Cliff Cunningham

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Scriptural Problems with the Statement1.

1. Isaiah 1:15 is taken out of context. The Pope quoted: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood” (Isaiah 1:15).
In Isaiah 1, God is rebuking the people of Judah for hypocritical religion combined with gross injustice , oppressing the poor, widows, and orphans, and committing violence against the innocent. “Hands full of blood” refers to murder and exploitation, not to soldiers fighting in legitimate warfare. God rejects prayers when they come from people who are unrepentant in their sin and using religion as a cover. This passage does not teach that God automatically rejects every prayer from anyone involved in any war.

2. God has repeatedly heard the prayers of those who waged war. David was a warrior who fought many battles. God called him “a man after my own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22) and answered his prayers constantly, including prayers related to battle (Psalm 18, Psalm 20, etc.).
Moses, Joshua, Gideon, and the judges led wars that God Himself commanded or approved. God heard and answered their prayers for victory.
Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 20) prayed before facing a massive invading army. God told him, “Do not be afraid… the battle is not yours but God’s” and gave him victory.
Hezekiah prayed when facing the Assyrian army. God answered by destroying the enemy (2 Kings 19).

If the Pope’s statement were true, God would have been contradicting Himself throughout the Old Testament.

3. The New Testament does not support this blanket rejection. Jesus healed the servant of a Roman centurion (a professional soldier) and said of him, “I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith” (Matthew 8:5-13). He did not tell the centurion to quit the army.
The first Gentile convert was Cornelius, another Roman centurion. God said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God” (Acts 10:4). Peter then baptized him without ever telling him to leave military service.
John the Baptist told soldiers, “Do not extort money from anyone… and be content with your wages” (Luke 3:14). He corrected their sin but did not tell them warfare itself was sinful.
Romans 13:1-7 says civil authorities (including those who wage war) are “God’s servant” who “bear the sword” as agents of justice.

4. Scripture distinguishes between just and unjust use of force.
The Bible never teaches absolute pacifism. God Himself is called “the Lord of hosts” (armies) dozens of times. He commands defensive war and the protection of the innocent in a fallen world. Jesus’ command to “turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39) addresses personal insults, not national defense or stopping evil aggressors.

Someone reaches this conclusion when they hold to a pacifist hermeneutic, a way of reading the Bible that treats certain verses (“love your enemies,” “blessed are the peacemakers,” “turn the other cheek”) as absolute prohibitions against all violence, while downplaying or reinterpreting the rest of Scripture.

In short, the mindset is usually sincere in its desire for peace, but it imposes an unbiblical absolutism on Scripture. It creates a false choice: either you are completely non-violent in every situation, or you are automatically cut off from God’s hearing. The Bible does not support that binary.
God hears the prayers of His people when they come in faith and repentance, whether they are soldiers, civilians, or national leaders -because access to Him is through Christ, not through having a perfectly non-violent résumé.

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@DrFrankTurek In God’s providence, it is to be expected that those outside of Christendom will oppose and mistreat those who belong to Christ; the greater spiritual danger arises when the world no longer opposes you.

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@IfindRetards Being mentally handicapped and mentally unsound are two completely different things.

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@Truth_matters20 Because God made it and sustains it by His providence, water carries the signature of its Creator. In that broad sense, it is “holy”, set apart by God as part of His good world.

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All I can think about is the 5,800 manuscripts that define Christs words, all saying the same thing. What did Muhammad write down? Oh, he was illiterate and could not even read the text he stole from the Torah, which explains why Isaiah was never mentioned as at that time the Pharisees had Isaiah on lock down, they were trying to reinterpret it to anything other than what it says. Isaiah 53... gone, they could not twist the one from Christ, Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7, 11:1-10.... well, it means something else other than what it says.

Out of the thousands of New Testament manuscripts and textual witnesses that have been discovered 5,800+ Greek manuscripts + 20,000 ancient translations = roughly 25,000+ total witnesses), essentially every one preserves the New Testament’s consistent teaching that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and divine. There is no halfway point here, Christ either spoke the truth, or he was the blasphemer of all blasphemers, which is why he was nailed to the cross by those who could not hear or see Him for who he was.

Only through absolute ignorance can you claim that Christ was only a prophet, and given the times and who Muhammad was, not even being able to read that which we spewed, his ignorance was at least understandable, as it was with his followers. Today though, with what we know, one would have to be willfully ignorant, apathetic, and completely self-centric to swallow his bs.

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Life, by its very nature, unfolds as an ongoing succession of attachments and desires that gradually mold the human mind to embrace values rooted in the fleeting and the earthly, values which remain inherently at odds with those oriented toward the eternal and the divine. Inasmuch as this conditioning forms an intrinsic part of temporal existence, humanity as a whole finds itself marked by a profound spiritual depravity from which no person can achieve complete liberation through personal striving alone. While every living creature possesses an innate ability to pursue self-betterment and to navigate the demands of life within these constraints, an ability indispensable to the persistence of life itself, true freedom from such bondage awaits only the gracious intervention of the divine.

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As someone with Asperger’s whose thinking is almost entirely grounded in logic and critical reasoning, I take issue with the notion that faith and reason are at odds.

My path to God through Christ has been shaped by careful reasoning (critical thinking), not in spite of it. The fact that many people reason poorly or superficially does not mean Scripture itself lacks deep logical structure or that it does not call for serious critical thinking. Christ Himself repeatedly directed people to look beyond the surface of the written word to understand its true meaning , an explicit invitation to reasoned discernment rather than blind acceptance.

The path to Christ is sustained by both faith and reason working together. When either one is rejected or neglected, the path becomes unstable and one inevitably veers off course. When both are held in proper balance, reason illuminating faith and faith giving reason its ultimate direction, the way remains steady and sure.

There is nothing in this universe that was created with the intention to trick or fool us, have faith in knowing that logic and reasoning (critical thinking) does not go against the bound truths, but enforces them.

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@owenthcarey Nothing is necessary for salvation but Grace alone. Through Grace, these sacraments flow.

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@JCRyle Pray.... and help them rebuild their tractor.

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As a white conservative, red-headed Christian man living with Asperger’s, I share far more fundamental common ground with the isolated tribes of Africa, those who have never laid eyes on a white face, than I do with the typical modern liberal woman. It’s not a clever observation or a provocative turn of phrase. It’s simply the truth.

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From the throne of the Almighty flows all authority, both over the righteous and the wicked. As a just and sovereign Judge, He dispenses reward to those who walk in faithfulness and metes out punishment upon those who turn away in rebellion. Yet there remains but one true solution, one sacred remedy that must be embraced without hesitation or compromise. Until this divine imperative is fulfilled in the hearts and deeds of a people, all that they hold most dear, their freedom, their heritage, their peace, and their very future, shall be handed over as spoil to the enemy. Pay attention America.

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From Grok- The Obama Center’s text screen is a contemporary, high-end execution using modern materials and a personal/political quote. But the underlying idea — monumental architecture that embeds powerful text as a facade element to convey meaning, identity, or ideology — traces directly to early Soviet Constructivism and related Marxist-influenced avant-garde movements of the 1920s. Those architects and theorists treated buildings as communicative machines for the revolution, often with integrated typography.
Cultural and ideological movements shape architecture. The specific perforated concrete letters here are new, but the DNA of “architecture that speaks through text” is older and has strong roots in communist-era design theory and practice.

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In May 2026, the USDA published a final rule updating the requirements for stores authorized to accept SNAP/EBT benefits.
Key change: Stores must now stock at least 7 distinct varieties of staple foods in each of the 4 categories (protein, grains, dairy, and fruits/vegetables).

-I predict that a lot of specialty stores, like meat butchers, will no longer be accepting snaps.

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@DavidJHarrisJr Proud or not, all authority flows from God, and although the Bible does not call upon us to love that authority, it does call on us to respect and abide by it.

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CNN is pushing this issue simply to attack the remedy, but there is not much that can be done to a body of water in full sunlight that is fed nutrients from wildlife to keep algae from growing without using chemicals, plants, fish, or natural inhibitors like barley straw to prevent further growth. Aeration only goes so far, as do bacteria and enzymes which can produce their own fallout. Dumping hydrogen peroxide in it does not remove the sunlight or nutrients, and it would have to be added repeatedly because it quickly dissipates in sunlight, leaving the water in perfect conditions to produce more algae. It is possible to control it, but new filtration, UVC, and oxygenation systems would likely need to be incorporated, which probably would cost more than simply reconditioning the pool itself.

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@TansuYegen It seems to make that joint requires removing 50% of the wood that will be load bearing, and then stressing 40% of that 50% to keep 60% of that 50% locked in place, which leaves only 30% to handle the load.

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1. Private Correction - Go to the person gently and privately first with gentleness and patience. Goal = restoration

2. Take One or Two Witnesses- Bring others if they won’t listen, keep it private still, for accountability

3. Tell it to the Church - Bring it before the church leadership/elders, making it public within the church

4. Formal Rebuke / Silence - Rebuke sharply and silence false teachers, especially for those teaching publicly

5. Separation / Avoidance - Have nothing more to do with them after warnings, withdraw fellowship

6. Public Warning - Name false teachers when necessary to protect others when the error is dangerous and spreading

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@David_Kicinski Either that, or He can make you think they are talking. There is not one single facet truth in the Bible, they all contain, at the very least, a trinity of them.

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Evil proceeds from the creature, both angels and humans, through the genuine freedom God originally endowed to them. While God sovereignly decreed all things from eternity, including the entrance of sin, He is not the author of evil. Sin arises from the willful rebellion of free creatures who turned away from God. God governs the entire universe according to His eternal decree and wise providence, working through secondary causes, so that even the sinful choices of creatures serve His predetermined purposes and ultimately redound to His glory.

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They need Skynet (China, not Terminator) in New York, these people clearly can not be governed by our constitution anymore, and it seems they crave a dictator anyways.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams