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@birdchadlouis Why would someone who believes in God, and has a relationship with God, marry someone who doesn’t believe? Even without the verse, it’s just plain common sense.

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@Kiritsigu @okaythenfuture Jesus is alive! Now, & forever. He knows the hearts of men. Today, He still calls men into His kingdom. It happens every day. “Unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
To enter we must repent, & be forgiven, ..only He forgives…then your eyes will be opened.

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@IsmailD99870399 @DannyJovica @okaythenfuture The kingdom of God is the unseen spiritual kingdom. To see it a man must be born again. To do that one must believe in Jesus’ death & resurrection.
Build up your treasure on earth of you want but moths will eat it.

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@Zamzamil_ @DannyJovica @okaythenfuture Paul was a convert, by divine revelation, he gave up his former life to follow Jesus. What Paul teaches is from God, Jesus.

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@SamaHoole I find the goats butter is pretty soft and spreads straight from the fridge.

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@shadowcanman I pray for the country every day. My hope is strong.
Many are praying, and calling out to God. He is able.

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@Glinner I’m not even laughing. It’s beyond pathetic.
I’m an artist. I work long and hard, I love it, but even after all these years I’ve never made an actual profit! Thats not the goal anyway. I am compelled to paint 😄
Seeing this performance, I’m just SMH 🤦‍♀️

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@Yorkslrehlker We all love a multicultural world, and we love our individual cultural identity, in the big world. Some of us want to cherish & maintain our culture, identity and heritage & not be swamped by a global, meaningless, spiritually void mess.

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@SamaHoole We were built by God. Fearfully and wonderfully made. He knew what He was doing. That's why our complex systems all work and support each other. Our bodies are amazing.

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@annimaye246 @cillianblack @RichardDawkins @wrench_ala39543 Christianity is on no way a cult.

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@petermagellan @cillianblack @RichardDawkins @wrench_ala39543 Look at his explanation of Christian values.

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@LevelSquare @cillianblack @RichardDawkins @wrench_ala39543 Look up the definition of a cult. Christianity is not that.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Welcome to Scotland. Crieff Highland Gathering. Absolutely glorious. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Forever Joy @Melgaratron222]

@Jenny_1884 My parents met at age18 got married age 20. Exactly the same for my in-laws. Most of my mum and dads friends did the same. This was 1970’s.
I put myself under pressure to be married by 20, but society had changed by then. Women were having children but not getting married

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Most atheists would probably prefer a God who explained quantum mechanics to them over a God who told them to love their enemies.

If Jesus had arrived explaining astrophysics instead of commanding repentance, forgiveness, and holiness, the modern world would have found Him far more compelling.

We do not seem to want a God who is holier than us. We want a God who is just smarter than us.

A God who is merely smarter is safe. He stays in the comfortable category of an intellectual superior. We could admire His mind, take His laboratory notes, and use His data to master the universe on our own terms.

A God of pure information gives us power without ever touching our pride.

The absence of a scientific manual in Scripture is not an oversight. It is an act of design.

In Genesis, God does not hand Adam a completed catalogue of creation. He brings the animals to him and lets him name them. God builds an intelligible world, gives humanity minds capable of interrogating it, and then leaves room for discovery.

The skeptic looks at that silence and calls it a deficiency. He demands that God should have handed us the finished physics.

But if God owes us the completed mechanics of the universe, why stop at science?

Why didn’t the Mona Lisa descend from heaven fully painted? Why didn’t Beethoven’s Ninth arrive fully scored? Why did God not pre-design the airplane, pre-discover penicillin, pre-build civilization and hand it to us at Eden?

He could have. The demand has no principled stopping point.

What you are actually asking for, worked out to its conclusion, is a world where humanity arrived to find everything already done. No discovery to make. No art to create. No problem left to solve. God would have been comprehensively generous. Humans would have been comprehensively useless.

The blank canvas is not God withholding. It is God protecting the only conditions under which making something actually means anything.

So why is Scripture so much more explicit about how we should live than about how God built the universe?

Look at the asymmetry of consequence.

Ignorance of astrophysics and the exact mechanics of creation is remarkably survivable. A civilization can flourish for centuries without knowing how the cosmos was physically assembled.

Moral disorder is different.

An abusive father does not need a better cosmology before his family suffers. A corrupt ruler does not need to understand thermodynamics before he destroys a nation. Societies can survive enormous intellectual ignorance. They cannot indefinitely survive the corruption of trust, justice, love, and leadership.

We treat technical mastery as if it were the summit of human purpose.

But knowledge is merely instrumental. It decorates our world, extends our reach and amplifies our power, yet it leaves the human soul entirely untouched.

We split the atom and did not become more virtuous. We simply acquired the capacity to industrialize our vices.
Science can tell us what we can do. It cannot tell us what we ought to do.
God never came primarily as our lab instructor.

He came as a Father to heal a terminal heart.

He gave us the cosmos to discover, our neighbour to love, and Himself to know.

[Certified Faith @ChristCert]

When a language that could not be read for 2000 years was deciphered, it confirmed the Bible.

And you’re still an atheist???

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@MrEncouragement @JohnCleese Which we can also do through our actions and our attitude.

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@MrEncouragement @JohnCleese He’s shocking terrible and hateful in your opinion, and you’ve chastised him by telling him he needs Jesus. I don’t think this is the way we share the gospel.

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@MrEncouragement @JohnCleese Because you used it to chastise. It read like you wrote this with a haughty attitude.
I do believe John Cleese is standing up for what is right in this case.

[Forever Joy @Melgaratron222]

@MrEncouragement @JohnCleese Well Mr. Obvious, everyone needs Christ, even those who do know Him, need Him, everyday.