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He is risen

@4Ud1CCuftl19105 Mostly the extinction issue, and I think China is the problem not Japan.

海外の人に聞いてみたいのですが、日本の捕鯨を批判するのはどういう理由からですか？ 過去、日本では 「キリスト教的価値観から」 「鯨は知能が高いから」 「絶滅の恐れがあるから」 というのが理由だろうと考えられていました。 しかし 「キリスト教の国でも捕鯨の歴史がある」 「知能の高い豚やタコは食べられている」 「近年、鯨の個体数は増加傾向にある」 これらの事実から、日本人には捕鯨が批判される理由がいまいち理解できないのです。 私個人としても、この問題には長年頭を悩ませてきたので、よければ教えてください。

@HAPIOKI A&W root beer from a tap at an A&W restaurant is so much better than the cans and bottles.

一度間違ってコイツを飲んでしまったら最後！やみつきになって沼るヤツ。 A＆Wのルートビア知ってる？

@F0ODHub Hard cider

Be honest… what drink goes with this?

@mattvanswol Remember how patient God is with you any time you are struggling with not losing your temper.

Working on a project. Parents, what is the best parenting advice you can give about raising kids?

@learning_yohei I can, but most people seem to think I'm strange for doing it.

日本からこんにちは🇯🇵アメリカ人とイギリス人に質問があります🇺🇸🇬🇧あなた達はこのような座り方ができますか？日本人は簡単にできます。ぜひ挑戦して結果をリプライしてください↓🤭

@NahaGC_Joshi As they were called in the first days, a follower of The Way

私は キリスト教という 宗教をやっているのではなく よみがえられて 今も生きておられる イエス・キリスト✝️✨ という真理に 生きているのです🙏💗✨

@kotakot07088271 That is a generous offer, and I pray that God uses you to the benefit of Japan for His glory.

This announcement is intended solely for Protestant or Catholic Christians who have felt a calling to missionary work in Japan. I am planning to offer private Japanese language classes for them.

@combatmedic I enjoy breakfast, but normally fast from dinner until lunch.

愉快で充実した朝食論争を楽しんでいるのだが、アメリカ人は、朝はコーヒー派が多いらしい。今の所、炭酸飲料派は観測出来ていない。

Our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones—leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed. That ends today.

@miumiu708 Take joy in hardship as it draws you closer to him.

キリスト教に入ってから、何か嫌なことや、不安なことや、不幸に見えることが自分に起こっても「神さまからの何かのメッセージかも」とか「神さまが助けてくれるかも」と考えて、 前より　メンタル落ち込みすぎることが少なくなってきた。持病が悪い時以外は。

@ojisantakashi Gifs need no translation

海外の人はリプにGIFを使ってくる人が多いな。向こうではそれが流行りなのか？

@May_Roma The internet culture is far more vulgar than real world, however I'm certain that Americans are more vulgar than Japanese in general. I have to remind some friends not to use that language around kids at times.

@hosi8huru We can appreciate fine works of art and beautiful things, and be respectful of things that belong to others without it being a form of worship. God gave man the skill to make such things. Shrines can still be appreciated, just in a different way.

私はたとえ異教の物であっても、他者を尊重するゆえ彼らの大切な物も尊重する。 それは真の神、主が私たちの自由意志を尊重してくださっていることと同じ思いだ。 しかし福音を通して、偶像崇拝を神は嫌うと神の思いを伝える。 世界のクリスチャンはこの件をどのように考えますか？

@BishopJaxi A more self reflective stance would be to examine the perspective portrayed by the other side to explain where their misunderstanding may be coming from.

@BishopJaxi Catholics describing what protestants believe is just like protestants describing what Catholics believe. But sides tend to either misunderstand the other or just describe it disingenuously. They often describe what they believe and treat it as the official church stance.

Protestant apologetics is so often just Protestants pretending to be Catholics and arguing with themselves. That should already tell you something. They invent a fake Catholic priest, make him say absurd things no informed Catholic would say, and then act like they have refuted the Church. Why? Because when they debate themselves, their dishonesty goes unchecked. That is exactly what is happening here. The whole skit is built on the lie that the Catholic Church teaches that salvation begins by grace but is ultimately maintained by man earning heaven through his own works. That is false. The Church teaches that salvation is by grace, that man cannot merit initial justification, and that even our cooperation with grace is itself enabled by grace. Catholics do not believe we place God in our debt. What Protestants do is hear that obedience, perseverance, worship, and holiness matter, and then immediately scream "works righteousness!" But that proves too much. If obedience having any role means "works salvation," then repentance is works salvation. Perseverance is works salvation. Holiness is works salvation. Yet the Bible explicitly commands all of these. So, what they really reject and hate is the biblical truth that grace calls man to obedience, perseverance, and holiness, not a consequence-free profession of faith and easy believism. Ephesians 2:8-9 does not refute Catholicism. Catholics fully affirm that salvation is the gift of God and not something we can boast in as though we saved ourselves. What these men always ignore is verse 10: we are created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So yes, we are not saved by works as though grace were unnecessary. But neither are we saved into a dead, fruitless, consequence-free Christianity. And the Sunday Mass point is dishonest, too. The Church does not teach that attending Mass is some human achievement competing with Christ’s finished work. The Eucharist is Christ’s gift, not man’s replacement for grace. So once again, Ryan did not refute Catholicism honestly. He invented a cartoon Catholic, lied about what the Church teaches, and then declared victory over his own caricature. He is a textbook bad-faith actor.

@Fant_Mch Yes, but not for that reason. That issue is a problem of Paula White, and televangelists in general.

アメリカ合衆国の政治というのは冗談か何かなのかな？

@May_Roma Along with my wife and 3 teenage boys, we use 2-3 gallons of whole milk every week.

@ankoromochuu I own almost every one of Miyazaki's films.

海外の皆さんはジブリを観ますか？ 日本が舞台の「となりのトトロ」は観たことありますか？ メイは私の妹の幼い頃にそっくりなのです😂

@lemoncat333 @May_Roma I don't think this is a foreigner problem. It's the TikTok culture problem, these annoying people do the same thing in America too. They are narcissists with no respect for those around them.

@May_Roma 外国大好きだった私が、外国人嫌悪になってきたのはこんな人たちのせいです。