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You'd better get used to Mexican Jumping Bean theology with this one. Because that is all you're going to get. strs

What relationship? You never call me! hmmx1: strs

The problem—at least, among brethren who are inclined to work toward unity at all—has traditionally been about deciding on what constitutes "essential" and "non-essential" points of doctrine and also what types of activity/collaboration are being considered as an object of unity. Some might...

3 “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”—Matthew 5:4. The mourning described here is true, heartfelt sorrow for sin. Jesus says, “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” (John 12:32). As a person is drawn to look at Jesus on the cross, they...

2 “He opened His mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”—Matthew 5:2, 3. These words sounded strange and new to the listening crowd. This teaching was the opposite of everything they had ever heard from priests or rabbis. It offered...

1 More than fourteen hundred years before Jesus was born, the people of Israel gathered in the valley of Shechem. From the mountains on either side, priests proclaimed blessings and curses: “a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God: ... and a curse, if ye will not obey.”...

I have no diagram and you assume way too much, Jay. :

Ironically, what's amazing to me is the way that actually brilliant and quite spacious intellect can so often become a willing and voluminous depository of such warped and narrow-minded "idealism." strs

The Man is The Son. The parable is no object of jesting. :

Because disobedience has been in the exponential ascendancy since the influence of early 1960s French (imagine that) Deconstructionist philosophers piggy-backed onto the infancy of postmodernism delivered in the wake of desperation born out of WWI trench warfare. It is wildly popular for all...

(Continued...) A Prophesied Shift: "Speaking Like a Dragon" While the United States began with these noble, "lamb-like" principles, the prophecy in Revelation 13:11 continues with a startling transformation: though it has horns like a lamb, it eventually "spoke like a dragon." A "dragon" in...

@Josho, @Brakelite, @quietthinker, @PS95, @ScottA, @Triumph1300, In an effort to refresh the subject intended by the OP: Understanding the USA's Role in Bible Prophecy: A Seventh-day Adventist Perspective The question raised regarding the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the United...

Sounds like a great idea to me, especially if it's on topic, and not too inconsiderately spammy (you could request some summarizing, if necessary). I've been doing some utterly fascinating work with AI (Gemini 2.5 Pro), myself. strs

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Ecclesiastes 7:5 NKJV — It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise Than for a man to hear the song of fools. .