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Before Christ’s return and the Day of the Lord, there will be an apostasy of the Christian Church:

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 NKJV
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.

This appears to be happening right now. Christ also said His coming and the end of the world would happen when the world becomes like Sodom:

Luke 17:26-30 NKJV
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

“As always - no matter how much it bugs you NO GRAMMAR AND SPELLING HALL MONITERS”

You meant MONITORS.

Oh. Wait. Nevermind.

Thanks for posting.

Just wait until those many pardons are ruled invalid.

I’m not surprised at all.

Many here were skeptical about Pizzagate, and reasonably so, because many claims were outlandish. Some of that was probably disinformation designed to discredit those who spoke out.

The coded emails to and from Hillary, Podesta, and Obama are pretty hard to explain unless Pizzagate is a real criminal conspiracy to abuse children.

Gates told the crowd, “The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe.”

That’s an open declaration of war which makes me rethink my opposition to burning at the stake.

“I have no idea how many illegally here have been allowed to vote or be used as a vote or as a stat to pad the seats of some of the worst blue states in this Republic, but if millions of people leave, and poof, blue states start losing House seats, maybe America will actually be seen as a place where real Americans have had their vote and Sovereignty diminished greatly because of foreign illegals and invaders for years. And maybe the Military is the only way to corral millions of people out that shouldn’t be here.”

I live in a small town near Houston that has a large percentage of Hispanic residents (about 40%). I spoke to a lady this morning who is 77 and a legal immigrant from Mexico (and a big Trump supporter). She observed that her local Catholic church used to be packed for its Latin mass but has recently been nearly empty. She speculated that many are self-deporting.

Perhaps the military is not the only or best way. On the other hand, it might be necessary in some cases, especially the criminal gangs.

It’s mindboggling that smart people on a conservative forum have allowed themselves to believe many of the endless lies that have led to the present state of decline in our nation.

The right to freedom of religion supersedes state sovereignty. It is a fundamental right. It is enumerated first for a reason. States do not have the authority to encroach on this right.

Protecting this fundamental liberty is not in any sense a federal regulation.

“I think this is a be careful what you wish for ruling. You may not always like the outcome. And quite frankly, we can never complain because we supported it.”

Ridiculous. The ruling applies even if there is a tyrant like Biden or Obama in the White House.

If they act criminally or unconstitutionally, there is a process to address that. But, ultimately, people need to elect good leaders, or there will be bad outcomes. No Supreme Court ruling can remedy this reality.

When the laws, courts, and other leaders fail us, we do what we did in the first place. That is how we have the current nation and Constitution. We fought for it.

I’m sure there was plenty of handringing before the Revolution about what was to proper solution to Britain’s tyranny. Sometimes, there is no legal recourse that will work. That’s what revolutions are for.

Thankfully, the Supreme Court addressed the current problem.

When they come for your guns, you politely decline. And if they insist, you reply not-so-politely.

Those three are right less often than a broken clock.

“For example, the Old Testament promises a Son of David will sit on His father’s throne. Peter believes that promise as firmly as the most committed Dispensationalist, but, in Acts 2:29-32, he says it was fulfilled with the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ to God’s Right Hand.”

That claim is taking broad liberties to interpret Peter’s Pentecost sermon. Here is what Peter concluded:

Acts 2:36 NKJV
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Nothing Peter says hints that Christ being seated on David’s throne or reigning over Israel had been fulfilled. Other parts of the discourse indicate otherwise:

Acts 2:19-20 NKJV
I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

This part of Joel’s prophecy that Peter quoted has not been fulfilled and is the final sign before Christ’s return (rapture). But Peter does indicate that the coming of the Holy Spirit puts us in the same “dispensation” that Joel was describing as “the last days”:

Acts 2:17-18 NKJV
And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.

“But, beginning in the 19th Century, the Rapture was modified in two significant ways:
In the first place, it became a Secret Rapture, an idea that is hard to square with— A shout from Heaven, the voice of an archangel, and the trumpet of God.
In the second place, it was separated from the Second Coming of Christ...”

I agree with this assessment. These are the major, glaring errors of the type of dispensationalism and rapture interpretation that Darby propagated.

“From the day He called the household of Cornelius to faith, God has had one people only—people who believe in Christ, whether they’re Jewish or Gentile.”

This is an incorrect statement. It is true inasmuch as it applies spiritually to God’s spiritual people. But Jews, the biological descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are still God’s chosen earthly people. He still has a special role for them apart from the church. Jews/Israelites who are also believers and followers of Jesus are members of the Church, the Spiritual body of Christ. And they are also members of an earthly people group God still has special plans for.

This is true in the same way many on this forum are both Christians and Americans. God has a special role for America. Americans who are not believers or not yet believers are still part of this plan, also. The difference between America, other nations, and Israel is that God gave special knowledge and instructions regarding Israel through the Old Testament. There are earthly blessings, promises, and commandments that still apply to earthly Israel and the Jewish people.

Jesus was made “King of the Jews” by Pontius Pilate. It was a mockery and a political statement. It did not fulfill Christ sitting on David’s throne. His kingdom, over which He reigned and currently reigns, was not of this world. But His kingdom will come on the earth, and He will reign forever.

The legal fiction of Obergefell is rooted in the social fiction that a sexual fixation is an identity.

So-called “same-sex marriage”, abortion, and IVF treat children as commodities to be bought and sold.

I wish the Supreme Court would acknowledge that unborn babies are persons with the right to due process and equal protection.

I agree with your take.

I’ve never heard of any proposed scientific experiment seeking to support any particular philosophy of science. I’d be curious to see such a proposal. Even the scientific method is rooted in philosophy and cannot be (as far as I know) proven with an empirical method. I think attempting to empirically prove the scientific method would be a form of circular reasoning.

Would that be this?

https://www.amazon.com/Dimensions-Essence-Laz-Mataz-ebook/dp/B0FDR3NQBB/

Unfortunately, in the modern world, book and movie sales are most often determined by marketing efforts rather than the quality of the content.

Having said that, good luck to you. And congratulations on completing it. That is an accomplishment regardless of the sales or reviews.

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Regime change is a risky mission creep. But if it is done to prevent Iran from getting nukes and can be done without troops on the ground, so be it.

The way to stop this is to feed Islamic terrorists to the pigs. In their religion, it would prove their deity rejected their martyrdom and sent them to Hell.

Let their bodies be converted into swine flesh and swine dung.

“The problem is that nothing has really been ‘proved’ in this area... It is full of theories, speculation and assumptions.”

Science doesn’t prove theories. It supports them. It proves things such as observational data and mathematical theorems that are frequently the basis for scientific theories.

Scientific theories are useful because they form the basis of useful predictions and are often applied in inventing and utilizing new technologies.

I think the issues you are bringing up are more about the philosophy of science than science itself. Einstein spent a considerable amount of time explaining his philosophical presuppositions alongside his scientific theories. He considered contemplating them to be essential to scientific innovation. We don’t hear so much of this from modern science.

The problematic assumptions of scientific theories are in the realm of philosophy. For example, Conscious Agent Theory, as proposed by Donald Hoffman, presupposes idealism rather than naturalism.

Naturalism is a philosophical viewpoint asserting that everything arises from natural processes, rejecting the supernatural. In philosophy of mind, it means that all mental phenomena are explained within the framework of natural science. Idealism, on the other hand, proposes that reality is fundamentally mental or consciousness-based.

Hoffman specifically describes his philosophy of science as “Conscious Realism” which is a subcategory of Idealism.

A philosophy of science can be logically debated, but it cannot be proven using the scientific method or by scientific experimentation. Science has its limits.

“Interstellar Space Travel
We are prisoners of hope to the fantastical idea of jaunting around the universe and finding life and other civilizations. But it is a false hope in that God has decided to keep us on the only planet he ever assigned to us. No prophecy, sees men residing on other planets before the millennial kingdom and none appear after it in the prophetic promises of God. All our lives will be confined to earth until Christ has ruled from Jerusalem for one thousand years and the redeemed are lifted to a new heaven and a new earth. We are then told that there will be no need for the sun, the moon and by implication – no stars. Revelation 21:23,24”

My father, when he was a young believer, thought God would not allow man to travel outside of the earth in a spaceship.

He thought such a goal was like that of the men who built the Tower of Babel to “reach unto heaven”.

But he accepted he was wrong when we first put men on the moon.

We also had a significant portion of Christendom that objected to the idea of the earth orbiting the sun because the Bible says “the earth cannot be moved”. But maybe our interpretation of passages like this reflects our limited understanding.

The final days on the earth as it exists today may be short. We may never colonize Mars or travel to other stars. But I wouldn’t try to base this view on any plain teaching of the Bible.