#93

The deal appears to be that Jesus is God's habitation on earth, as both the Arc of the Covenant and the Temples were.

A hint in Revelations is that when a third Temple is built in Jerusalem, the AC steps into it and proclaims himself to be God.... this is a major blasphemy because Jesus is that Temple now, and he is not in any way amused.

The living and the dead in Christ (which may or may not include Cultural Christians!) then receive a new body, just as JC did when he rose.

John records Jesus as saying that he has to leave after the Resurrection so the Holy Spirit third of the Trinity can come to earth:

"Jesus explained in John 16:7 that his departure was necessary for the Holy Spirit to come, largely to transition from a localized physical presence to a universal, internal presence in believers.

His ascension finalized his redemptive work (glorification), allowing for the new covenant ministry where the Spirit empowers all believers, rather than only those near Jesus.

Key reasons Jesus left before the Holy Spirit arrived:
Universal Presence: While Jesus was on earth, his presence was limited by human form. The Holy Spirit's coming allowed God to be present in every believer simultaneously, regardless of location."

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#92

10 Life of Jesus Travel Maps

Ukraine at the straits of Hurmuz?

"For over a week Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly stated that Kyiv is ready to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, which has been disrupted since breakout of the Iran war.

Zelenskyy said over the past days that Moscow used a "a wide range of equipment for the blockade, not only battleships."

However, Ukraine has since established new export routes.

"We crippled the Russian Black Sea Fleet and pushed them away from the corridor," he explained.

"Then we organised convoys for civilian vessels using sea drones to counter Russian helicopters and other offensive weaponry."

The Food Security Corridor has been under Ukrainian control since then.

"We can share this expertise with other countries, but nobody asked us to come and help with the Hormuz Strait. Partners only asked us to share our expertise."

Israel spent 400 years in God's woodshed in Egypt, solely for the purpose of learning how NOT to treat immigrants and strangers.

Which they obviously never did. Then they spent 40 years wandering in the desert for good measure, and they still bitched and moaned and complained.

"My people are a stiff-necked people".

Most Christians missed the part about how since Jesus, Israel is not THE Holy Land; all the land is now Holy.

And Israel doesn't get any Free Passes for genocide... there will still be hell for them to pay, one way or another.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence"

Wow... 1Nut is famous!

One wonders just how evil JBelle's Cult Leader has to get before he stops defending the indefensible?

But I guess that someone who wouldn't stop at fraud, sex abuse, defamation of his victims, murdering 100's of thousands of children for tax breaks for his Billionaire buddies... trying to rig the Pres Election of 2020... bombing civilians in Iran...

... someone who will ride that far with a criminal should hang with the criminal.

#8 is worth hearing..

MGT is now more reality-based than the Trumpers posting here?

She compares the Pope's message today to Trump's vulgar, illegal, evil threats.

"Our President Is Not a Christian." I Said It. I Meant It."

MTG: Political Insider

"What do you think about "[sending] them back to the Stone Age where they belong"?
Rev Ed Trevor

It seems like BJ may actually win the Mr/Ms Irrelevancy Award for a 5th year running.

I see the site's least capable posters found a place to hide for a couple of no-substance posts.

Bellboy is desperately pushing his wishful 'thinking'.

The other pos is projecting is own fear and self-loathing like he's in Vegas.

"Vladimir Putin's burgeoning crackdown on Russia's internet is a 'throwback to the Soviet era', experts say

A report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Putin's internet crackdown was rooted in weakness.

It was an effort to control online narratives, prevent anti-war sentiment and prepare the country for a protracted war with Ukraine, the report from the American-based research institute said.

Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, a law and security professor at the University of Canberra, argued it went further, saying "this is about maximising control, a digital repression even".

"The Putin regime is less optimistic than it appears, maybe because things are not working how they wanted," Dr Bachmann said.

So what are the reasons behind Russia flexing its muscles over the internet?"

"He Has Gone Insane!' MTG Absolutely Bludgeons Trump in Fiery Reaction to President's Evil' Threat Against Iran

The former Georgia congresswoman went ballistic.

"On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted," Greene wrote, in a post on X.

"Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump's madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."

Greene, who has been a severe critic of the Iran war, went on to argue civilians will be the ones most impacted if the president were to follow through on his threat.

"Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing," she wrote."

She added, "This is not making America great again, this is evil."

#3

jajaja... you're killing me here (Jesus' actual last words?)

Jesus said to Pilate, "Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice."

Pontius Pilate asked Jesus: "What is truth?". And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, "I find no fault in Him.".

(from the P52 fragment... Papyrus P52 from about 125 AD, Gospel of John, from one of the earliest known existing copies)

Jesus Just Left Chicago (Live From Texas)

-Secretly?
He's openly sexually aroused by trans women.
He just doesn't realize it.
#20 | Posted by snoofy

"Watch your goodies, Laura! Jeffy is a trans sex maniac!".

Was the Shroud of Turin Created by a Nuclear Event?

#15

You think maybe JeffyBelle is secretly trans?

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." - JC speaking in Matt 7, 1

#3

Yeah, but then what would Visitor do all day?

"A holiday named for the goddess is part of the neopagan Wiccan Wheel of the Year (Ostara, 21 March).[40]

In some forms of modern Germanic paganism, 'ostre (or Ostara) is venerated. Regarding this veneration, Carole M. Cusack comments that, among adherents, 'ostre is "associated with the coming of spring and the dawn, and her festival is celebrated at the spring equinox.

Because she brings renewal, rebirth from the death of winter, some Heathens associate 'ostre with Iunn, keeper of the apples of youth in Scandinavian mythology".[41]

Erroneous association with Ishtar

In 1853, Scottish protestant minister Alexander Hislop published The Two Babylons, an anti-Catholic tract. In the tract, Hislop connects modern English Easter with the East Semitic theonym Ishtar by way of folk etymology. For example, from The Two Babylons, third edition:

What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Ninevah, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. This name as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar.[43]

Because Hislop's claims have no linguistics foundation, his claims were rejected, but the Two Babylons would go on to have some influence in popular culture.[44]

In the 2000s, a popular Internet meme similarly claimed an incorrect linguistic connection between English Easter and Ishtar.[33]"

"Cultural Fusion"... also the name of the wine in Britannia that year.

Also taken by very early progressive Brit rock band.

Hating history is SO... Republican!

A short message that even a Culturally Christian agnostic or atheist could love!

Perhaps not a Trumpublican, but hey, can't please everyone.

"Easter" became the English term for the Christian Passover (Pascha) through a combination of Germanic cultural influence and early English bible translations.

While most languages derive their word for Easter from the Hebrew Pesach (e.g., Pques, Pasqua), English adopted a pre-existing 7th-century Saxon term (Eostre) that marked the spring season.

Key Reasons for the Shift:

Cultural Fusion: Early Christians in England merged the celebration of Jesus' resurrection with the spring festival honoring the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Ostara)."

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