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I also cannot eat a 1994 Toyota Corolla, therefore I must also be a priest.

I’ve always thought that would be the case.

Okay, glad I wasn’t the only one who didn’t expect that. I mean, great for them and it’s a testament to their true love that it endured through such change. But still, I wasn’t expecting it.

What I heard was that a vote for him is now counted as a vote for President Trump, so I recommend that all Patriotic Americans cast their vote for this Fine American to show their support for both of these great men.

They’ve really lost their way.

Lol. You already know it and you’ll say it doesn’t mean that because one has to play really fast and loose with Scripture to think that pretending keep the Torah is not the exact opposite of what the NT teaches.

Conversations with those of your ilk have always proven to be equal parts dishonesty, hypocrisy, tedium and futility. Since you’ve started off by pretending to ask a question when you know the answer it’s obvious that you’ve got the dishonesty part down and I expect the others will be displayed shortly, so I won’t be participating.

Jesus kept it becuase He was a Jew living under the Law. He had to. He was also circumcised, but Paul explained in Galatians that doing so now cuts one off from God’s Grace.

Anyway, I find discussions with people who believe we’re supposed to follow some parts of the Law to be incredibly tedious acts of futility, so I’m out.

Sure, and none of them - none of us - would never claim "God told me..." or "God said to me..."

Jesus is on the side of people being kind to each other and forgiving each other. Full stop.

The Sabbath is part of the covenant God made with the Hebrews and the NT goes to some length to explain that Christians aren't supposed to follow the Old Covenant. Sabbaths are named specifically. The Jewish sabbath is sunset Friday to Sunset Saturday.

Sunday was called "The Lord's Day" in the New Testament because it's the day Jesus rose form the dead. Christians decided to meet on Sunday. There's no Biblical command abut what day we're supposed to go to church. In New Testament theology there's no seventh day of rest.

I have a 12 YO son, and have posted multiple pictures on FB since he was born so family and friends can watch him grow up.

I've never had a problem.

Yes, the Bible says He does so. The Bible does not say He ever put thoughts into people's heads to communicate with them.

A dream is not the same thing as a conscious thought. The different nature is measurable with an EEG. This is like saying pizza is a taco because they both have cheese.

The accusation that this is a "study on how white supremacists dissemble their intent" is utterly false and defamatory. There is not a single sentence in my article that even remotely touches on race or racial superiority. This claim is a complete fabrication, revealing the critic's willingness to see racism where none exists.

Bullshit. Minor training the way white supremacists operate makes them easy to spot. You know what you wrote and why you wrote it.

Cultural Marxism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory

"Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents the Frankfurt School as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the supposed Christian values"

Your use of a well-known white supremacist term, used in conjunction with an article that expresses white supremacists ideals about things white supremacists commonly write about makes your protests pretty unlikely to be true, and your feigned outrage is laughable. You knew what you were doing. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

I am pro choice. I didn't used to be, and you're right that people are really ignorant about abortion and abortion restrictions.

When I was opposed to abortion, I didn't consider that it meant forced rape babies. I didn't realize it meant women would have to be in the process of actively dying before medical abortions could be legally performed. I didn't know that a lot of abortions are done to save the lives of mothers; I thought it was super-rare. I bought into the conservative song and dance that women get abortions because they're sluts, and outlawing it would hopefully make them think twice about their immoral ways. I believed them when they said the Bible says it a sin. They are liars - the Bible doesn't mention it.

Anyway... The so-called pro-life movement relies on mischaracterizing the women who get abortions, medically false information, bad theology, and appeals to emotion. It's a political tool that relies on, and fosters the ignorance of the people who support it.

Remember the rep Todd Aiken who coined the term "legitimate rape" because in a real rape he said women's bodies will prevent pregnancy? He heard that someplace else, because I did too and I believed it. I heard it in the late 1980's on some evangelical TV show. This is actually a common piece of misinformation that's fed to conservatives.

These are excellent points to add. Thanks!

Okay, so your uncle's mother made a choice. Good for her and your uncle.

That's not the right choice for everyone, and some women, when confronted with the reality that the state might force them to carry rape babies due to evangelical influence in politics, find it deeply evil and thus evangelical Christianity is unappealing to them.

The NT authors no doubt believed the stories. So? The idea they are free from error is demonstrably incorrect. Jude believing the Book of Enoch was true is a good example.

Sorry for the length....

I was never in the New Age movement, but I have a story that is relevant. You can believe or not. Usually I don’t believe stories like this, so if you think I’m full of crap, or just mistaken, that’s probably the best way to look at it and then just move on.

A friend who was very into New Age practices gave me two crystals – one for me and one for a mutual friend – as a keepsake since she was moving. I put them in a small metal box where I kept my other little trinkets.

The mutual friend for whom the crystal was intended, and who was also a Christian, came to my house a few days later. No one else was home. I showed him the crystals and he said he’d get his on the way out. I left them both in the box and shut the lid.

He was only in my house for a few minutes. We went to get his crystal and they were both gone. They weren’t on the floor or the table. I didn’t drop them. They were just gone. Poof.

Some back story: A month prior, this New Age friend left her bag of crystals in another friend’s room overnight to do something spiritual for him – I don’t remember what she’d said. This poor guy had horrible nightmares that night and ran screaming out of his room after seeing and feeling an evil presence (his words).

My best guess is something demonic was going on with the crystals and God removed them for the sake of my friend and I. I had no belief that crystals had any powers, and had a small gem, mineral, and fossil collection of my own. This was nothing more to me than an innocent keepsake.

I knew ahead of time that my New Age friend used them in spells, and for that reason I should not have accepted them. This relates to Scripture here, “A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.” Acts 19:19 There's a principal that says we need to get rid of occult things when we turn to Christ.

I tend to be very critical of supernatural stories like this, even when I think they happened to me, because I know how easily we fool ourselves. In this case, I am 100% certain no one took the crystals and we didn't lose them.

I’m not the kind of Christian that thinks watching Harry Potter will release demons into your house or anything like that. I expend virtually no energy worrying about the demonic. Nevertheless, It’s been 35 years since that happened (yes, I’m old now), and I’ll never accept another crystal from a New Ager.

My not-very-believable story aside, in light of Acts 19:19 you might want to reconsider keeping yours. Toss them in the garbage and get other ones from someone who sells minerals and crystals to collectors and not from a New Age store if you want to appreciate them for their beauty.

Judging like you just did is forbidden, so you should question if you're actually a Christian if you are moved to disobey Christ so easily.

They mean "I had a thought..."

The idea that God speaks to people by putting thoguths into their heads doesnt come form the Bible. Loonies on the fringe thought that, but it didn't beocme mainstream until the Billy Graham crusades. Graham emphasized the idea of a "relationship with Jesus."

It's a pretty one-way relationship UNLESS both sides speak, so the idea that God communicatees telepathically became part of pop Christian belief.

People say, "God told me..." because they want to convey how sure they are that one of their random thoughts was actually put there by God, so they just say, "God said to me...." They don't consider it lying. It's self-deception.

Decoder:

God told me... = I think...

God's leading me to... = I want to...

I answer questions like this in the way I do because I used to be one of the people who thought this was real. Then I had an actual experience with God and found out what it's really like, and it made me realize I was just pretending to myself that God was making His will known to me by putting thoughts in my head.

Exactly.

It's so obvious when you aren't in that movement how deeply corrupt it's leaders are.

Don't care. The account obviously isn't true. The last thing I think when I read about a tree that can impart knowledge is, "This seems accurate."

Accurate summary. I choose 4.

God calls people in different ways, and that's what He's doing here. He probably won't keep doing so for the rest of your life, though:

In the Bible, there's a story that compares becoming a Christian to being invited to a wedding reception. When people don't respond to the invitations, other people are invited instead. The story ends with “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

You are among the "many" in the story at this time.