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“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who do not believe.”

This means that there was some who did not currently believe. Does not seem to exclude the idea of those who do not currently believe from having believed at an earlier time.

“Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

Similarly, this means one of the twelve is currently a devil. Does not say that they always were.

Look, I am not sure the Bible makes clear whether or not Judas "believed" at one point, but even in Jesus's own parable of the seeds the word was planted in some places that received it gladly but when the hard times came things changed. And also, the versus cited here simply do not establish that Judas never believed.

So many “bomb”shells, but so few actually go boom.

From headline thought maybe the Pharoah had asked servents to give him a hand in the afterlife.

Never cared for Twitter/X but I do appreciate how Musk is fighting the corruption of our time with it.

Wonder if the Clinton Fondation will get a bump in “donation” graft with such speculation.

The way the Hill opened the article is begging the reader to conclude Musk was saying it merely to retaliate rather than because he found grounds for it being true.

Bulverism on the Hellis part.

Shakespeare is not as easy to comprehend for modern readers as AI generated garbage is....go figure.

New York Slimes.

Ok so "squaw" is a racist term? Why? Because modern Leftists say so and need some racism to complain about?

Looking at the Wikipedia page the first paragraph about the word is arguing for how racist it is. And the first authority they cite is "Alma Garcia"--which I find funny. Because Alma is a Hebrew word for young woman. So perhaps they could have easily made an argument that her first name was a racist word?

Utter nonsense. Guess projecting racism on others is what the Left is best at.

What would be the damages? Seems the slander backfired on its source and the bakery prospered.

Whose bright idea was the patronizing ad about how real men have the courage to vote for a woman? I mean somebody in its production had to have enough common sense to know how badly it would backfire....but they still made it...

I am no expert on its dating so I may be off, but maybe 6th or 7th century.

Afraid it does...

Onkelos then went and raised Jesus the Nazarene from the grave through necromancy. Onkelos said to him: Who is most important in that world where you are now? Jesus said to him: The Jewish people. Onkelos asked him: Should I then attach myself to them in this world? Jesus said to him: Their welfare you shall seek, their misfortune you shall not seek, for anyone who touches them is regarded as if he were touching the apple of his eye Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a euphemism for Jesus himself, in the next world? Jesus said to him: He is punished with boiling excrement. As the Master said: Anyone who mocks the words of the Sages will be sentenced to boiling excrement. And this was his sin, as he mocked the words of the Sages. --Gittin 57:3-4 (William Davidson Talmud)

Personally I think I will stick with the New Testament...the Talmud gets kinda crazy....

Indeed Saint Paul said:

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.. --Galatians 3:28, ESV

I still would like to consider myself male and my wife female, if that is ok with you?

Er I mean Rabbinic Jews are following the Talmud. Messianic Jews are following the New Testament.

Will the Jews keep the Torah and follow it in the Messianic era if Christians say the Law is dead?

The Torah laws include things that simply can not be done without the Temple, which has not existed since 70A.D.

Messianic Jews are following the Talmud variant of the Torah.

... others believe she erred by failing to go hard-core lefty populist.

Uhm, Harris was hard-core elitist. Trump was already the hard-core populist.

So pimp gets reduced sentence for accusing politician. Nothing shady here.../s

Trump is already reached across the political divide before he was elected and picked up many former Democrats that he is planning to appoint to important positions.

Its the swamp he is not intending to work with, nor should he.

He certainly has a mandate since he beat the lawfare, censorship, and lies and still won comfortably taking every swing state. After the outrageous behavior of the corrupt establishment he must ow clean house.