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So @PaulThomson and @Dino246, and at @SonJudgment, and @everyone else reading ((but these are my good friends)).... what i think is going on here with this crazy turn of phrase is that Arius was right citing scripture that says Christ is begotten, and probably brought up all these things we've...

@SonJudgment -no offense here: we are all just talking! my understanding of what i have read, is that everyone who believes Jesus is officially a saint. :)

in my life i've talked with thousands of people. i have no idea how many of them i actually know. my guess is maybe 3 to 6 even this feels optimistic, and 60% of my guess refers to cats, not humans.

perfect; thanks. His words are Spirit, and life what are yours? what are mine? what are theirs? so, given the nature of words - understanding that Babel is a real event - is patience and mercy required to speak to another human? or to say another way: is it well that we interact with others...

doesn't seem to be a universal stance but personally given the history i am very hesitant to argue with the Nicene creed. i suppose y'all have been able to guess from my conversation, yes the text is weird and messy in some places - bafflegab even, justifiably called @Dino246, ((banapple gas...

@PaulThomson Ran out of time didn't realize i was editing, sorry... partial repost: Sure, Christ the Son is sent by the godhead - Genesis 19:24, Exodus 23:20, Matthew 15:24, John 17:18, etc and the Spirit is sent by the godhead - Psalm 104:30, John 14:26, 16:7, etc but where is the Father...

Sure, Christ the Son is sent by the godhead - Genesis 19:24, Exodus 23:20, Matthew 15:24, John 17:18, etc and the Spirit is sent by the godhead - Psalm 104:30, John 14:26, 16:7, etc but where is the Father proceeding from the Son?

The Father is not described as 'proceeding from' or 'sent from' the Son, but the Son reveals Him.

well i don't really have a better way to say He is never not God and He is never not the Son of God in only two words lol i imagine the term 'begotten' was used here because of the Arian side of the argument, which claimed that because He was begotten - we see that term in scripture - He had a...

i agree it's messy language, but we should view it in the context it originated in. it has to do with whether the substance of the person of Christ is exactly the same substance of God - that He is, in essence, God, equal to God, of the same essence as God. in that sense 'begotten' in the same...

it's in the Nicene Creed. Athanasius coined it ((probably)) in argument with the Arians, who believed there was a time when Christ did not exist - that He is a created being. this was the primary thing the Nicene council met to settle - whether the Son is co-eternal with the Father or whether...

hi Jack what's "your view of God?"

i don't personally think there's any kind of 'age limit' two caveats about that: (1) young people are immature and you might not know them as well as you think you do. old people are crafty and you might not know them as well as you think you do. take your time, and always be suspicious...

sewing, knitting, fixing appliances, making spreadsheets of expenses and obsessing over home repair -- these are attractive qualities. everyone's bodies eventually get old, flabby and gassy. take the long view :)

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of course they did. what they would prefer, naturally, is that you spend hundreds of dollars on a new machine. they are a business, after all, lol

these are secular, not spiritual topics. a good soldier of Christ does not entangle himself in civilian affairs. the Biblical approach to these things is to not involve yourself in them, in fact to distance your life and conversation from them as much as possible. let your identity be in...

the facts are that crime has been steadily decreasing since 2020, as much as 25% lower this year in some communities, but the complete reverse, false story was sold to a lot of people. and that the data about 13000 immigrants involved in homicides is going back over 40 years, not 4, and only...

were you aware that the crime rate in the US is actually 25% lower this year, and had been steadily decreasing? or were you told something different? so you would be afraid and angry, and hence, motivated?

case in point, that's absolutely a lie. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04y0371lvo about 13,000 people who immigrated to the US over the last 45 years are accused of homicide and not being detained by ICE. they may be in federal or state prisons, they may be dead, they may not even be in...