In Veritas

This is my testimony. I've given it before, but I'm pinning it here so people can understand who they're getting with me. Hint: He's a permanent resident! I gave up on self-help on my birthday last year. Formally. In a short speech to my family. Then I redoubled my efforts to seek Him, while pretty much abandoning any attempt to live uprightly. I was still an alcoholic. Still smoked. Still depressed and a mess, while my life seemed to fly by in a dull and dreary haze. But I continued to seek Him anyway. Learn about His goodness. I was already a Christian. I'd been saved at the age of 8 and attended church at most points of my life, aside from a couple short breaks in my younger years. I prayed. I read the Bible. I even read books about Jesus. I listened to sermons on Youtube. I was looking for the secret, the secret that I was missing. I knew that there had to be power here somewhere. That it wasn't just a theology or philosophy... at least I had that hope. And I wasn't going to give up on Jesus without really giving it my best shot to find Him. When the dam broke, it broke quietly. I was listening to yet another book on Jesus when the realization dawned on me how GOOD He is, and how He did care for me. I realized that I'd never actually surrendered my life to Him. Never had the guts, didn't think I could hold up my end of a bargain like that anyway. And what if He asked me to do something I couldn't do? Something like Abraham with Isaac on that altar... I just couldn't fully trust that kind of lion's leap. But when this dam broke, I suddenly realized that He loves me better than I love myself (which honestly wasn't a lot at that point), His plans for me are bound to be better than anything I could dream up. So, in a moment of passion, I surrendered all of me to Him. Asked Him to make of me whatever He could, broken and flawed as I was. And He came. One by one he rifled through the things that weighed my heart down like a stone. Healed those unhealable wounds, and settled my heart about the things which had happened and I'd been unable to face. I cried for four hours, more or less straight. My face was a mess. My eyes actually hurt from all those tears. I felt a little bad for the nice Korean family sitting around me on that international flight. A big white guy with tears streaming down his face for hours . . . might have been disturbing. When I got home, the next night, I prayed before sleep and I had a visitor. Jesus? Holy Spirit? I had a conversation with them back and forth for about an hour and a half. It was amazing. I was immediately cured of my decades-long addiction to alcohol. I realized that when I noticed a total lack of any urge to drink after days. I put it down forever, and haven't had any since. I don't even have a desire for that. What I have a desire for are the things of God. I get up early to pray and read my Bible. I post on X about Jesus. I listen to sermons by my favorite pastors. And that's all in addition to church and a men's group. Jesus has become my passion. He's my life. He's my reason for joy and peace. And, I swear this is true . . . my life slowed down! Before this, it was going by so fast. Now, the days crawl by, and that suits me just fine! I'm loving this new life in Christ. SO what happened to me on that flight? It took me a while to figure that out. At first I thought maybe I wasn't really saved before . . . for 40 years. But that seemed pretty harsh, and didn't line up with my experiences. So, I dug deeper and found some people with testimonies of non-traditional receivings of the Holy Spirit. Testimony after testimony lined up with my experience. Holy Spirit has totally changed my life! And He wants to do more... I hear the sound of an abundance of rain! The power wants out!

@Serenitatis76 @Apologetics941 No commitment? You don’t know anyone as committed to Jesus as I am. But I suppose you’re speaking of commitment to an institution. Which is, quite often, where people who depend on rituals and the traditions of men wind up. In an institution.

@PartisanOracle @Apologetics941 Your version of Christianity is what people are leaving in droves. It requires no real commitment and criticizes other faiths FAR more than it proclaims the gospel.

The next time a Mormon tells you that the church is growing you need to understand something. The Mormon church is declining in America. Why? Access to information. The Mormon church is growing in countries without internet access. That should tell you something.

@Serenitatis76 @Apologetics941 Boat? I have no boat. My foundation is the Rock! Jesus is the only thing I’m clinging to.

@PartisanOracle @Apologetics941 You should see the hole in your boat.

Either that, or there’s a plan to end both the banks and the fiat dollar at once. The rich have been using that combination to squeeze the rest of us into the poorhouse for decades. It’s become so bad that our children have little hope of an independent future, while our money declines in value 100% every ten years and we get 20% raises.

@CryptoTice_ And Where is the money going to come from ? Warsh is a fool to think he can reduce Federal Reserve Balance Sheet while the Federal Government continues to run 50% unfunded annual budgets. This is just plain stupid

BREAKING: The new Fed Chair just signaled a major shift. Kevin Warsh says QE is fueling inflation. The Fed's massive balance sheet is part of the problem. "The Fed should exit markets outside of crises." This is not Powell talking. This is a completely different philosophy. Powell printed. Warsh wants to stop. Powell expanded the balance sheet. Warsh wants to shrink it. $6,700,000,000,000 in Fed assets. Warsh just told you that number needs to come down. - Less liquidity. - Higher rates for longer. - Risk assets reprice. The market has been betting on easy money. The new Fed Chair just bet against it. Everything changes on today.

I would not keep your savings in a bank right now. They are closer to insolvency than you’d think. The reason the balance sheet is so high is that Powell was giving out free loans to the banks as much as they wanted to keep their other assets solvent (like 4 billion ounces of silver shorts.)

@katealva @Nance726 Moses and Elijah had something important in common. Something unique. Do you know your Bible well enough to explain?

@PartisanOracle @Nance726 Again, the Transfiguration!!! Jesus is literally talking to Elijah and Moses. THEY ARE NOT DEAD. How is this so difficult to understand?

How do you not understand the meaning of the word intercession? At the wedding at Cana, The servants went to Mary and she brought the problem to Jesus. They asked Mary to intercede to Her Son. Jesus chose this to be how & where he worked his 1st public miracle.

@NigelBurch0 @OMApproach No, the giants were a result of angels and human women, not giants and human women. That wouldn’t even make sense… I feel like you’re just indulging a fantasy.

@OMApproach The Nephilim giants, some of them 300 ft high were begetting children on tiny little human girls. A sort of ancient paedophilia? Anatomically, if average penis length when engorged is 6" then the Tephilim Schlong must have been 300" long. Quite a bit of muscle for a tiny vagina

One of the reasons why the Book of Enoch was excluded is because it connects many dots to what is really happening. The Book of Enoch teaches that the Nephilim were the children of the fallen angels and the daughters of men, which was accepted in the early churches. The narrative was later changed in Christianity to claim that the Nephilim were the descendants of Seth. The Flood was supposed to end the reign of the Nephilim giants on Earth, a narrative found in Mesoamerica as well...

@Elohim_Gadol I’ve come to believe that entertaining fear even for a moment about how the Great Tribulation will go down is a sin rooted in lack of faith in the Goodness of God. My God will supply all my needs according to His riches in glory. To live is Christ, and to die is gain.

I'm always saddened when someone insists that the Church will endure the 70th week of Daniel, claiming that many believers who come to faith before it begins will die during that terrible time. It grieves me because such a view reveals they never truly knew Him.

@nonregemesse Did he go to Holy Hell?

There was a Pope who died after being thrown out of a window by a man who walked on the Pope sleeping with his wife

@katealva @Nance726 There’s only one scripture that deals with speaking to the dead. King Saul has a witch of Endor call up the spirit of Samuel the prophet. He shied up and is not pleased. He curses Saul and his son to die that day. And they both do. 1 Samuel 28:8 It’s a stark warning!

But they aren't dead. We aren't summoning them. They are ALIVE in heaven. Moses and Elijah were VERY MUCH alive at the Transfiguration. They are part of the body of Christ, they love us, and it pleases God that we ask them to go to him on our behalf as well to help bring us closer to Jesus. It's pretty simple.

@DrNeilStone @OkieHen How many did you kill, yourself?

The worst part of Covid was that 20 million people died

@AndrD1406 @PopePiusIXStan *taps the sign*

@PopePiusIXStan It's a Protestant slur that implies the Universal Church is just some entity in Rome.

The Catholic Church’s official name is the Catholic Church. The Roman or Latin Church is the largest of the 24 Catholic Churches, and its head is the universal head of the church. Since most Catholics are Roman Catholic, most people just say Roman Catholic Church. But to be Catholic does not necessarily mean one is Roman or Latin.

Any church calling itself “The Church” or worse, “The One True Church” is False. The True Church is: 1)Spiritual, not physical or a religious organization. (1 Peter 2:5) 2)Built entirely by the hands of Jesus, not the hands of mortal men. (Matthew 16:18) 3)Founded on the revelation of Jesus as the Son of God, not a prophet or apostle. There are no exceptions.

@farmingandJesus It’s super ironic that they’d turn belief in the Truth of the Word of God into a “heresy.” Really shows the demonic roots of that religion.

The bereans were heretics?

@BTC_Plebeian @Nance726 The most basic kind of faith a believer can have is faith in the truth of the Word of God. You can believe it or not. You have a choice. But you can’t disbelieve it and still please God! (Hebrews 11:6)

@PartisanOracle @Nance726 surely God knows your heart and would not allow such a petty squabble to cut you off from Him

*when* God sent the Flood. God made at least two forms of “dinosaur.” Behemoth and Leviathan. You can find them in Job. The Nephilim and fallen angels who spawned them did a lot of messing with animals, crossing them and corrupting their flesh. Also corruption of the flesh of humans. Dinosaurs of certain types were not meant to exist. These were not directed by God to the Ark, but left to die in the Flood. This is why so many fossils lie preserved in sedimentary stone, which is formed by floods. The big lie is the carbon dating, which doesn’t work past a couple thousand years at MOST. Archeologists who say “millions of years” are either just guessing or simply going along with their peers lest their careers get canceled.

Did dinosaurs all die out or get killed before God sent the flood. #Noah

@DPGBehler Check this out. Read Proverbs 19:27 in whichever version you want. Sit with it for a minute. Decide if it hits as Truth or not. Then read it in the KJV. Is it different? Which is True?

I read a different versions every year. This year is NIV. Last year was ESV. I don’t read the KJV because I don’t want to.

@AliMoniEsq Thanks! That was highly amusing! Following for more of this!

There is a fine line between living off the grid and living in a delusion. A father petitioned the court for full physical custody, claiming my client's urban apartment was toxic. He proudly announced he had purchased a fully sustainable organic farm to teach the kids about nature. He submitted a detailed manifesto about crop rotation and ethical foraging. We asked for the property deed. He hadn't bought a farm. He had signed a lease on a studio apartment in Brooklyn and filled the entire living room with 400 pounds of topsoil. He was trying to grow root vegetables indoors using industrial heat lamps. When the social worker arrived for the home evaluation, she had to wade through a mud puddle by the front door. He offered her a raw turnip and explained that beds were a construct of modern capitalism. The children were supposedly going to sleep in woven hammocks strung over a patch of indoor kale. His attorney tried to frame this as an immersive educational environment. The social worker's report simply read biohazard. My client retained sole custody. He was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation. I hope the turnips survived.

What if, in Matthew 16:18, Jesus was NOT offering Peter a change of name, but was instead, offering him a change of IDENTITY? Comment if you get it. Argue if you don’t!

@Rblv73 @EcciusMaximus I prefer the Truth.

W. D. Davies and Dale Allison comment, The most natural interpretation is that of Roman Catholic tradition: the rock is Peter. ‘The word-play, and the whole structure of the passage, demands that this verse is every bit as much Jesus’ declaration about Peter as v. 16 was Peter’s declaration about Jesus’ (France, Matthew, p. 254).4 From @Brosephos article open.substack.com/pub/kuriosabou…

Peter is the rock. Jesus instituted the Papacy. Thats the truth.

When Peter said “You are the Christ, the Son of God” Jesus turned to him and said “Simon, my boy you are blessed because you didn’t get that idea on your own but from my Father in heaven!” And then Jesus said “You are a rock. And on that boulder I will build My Church.” First, note what Jesus did NOT say. He did NOT say “Hey build me a Church, Petey! And make it all about you!” Jesus said that He would build that Church HIMSELF! And He called Simon “Petros” which means “a stone.” Why did He call Simon this? Was it a commentary on the density of his skull? Or was Jesus referring to a far more deep and spiritual reality? A reality that Peter also comprehended. Because temples are made of stones. And with Simon’s confession of Jesus as the Son of God, He became a living stone, fit for building that temple of the Living God. Peter addressed this very concept in his first letter!