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  1. Joshua_Belyeu

    Hi

    Welcome to the nuthouse. ;)
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    Non-Christian related movies

    I will agree with you about much of the Star Wars franchise, especially the sequels directly supervised by Krazy Kathleen Kennedy (or "KKK" for short). Those movies are about as blatantly man-hating as you can get, especially regarding Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi. Mark Hamill practically did...
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    Most People Who Claim to be Worthy Before God Are About to Prove to Everyone Who They Really are in a More Open Way

    Most hardcore anti-theists have been perpetually angry for decades. The main reason it appears to be more prominent now, is that over the last 30 years the rise of the Internet has given everyone a platform, both good and bad.
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    My Failures (and God's Incredible Grace) With the Ten Commandments...

    I wrote this about an hour ago, during a conversation on another website, and wanted to post it here because I think a lot of people tend to see Christians as "holier than thou", self-involved, or otherwise prideful. To counter that, I went down the list of the Commandments as found in Exodus...
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    Non-Christian related movies

    I really like most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and TV shows, though I'm admittedly about 5 years behind at this point. I really need to watch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier soon, so I can understand the new Captain America film when it comes out next summer. I'm also looking...
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    History and the Bible

    Put simply, the soul of someone who has rejected God and Jesus has become extremely sick, to the point they can't even hear His whispering voice anymore. As much as we might often emotionally wish otherwise, God is the ultimate gentleman. He loves us, and He wants us to trust Him, but He will...
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    Do you have a lot of friends?

    I'm 44 years old, and I can count the number of truly close friends on less than two hands...most of them being people I've met in my local church over the past five years. And the majority of those people are old enough to be my parents, some even my grandparents. I've been playfully referred...
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    Give me your top 10 Christian worship anthems

    I'm surprised no one's listed this one so far. I've loved Michael W. Smith for years, and this is one of my favorites regarding his slower numbers. This is another one from his earlier career that's more mainstream, but the lyrics are still worship-minded, as far as I'm concerned.
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    Christian Rock and Metal

    I know some have implied there's already "too many posts" about Skillet, but I truly don't care. They're my favorite band that manages to be brutally honest about their faith, but also their struggles and sometimes how insane it is, trying to reconcile both. I relate to that a lot every day...
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    Curiosity

    With due respect, Michael Moore is about as publicly Leftist as it gets. He's openly condemned both Al Gore & George W. Bush, describing the latter as "a banal, despicable, and corrupt human being". By contrast, he praised Hugo Chavez, a self-described Marxist whose policies favored socialism...
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    What are you watching 😏

    I've bought a fair number of 4K movies over the past few months, and the last one I watched was The Matrix Revolutions. I've ordered a 4K set of the first six Mission: Impossible films, and I'm looking forward to seeing them all in the best video quality available. I also have entered into the...
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    what is the worst thing you ever had to deal with?

    While I admit that some folks twist Scripture to suit their own ego, I don't think most reasonable people do. That said, its important to note that the entire Bible should never be taken literally. Rather, it should be viewed literarily, meaning to treat every event described according to its...
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    what is the worst thing you ever had to deal with?

    The majority of my life has been filled with many forms of mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering. From the age of 3 until I was 14, my Mom was barely around, leaving my younger sister and I to be primarily raised by Mom's extremely legalistic and fear-minded aunt and uncle. They never said...
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    Strictly Miscellaneous

    I don't see a problem, so long as you avoid things related to the occult. Too many believers want to equate fictional magic such as Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings with real-world Satanism...but if you look beyond the superficial, there's many extreme differences.
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    Why can't everyone in the world just be nice to each other?

    Satan was the same way, not only turning traitor against God but convincing an entire third of his fellow angels to do the same thing. Regarding the human side of the equation, I like how apologist Frank Turek stated it: "Most people are not on a truth quest - they're on a happiness quest."
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    Truly Desperate...

    Hello, everyone. I know I'm not a regular poster around here, so most of you probably don't know me at all. But since most of us are likely followers of Jesus, I have to believe there's some kind of spiritual bond between us in heavenly places. I'm writing this post as an all-out plea, because...
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    Strictly Miscellaneous

    The term "salvation" comes from several roots: the Old French "salvacion", the Latin "salva", and more broadly the Greek "soteria". All three share the common theme of being saved or rescued from harm or destruction, and when applied to Scripture it becomes very obvious that what we need saving...
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    Strictly Miscellaneous

    The answer to that question is one word: "sin"...and no amount of works can ever result in a person earning or deserving God's love and redemption. Only the blood of Jesus does that, and to access it requires repentance, which comes from a brutally honest heart instead of the hands. We have to...
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    Why can't everyone in the world just be nice to each other?

    The plain and simple fact of the matter is that because of the Eden curse, two things happened. First, the world was corrupted...and second, so were we. Instead of living in harmony with each other and with God, we now had a self-serving ego, and a desire to prove we were morally superior to our...
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    Strictly Miscellaneous

    The issue of "faith or works" is fairly complicated in the Bible. Different verses say that both are in various ways dependent on each other, and necessary in a believer's life. The way I understand it, placing your personal trust in God through Jesus redeems you by His blood, and gets you into...