Stupid but saved in the 70s.
Married in the 80s.
USAF MD & Dad 90s.
Civilian MD '00s.
Fed LEO MD '10s+ but not in the swamp.
To avoid cancelation, I won't elaborate further.
Summation: I'm just a regular guy despite full-time physician career ×30+ years.
Months of work, condensed into seconds. Watch the transformation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as crews drained, repainted, and refilled one of America's most iconic landmarks ahead of a busy summer season in Washington, D.C.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
George Orwell
WOW! Dr. Alveda King just delivered a powerful message on Capitol Hill:
“I still have a dream… that we move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD’S power and human dignity!”
She rejected treating traditional Christians as threats or terrorists, called for seeing each other as neighbors, and reminded us we are one blood, one human race from womb to tomb.
I'm a physician.
I know of zero deaths from any vaccine amongst any of my patients in more than 30 years of full time practice.
I've never even seen a case of non-fatal anaphylaxis.
OK, to all the people saying Donald Trump is falling asleep, let me say this:
Good. It’s about time the man gets some rest.
President Trump is known for working his ass off. He barely sleeps, he’s always moving, always fighting, always thinking about this country and the American people.
So if he is tired, it’s because he’s actually working.
Joe Biden looked tired too, but the difference is he didn’t do a damn thing.
Investigative journalist Lara Logan Drops BOMBSHELL, Says U.S. Went After Maduro Because They Rightly Knew Venezuela RIGGED The 2020 Election with Iran and the CCP, Claims an EYEWITNESS Is In Custody...
“Venezuela stole the election from Trump, working with Iran, the CCP, and others. We know a lot of the details because there’s a very senior Venezuelan sitting in prison who was actually an eyewitness to the theft.”
“You want to know why President Trump doesn’t get the support he needs from a country like Spain? The cartel in Venezuela that runs the country, Cartel de los Soles, selected the Spanish Prime Minister. Why does America get all this heat from all over the world? The globalist-Marxist-Islamist alliance that uses these cartels as its army all work together.”
“The election in LA isn’t about one enemy, it’s about all of America’s enemies working together.”
🚨SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."
If you're confused about the Christian vs. Mormon vs. Jehovah's Witness Debate sparked by Mike Lee & Co, here's a brief rundown of why this issue matters to Christians.
Back in 325 AD, our early Christian fathers sat down to establish a basic outline of our faith's tenets. At that time, quite a few oddball ideas had arisen which were contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
They composed the Nicene Creed. You can think of it kind of like the Christian Declaration of Independence. It's essentially a "this-is-who-we-are-and-what-we-believe-in-a-nutshell" kind of document.
In particular, the Nicene Creed documents the traditional Christian understanding of the Trinity; the idea that God is One God in three persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory, and all three have eternally existed since before the creation of the universe.
And this isn't just a weird idea some ancient theologians made up in 325 AD. We get it straight from Jesus.
For example, in Matthew 28:19, Jesus tells the apostles to baptize new believers "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Pretty clear, right?
When Jesus himself is baptized in Matthew 3:13-17, the Holy Spirit descends on him like a dove, and the voice of the Father says, "This is my beloved Son."
In John 10:30 & 38, Jesus says, "I and the Father are one ... know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
In John 8:58, Jesus claimed to be eternal, saying, "before Abraham was, I am.” When he said that, some Jews who heard him picked up stones to kill him, because they fully understood that Jesus was claiming to be our eternal God, without beginning or end. He was very, very clear.
This is why Christians believe that Jesus is fully God; that he has always existed, just as the Father and the Spirit have existed. He became human (while remaining fully God) when he was born of Mary, but he was not created by God or a new being or a new aspect of God.
In Revelation 1:8 Jesus says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” In 22:13 he reiterates, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
In Colossians 1:16, Paul confirms that Jesus was present with the Father when the universe was created, saying, "For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible ... all things were created through him and for him."
And these examples are just off the top of my head.
The term "Holy Spirit" is mentioned over 100 times in the New Testament alone. The first mention in the Bible is clear back in Genesis 1 which tells us "The Spirit of God was hovering above the waters."
So, the Trinity isn't some quirky idea someone pulled out of a hat. It's ingrained throughout Scripture. It is how God describes himself, and how he wants us to understand him.
Obviously, the idea of God being One God yet three persons who are equal in power, holiness, and glory is hard for us humans to wrap our heads around. Nobody entirely understands how the Trinity works, we just know that this is how God has explained himself to us.
But, if God were easy for people to understand, that would probably be a big red flag that he wasn't really God, wouldn't it? We humans can't understand God anymore than an ant can understand Einstein. He's so high above us, we cannot comprehend him. Nevertheless, we have to honor and adhere to how he's described himself and what he's told us about him.
There are many doctrines in the Bible that are tertiary (lesser issues / up for debate). For example, Baptism. A Reformed Presbyterian will think we should baptize new believers as well as babies. A Baptist will think we should only baptize new believers and children once they're old enough to articulate their faith. And of course, some Christians prefer full-body dunking, while others think a simple anointing is adequate.
Yet both Baptists and Presbyterians can worship together, and consider each other to be Christians. That's because, while we disagree on some side issues, we agree on the major foundational pillars of our faith. And the Trinity is one of those pillars.
If you don't believe that Jesus "was and is and is to come," then you don't believe that Jesus is who he said he is. If Jesus is not our eternal God, then he cannot forgive for your sins, Christianity is pointless, and all of humanity is lost.
So, the eternal deity of Jesus is a foundational, pivotal, incremental doctrine of the Christian faith, and without it, Christianity does not exist.
Hey Mormons, I actually love you. Some of the nicest people I’ve ever met … I want to see you in heaven and with your current beliefs this is not possible. Reject Mormonism in favor of the true gospel and the true Christ found in the holy Bible :))