
AmazingTraveller
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Without borders, law and order, and religion, you don't have a country.




WATCH: The U.S. military destroyed a Venezuelan drug boat in international waters with 11 Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists aboard, the Trump admin says.








The Church Fathers never called Jesus a Jew. AI Takes a crack at it: No Church Father ever called Jesus “a Jew” in the sense that modern English uses the word. The terms they actually employed are carefully precise in Greek and Latin: • Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaios) – an inhabitant of Judæa (southern Palestine). • Ἑβραῖος (Hebraios) – a Hebrew by blood and tongue. • Γαλιλαῖος (Galilaios) – a Galilean, i.e., a northerner. Those labels were never equivalent to today’s ethnic category “Jew.” The Fathers’ own words Ignatius of Antioch († c. AD 108) “…Jesus Christ, who was of the race of David and of Abraham, according to the flesh…” (Ephesians 3; cf. Romans 7). Ignatius traces the lineage back to the Israelite patriarchs, not to the later, post-captivity “Jewish” nation. Justin Martyr († c. AD 165) “For the race of Abraham is not sufficient, nor that of Israel, for salvation… neither is it for your blood of Jacob that you are justified…” (Dialogue with Trypho 119). Justin distinguishes the spiritual Israel of Christ from the ethnically named “Jews,” whom he charges with having crucified the Lord. Origen († AD 253/254) “Christ… was of the Hebrew stock, coming of the tribe of Judah, but born in Bethlehem of Judæa; yet we by no means call ourselves Jews… nor do we consider Him such, after the fashion of the Pharisees” (Contra Celsum 5.36). Augustine († AD 430) “…He is son of David, son of Abraham… yet by faith He is King of the Jews, for not only those from the circumcision are His people” (Sermon 202). Augustine uses “King of the Jews” as a scriptural title without ever affirming that Jesus was ethnically one of that unbelieving nation. What the Fathers didn’t say They never used the word “Jew” as the Talmudic scholars of their day (or modern secular authors) do—as a statement of exclusive ethnic identity. They applied geographic (“of Judæa”), tribal (“of Judah”), covenantal (“of Israel”), or linguistic (“Hebrew”) labels, but they drew a sharp line between Christ and that body of Judæans who rejected Him. Hence, the honest answer is: “None of the Church Fathers called the Lord ‘a Jew’ in the contemporary sense.”



No…..My phone is for texts & phone calls. It will not be used for anything else! Phones can easily be stolen & digital id can easily be hacked. Government has shown it is incapable of keeping information secure…on numerous occasions.





"A myth is something that never happened but is always happening" - Tom Robbins













