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@ChuksEricE It's a pigeon.

Catholic Church members were left in shock after a dove🕊️ flew and perched on a giant crucifix at the altar during a church service.

@CatholicDrip___ No longer. God lead me out of it.

@right2scripture You Catholic?

To open-minded Protestants, check out Sam Shamoun (former Baptist)

I think painting with a broad brush is unfair - I think many true believers in Christ do not idolize themselves. Are there people, pastors and such who do? Sure, you can find them online or in church. But it comes down to it being a people problem, not a certain religious perspective problem.

Protestants idolize themselves.

@drobertsjr @TFTC21 how?

@right2scripture @TFTC21 Sure it can

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

@David_Y3 Bad idea. Your idea leads to death and destruction. God has shown me so many times that Jesus is the Way to Heaven.

Convert to Islam by leaving Christianity. In Islam, the true religion of Jesus Christ is Islam, and in Islam he is given the highest respect.

@LeeMARTIAL2 Yes, because a Christian has a transformed heart - it's not about what is on the outside.

Would you remain a Christian, if Christianity was declared illegal?🤔

It never will. Human-made wiring and computer memory chips (or whatever is used) is no match for what God instituted inside the head of a human. There's physical growth inside the brain as it "wires" itself as the human is learning new things. Human-made items used in computing will not grow; it's not organic. It never will. They will only deceive you into thinking it will.

@right2scripture @TFTC21 Not yet

In Luke 12:1-3, Jesus is talking about the hypocrisy of the religious Pharisees - “..Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” The word “hypocrite” in the Greek originally meant one who “wore a mask” - like an actor in a play; that they are playing someone other than themselves. Jesus is saying that the religious hypocrite is merely playing the part of a religious person, that they have no true relationship with God. The Pharisees did not know God - they only mechanically went through the religious steps of their religion but truly had nothing to do with God. Do you find yourself doing religious steps mechanically? Do you have a relationship with God? Examine yourself and look at your day-to-day life to see what approach you are taking to know God.

@bumperdelmar Read Jeremiah 24:7 and Ezekiel Chp 36

No one in the Old Testament was born again.

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@cloisteredfaith the Bible is about the Son of God - both Old and New Testaments testify about Jesus. The prophecies in the OT are not about the coming Messiah and His mother - it's only about the Messiah - therefore all praise and glory to Him alone.

This is factually incorrect. The Hail Mary mentions Jesus. Jesus is God and therefore all prayers of the Rosary are directed towards or are about God.

Believers in Christ should want to know more about God and the only way to know more about God is to read His Word. It's the only source that describes who He is. Believers in Christ should continually be reading His Word and attending a church where the Word is the source of the sermon, to learn.

Skip reading and go to Church.

@kathiliko_bette @BishopJaxi the levitical priests in the OT do not one-for-one align with the priests we know today - nor do any of their tasks; it's a completely different covenant;

@right2scripture @BishopJaxi when Bbl says “seek instruction from the priest, he’s God’s messenger” Mal 2:7 Or Jesus says “if he refuses to listen tell it to the Church & if he still refuses to listen to the Church let him be to you as a gentile/tx cltr”Mt 18:17 are u going to say that’s not what it means?

2 Timothy 3:16-17 says all Scripture is God-breathed and profitable, so the man of God may be complete and equipped for every good work. Protestants read that and somehow get: "Only Scripture is God-breathed, Scripture alone is profitable, and Scripture alone is sufficient." One problem. Paul never said that. Try that logic anywhere else: "All grapes were created by God and are profitable, so that a man may be nourished, healthy, and strong for every good work." Read like a Protestant, this means: "Only grapes were created by God, and grapes alone are profitable for nourishment." That is obviously absurd. Why? Because "all X is profitable" does not mean "only X is profitable." 2 Timothy 3 proves Scripture is inspired and profitable. It does not prove sola Scriptura. That doctrine has to be smuggled into the verse, because it is not actually in the verse.

The church is the body of believers - not an institution, nor any local church branch. People make up the church - people from all around the world who have put their faith in Christ. I think when you are in the Word regularly, you start to see God’s patterns within it; you start to see who He is and the things He has defined. Scripture supports scripture; it will never go against itself. I think it’s important to never take anything out of context. If you take a single line of scripture out of context and use it to support a belief that has been passed down to you - you may be in error. Always take scripture in context - a single line within a paragraph and a paragraph within the chapter. Ask the scripture questions - what do I see? What does that mean in cultural context for the time back then? Who are the people? What are they doing? What is God doing in this passage?    Ask lots of questions and try to get them answered by reading in context. You will then see familiar things that perhaps you saw in other chapters or books of the Bible - reference these other areas to see if they support what you are currently reading. No I do not have all the correct interpretations; I don’t believe any one person does. I think many people of all religions under the umbrella of Christianity have bastardized the Word to fit their own agenda; some to the detriment of many people. Try to not squeeze the knowledge you have about Catholicism into the Word, but rather just try to understand the Word. Come to it without preconceived ideas. You may see things you have never seen before. Also, ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in all Truth and understanding; ask him to open your eyes of understanding. He will. He will not give you a different interpretation of something than myself. He will lead you to the same Truth. As for 2 Peter 3:16 - yes, I’d agree there are indeed things that are hard to understand within the Bible. I also think the Bible itself, from a 30k foot viewpoint, if you read it from a high level as a believer, you will understand the basic concepts and theology within it. Are there perhaps hidden mysteries in it? For sure. Peter is talking about things given to Paul from the Holy Spirit - things that were new even to them; but Peter is also talking about the untaught (those not familiar with the Scriptures) will use them in ways they should not.

@right2scripture @BishopJaxi Which church is though? I’m not denying you and I have the HS moving in us, but are u claiming to have the HS lead you in all correct interpretations of the Bible even when you and I believe differently? What about the hard writings to understand (2 Pt 3:16)?

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@kathiliko_bette @BishopJaxi Who's got the Holy Spirit? - the Church. The Body of Believers. I have the Holy Spirit within me. All true believers do.

@right2scripture @BishopJaxi Well, your Bible probably has 66 books, right? Mine doesn’t. So who’s got the Holy Spirit correctly putting together their Bibles?

@kathiliko_bette @BishopJaxi Are you implying the Holy Spirit had nothing to do with the compilation of the Bible?

@right2scripture @BishopJaxi How did the Holy Spirit come down and put the NT with the OT since the Holy Spirit didn’t write down the list of books that go in the Book?

@BishopJaxi I'd rather see it as a product of the Holy Spirit, using men to put it together. Give glory to where God deserves it. Cheers.

@right2scripture Apostolic traditions do not and have not changed. The Bible you have in your home right now, is literally a product of tradition. Cheers.