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Happy New Year Homer.

I’ve been away for awhile. This looks like another cool history thread where I can learn something.

Couple of questions:
- This seems to revolve around Harper’s Magazine which now, like the NYT, is entrenched in Leftism, but maybe then actually offered some sound information. Is that how you see it?
- Is this mostly about the events leading up to the Civil War?

Loving it.

Karl Marx was a big fan of Free Trade

What a stupid statement. That's like saying Hitler loved the Jews. Marxism is the absolute antitheses to free market economics and trade.

I notice there's little-to-no rationale behind what you say nor do you site authoritative sources.

I don't think Trump would endorse this level of chowderhead stupidity.

You know what? When women step into the ring with men, they need to quit pouting and complaining when they get hit with the same shots the men get hit with.

By-an-large women don’t belong where they put themselves in competition with men and it shows in their unreasonableness, unaccountably, and attempt at “special” treatment because they are women. BULL S##T. If you’re going to get into the ring with the men, then you’re going to need to take it like the men.

I’m sick of the double standard women love to hide behind when they choose to compete with men.

Drudge Has What They All Want

Oh, you mean the TRUTH?

They don't want the truth. THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

It’s interesting. There’s a post & ping list that’s winding down about WWII daily events reported by the NYT 70 years ago. One of the things that’s come through is an extension of what seems to be a legacy of aloof and bumbling English military officers. Your post about Mutiny on the Bounty made me think that whole thing was another series of bungling British official acts (except for Bligh’s incredible journey).

After writing a book on mapping Matthew 24 with the Book of Revelation, I’m seriously wanting to do a movie on these end-of-the world-events. I know that is not technically history, but it might as well be, because it’s going to happen and soon.

“Religious”, “Christian” movies tend to have a tinny, sort of wooden feel. I would want to do whatever I could to get top talent in the production with a compelling human drama in the foreground with these end-time events in the background.

To me, the best explanation was seeing a picture of the mayor.

Zowie.

Again you’re mixing what it takes to be eternally saved with what it takes to live a victorious Christian life. The easiest part of being a Christian is getting saved because Jesus has done it all. When you preach something other than the gospel of the grace of Christ for eternal salvation, you ignore the heart of the gospel of grace as spelled out in Romans 3:30-8:33, mislead others, and are in danger yourself as Galatians 1:6-9 warns.

Bye bye.

Again you’re confusing what it takes to be saved and what it takes to live a victorious Christina life.

We’re going around in circle and I’m not sure we’re getting anywhere with each other here.

I think I’ve said all I can say to you.

A somewhat obscure verse like 2 Tim 2:2 that can be taken a number of ways does not outweigh in importance the tonnage of scripture that tells us we are saved by grace. Much confusion is generated by confusing the requirements of salvation with how God works in our lives.

Galatians gives stern warning and a double curse to anyone including an angel from heaven who preaches "another gospel" than the gospel of grace (Gal 1:6-9). The whole book of Galatians revolves around correction and re-iterating justification by grace through faith, not by our works.

The very heart of the New Covenant and the gospel is the book of Romans which is a detailed explanation of the gospel of grace:

But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered (Rom 4:5-7).

If you want to add conditions of salvation to yourself, then in the sense of God's FREE GIFT (x3) (Rom 5:15-18) to you, you are denying the eternal efficacy of the blood of perfect sacrifice of his Son for you on the cross. When we insist on our own self efforts for salvation, God can't do much for us, which is as much as anything what 2 Tim 2:2 means. But as the next verse says, if we do not believe, he remains faithful, he cannot deny himself. His Son's sacrifice still works eternal salvation in our lives.

If you have received Jesus but live in fear because of some obscure demand you've put on yourself, you are still saved. God cannot undo the perfect and eternal sacrifice of his Son that you have received. You're just living short of the freedom and joy of the salvation which is yours.

Everyone in Egypt who put blood on their doorposts and lintels were saved, but not all were without fear and trepidation. Same is true today for Christians. We have the fulness of his promise of salvation by grace, not works, and the angel of (eternal) death will pass over us. But some who do not believe, even though they have the blood of Jesus protecting them, needlessly live in fear through unbelief. They are still saved, but haven't yet learned they are not subject to requirements of the law or their own works.

Yes, God wants us to be victorious Christians and by his grace we can and will preserve through the trials of life.

But that is NOT a condition of salvation. We are saved not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace (1 Tim 1:9) and as you have received him, so walk in him (Col 2:6). The perseverance of faith is to continue to believe and rest in Him as our wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor 1:30).

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God (Heb 10:12) and God has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:6).

The Christian life is not "do" but "DONE". His work on the cross has perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb 10:14. IT IS FINISHED.

When are we going to drop the “liberal” misnomer (”liberal” means a lover of liberty) and simply say Democrats are home to fascism.

Yes, state sovereignty NOW in nullifying unconstitutional federal acts which are acts of tyranny, and later through a difficult but do-able Article V COC.

Politics seems to takes on a life of its own sometimes.

Still hard for me to take watching the western Allies not moving an inch and allowing the communists to surround Berlin and the country around Berlin as a result of what I consider to be convouted politics and Stalin out-negotiating FDR.

Good works are fine but not the basis of our salvation. Jesus’ sacrifice is perfect and complete for all eternity. HE has paid the price for all the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).

That is telling us how we should live now that we have received Jesus, but none of it is a basis for our salvation.

We are saved by grace, not by works, and there is no condition other than calling out on the name of Jesus (Rom 10:13). There’s been a change since the cross which many ignore, but the New Covenant declared Jesus sacrifice perfect and eternal and God does not hold our sins against us (Heb 8:12,10:17).

We could go on and on like this but I’m not sure what good it will do. You are simply ignoring fact that Jesus has already paid for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2), that God has done it all and IT IS FINISHED, and the terms of the New Covenant that declare he will not hold our sins against us because they were already fully judged on the body of His Son. For God to condemn Bruce after he has received Jesus is making God out to be an unjust liar.

God has done it all and all that remains is for us to accept his FREE GIFT. You put repentance as you perceive it as the requirement, although thankfully, God does not. His only requirement is receiving His Son who has done it all.

BTW, what is New Testament “repentance” anyway? It is “repentance from dead works”. What’s that? Dead works are your own righteousness and self effort to be accepted by God instead of letting Jesus’ perfect life and death be your substitute and your righteousness as a gift (Rom 5:17).

The man who believes in the Son has eternal life.

Right. If Bruce Jenner has received Jesus Christ, he has eternal life which cannot be taken away from him because our salvation is NEVER about what we do but because of what HE DID. It is by grace not works. Heb 8:12,10:17.

All of that is good, but our works are not the basis of our salvation. Our salvation is based on HIS works. So our salvation is by the grace of God through the perfect sacrifice of His Son.

Once we get that, we can approach ourselves and others like Bruce Jenner with NO CONDEMNATION because God does not condemn us no matter what we do (Rom 8:1; Heb 8:12, 10:17).

Bruce is not helping the cause of Christ IMO, so what he’s done is not helpful and is sin. We can judge the act but not the person. We have no right to go behind the blood of Jesus like Satan tries to, and judge he who Jesus died for.

Of course God hates sin and the demonstration of how much He hates sin is his exacting the full punishment and condemnation for every sin of every person on the body of his beloved Son. IT IS FINISHED.