I don't think so. He is a Christian politician.You realize that Vice President Mike Pence is a Dominionist, right?
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I don't think so. He is a Christian politician.You realize that Vice President Mike Pence is a Dominionist, right?
Ergo, tolerance becomes a problem when you believe in intolerance. Doesnt matter what others believe. It diesnt matter what facts say. It's all about me and what I want.It isn't the LGBTQ that creates a problem. It's when it is taught in schools as a lifestyle to those who don't agree that it becomes a problem. It's the very thing you are talking about but in reverse
Ah, but both sides are meant to intend that as a temporary arrangement, until the child grows up and lives an independent life, and shapes his or her own destiny.That’s why I mentioned your “parents.”
They would never let any harm come to you!
You've acutely anticipated my next line!Well (when it comes the “day” for Jehovah God to step in mankind’s affairs & straighten everything out), He will be our real Father, and Jesus our Big Brother. (Don’t bring up any Orwellian ideas now! Lol.)
Well played! A lovely credential! Me, I'm peasant stock back to the Paleolithic. You have to look at my wife's tree to find some aristos.I like reading quotes from Churchill, he was a character! In fact, we are 8th cousins 3 times removed, believe it or not. Through his mother, Jennie Jerome.
It's a rather unsettling thought, placing one's future in the hands of an alien species, no? I mean, why do they bother, what are they really after?Your Psalms quote about not trusting princes, is Psalms 146:3. That’s talking about humans, though....which God & Jesus aren’t.
To oversimplify, the idea of resurrection / an earthly body is consistent with Hebrew tradition, and the idea of the soul, and post-mortal judgment (Minos, Rhadamanthys and one more), and heaven (the Underworld, the Elysian Fields to the right, Tartarus to the left) is from the Greek.Interesting, that many religious people’s hope is going to heaven, but the Bible constantly talks about living on the Earth as being man’s future. (Isaiah 11 9 [vss.6-9]; Psalms 37 10,11,29; Matthew 5:5; Revelation 21:3-4 [“tent of God is with mankind”]; etc., etc.)
I actually see death as useful, the part of life that gives us the word 'deadline' and makes sure we get things done. Our strongest instincts are still the Darwinian ones, survive long enough to breed (and, with H sap sap, where the infant needs care for five years before getting any independence, to see the offspring through that period). I accept that I'll die; and that I'll leave a ripple in the circle of family and friends; and that the ripple will be extinct when my grandchildren die ─ the same forward as backward (though I did bring some of the dead back to life when I put a family history together last century).God’s Kingdom will ‘bring peace between animals & man, get rid of sorrow, pain, and even death.’
Ah, but both sides are meant to intend that as a temporary arrangement, until the child grows up and lives an independent life, and shapes his or her own destiny.
Well played! A lovely credential! Me, I'm peasant stock back to the Paleolithic. You have to look at my wife's tree to find some aristos.
[Strokes chin, looks thoughtful] Oh, Nixon ... Nixon eh? Well well ...I doubt that! Odds are, we all have some ‘aristos’ in our background.
BTW, through that same lineage — Gaskill, from Gascoigne — I’m also related to Richard Nixon! Yes, Churchill n Nixon were distant cousins, too.
It's a rather unsettling thought, placing one's future in the hands of an alien species, no? I mean, why do they bother, what are they really after?
Yeah, I know...I almost didn’t add that!! Lol.[Strokes chin, looks thoughtful] Oh, Nixon ... Nixon eh? Well well ...
Y'know, I've read the Garden story a number of times, and not once have I found any mention of 'rebel', 'sin', 'original sin', 'the fall of man', 'death entering the world', 'spiritual death' or the need for a redeemer. Nor any identity of the Snake with Satan (who in the Tanakh is one of God's courtiers, not the ArchVillain eg Job). God does NOT chuck them out because of anything they did. He says quite clearly why he chucks them out at Genesis 3:22: "Then the Lord God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"─ 23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden ..."They want money! Lol.
No...he is our Father. He gave Adam life, Luke 3:38.
Adam’s choice (to rebel)
Before I answer that, can you give me an example of man successfully ruling himself for long, wise, uninterrupted, uncorrupted periods of time WITH god's help?‘Is man capable of ruling himself, w/o God’s help’.
the question, though, is who is intolerant.Ergo, tolerance becomes a problem when you believe in intolerance. Doesnt matter what others believe. It diesnt matter what facts say. It's all about me and what I want.
Nah, the founders weren't Christian believers. The people who wrote the Constitution weren't Christians.the 'no establishment of religion' clause was put there by Christian believers,
The leading figures in the framing of the US Constitution included deists and humanists.Nah, the founders weren't Christian believers. The people who wrote the Constitution weren't Christians.
My point was that the people who created the "separation of church and state" were not Christians to begin with.The leading figures in the framing of the US Constitution included deists and humanists.
But we're talking about the part of the First Amendment that forbade the establishment of any state religion. And while the deists and humanists would have no trouble with that, the principal agitation came from the rival bands of believers with the example of the Anglican church in England before their eyes.
I don't follow. Do you mean that the principle of separating church and state goes back to an earlier place and time?My point was that the people who created the "separation of church and state" were not Christians to begin with.
I’d read it many times, too. But without help from JW’s, I never grasped much....especially not the issues raised in the Garden account, about sovereignty & about God’s really being called a liar. I didn’t get it on my own.Y'know, I've read the Garden story a number of times, and not once have I found any mention of 'rebel', 'sin', 'original sin', 'the fall of man', 'death entering the world', 'spiritual death' or the need for a redeemer.
Sorry, I missed this.And Ezekiel devotes his 18th chapter to pointing out that sin is not inheritable anyway eg 20 "The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."
If there was nothing bad in the Garden of Eden, then how was the serpent there in the first place? Your point contradicts itself.I’d read it many times, too. But without help from JW’s, I never grasped much....especially not the issues raised in the Garden account, about sovereignty & about God’s really being called a liar. I didn’t get it on my own.
Death is mentioned, though...the result that would come from disobeying. And in Romans 5:12, Paul says “thus, death spread to all men.” From the “one man”. Inferring an inherited trait.
As for a Redeemer, Genesis 3:15 prophesies that need.
In the Garden, there was no bad for A&E to be warned about. Hence, why Eve felt so comfortable approaching a snake. Or at least, not running from it, when it began talking.
TTYL, my cousin.
Oh, BTW, it isn’t through my Gaskill lineage that I’m related to Nixon & Churchill, it’s through Lawrence & Cassandra Southwick. They’re my 10-G grandparents. And just found out that Liv Tyler, the young actress that was in the movie Armageddon? She too descended from them! Liv Tyler is my 11th cousin, 1 time removed. Kid you not.
Info found on FamousKin.com.
Google Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick...interesting story!
If there was nothing bad in the Garden of Eden, then how was the serpent there in the first place? Your point contradicts itself.
Well, in the story, the Snake tells no fibs. If anyone misspeaks, it's God, with [his] statement that if you eat the fruit you'll die the same day.I’d read it many times, too. But without help from JW’s, I never grasped much....especially not the issues raised in the Garden account, about sovereignty & about God’s really being called a liar. I didn’t get it on my own.
You'll find that it's expressed as a warning, not a threat ─ DON'T eat the fruit BECAUSE you'll die the same day. And not DON'T eat the fruit BECAUSE I ******* said so.Death is mentioned, though...the result that would come from disobeying.
Paul didn't get that from the Garden story. If I remember correctly, that idea is first found among Alexandrian Jews towards the end of the 2nd century BCE. And / or it may be the product of midrash, a Jewish practice from that era of taking of any verse of scripture to use as a springboard for flights of fancy.And in Romans 5:12, Paul says “thus, death spread to all men.” From the “one man”. Inferring an inherited trait.
I respectfully demur ─ 3:15 says nothing of the kind.As for a Redeemer, Genesis 3:15 prophesies that need.
But as we saw, since they were denied knowledge of good and evil, the warning that was given was meaningless anyway ─ until afterwards.In the Garden, there was no bad for A&E to be warned about.
But the Snake spoke only the truth. And as I said before, it's a thoroughly excellent thing that Eve did, bringing humans the knowledge of good and evil, so whichever way you look at it, she deserves tremendous approval.Hence, why Eve felt so comfortable approaching a snake. Or at least, not running from it, when it began talking.
Golly, your Lordship! Terrific bragging rights! I'm envious.Oh, BTW, it isn’t through my Gaskill lineage that I’m related to Nixon & Churchill, it’s through Lawrence & Cassandra Southwick. They’re my 10-G grandparents. And just found out that Liv Tyler, the young actress that was in the movie Armageddon? She too descended from them! Liv Tyler is my 11th cousin, 1 time removed. Kid you not.
Info found on FamousKin.com.
Google Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick...interesting story!