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Yeah, like the first war we ever got into as a nation.... the Barbary Pirates, which were Islamic thugs that would capture our merchant seamen that were primarily delivering fish and other food from the Americas to the Mediterranean area. And it is just decadent of us to stop a a bunch of...

Really? When has the U.S. for instance condoned disemboweling pregnant women as a normal course of action in military operations? Given an order for military people to cut the breasts off nursing women or torture and kill children in front of their parents? Condoned tying up people and...

The problem is confusing the religion of Islam with the political ideology that it has morphed in to. Not to be confused with many in Islam that are hounded and tortured by these same zealots. Many Muslims are decent people who try to feed their families and make a living. And it is hardly...

Maybe in common usage, but Vatican II reaffirmed the entirety of Trent. If it is reaffirmed, it is as good as said.

Would that history supported that view. Trent didn't make that distinction.

Vatican II reaffirmed the Council of Trent, and in the Justification Cannons of the Sixth Session, it declared that anyone who claims justification is by faith alone is anathema. Copied here for you.... CANON IX.-If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as...

You equate a secular power with a institutional church. That is like trying to use use the Communist Soviet Union as an counter argument. Sure, there have been atrocities committed on both sides, but the RCC as an institution has supported many times what has been done in it's name...

You might want to try another line of reasoning. Even God, as exampled in many passages of scripture, used unbelievers and out right haters of God to fulfill His purposes. The primary cannon of scripture was already recognized and in place prior to the Council of Nicea in 325. The council...

That may be, but it is too bad that the RCC hasn't really openly repented of their creating many of those martyrs during the dark ages and other times including the interesting tortures, mostly developed by the Jesuits, that came to be used against those the RCC despised. It might be the case...

And how would being 501c3 be in contradiction to 1 Peter 5 again? Best I can tell from the tax code, all 501c3 is an exemption from income tax because of non profit entity. Or some sort of charitable status. That is not taking money from government, it is keeping their greedy hands off of it...

I guess the main reason I never gave it much thought is that something like 501c3 never seemed to be a conflict with Romans 13.

My only "service to my country" was in uniform and was something I spent years coming to grips with. I would have preferred not to have that experience which seared my memory like a hot iron. I never even bothered to ask my pastor if my congregation is 501c status. Again, I have too much to...

I might if it applied to me. Not sure how this has anything to do with the topic. When I said "I know in whom I placed my trust", that was in reference to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You have a wild view of reality. Crickets? No, I have a business to run also. I don't get the...

Not exactly sure how to respond to that. You lost me.

Try re-reading Romans 11, only this time slowly without any preconceived ideas.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth which is persistent, persuasive, and repeated. - President John F. Kennedy Some of you folks have Ashkenazi on the brain. You really have got to get a life. The majority of Jews in modern...

Well, let's break it down, yet again... Ezekiel is told to lie on one side and then the other for a number of days, and those days represent the years of punishment for Israel and Judah's disobedience. Totals 430 days. Ezekiel 4:4-6 The Babylonian captivity was for 70 years. 430 - 70 = 360...

Will attempt to get the thread back on original point of the OP. I see all the things the OP is pointing out as signs that we are nearing the end. Just like when the leaves are turning on trees, I know that the end of the growing season is here and winter is approaching. But indeed, we have...

And given its Jewishness, sometimes coming at the Bible text with a Jewish mindset can illuminate the passages. This is why I like to occasionally seek out Messianic Jewish perspectives on these things to compare with other views. So many views only take a western mindset approach and miss...

Well, that is interesting. You propose your idea of what is going on and then use Ezekiel 13 as a proof text against what you think is a false teaching, the rapture, when that Ezekiel text doesn't even mention the rapture specifically. Convenient. But I think that you need to broaden your...