Rex Bloom
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Rex Bloom
@GenuineRex
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Wakarusa, KS Katılım Ekim 2012
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@allied_npc @litteralyme0 Guy in Yellowstone park being yeeted by a male bison.
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@farmingandJesus NLT and ESV for daily reading. I also used NASB and NKJV for years and even NIV before I knew better. I love Biblehub to compare versions and quickly see where there is some distinction in wording.
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Some think the Ark of the Covenant is Ethiopia, but it may shock them that it is actually on Facebook marketplace in Minneapolis
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@0xLobsterMonkey @Huntersavant You don’t know how US loans work.
There is no such thing as “all the interest”. You accrue interest as the loan ages based on the current balance. The daily accrual is calculated based on a daily interest rate calculated from the rate of the loan.
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@Huntersavant Attends mdr ca c'est si tu rembourses ton prêt au minimum sur les 20 ans
En France on a de la chance si tu rembourses en avance tu payes moins
Aux US par contre ils ont une ligne dans le contrat qui dit que tu dois rembourser TOUS les intérêts avant, meme si tu rembourses avant
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@WonderWomaNinja 2 Peter 3:9 nasb
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
It is the will of God that all would be saved.
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So. (Clears throat) the belief that it’s not God’s will for everyone to be saved (no, I’m not talking universalism)… that we’re selected.. how does this verse work with that?
“So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.”
Matthew 18:14 ESV
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How can this milk (that I grabbed at the hotel breakfast) be good until next April? It’s Horizon Organic brand.
Someone explain it to me.
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4 years ago, both of my grandparents passed away, starting a court battle that's put 200 years of Texas history for sale.
The estate includes hundreds of acres near Marble Falls, TX, that have been in my family since before Texas was Texas. Stephen F. Austin himself granted this land to my ancestor, Captain Jesse Burnam, in the 1820s, one of the original "Old Three Hundred" families. There are stories of him fighting off Native Americans and fighting in wars!
That land stayed in our family for five generations. There's a state historical marker on it, placed by the Texas Historical Commission in 2014.
My family has never had money in the bank kind of wealth. But I wouldn't sell this land for millions of dollars. Some things matter more than money, and history and nature are two of them.
My aunt, the executor, has managed this estate about as badly as it's possible to manage one, burning hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting my mom and uncle, to the point that land had to be sold just to cover the bill. Yes, there was a will involved, but it's complicated...
Now, more than 150 acres of it are listed for sale by my aunt. My aunt has no heirs of her own tied to this place.
And beautiful, spring fed land that survived the Texas Revolution, five generations of my family, and a war with Mexico might get bulldozed for a subdivision.
What I'm hoping for is that it doesn't end with a developer.
If you know a rancher, a conservation buyer, a family, or a land trust looking for real Texas Hill Country land with real history, let me know.
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@pegobry_en Is this bait? You’re just saying all the arguments for Fahrenheit and pretending they work better for Celsius.
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Celsius is superior to Fahrenheit and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate.
Celsius feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.”
Zero is freezing. 40 is brutally hot.
22 is comfortable. 25 is warm.
The numbers feel like what they are describing.
Fahrenheit feels like it was designed by a committee of people who hate joy and want every conversation about the weather to sound like a chemistry lab.
“It’s 70 degrees outside.”
What does that even mean to a normal person? Am I wearing shorts? Am I grabbing a jacket?
Nobody knows. You need a conversion chart and a government employee standing next to you explaining the vibes.
Celsius gives you range. That’s the point. It gives you more numbers for the temperatures human beings actually live in. You can feel the difference between 20, 22, 25, and 28. Those numbers matter. Celsius lets you describe the world with precision without having to use high numbers like a lunatic.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸@creation247
Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate. Fahrenheit feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.” Zero is freezing. 100 is brutally hot. 70 is comfortable. 80 is warm. The numbers feel like what they are describing. Celsius feels like it was designed by a committee of people who hate joy and want every conversation about the weather to sound like a chemistry lab. “It’s 22 degrees outside.” What does that even mean to a normal person? Am I wearing shorts? Am I grabbing a jacket? Nobody knows. You need a conversion chart and a government employee standing next to you explaining the vibes. Fahrenheit gives you range. That’s the point. It gives you more numbers for the temperatures human beings actually live in. You can feel the difference between 68, 72, 76, and 80. Those numbers matter. Fahrenheit lets you describe the world with more precision without having to break into decimals like a lunatic. And here’s the other thing... Celsius is connected to the metric cult energy that came out of the French Revolution. And the French Revolution was evil. Both of the Revolution were to rip out tradition, faith, monarchy, hierarchy, the Church, the calendar, the clock, and anything that reminded man he was not God. CELSIUS IS INHERENTLY EVIL So yes, Celsius may be useful if you’re boiling water in a lab. Congratulations. But Fahrenheit is for living LIFE because Fahrenheit is for walking outside and instantly knowing what kind of day you’re about to have. 100 means hot. 70 means beautiful. Zero means don’t go outside unless you have a death wish. That’s a real system.
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@FastChase @CherylSchatz Cheryl is not wrong. This take is far from how God works with his creation. He created free moral agents who chose sin.
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You're still trying to rescue God from His own sovereignty. You say God didn't ordain Adam's sin. Scripture says He works all according to the counsel of His will. All doesn't suddenly become "all except sin."
God is the ultimate Author of the entire drama. He created the serpent knowing exactly what the serpent would do. He planted the tree knowing exactly what Adam would do. He wrote the ending before He wrote the beginning. You call that permission. I call it authorship.
Does Adam bear responsibility? Absolutely. Adam sinned because God caused Adam to want what Adam wanted. That's no different than Pharaoh. Scripture doesn't merely say God allowed Pharaoh's heart to harden. It repeatedly says God hardened his heart so that God's power and glory would be displayed. Pharaoh still made real choices and was still judged, but behind those choices stood God, directing events toward His own purpose.
The cross is the clearest example. Who killed Christ? Wicked men. Who caused Christ to be killed? God did. Peter says it happened by God's determined plan and foreknowledge. The greatest sin in history wasn't merely permitted; it was God's own plan from the beginning.
People get uncomfortable because they assume if God causes sin, He must be sinful. That's a manmade conclusion. God isn't accountable to a higher law. Whatever He does is righteous because He defines righteousness. He uses evil the way an artist uses dark colors. The darkness isn't the point; it's what makes the brilliance of His grace visible.
So yes, Adam sinned willingly. But Adam never acted outside God's intention for even a moment. Just as God hardened Pharaoh's heart to accomplish His purpose, He ordained Adam's fall to reveal Christ as the Savior of the world. If God isn't ultimately behind the fall, then the cross really was Plan B. Scripture presents the opposite: the fall and the cross were part of one sovereign plan from the very beginning.
You're just wrong Cheryl. Completely and utterly wrong, and frankly it seems like your heart is just as hardened as Pharaoh's. Unless you wake up and smell the coffee you're going to be in for a big surprise. But frankly, you may be predestined for ignorance and stubbornness so there may be nothing you can do. Wake up if you can.
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Who exactly is it that is the author of sin?
Soteriology101 🩸@Soteriology101
If God is not the author of sin, who is? And is that person authoring according to what God decreed him to author?
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I have yet to hear by what objective exclusive standard Creedal Christianity is true and all other religions are false. If you don't have one, then demanding it of others is a self-sabotaging exercise.
TeachingBridge Ministries@TeachingbridgeM
By that standard, how would you distinguish Joseph Smith from Muhammad? Both claimed revelation. Both claimed angelic visitation. Both claimed previous believers had become corrupted. Both produced additional scripture. What objective test tells us one revelation is from God and the other isn’t?
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@TeachingbridgeM @LukeFHan The objective standard is two fold.
Do their near term predictions come true. If not, they can be ignored.
Do their words contradict scripture. If they do then they can be ignored.
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By that standard, how would you distinguish Joseph Smith from Muhammad?
Both claimed revelation.
Both claimed angelic visitation.
Both claimed previous believers had become corrupted.
Both produced additional scripture.
What objective test tells us one revelation is from God and the other isn’t?
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"Any man that does not receive revelation for himself must be damned. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. For Christ says, Ask and you shall receive"
Looks like Joseph Smith passes the test.
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen
Demonic cult leaders emotionally and persuasively set themselves up as the only real source of truth by discrediting every other voice. Never, ever listen to a person like this.
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@HandyGingerGal @AJA_Cortes That sofa time is practicing for his next trade he’s going to make on his next shift. You have to exercise the reflexes and he found a way.
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It's crazy to me how many men piled on to this with strategies for how to get away with being lazy, easier.
"Go to an office" or "pretending you're working in the garage".
Totally missing the point.
Traders Confessions@TradersConf
My wife hates my lifestyle. Even though I’m averaging $300-500k a year from trading she hates that I trade for 2-3 hours a day then play playstation and chill for the rest of it. It doesn’t matter how much I make, she treats me like her unemployed bum husband who won’t get a job.
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@KennethGriswold @Makarios69 @KellyPowersBPA @rockreborn22 @Acts17David @ReasonedAnswers @BiblicGrounded @BibleInContext1 @biblecia @james_bert_mill @p3driver @johncdirks @EssenceGui16924 Which ones were in question?
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@GenuineRex @Makarios69 @KellyPowersBPA @rockreborn22 @Acts17David @ReasonedAnswers @BiblicGrounded @BibleInContext1 @biblecia @james_bert_mill @p3driver @johncdirks @EssenceGui16924 This statement is false. The canon of Scripture was not "well-recognized" in a way that gives any side a clear leg up in the discussion. Literally no one had the exact 66 book or 73 book canons that we respectively have until 382. That alone supports the need for a Church.
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WHAT THE BEST EVIDENCE THAT PROVES SOLA SCRIPTURA?
WHAT THE BEST EVIDENCE THAT REFUTES SOLA SCRIPTURA?
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
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It is good to read the early fathers but it is incorrect to think they spoke with one voice. Dissent in early councils often led to the minority position being silenced. Sometimes rather harshly as Flavian experienced. Majority agreement is sometimes useful but rarely something to be universally trusted.
Furthermore, the New Testament is largely letters written to the early church to correct errors creeping in. It is short sighted to assume that errors did not persist in the church going forward and persist today.
Christ is head of the church (all believers everywhere, not a specific organization) and the Holy Spirit uses the Word of God to lead us to truth. It is unfortunate there is not consensus on Bible interpretation but that is a reality we all must face. Like you, I have considered and chosen. God grants us that freedom.
The church goes astray when Christ is not the head and when the Scripture is not held to its rightful place. May we all seek His wisdom and not our own as we seek to know His word and to know him more fully.
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First, Luke already does reinforce Mary as Mother of God. Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, calls her “the mother of my Lord” (Luke 1:43). Since Christ is Lord and God, that is exactly why the Church confessed Theotokos. Acts 1:14 does not need to repeat what Luke already established.
Second, saying “there are no examples of what you practice today in the New Testament” assumes your own standard. The New Testament also does not give us your modern evangelical model: no altar call, no sinner’s prayer, no invisible church doctrine, no “Bible alone” canon list, and no command that every believer becomes his own final interpreter.
Third, the “brothers of Jesus” point is not as clear as you claim. The New Testament never explicitly says Mary bore other biological children. That is your interpretation. If you want to say the Church “twisted” the text, then show where the apostles or earliest Christians taught that these were unquestionably Mary’s biological children.
Fourth, defining “earliest Christians” as only the apostles and people named in Acts is arbitrary. The disciples of the apostles—Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus—are exactly the people historians consult to understand how the apostolic churches interpreted the faith. Ignoring them weakens your historical case.
Finally, I am Eastern Orthodox. I did not choose Orthodoxy blindly. Christ founded one Church, promised the gates of Hades would not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18), and Scripture calls the Church “the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15). I wanted the fullness of the apostolic faith, not Protestant relativism where thousands of groups claim Scripture alone while disagreeing on core doctrines
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@Makarios69 @KellyPowersBPA @rockreborn22 @Acts17David @ReasonedAnswers @BiblicGrounded @BibleInContext1 @biblecia @james_bert_mill @p3driver @johncdirks @EssenceGui16924 Mother of God and Mother of my Lord are not at all the same thing.
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Orthodox has its own set of denominations and you chose one. You have your reasons. Protestant having more denominations is more an aspect of the Bible being translated in languages more people know and a literate church. It’s not a product of Sola Scriptura directly. It was already happening long before Martin Luther. Probably the best development in church history is that debates now do not involve burning at the stake or beatings like poor Flavian received that he succumbed to. Sadly he held a doctrine later adopted by the church that killed him. Today, we can discourse pleasantly and agree to disagree.
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And while we’re asking for New Testament examples, can you show me where the New Testament teaches sola Scriptura, an invisible Church made up of competing denominations, or that each believer is the final authority for interpreting Scripture? Those are foundational to your position, so where are they taught?
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You have been very friendly, that’s refreshing.
The scripture does not teach more than what we have agreed on. “Earliest Christians” includes the apostles and those mentioned in acts. There are no examples of anything like what you practice today shown in the New Testament. She is blessed but in the kingdom of God there is one head and everyone else is a saint and part of the body. Acts 1:14 would have been a great place for Luke the historian to reinforce Mary as the Mother of God. He does not. Incidentally he also mentions Jesus brothers which some churches have twisted to mean anything but his natural siblings. Certainly you can see the churches position on Mary over time has evolved and is different than the earliest NT writings we have.
Moving back to Sola Scriptura…
Are you True Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Oriental Orthodox? If you have chosen one of these over the others why? How did you conclude your choice was the line of apostolic succession that was the true church? On what grounds do you reject the others?
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Rex, that’s only part of what Scripture says. Scripture doesn’t merely call Mary “blessed.” **Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, calls her “blessed among women” (Luke 1:42). Mary herself prophesies, “From now on all generations will call me blessed” (Luke 1:48). She is also called “the mother of my Lord” (Luke 1:43), and because Jesus is God, Christians have historically confessed her as the Mother of God (Theotokos).
So the question isn’t whether Mary is blessed—we agree she is. The question is why you stop where Scripture doesn’t. The earliest Christians honored Mary as the Theotokos long before the Reformation. Can you show me one Christian before the Reformation who said we should only call Mary “blessed” and reject the honor consistently given to her by the historic Church?
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