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We need the bible. The bible often used a vinyard as an analogy. Grapes grow on two year old wood. Year one just leaves and a new shoot. Fruit year two, then the branch should be pruned off. But the stem is maintained and fertilized. That is the Bible and tradition. You injure the stem and the whole plant dies. Spong is wrong. Protestantism could not have formed except in relation to RC corruption, and PC could not have formed except in dialog with superstitious Christianity. We should recognize the Hegelian dialectic and use it to encourage new thought and prune the old carefully but leave the central organization.

Every book is different and has its own context. Jewish scholars sort our OT into four collections, which makes plenty of sense.

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Yes. Plenty of Jewish Nazis. American Nazis too. I can understand how a young man can be caught up in events. I don’t understand Soros’ lack of regret.

I just checked and the quote was attributed to “The Australian”. Can you get behind the paywall? And are you part of the lockdown? Or is it lockdownunder?

Fooled me. Not the first time.

I can look tomorrow. Those are the first two books I would pull. I don’t remember anything about the various Jewish sects in the NT. Just Jesus and the other Pharisees.

What are you going on about? Soros is an unrepentant Nazi. The words came out of his own mouth. Sending rich Jews to the camps so the Reich could steal their stuff was the highlight of his life. His words; not mine.

The Sanhedrin were the Vichy government of their day. I would look at Josephus first, then Maccabees.

Soros is an old Nazi. He was part of the third reich and now the globalist fourth.

Agreed. I’m not pushing any agenda, but evaluating the quality of the evidence. Everything is saturated with propaganda now, and we are being encouraged to go along with manufactured narratives and not use critical thinking skills. It’s important to discern primary sources from secondary ones and actions from words.

Not just a perspective, but solid evidence. He caught the mortar shell with his chest; he deflected the rock and has the police reports with the eyewitnesses and video footage (per interview).

Thormas, do you live in Portland like the guy in the interview or are your crowd estimates based on someone’s report? Or are you guessing?

The rioters come out at night and the “protestors” go away. It’s in the interview.

Suppose you have a chocolate milkshake. How much dog poop can you stir into it before it becomes undrinkable? Policemen blinded by lasers. Clay mortars fired at police. Fragment bombs. Rocks. All organized and directed. The peaceful people have all left by this point. It may have been a milkshake earlier but not anymore.

Listen to someone who knows. Peaceful? Police brutality? Minority activism?

The monument destruction riots have been over for a month. Now the BLM focus is on the violent attacking of police, occupying public property and defunding law enforcement.

You’re not wrong, but speaking precisely makes a difference here. “Put it in God’s hands” is vague and a bit callous. Better to teach them how to put it in God’s hands by praying for the offender. Why use platitudes when you can be specific?

You are conflating contrition, attrition and apology with forgiveness. Repentance also sits in this lexical domain. It’s often necessary to forgive people who are dead or otherwise not available for comment.

The path to forgiveness is holding an image of the person you want to forgive and praying for their health, success and happiness. Done properly it is the hardest thing you will ever do and it takes a whole lot of repetition. Years even.

Cuomo is called “The Grandma Killer” because he went against medical advise and forced nursing homes to admit C19 patients and caused excessive fatalities. Here in Florida we had a high rate (60+%) last month but it was an error caused by labs reporting only positive results. Now that is fixed and the positive test rate in my county is 4.9% with an average age of 79.9. C19 is essentially a danger only to the elderly in long term care here. YMMV.

AJ is a treat. Two things I really like about her: 1) She honors the text down to last jot and tittle, and tries to accurately read what the author intended. 2) She reads in order to ask deeper questions instead of looking for answers.

Forgiveness is the only way to rid yourself of resentment. It does nothing for the other, but everything for the self.

She has several wonderful classes online at Great Courses.