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@RoadknightThe @Ausbobsmit Remember when the Great Satan Tony Abbott winked at someone? Suggested that a female candidate may have a bit of sex appeal? The media moved to DEFCON 1!

@Ausbobsmit Imagine if a Liberal leader did this.

Albanese has 59 staffers, more staffers than any other PM in history, with a combined salary of $13.9 million per year, everything from speech writers to clothing advisors. Here he is kissing a former staffer on her head.

@griswold @johnloeber A starmonger would have a fairly niche market!

@johnloeber new domain name ideas

if you are interested in mongering, you only have three options: 1. fear 2. war 3. fish it’s tough

@RoadknightThe A property developer could probably make a killing buying up Tuvalu, if the locals have been conned into leaving.

It's just another Climate Scam. In the four decades to 2014, Tuvalu's total land area grew by 73 hectares, or 2.9 per cent. 90+% of island nations have increased in size or stayed the same. The ABC needs to look at its own Fact Checking. See: abc.net.au/news/2018-12-1…

ln 1992 Al Gore predicted that within two decades, Florida would lose 60% of its population due to climate change. Today, 34 years later, Florida’s population is 425% higher than it was in 1992.

@pureMetatron Yes - it seems an inescapable conclusion.

Do you believe in God?

@___Hattie___ Good for you. Praise the Lord!

I have exciting and wonderful news to share!!! On Sunday June 14th, it will be my 70th birthday, And I will be Baptized that day!!! Alleluia!!! Praise the Lord!!! 🕊️🙌🏼✝️🙏🏻

@IAMthWHEATofGOD @LizzieMarbach @needGod_net That is true, too. I have no objection when the money/goods are donated willingly. A cathedral gives people a sense of awe and reverence. It's just that sometimes the money was extracted unfairly - like the sale of indulgences that set Luther off.

That's actually a very reasonable perspective. It might make you happy that people donated their time, energy, and resources all to the glory of God. Nobility would donate land to the Church as well to allow peasants to farm it and eat / generate income. By the time the Church was plundered in the 16th century, it was an organization that placed great value on labor and did not allow usuary, and it had 1600 years of stored labor as resources. These built the greatest cathedrals, crafted the finest bibles, and was a new and greater Davidic Kingdom. Remember in the OT they used gold and silver for lamb's blood, imagine how much more the Church would use gold for the flesh & blood of the lamb of God. I won't say that there were not obvious corruptions that took place, because corrupt men try to use the truth for their own gains- and still do. But that is a small part of the story, not the entire picture. The Church was, and still is the largest charity on the planet. It spearheaded hospitals, universities, orphanages, care for widows, the disabled, prisoner rights, ect. Your instincts on charity are correct, but the Catholic Church not only serves the poor, but lavishes our Lord with expensive nard!

It’s not only Orthodox parishes that charge for Baptisms, it’s also many Catholic parishes too: “The cost for the baptism is $300 per child, or per family, which is required to secure your booking.” One was even $500.

@IAMthWHEATofGOD @LizzieMarbach @needGod_net And then there's the question of whether the injunction "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth" (Mat. 6:19) applies to the church as a whole.

@IAMthWHEATofGOD @LizzieMarbach @needGod_net I'm a little torn on this. I appreciate magnificent churches, but I also wonder who paid for it and whether they could afford to, given that the most beautiful churches were built when most of the population were below the poverty line.

Leave him out of this

@LizzieMarbach @needGod_net All those gold-framed pictures and jeweled icons don't pay for themselves, you know!

@needGod_net Yup! Three of these are churches near me.

@OVTweetmarck Col ✝ 📷 📷 I remember. Some of your posts got a bit dark. Glad it worked out!

I am truly so deeply blessed by God, who is the author of all joys. It is funny to think in my caprice how angry I was from 2016-2018 for the ill turns my life took.

@PaulineHansonOz Can Grover identify as a 10 year old so she isn't legally liable?

Giggle Pty Ltd has lost their appeal, and been ordered to pay increased damages of $20,000 to trans-activist Roxanne Tickle. A sad day for upholding biological reality in Australia.

The Giggle v Tickle decision on woman's rights is due to be handed down momentarily: youtube.com/live/1tQcSbAtA…

@GozewijnGoossen @RaminNasibov Vikings reached America long before that - 11th century or so, and between the 9th and 10th centuries were in Greenland. I hadn't heard about St Brendan (mentioned on this thread).

@cmclark63 @RaminNasibov The Maori reached Aoteraoa halfway the 14th century. That is before the Europeans reached North America.

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

@rabbriansamuel In Romans 14, Paul makes it clear that people have different ways of showing devotion to God. I guess this was Paul's - it is what he was raised with and accustomed to. It shouldn't be seen as normative for the rest of us (particularly not us gentiles!).

One thing that is both biblically factual and admittedly difficult to reconcile is that Paul participated in Temple sacrifices decades after his conversion. In Acts 21, Paul returns from a missionary journey and meets with James and the elders in Jerusalem. James tells Paul that many thousands of Jews have believed in Yeshua, and that they are all zealous for the Torah (Acts 21:20). At the same time, rumors had spread that Paul was teaching Jews to forsake Moses, avoid circumcision, and abandon the customs (Acts 21:21). To publicly refute those accusations, James tells Paul to join four men who are under a vow (Acts 21:23). These men would have been Jewish Christians. Otherwise, why would they be traveling with James? The vow was certainly a Nazirite vow, because the men shaved their heads at the completion of the vow, in accordance with the Torah. Acts 21:24: Take them along and purify yourself together with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads. Numbers 6:18: The Nazirite shall then shave his consecrated head of hair at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and take the consecrated hair of his head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. Acts 21:26 says: “Then Paul took the men, and the next day, after purifying himself together with them, he went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.” This demonstrates several important points: 1. Paul purified himself before entering the Temple and participating in the offering process. Ritual purification was required for approaching the Temple in a state of cleanness, which involved immersion in water (this is where baptism comes from). 2. These Jewish Christians completed their Nazirite vow with the required sacrifices, in accordance with Book of Numbers 6. In addition, Acts 18:18 indicates that Paul himself had previously taken a Nazarite vow, which would have required a sacrifice at its conclusion: “At Cenchreae he had his hair cut, for he was under a vow.” This very well could have been the same vow that he concluded with the four men in Acts 21. I am not unaware that this creates tension. Hebrews firmly teaches that Yeshua’s sacrifice was final and sufficient, offered once for all. Yet the plain reading of Acts shows that while the Temple was still standing, Paul and others continued to participate in Temple practices, including the offering associated with the completion of a Nazirite vow. Scripture must be allowed to speak for itself, even when the full implications are difficult to reconcile. And Scripture explicitly states that Paul continued to keep the whole of Torah throughout his life. Acts 21:24: “...but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Torah.”

Powerful

@farmingandJesus The man in Mark 9:24: 'Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief'.

Who do you identify with most in the scriptures? I would say the woman and the well Ok and n Jael 🤓 #tentSpike

@PraiseBeToGod77 Praying (Baptist, but still counts! 🙂). 'Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD' (Psalm 27:14).

I’m struggling deeply and I’m so sorry. I don’t know what else to do but reach out and ask for prayers. I’m in tears as I write this. Could a priest please pray for me? I’m scared. I don’t know what will happen next, and my mind is not in a good place. May God have mercy on me.

@TheOtherPaul2 Right, no other denomination ever gets criticised! 😀

Papist apologist: Isn't it interesting that the Easterns, Orientals, and Protestants all love to sing kumbaya while trashing us. It's almost like we're the true Church or something. Oriental apologist: Isn't it interesting that the 6 million Chalcedonian schisms love to sing kumbaya while trashing us. It's almost like we're the true Church or something. Protestant apologist: Isn't it interesting that the Ecclesialists all love to sing kumbaya while trashing us. It's almost like we're part of the true Church or something. You guys aren't special.

@railmaps @RaminNasibov From what I've heard, the Cook Islands is the most likely source - there are local legends about their departure and the languages are similar. As you say, Australian Aboriginals are an entirely different case.

@cmclark63 @RaminNasibov Some think of Australia and New Zealand as having very similar human histories. But whilst people have been in Australia for 60,000 years or so, they have been in NZ for only about 700 years. And the first people in New Zealand didn't come from Australia, they came from the east.