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I've had lifelong issues with success in career and in my earlier schooling. Really it probably was my biggest issue of Faith, probably due to my father and his family being refugees from Czechoslovakia, growing up in 3rd Reich lands facing bombings, separation from parents, food scarcity etc...

I've seen some folks talk about the very influential work "Pagan Christianity" by Frank Viola from 2 years ago. The Thesis of that book was that Christianity was corrupted after it was legalized, the large scale Sunday worship service that we are familiar today is a corruption that comes from...

I wrote this little statement clarifying my position to a Seventh Day Adventist I was disagreeing with two years ago on this board. Position on the Gifts of the Spirit and New Testament Prophetic ministries I am not a Cessationist. I do not believe there is an iron clad case to...

From rabbi Boteck Schmulley, the infamous "God must repent" video/post that made waves on the internet whenever it was originally released. I managed to eventually get a full transcript from Grok. (From a Linked In, video that was less than 3 minutes long) "Hi everyone. Not a lot of words...

I'm basically following the same formula as the other thread, only pausing a bit to deal with a big extended family party that is causing me some mental illness over some relatives taking things way too seriously with perfectionism and other kinds of family drama, but probably, will post more...

It is amazing how this could have ever been a real topic of discussion prompting Christians to eventually reply to debunk it, but that it the kind of affect Tik Tok now has on contemporary society. The basic implied claim that is (never officially stated that I'm aware of) but supposedly a...

The current thread on the Crusades has gotten long and I think it is worth having a different one with a different focus or framing. I've dealt with handwringing over the Crusades for years now. What I most object about the Crusades is that Muslims and their liberal sympathizers attempt to...

This is my favorite TED Talk! While I have not formally been in Recovery, nevertheless I have had to apply advice like this before in life for my own mental health reasons. (From Grok) Michael Brody-Waite's TEDxNashville talk (2018), "Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do," is a...

This was my first big Grok experiment over a year ago. I've studied all kinds of Trinitarian Biblical arguments and scriptures, but Biblical languages were never my strong suit getting a B- in Greek and a C- in Hebrew at Fuller Theological Seminary almost 30 years ago. So, I was curious...

Post 1 Why I first got involved in this topic is because there often is a “Faith vs. Knowledge” dichotomy that is setup in Christianity. This especially seems to take place after Christianity spends a few centuries dealing with the Gnostic heresies. After this time, Gnosis especially of the...

I was thinking of doing some more writing on antichristian rabbi Tovia Singer and was curious of the number of "synagogues" in my area and found 1/3 of them were Mormon churches! The Mormons apparently using key words related to every major religious tradition and denomination in the US...

I realize some of you are probably sick of this topic, but what can I say my friend is very "stiff necked". I personally have been working on being a Christian content creator (Youtuber, Podcaster, Blogger etc.) for a number of years, and well for writing, video making etc. you got to...

Introduction Over the years, many believers have debated these issues with Messianic friends and leaders. There are valid ways to be Messianic without falling into Judaizing, and a Jewish background can legitimately help illuminate biblical passages. Rabbi Jason Sobel (Fusion Global) stands out...

Over the years, many have debated these issues with Messianic friends and leaders. There are valid ways to be Messianic without falling into Judaizing, and Jewish background can serve as a legitimate resource for illuminating biblical passages. Rabbi Jason Sobel (Fusion Global) stands out as one...

(As I said on another thread, this to most of us is common sense and basic Biblical literacy, I let Grok take care of most of the work, unlike my favorite projects where Grok is my editor and I brainstorm and write most everything except the last editing fixes). Acts 15 context and the core...

(I spent a number of Grok sessions working on this) Torahism (also called Torah-observant Christianity or the Hebrew Roots Movement) is a modern theological perspective that teaches all followers of Jesus (often called Yeshua) — both Jewish and Gentile — are required to keep the full Law of...

Torahism is the belief that Torah observance is needed for Sanctification. I picked up that term from professor Solberg who runs the "Biblical Roots" channel on YouTube. His channel is completely dedicated to helping Messianic Jews that have gone off the deep end, and fundamentalist...

Yes, I know this is common sense to 99% of Christians out there, but my Messianic rabbi friend asked me to "provide scriptures" for this issue which was probably solved around AD 50 or so. This came from a wandering conversation starting with Aramaic Primacy and George Lamsa, moving to the...

Many people are probably scratching their head at the title. It deals with the notion that the received New Testament was originally composed in Aramaic rather than Koine Greek as most Christianity has historically believed. I was 15+ years ago a strong proponent of it, until I began...

I ran a cross a funny meme of Charlton Heston saying that (thread title) when parting the Red Sea in the famous movie "The Ten Commandments". Was going to post it but don't want to be potentially hit with a term of service copyright complaint. Anyway, it did get at some of the ironies...