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  • US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland

    09/23/2019 9:14:21 PM PDT · 11 of 11
    5cents to Olog-hai

    What a crock. Not reality for the masses of middle-class Americans. What a double crock of #$@#.

  • VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse

    08/05/2018 9:49:15 PM PDT · 14 of 16
    5cents to BenLurkin

    How myths and fantasy are born.

  • Commission Launched by President Trump Finds No Widespread Voter Fraud in 2016 Election

    08/05/2018 9:47:55 PM PDT · 39 of 39
    5cents to Pearls Before Swine

    It was disbanded due to uncooperative State election boards and handed off to Homeland, which refused to investigate beyond cyber-security issues. Voter ID was never addressed.

  • Woman's warning to pit bull owners after gentle dog cost her an ARM - Warning Graphic

    08/05/2018 9:39:48 PM PDT · 76 of 90
    5cents to gunsequalfreedom

    Sleeping with your dog, like a litter mate, is as foolish as it gets. No alpha dominance in that dog training program. That should be the warning here, not the “gentle dog” narrative. Huge mistake. All kisses and cuddles while rover is plotting his takeover at the right time.

  • Jim Acosta Yelled At Trump While He Was Coloring With Children At White House Easter Egg Roll

    04/02/2018 4:09:43 PM PDT · 43 of 45
    5cents to bryan999

    Life and experience is all about contrast. Acosta’s caustic behavior is the antidote people need to see clearly who is doing what, and the President couldn’t have a better fool running his errand of waking us up.

  • A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider

    02/19/2018 6:42:29 PM PST · 52 of 54
    5cents to Tolerance Sucks Rocks

    “...shall not be infringed.”

  • Hillary Clinton announces Australia and New Zealand tour

    02/19/2018 6:39:56 PM PST · 93 of 98
    5cents to txgirl4Bush

    Safe space when investigations begin and end at her doorstep. She’ll be hiding in some billionaire escape home there when this all starts coming after her. She senses her end is coming and is plotting her escape.

  • President should order state of emergency, more protection for schools, effective immediately

    02/16/2018 2:00:32 PM PST · 41 of 64
    5cents to old-ager

    That would not be a Federal prerogative. That is a State issue.

  • Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life

    02/16/2018 1:57:47 PM PST · 39 of 81
    5cents to Red Badger

    PT Barnum comes to mind...

  • The Problem with KJV Onlyism

    01/29/2018 10:05:25 AM PST · 210 of 377
    5cents to tired&retired

    It depends upon how much one reveres God’s inspired words. If the purity of what He has said is an issue to one who desires the truth, in order to know most assuredly what God has spoken, then, yes, it does matter. After being led astray by the versions of the Scriptures, having the Concordant Version is a great relief.

  • The Problem with KJV Onlyism

    01/29/2018 10:01:11 AM PST · 209 of 377
    5cents to tired&retired

    I do not think you have examined the Concordant Literal New Testament, or you would not make such an uninformed statement as if it were a fact.

    “Anything that can be said in one language can be said in another.” Dr. Charles Taber of the Translations Department of the American Bible Society.

    “The translator of the Concordant Version of the Sacred Scriptures has followed that method of translation known as “a system of representation.” I believe it would be difficult to improve upon the results he has achieved within the limitations of his method. The labor and painstaking care involved must impress anyone who examines the work.”
    J. MERLE RIFE, Greek Teacher

    “Even a very cursory examination of “The Sacred Scriptures, Concordant Version,” convinces me that the work is one of the finest aids to New Testament study which has been made available to the average Bible student.”
    O. G. MALMIN, Pastor

    “The Concordant Version is the only one which practically acknowledges that “All scripture is inspired by God”–literally, “God-­spirited” (2 Tim, 3:16), by using a method of translation based on the denial of human ability to sound its depths or scale its heights, and insisting on its superhuman perfection to the minutest detail–considering every element and listening to every letter.”

    Kamelon is Greek, not Aramaic.

    Here are the texts in letters like the original. Camel is KAMHA. Cable would be KAMIA. When only one out of thousands of copyists and translators, including the revised Latin (the Vulgate), changes the H to I, there is little ground for accepting it, unless one or the other makes no sense. Camel shows the impossibility more vividly than cable.

    The camel getting its nose through the tent door, a remark that tells of that animal’s proclivity to force itself into narrow openings, makes a rich man’s entrance with his load of wealth on a camel’s back difficult if not impossible to enter into a wall’s narrow passageway.

  • The Problem with KJV Onlyism

    01/27/2018 7:04:47 PM PST · 130 of 377
    5cents to tiredofallofit

    Any translation that does not utilize a word for word translation into English from the original manuscripts will be prone to make frequent errors. Without a word for word translation, interpretation and bias will inevitably rear its ugly head, and defile what God has truly revealed. Most modern versions will mislead in this regard, and study will sometimes cause confusion instead of providing enlightenment.

    The words of God are pure, refined seven times as in a furnace. Translating those words are not inspired, no matter what the version. All attempts in translation should be held suspect until vetted through a concordant study.

  • Lindsey Graham to Americans: Your Country Belongs to the World

    01/13/2018 4:23:55 PM PST · 85 of 118
    5cents to Cheerio

    Unbelievable his constituents are so bereft as to elect this fraud. From my view, it is a constitutional republic, held in trust, by the people living here. What abject failures we have become.

  • Insider Reveals Upcoming White House Concealed Carry Meeting

    01/13/2018 3:48:35 PM PST · 20 of 31
    5cents to rktman

    I would rather suffer the lack of reciprocity with other states than have the Federal Government force the issue. It is not granted to the Fed to force its will on the States, no matter how much people want something. It is a States issue, not the fed’s. This is a huge mistake. Leave each state to feel the pressure from neighboring states to make this change, otherwise liberty will once again be assaulted as this slides into a gun control through the back door scenario, under the control of far-away bureaucrats.

  • Becoming Part of the Bride (Protestant/Evangelical Caucus and Devotional)

    01/13/2018 3:08:30 PM PST · 15 of 22
    5cents to MHGinTN

    Ignorance is not limited to scoffers, yet applies here fully.

    I am willing to address you, only in the hopes that others will become informed, perhaps yourself as well.

    Peter was rebuffed for trying to fulfill the Great Commission. After obeying God, and meeting with the proselyte Cornelius:

    Ac 11:2 Now when Peter went up into Jerusalem, those out of the Circumcision doubted toward him, saying that “You entered toward men having uncircumcision, and you ate with them!”

    Ga 2:12 For, before the coming of some from James, he ate together with those of the nations. Yet when they came, he shrank back, and severed himself, fearing those out of the Circumcision.

    James was a usurper. He was the Lord’s brother, who was not a disciple, and came to believe after the Lord’s crucifixion. He was not one of the Twelve, yet became the head of the Jerusalem ecclesia, being related to Jesus in the flesh. This points to a departure from the original intention of the Pentecostal commission.

    Additionally, his followers plagued Paul on every side, threatened to kill him, and accused him of apostasy. Is this an example of faith and love in action? I think not. What it does show is that the Kingdom promises and blessings were being hoarded and kept away from the nations, and James was the ringleader.

  • Becoming Part of the Bride (Protestant/Evangelical Caucus and Devotional)

    01/12/2018 4:13:30 PM PST · 13 of 22
    5cents to kosciusko51

    In the Scriptures, without fail, the people of God, starting in the O.T. continuing in the Greek Writings, speaks of a race God chose out of all the nations for Himself . Though they betrayed their “Husband”, He will bring them back to Himself again. This is the prophetic declaration of God. Their glory will not be taken away forever.

    Though the “church which is His body” is largely taken out from among the nations, it cannot be a nation in any sense of the word. Though we have access into God’s presence which no high priest in Israel ever knew, yet we approach for ourselves, not for others. We are not priests in any way. Priesthood pertains only to the sons of Israel. Though we come from the peoples and may be called a people, we are not, we cannot rob Israel of the peculiar place accorded by Jehovah.

    Peter wrote to “`A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people secured for Himself’...which once were `not a people’ but now are ‘the people of God,’ which `had not obtained mercy’ but ‘now have obtained mercy’” (Ex.19:5,6; Hosea 1:9,10; 2:23; 1 Peter 2:9,10). Look at these passages and they will testify to what I say.

    Rightly dividing the word of truth, knowing what is Israel’s and what is ours, is beyond important. Much of what causes struggle while trying to understand the mind of God dissipates when proper division is mastered.

    Among the celestial hosts, where we will reign with Christ,there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek, and all are as God’s messengers. You cannot call such spiritual beings “a people”.

    We are His body, not His people. We are in a higher position than that of Israel, even after their resurrection to life and the Millennial reign begins.

    The promise of God to us and the inheritance of the saints in light is in heaven, among the celestials, not on earth where only Israel can rule and reign in God’s kingdom on earth. No Gentile will ever be allowed to share in those promises to that race.

    Only Paul, God’s apostle to the nations, has the truth for today.

  • My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the Bible

    01/12/2018 9:34:40 AM PST · 37 of 43
    5cents to ealgeone

    2Ti 3:16 All scripture is inspired by God, and is beneficial for teaching, for exposure, for correction, for discipline in righteousness.

    Not all was written TO us. The Scrolls of the various New Testament writers were sent to particular people. It is imperative to know and understand this truth or confusion and error will persist in one’s beliefs.

    Only Paul was commissioned for the Gentiles, not the other apostles. They failed and God locked them all up in stubbornness til the era of the Gentiles is filled up.

    2Ti 2:15 Endeavor to present yourself to God qualified, an unashamed worker, correctly cutting the word of truth.
    2Ti 2:16 Yet from profane prattlings stand aloof, for they will be progressing onto more irreverence.

    It is unfortunate that prattling is all that some who frequent here can muster. Honesty and sincerity are at a discount. We all get what we deserve according to our faithfulness. It is in service to God that worth is determined, ego plays no role whatsoever.

  • Becoming Part of the Bride (Protestant/Evangelical Caucus and Devotional)

    01/12/2018 9:20:39 AM PST · 11 of 22
    5cents to kosciusko51

    It is faithful Israel. The Unveiling is the fulfilling of God’s promises to His people, as recorded by John. It is not written to the Gentiles, nor do the Gentiles play any role in that Book. The nations, the Gentiles, are not mentioned in the Book other than in their position of being subservient to Israel.

  • My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the Bible

    01/12/2018 9:17:27 AM PST · 35 of 43
    5cents to patlin

    You are correct as to who are the covenant people of God. I appreciate your thoroughness and fidelity.

    Paul mentions nothing of the word of God being written on our hearts and in our minds. We, as believers, are one with Christ in spirit, we are His body. We are beyond and higher in position to God than Israel has been or will be in the future. Our relationship to God is spiritual, not on earth, it is in the celestial realm, where He resides with His Beloved Son.

    The law of God pertains to the earth. Perfect liberty is ours in Christ, and the law has no bearing on our relationship to God the Father. We are justified, glorified, and are seated among the celestial hosts, even now. There is no need for the law to be written on our hearts.

    For those who dwell upon the earth during the Millennial age, such a quickening as will abide through supernatural writing of God upon the heart and mind of Israel, will be needed in that environment on earth. Sin will still be present, and death will not be done away with during that thousand year period.

  • Becoming Part of the Bride (Protestant/Evangelical Caucus and Devotional)

    01/11/2018 5:03:28 PM PST · 7 of 22
    5cents to Gamecock

    An absolute failure by the author to rightly divide the word of truth, and substituting theology in the place of inspired truth.

    No where in the Scriptures is the body of Christ called “the Bride”.

    It is appalling to read these things.