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How are we to determine what is and what is not good fruit? Is or isn't that supposed to be objective, or is it subjective? I think it's supposed to be objective, and plus fairly obv too. Like you say a fig, like @Lon says an apple. obv. No controversy. So I guess this figure if we're...

They make great cider. Better than palatable apples actually, because palatable apples have too much natural sugar in them, crab apples make a nicer cider.

What's the difference. This is what I've been trying to say all along, and I mean, since like 2003. Ask Sozo.

So 15 Nisan being the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread and happening also to be a Sabbath is like two days in one.

What would you recommend for left-wing counterbalance?

15 Nisan along with it being the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread is also a Sabbath, because it fell on a Saturday. So it's like two holidays, the standard weekly holiday of the Sabbath, and now also, because it's 15 Nisan (and 15 Nisan can fall on any day of the week unlike the...

Another aspiring Democrat has fallen. https://lite.cnn.com/2025/03/09/politics/gavin-newsom-democrats-trans-athletes/index.html

If we're not to take the Bible so seriously, then what do you propose instead, in order that we can discern His will and His Word to and for us and for our children and children's children? What is your thought?

We formally recognize days as starting at midnight, we practically consider them to start at dawn. The ancient Levant practically considered them to start at dusk. So while what they would say is the beginning of Monday, at dusk following Sunday's daytime, we would call that still Sunday...

Maundy Thursday uses our nomenclature, our timeline. Dusk, sundown, is still called the same day until midnight, so the day we call Thursday turns into Thursday evening, not Friday evening. By your reasoning it happened on Friday evening, but by our convention it was Thursday night.

God loves a cheerful giver. Lent is about cheerful giving, not grudging giving or giving because you have to give.

I don't deny any of His words. Those are all called corporal acts of mercy. And we should understand He and Paul do not conflict: $$ 2Co 9:6 But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. $$ 2Co 9:7 Every man...

I still don't get it. The two Sabbaths are the standard Saturday Sabbath, plus First Fruits, which always follows the first standard Sabbath during the feast of matzos (unleavened bread), which kicks off with Passover. I get that the Jews who brought Jesus to the Romans hadn't eaten the...

I believe OSAS basically. I mean you'll say maybe what about 2nd Timothy 2:13? But look: $$ 2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us: $$ 2Ti 2:13 If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. obv "believe not" isn't...

Depends what they are. obv xorn or blasphemy are a problem.

Playing the role of Churchill this time around is President Trump. Let's see if Churchill can prevail upon the parties to prevent the larger war from starting. If they only listened to Churchill WWII and the Soviet Union wouldn't have been more than historical footnotes, and the Cold War...

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/03/04/europe/zelensky-trump-argument-comment-ukraine-intl/index.html “Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security...

There's enough room to drive a truck through. Why did Jesus and the disciples keep the Passover early? It's not like they weren't in Jerusalem, and there was some diaspora rule they were following. Everybody was doing everything at the same time, synchronized, coordinated. Under the claim...

We have "high days" (John 19:31) as standard Roman Catholics too, like Christmas and Easter (but not Good Friday or Holy Thursday or Ash Wednesday are high days, holy days of obligation, or holidays for us, technically there's no Mass obligation for any of those days). obv Easter's always on a...

Just in case you do not know, and in case anybody else does not know, everything I made bold above is also true of standard Roman Catholicism and or is believed by standard Roman Catholicism. Because I get the feeling there are a lot of misconceptions about standard Roman Catholic theology...