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@Wrangler To be clear, while the president does have the ability to effect the declassification of certain documents, he does not not have the arbitrary privilege to do so unilaterally. https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2022/10/fact-check-presidential-authority/ .

"Source?" Forgive me, but I don't think your statement is very representative of the article's intent and purpose, which seems to be clear enough from the first paragraph. And even the article itself makes some unsubstantiated claims. Political power and national security have always had a...

I don't think so. .

Sorry, but I have no interest in being led around by the nose to help expose whatever hobby horse subordinate to anti-ecumenism you're riding this week/month. However, as long as you've now quite characteristically steered us off-topic, you could make an effort to expose the nullification and...

It is actually "milk" to some faith groups. And we're off to the races! .

It looks like he was very active up until nearly the end of February and then started a thread as his last apparent post about a week later. https://www.christianityboard.com/threads/what-is-christian-blasphemy.61608/post-1786909 I miss him. He was antagonistic at times (aren't we all?) but...

Sorry for the off-topic post @Debp. :( .

Hi, Jack! :waves: Uncle Sam has left the building, I think. In other news: In the mostly rural county where I live, road rage is probably the thing that I hate the most. It's truly remarkable compared to just 25 miles in any direction. If I don't encounter 2 or 3 cases in a day's time, I...

As usual, you're too kind to me. This post of yours is pretty handsome, too, if I may say so. I used to be very self-conscious about not being able to remember people's names and when I went to a week-long Lay Evangelist Training Seminar in '92 I asked around a bit about it and the Local...

What a patently sweeping generalization of meaninglessness you have there. Talk about pontificating. Protestantism isn't a progression of new ideas. It is a reform movement based on what was believed to be original orthodoxy—not so with Sunday sacredness. 90+% of prophesying has always been...

This is so weird. I've been a member of a dozen different local Adventist churches and I've never, ever experienced this. I could point you to dozens of church Facebook pages and YouTube channels that upload and stream their worship services every Sabbath that make it very clear that what you're...

"After all" would be an understatement in my view. The very Gospel itself is the purchase, in blood, of liberty of conscience. If people only realized just what it cost Jesus for them to have their own way until they are finally compelled by love to have His own way. Like two peas in a pod...

I think the the only truthful answer would be: 'I doubt that I know well enough to judge.' As a rule: Neither. I only consider and respect them as best I can? Somewhat cautiously open? A better question might be "In what manner...?" :) .

Miles Davis always said: "Don't give too much away." .

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What a lot of sick people (and we're all old age-positive, btw) could really use is a whole day of nothing but rest and worship, and since God set aside a certain day of the week for just such a purpose, the question is neither how nor if, because the answer came before the question ever arose...

I have to take, at least, academic exception to the phrase "you've been told," Sis. I mean, let's be honest, is there anything you've portrayed here that departs, materially, from "Studies In The Scriptures?" Respectfully, I'm not really up on Watchtower's prophetic updates but, at this...

@Jack Would you mind if I ask you how long you've been a devout Christian? .

Very kind reply, Jack. Best of God's blessings to your home as well. I don't hold the position that there are any direct commands to keep the Sabbath in the New Testament. In fact, I'd venture to say they are intentionally excluded. I also think God has left out a direct restatement of the 3rd...

To hold this position, Jack, you have to surrender the 7th commandment as well. The woman taken in adultery should have been stoned. Thus you pronounce Christ a transgressor of His own law. There is no hermeneutically sound way to defend the disregarding of the 4th commandment, folks. We can...