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  • Paschal Greetings

    05/04/2024 9:33:39 PM PDT · by OldCorps · 29 replies
    OldCorps | Pascha | Self
    Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе! Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
  • Creationism vs. the Theory of Evolution

    04/30/2024 11:21:10 PM PDT · by Texan4Life · 15 replies
    The Charlie Kirk Show ^ | April 30, 2024 | Dr. Randy Guliuzza
    Creationism vs. the Theory of Evolution The Charlie Kirk Show Dr. Randy Guliuzza: There is No Solid Scientific Evidence for Evolution https://rumble.com/v4sjoab-dr.-randy-guliuzza-there-is-no-solid-scientific-evidence-for-evolution.html Dr. Randy Guliuzza Discusses Tucker Carlson's Viral Attacks on Evolution https://rumble.com/v4sjoct-dr.-randy-guliuzza-discusses-tucker-carlsons-viral-attacks-on-evolution.html Dr. Randy Guliuzza Unpacks Scientific Observations Supporting the Authenticity of the Bible https://rumble.com/v4sjohk-dr.-randy-guliuzza-unpacks-scientific-observations-supporting-the-authentic.html Is Evolution Real? Dr. Randy Guliuzza Debunks Darwin https://rumble.com/v4sjojh-is-evolution-real-dr.-randy-guliuzza-debunks-darwin.html
  • With Only Weeks Away, Experts Urgently Warn WHO Pandemic Treaty Will Usurp US Sovereignty

    04/30/2024 5:48:34 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 20 replies
    Harbingers Daily ^ | 4/29/24 | Ben Johnson
    Americans stand just weeks away from handing over massive amounts of taxpayer funding, protective equipment intended for U.S. citizens, and an incalculable amount of influence over U.S. policy to the World Health Organization (WHO), critics warn. The global governance body will resume meetings to revise the WHO Pandemic Agreement on Monday. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), established to draw up the text of the agreement in December 2021, will hold its ninth meeting from April 29 to May 10. That provides just over two weeks before the 77th World Health Assembly meets from May 27 to June 1 in Geneva,...
  • Comparing the Fall of ‘Old Testament' Israel with America’s Soon Demise

    04/17/2024 10:33:18 AM PDT · by The Ignorant Fisherman · 14 replies
    IFB ^ | 4/17/24 | Mark Musser
    It has been common place over the years for many to compare the eventual fall of America witth the fall of Rome. All civilizations rise and fall, and there are, of course, many parallels between them when they do fall. Some even use the fall of Athenian democracy as another parallel. Plato complained in the Republic that democracy inherently leads to amateurism, anarchy, mob rule and eventually despotism. However, the fact of the matter is, that while the fall of any empire and country can be studied and used as a historical warning to what may happen in the future,...
  • Why Today’s Global Rise in Anti Semitism and Distain of Israel?

    04/16/2024 10:18:26 AM PDT · by The Ignorant Fisherman · 24 replies
    IFB ^ | 4/16/24
    If one REJECTS this ETERNAL and DIVINE perspective for a subjective earthly one, that one will go insane with all the injustice that dominates our present world, and that one will absolutely loose their mind trying to come to grips with the reality of our day. The question by many Jews today is why is anti-Semitism so rampant and where is the G-d of Israel to intercede on the Jews behalf? My dear friends G-d greatly cares about the Jew. Israel is the apple of His eye, but tragically G-d is not the Apple of Israel's eye (as a whole...
  • The Middle-East and Ukraine in Last Day Biblical Prophecy - Gog of Magog's Future Destruction at The Hands of Almighty God's Two Witnesses!

    04/16/2024 10:11:19 AM PDT · by The Ignorant Fisherman · 14 replies
    IFB ^ | 4/16/24
    In light of the Russian invasion into Ukraine and Russia’s massing of troops on the Israeli border in Syria at present; we can see before our very eyes - in this EXPONENTIAL technological age - that Bible prophecy's end time last days stage is being fully set; and Gog's invasion alliance being fully established as they all prepare for their invasion into the land of Israel (Ezek. 38-39)! The Ukraine is on the very eastern border of Magog as historians and history maps tell us! Is it not sobering and very curious that Israel, even when they are totally out...
  • Baby Blues: How to Face the Church’s Growing Fertility Crisis...If current rates continue, most religious communities in America will shrink by more than half within three generations. But nondenominational Christianity might buck the trend.

    04/16/2024 6:19:13 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 8 replies
    Christianitytoday.com/ ^ | August 8, 2022 | Lyman Stone
    In recent years, the fertility gap by religion has widened to unprecedented levels.... With birth rates at just 1.8 or 1.9 children per woman, versus a conversion-adjusted “replacement rate” of 2.44, religious communities in America will tend to decline by about 25 percent in each generation... Virtually 100 percent of the decline in fertility in the United States from 2012 to 2019 can be explained through a combination of two factors: growing numbers of religious women leaving the faith, along with declining birth rates among the nonreligious.... Since 2002, the share of reproductive-age women who attended church weekly or more...
  • WHO'S WHO IN BIBLE PROPHECY

    04/14/2024 10:35:06 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 32 replies
    Sound Christian.com ^ | 2023 | Sound Christian
    The individuals listed below are Christians (past and present) who are passionate about their faith. Some are recognized pastors, scholars and teachers of Bible prophecy and eschatology (study of end-times) who also belong to various denominations. Also listed here are those from pseudo-Christian organizations (so-called Christian groups that adhere to doctrines outside mainstream Christianity). This comprehensive list of individuals is meant to help you identify sound teaching on Bible prophecy and prophecy topics only. Some have devoted their entire lives to teaching Bible prophecy. Not all are always in agreement, and not all are sound in their doctrines. Therefore, study...
  • Is America Racing to a Civil War in 2024? Jan Markell YouTube Video🔥

    04/12/2024 11:50:16 AM PDT · by The Ignorant Fisherman · 46 replies
    Is America Racing to a Civil War in 2024? Jan Markell YouTube Video
  • A Challenging Creation Message and Video on Divine Creation in Light of a 2 Peter 3:1-7 Scoffer World - Accident or Design?

    04/12/2024 10:35:11 AM PDT · by The Ignorant Fisherman · 5 replies
    Word of Truth Ministries ^ | 4/12/24 | Word of Truth
    Beloved, our dear friends at "Word of Truth Production" have created this amazing MUST VIEW video which causes us to use our God-given common sense as we look at man's inventions versus Almighty God's highly complex creation and design (Gen. 1:1-3, Neh. 9:6; Prov. 3:19, Isa. 45:18, John 1:1-3, Rom. 1:18-32, 1 Cor. 8:6, Rev. 4-5)! The question that we need to ask ourselves is this, "Are we a product of time and chance or have we been designed by our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator with an ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS calling, vocation, and purpose (Matt. 4:19, John 1:12, 2 Cor. 5:17-21)?" As...
  • Christian expert on near-death experiences reveals 1 thing they all have in common

    04/08/2024 10:42:36 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 04/08/2024 | Leah MarieAnn Klett
    For over three decades, John Burke has studied thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) and discovered a striking commonality among them all: Every individual, regardless of their religious background, experiences the God of the Bible. “I interviewed 70 people on every continent, and found that they all encountered the same God; it didn't matter their culture, ethnicity or religious background. God is the God of all nations,” Burke told The Christian Post.Burke, who with his wife, Kathy, founded Gateway Church, a multisite church based in Austin, Texas, recounts some of these stories in his book,Imagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences,...
  • Bishop Eleganti slams Pope Francis over attack on people who refused the COVID shots

    04/04/2024 5:09:02 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | April 4, 2024 | Bishop Marian Eleganti
    Bishop Eleganti slams Pope Francis over attack on people who refused the COVID shotsBishop Eleganti argues that the Pope is complying with a secular framework, placing politics and bodily health before supernatural faith and the salvation of souls.U.S. citizens: Demand Congress investigate soaring excess death ratesEditor’s note: This text by Bishop Marian Eleganti was written in German and translated by LifeSiteNews with permission from the bishop.(LifeSiteNews) — In his recently published autobiography, Pope Francis is concerned about the resistance against the experimental mRNA vaccine. Unfortunately, he has also led the way in the closure of churches and the “sacramental lockdown.”...
  • Pope Francis and Caiaphas: A Tale of Two High Priests

    03/31/2024 11:16:48 AM PDT · by KierkegaardMAN · 3 replies
    The Stream ^ | John Zmirak
    One thing we know about Pope Francis: He has an unhealthy obsession with Judas. In his private apartments, a crude painting hangs which depicts the risen Jesus ministering to Judas’s body after his suicide. Francis has repeatedly mused that Judas might have been saved — in support of the suggestion that no one is finally damned. That’s a heresy the early Church condemned for turning the drama of our salvation into a farce with a forced happy ending. You might think Francis is simply a little “too merciful.” Read my three-part analysis of the dark, perverse motivations that more likely...
  • On The Physical Death of Jesus Christ

    03/29/2024 3:28:37 PM PDT · by Oakleaf · 16 replies
    The New England Journal of Medicine ^ | 1986 | March 21, 1986 | William D. Edwards, MD; Wesley J. Gabel, MDiv; Floyd E. Hosmer, MS, AMI
    ABSTRACT: Jesus of Nazareth underwent Jewish and Roman trials, was flogged, and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha. At the site of crucifixion his wrists were nailed to the patibulum, and after the patibulum was lifted onto the upright post, (stipes) his feet were nailed to the stipes. The major pathophysiologic effect of crucifixion was an interference with normal respirations. Accordingly, death resulted primarily...
  • Is this the face of Jesus? (Shroud of Turin)

    03/28/2024 5:23:40 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 85 replies
    Premier Christianity ^ | March 24, 2024 | Sam Hailes
    The Shroud of Turin is the most studied object in the world – and for good reason. If authentic, this linen cloth would constitute physical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. Not so fast comes the gut reaction from many Christians, concerned that such a theory skirts dangerously close to venerating a spurious relic. Besides, hasn’t the science concluded this is simply a medieval forgery?But the truth is, there is little consensus on the Shroud’s authenticity. After thousands of hours of research, study and tests, opinion is still divided among both scholars and enthusiasts. And so the intriguing possibility remains...
  • Have You No Decency, Holy Father?

    03/21/2024 7:26:46 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 43 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | March 20, 2024 | Eric Sammons
    Have You No Decency, Holy Father?Ideology is not the same thing as religion. Most religions, even though often wrong about many things, seek to better the person practicing it; they have similar moral codes, which typically include kindness to those less fortunate and decency toward others. Ideology, on the other hand, cares little for individual persons and focuses completely on the goals of The Cause. Things like kindness and decency are jettisoned in pursuit of those goals. Think of the difference between a Quaker and a Communist: which would you rather have as a neighbor? I bring this up because...
  • Pope Francis denounces ‘anti-vaxxers,’ calls COVID jab refusal an ‘almost suicidal act of denial’

    03/20/2024 11:04:25 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 88 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 19, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    Pope Francis denounces ‘anti-vaxxers,’ calls COVID jab refusal an ‘almost suicidal act of denial’Pope Francis has once again touted the abortion-tainted COVID vaccines, reissuing his condemnation of those who refused to take the shot.U.S. citizens: Demand Congress investigate soaring excess death ratesVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has issued fresh condemnation of critics of the abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections, saying that opposition to the shots “distressed” him since “being against the antidote is an almost suicidal act of denial.”Speaking as part of his newly released memoirs, in a series of interviews conducted by journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, Pope Francis highlighted his...
  • Creation Ministries Video: Are Aliens Actually Demons?

    02/12/2024 3:27:05 AM PST · by spirited irish · 46 replies
    Youtube ^ | 1/24 | Gary Bates
    Are extraterrestrials highly evolved beings from deep space who seeded the world with life or are the fallen powers who have come down from the first heaven and together with demons who serve them are harvesting the souls of bad seed?
  • Can we believe the Gospels? A former chief magistrate examines the witnesses to the resurrection

    01/22/2024 3:06:15 AM PST · by spirited irish · 26 replies
    creation.com ^ | 1/24 | Clarrie Briese, B.A., Diploma of Criminology
    The truth of the Resurrection stands or falls on the truth of the witnesses. Are they reliable? Of the New Testament writers, there are six witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, if we include the apostles Peter and Paul. These people have left us writings in the form of historical documents which give us their testimony concerning the resurrection.The question is—are these historical documents reliable? Can we trust them? One way of determining whether the documents are reliable is to put the people who wrote them through the test a good magistrate or judge would put them through. The...
  • "Why is the believing Catholic not subject to neurosis?" A question posed to Karl Jung in 1939

    01/19/2024 9:07:39 AM PST · by Antoninus · 35 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | January 19, 2024 | Florentius
    Social media grenade-launcher Matt Walsh recently posted the following on his FaceBook page: "Many people claim to know for a fact that the practice of psychotherapy has been deeply helpful to humanity. To those people, I ask: If therapy is generally so helpful, and more people than ever are doing it, then why are people less able to deal with hardship and cope with suffering than ever before? Is it because our lives are really so much more difficult?" It's a fair question. It's certainly hard to make the case that our lives are so much more difficult than, say,...