law of God is the path to earthly success. Salvation is by the grace of God alone, through faith in the propitiation of Christ's sacrifice alone and not by any meritorious works and I never wrote anything else. Please learn to read.
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  461.  @DF-mw1sh  God confirmed that he punishes eternally those who pervert his creation of male and female and marriage.
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  462. @IM2BiZ Where? Evil is not a thing to be hated, evil people are but Christians are not to hate people. We are never to lose sight of the fact that but for the grace of God, such would we remain.
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  463. @TheBigBadWolf Please do explain how you know.
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  464. Do what? Proclaiming what God has said is exactly what the church - the Christian congregations - are supposed to do. That is part of what God commanded.
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  465.  @miadior8590  Good question. The answer is that we get the body we would have had had Adam not sinned. That body is indestructible but sentient. That is how every cell in your new body can feel pain but not be damaged. The burning wrath of God is like being submerged in a crucible of molten steel forever and feeling unending pain.
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  466.  @fullmetalsasquach8229  The woman at the well in Samaria was not a prostitute. She had been through five failed marriages and was shacking up when she met Jesus. She had an honest question, got an honest answer, and turned her entire village around because everyone knew she was honest and forthright. The woman the Pharisees, children of the devil, "religious" in their own eyes, brought a woman, but not the man, caught in adultery to Jesus knowing that God commended adulterers to be stoned to death. Jesus, very God and very man, knew their hypocrisy and short circuited those Jew demons by saying anyone who is sinless, stone her. Jesus, who perfectly obeyed God, the only one there with the right to stone her, forgave her and told her to sin no more. I believe she repented and obeyed Jesus ever after and is in his presence right now.
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  467.  @miadior8590  It's your funeral. :goodvibes:
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  468.  @miadior8590  The soul is reunited with a body that is indestructible and does indeed feel pain. If you actually read the Bible instead of regurgitating what equally ignorant people say you would know that.
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  469.  @miadior8590 What did @miadior8590 write 2 years ago that is to you an "impossible scenario?"
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  470.  @fullmetalsasquach8229  Is English your second language? Or, did you merely attend an American government school?
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  471.  @fullmetalsasquach8229  The Westboro Church (WBC) merely states the fact that God declared sexual perversion to be not only a sin, but an abomination. Sin is disobedience of God's law and dishonor of God. The WBC is also very unpopular for pointing out that America's wars and slaughter of foreign people is also a demonic act. In other words, the slaughter of some 1,000,000 Iraqi people pleases Satan, not God. The destruction of the people of Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan is also a satanic act. The demons who call themselves "government" have no authority to order US soldiers to attack a people who are not invading the united States. Likewise, for the US to follow the orders of Netanyahu and the rest of the Jews and attack Iran is to directly defy God. There is no Israel or Promised Land since A.D.70 when God destroyed national Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple and made the Christian Church the New Israel. What exists today and calls itself "Israel" is a satanic counterfeit founded by terrorists with not blessing whatever of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The Jews have worked unceasingly to destroy what made American great, our Christian culture.
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  472.  @fullmetalsasquach8229  Wrong. The WBC is doing what the rest of the Christians are too cowardly to do: confront government-approved sin. The rest are cowering in their boots praying the IRS doesn't decide to audit them.
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  473.  @Erdos443-yn3xd  God doesn't need a pen, lad. He spoke the earth, the universe, living things, mankind, and everything seen and unseen into existence. He spoke through his prophets and they had pens. God is perfectly able to communicate with his elect through the reading of the Bible.
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  474.  @Erdos443-yn3xd  Wrong again! I was not raised Christian. I'm sure in that your culture and upbringing, has given you complete and utter conviction that what you believe is true. But, it was precisely my interest in physics and engineering that led to my conversion. Bullshit doesn't work in physics and engineering, it's hard facts such as the strength of steel and the strength of polymerization of concrete that matter in the real world which led to two conclusions: There is one explanation for the origin of the universe and one explanation for the origin of life. Since you are completely detached from reality, know that "science" is based on causality - for every observed effect there is a cause - and science is the pursuit of learning those causes. There is no such thing as a causeless effect. I am interested only in facts. I know and test my own presuppositions: God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - created all that is and He created the earth for mankind to be the steward of it. There is wealth of physical evidence that the universe and living things were created whole which destroys your concept of a purposeless "Carl Sagan" universe and life. You try proving the scientists at Creation.com, ICR.org, etc. wrong. They are up front with all their presuppositions too and daily prove them to be a correct paradigm.
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  475. ​ @Erdos443-yn3xd Easy to prove but you do not know the physical universe right in front of your face so you are unable to understand the scientific proof. Since you most likely do not know, science is based on causality which means there is a cause for every effect and the operation of science is to discover the cause of observed effects through the process of hypothesis, experiment to test the hypothesis, by which a hypothesis which consistently predicts the result of an experiment becomes a theory which if not invalidated becomes a law of physics. There is no "theory of evolution." The word itself is undefined because atheists are constantly changing the definition as physical science expands and every definition is invalidated. Suffice it to say that evolution is the religion of the secular humanist. So it is that God created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days, the day one rotation of the earth before the earth was finished. Now all you have to do is study geology, microbiology, astrophysics, and philosophy to familiarize yourself with the reality of creation all around you. That works for Muslims, Jews, eastern mystics, etc., but it requires that you study what has been discovered. Then we can go from there. Creation.com, ICR.org, AnswersInGenesis.org, https://www.sermonaudio.com/saplayer/playpopup.asp?SID=11606135334
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  476. ​ @kirakookie Any sexual relation outside of marriage dishonors God who created man and woman and marriage the perfect expression of sexuality. We are created to have children and raise them up to serve God through obedience to God's law. God's law is that given to Moses with case law in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, throughout the rest of the Torah and in the New Testament from God himself, Jesus the Christ, very God and very man, and the Apostles, minus the dietary, ceremonial, and sacrificial laws which were abrogated by the advent, sinless life, and resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
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  477. Tell that to the Pharisees, scribes, and lawyers. Jesus loved those his Father gave him, not everyone.
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  478.  @sandraarita217  Was hell made for the sinner or the sin?
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  479.  @sandraarita217  Jesus was much more blunt than I am. Furthermore Jesus really does have the power of life and death.
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  480.  @sandraarita217  You don't have to guess. Read the Bible and see exactly what God says about sexual perverts.
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  481.  @sandraarita217  Exactly what the Bible says.
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  482.  @sandraarita217  I like the way Jesus "approached" unrepentant sinners, chief among which were the government, the Pharisees, Sadduces, Scribes, and attorneys, all of whom were parasites on the people.
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  483.  @chickenpurple6704  Obviously you never read the Bible! What God said in his word the Bible is that the disruption of the natural order is so severe that homosexuals are to be stoned the moment they are discovered. In the New Testament homosexuality is called an "abomination," meaning a major offense against God. God's elect are not homosexuals and everyone not elect of God for salvation from their disobedience are most certainly sent to eternal burning hell.
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  484. Sexual perversion is an expression of hatred toward God. God created them male and female. God created marriage between one man and one woman in one life. Therein is fulfillment of all sexual desire and purpose in life, the two become one, participate in the creative act, raise up children to the glory of God, and die knowing they have lived their lives well.
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  485.  @alliekozlowski7225  Fight about what? God and Jesus are proper nouns and therefore capitalized by literate people. To capitalize a letter, hold down the shift key while typing the letter. Jesus constantly exposed the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Sadduces - the government of the real Israel - acting under color of law. Jesus never pulled a punch against the brood of vipers who were supposed to minister to the people but instead exploited them. Never doubt today's brood of vipers would get the same exposure.
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  486. The most loving thing you can do is tell the truth. Of course, it helps to know the truth. Matthew 22: 37-40 Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." "This is the first and great commandment." "And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
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  487. Truth, not your diet, is absolute. The point is to know truth. Truth applies to all mankind equally everywhere regardless of opinion, perversion, or bias.
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  488.  @gamesandguitars3901  Except that ewy3s is a mere mortal creature. God's laws are mandatory for all.
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  489.  @quaxckz6738  I agree. Boston is best too.
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  490.  @freememesfordaysdudes5901  The Bible is the sufficient guide for life.
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  491.  @STOPPPP-l3f  Go to Korea.
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  492.  @STOPPPP-l3f  Please use English if you actually have anything to say.
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  493.  @STOPPPP-l3f  Utter gibberish.
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  494.  @matthew-jy5jp  The Bible most explicitly says God hates sexual perverts. He commands all those perverts who "come out of the closet" to demand their insanity be accepted to be stoned lest they pollute the land and the land vomit out the people who tolerate such depravity.
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  495. @Ethan Ansell Which is a diversion from the topic that God plainly created sex for marriage alone and defined marriage as that lifelong sexually exclusive union of one man and one woman. It has nothing to do with "cake". The dietary, bloodline, and ceremonial laws were all abrogated with the advent of Jesus the Christ. However, the condemnation of sexual perversion remains as you will unavoidably discover.
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  496.  Billie Joelish  It could only be a surprise to you that a pack of sexual deviants have sexual deviancy in common.
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  497. This is another of the nonsense replies I get. Did you mean something or did you just fart?
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  498.  @thing8357  You first.
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  499.  @mayac6549  Do you know anything about the rules of grammar and spelling? People who have something to say usually do.
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  500.  @mayac6549  Liars and lies are a challenge for me to refute. If I can't something is wrong with me.
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  501.  @thing8357  WWII was not a defensive war. FDR worked hard to get the US involved just as Woodrow Wilson worked hard to get Americans killed in that European war. The War to Prevent Southern Independence was aggression by the North. Lincoln wanted the war so he could keep taxing the South's cotton exports and Congress with its northern majority, funneled the money to northern boondoggles and the southerners were fed up and wanted out from under the federal government. Fewer than 1% of the southerners owned slaves. The Confederate soldier was fighting for the freedom of his State. The Yankees were fighting because they had been drafted and faced prison if they didn't.
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  502. @Ai's café。๑ Oh right, because you created the earth, the universe, living things and mankind, because you are eternal and three persons in one essence, you can delcare there is no hell! Ha ha, nice try. In the words of the song, you can swear there ain't no heaven, but you pray there ain't no hell. However, your pathetic squirming doesn't change the reality of your eternal destiny if you remain apart from Jesus, the only your Lord and Savior.
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  503. You haven't seen hate until you see how God hates unrepentant sinners.
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  504. God did the judging, Phelps is merely pointing out the sentence.
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