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originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: putnam6
For me, your story is fantastic. But it only confirms my words when your state, in the name of globalist political goals, deprives its citizens of profit for their families. This is wrong.
The Church that gave you the creeds holds that Jesus Christ is true God and true man.
originally posted by: RussianTrollRead the Creeds. God cannot have a nationality.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: RussianTroll
"We don't need hysterics, this is a respectful academic debate."
Except for your substitution of the word of Christ our Lord for your Orthodox religion's Nationalistic propaganda and claim for a holy war and your rampant and rabid hatred of Jews?
Which is far from "respectful".
originally posted by: Topcraft
a reply to: EyeoftheHurricane
Kinda “ new age “ belief system correct? Won’t work in this discussion I’m afraid.
"For all the prophets and the law have prophesied until John. And if you are willing 7 to receive it, he is Elijah who was to come.(Matthew 11:13-14)
"And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus answered, 'Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'" (John 9:1) The disciples ask the Lord if the man himself could have committed the sin that led to his blindness. Given the fact that the man has been blind from birth, we are confronted with a provocative question. When could he have made such transgressions as to make him blind at birth? The only conceivable answer is in some prenatal state. The question as posed by the disciples explicitly presupposes prenatal existence. It will also be noted that Christ says nothing to dispel or correct the presupposition.
"And the disciples asked him, saying, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?' But he answered them and said, 'Elijah indeed is to come and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also shall the Son of Man suffer at their hand.' Then the disciples understood that he had spoken of John the Baptist." (Matthew 17:10-13)edit on 23-9-2024 by EyeoftheHurricane because: (no reason given)edit on 23-9-2024 by EyeoftheHurricane because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: Topcraft
a reply to: EyeoftheHurricane
Kinda “ new age “ belief system correct? Won’t work in this discussion I’m afraid.
The ten commandments, in reality are the commonsense rules for getting through this lifetime with the least hassle.
They are just dressed up from a divine source to emphasize the point.
The problem is that we can't see the wisdom of them until we are older, and by that time we probably have broken quite a few and are paying off the consequences of doing so.
In a non liberal society the youth are made aware of them early and tend to underpin the national values. But in a Liberal setting the chaos goes through more people into adulthood and by that effects the whole society in a detrimental way.
Russia by sticking to tried and tested moral realities has to be operating at an advantage ,.....
....the same with the Muslim countries when compared to the West at the moment.
In the end it comes down to character and not giving up or giving in , add in the question , " Is what you are fighting for worth it"