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May regret this, but Christians have got to learn to think in categories, and there are 2 things that are both bad and often get conflated with one another... 1) Racism, defined in actual Biblical terms (racial pride or racial malice) and not defined in the progressive literally-everything-is-a-racism sense, is a sin and is wrong. // Philippians 2:3, etc forbids conceit (for any reason) // Titus 3:3, etc forbid "malice" (for any reason) 2) Governing leaders allowing mass migration to happen in a way that is bad for the citizens they were elected to prioritize and bad for the nation they were entrusted to protect (especially when it dilutes Christian influence on the country in a way that could tipping-point-doom-spiral that nation away from societal truth and goodness via creation of voting blocs)... is not good. // In one of the least-P.C. verses in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 28:43-44 describes mass migration leading to the ever-decreasing influence of the people of God in a nation as judgment on that nation: “The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.” While there is obviously continuity/discontinuity between the Old and New Covenants, this does show a shape of God's judgment and there's no way to read that as anything other than negative. APPLICATION: If you look at many responses to this pic, some people are doing #1 and when confronted about it, acting like they're just doing #2. If you're calling people "jeets", don't pretend you're having a strictly policy discussion with no malice involved. Christless "conservatism" would death-spiral into the abyss, just like the already-Christless progressivism has. The center cannot hold. And often, people are doing #2 and being accused of doing #1. There's a difference between a religion and a race, and there's nothing wrong (actually, in many cases there's a *lot* wise) with not wanting certain belief systems imported into your country en masse. And (downstream of the Biblical differentiation in the roles of the individual, family, church, and state) there's not anything wrong with the citizens of a country opposing the leaders of a country allowing mass migration to happen in a way that hurts their culture, school systems, effects scholarship and job opportunity availability to citizens, etc. Christians CAN have debates about immigration policy and it not be "racist" at all... and all Christians are commanded to love and pray for the redemption of all people from every tribe, tongue, nation, and language, nailing every type of "malice" in their hearts to the Cross.
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No one will like this post but: We already lost our country. We’re not gonna get it back. You can tell by the way the Republicans won’t arrest Democrats. We’re not gonna win the midterms. We’re not gonna lose the midterms either - we’re just not gonna WIN them. It doesn’t matter anyway, because we have all houses of government right now and we’re still losing everything to DEMOCRATS. The FBI doesn’t work for us. The courts don’t work for us. The CIA doesn’t work for us. The Secret Service doesn’t work for Trump. The REPUBLICAN PARTY doesn't work for Trump OR US. They’re gonna let Don Lemon go. They’re gonna say he didn’t do anything really wrong. They’re gonna cite the FIRST AMENDMENT that they don’t even believe in. We’re gonna say "OK right, 1st Amendment is absolute." We’re gonna let them get away with that. We’re gonna let them get away with EVERYTHING. Over and over, rinse repeat. We didn't lose our country: WE GAVE IT AWAY. Sorry.
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We Christians must remember that Christianity, condemns explicitly cowardice as a sin. Something that a lot of Churches seem to have forgotten as part of their discipleship. Do not be afraid is possibly one of the most common verses in scripture; and yet so many Christians seem to live by fear of being looked down up or criticised for not being 'kind or nice'. This Church culture we have inherited is unwell; and its time that it and is replaced.
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Here is entirety of episode 1 of the Can I Trust the Bible? documentary I filmed in Egypt 2 years ago. In it we tackle the issue of biblical vs. apocryphal/Gnostic gospels.
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If you are planning to go to church for the first time, or the first time in a long time, a word of wisdom: Don't expect the heavens to open and all the answers to fall on your lap that first Sunday. Don't expect to immediately have a transcendent experience that will change your life. Faith is a pursuit. Jesus said, "Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking, and the door will be opened." KEEP going to church. Pick up a Bible and KEEP reading it. Jesus promises that if you do, he will reveal himself to you. Don't stop seeking. I love you, and Jesus loves you.
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I never thought that, 24 years after 9/11, I’d be pleading with the U.S. government to defund the Taliban.
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So many similarities between Islam and Mormonism
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Gavin Newsom's Greatest Accomplishment 🤣
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Omg Look at Covid.Gov right now
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Hey @libsoftiktok have you checked on Taylor Lorenz in this trying time? You should reach out.
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This is the most accurate map I have seen so far.
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State scored first to establish dominance I like it.
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Big win in California for 2A.
GREAT NEWS FOR THE 2A! The California Mag Ban has been ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL! NAGR Vice President @ryanflugaur is here to give you a quick break down of this monumental ruling.
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We’re off the air right now because the power went out in LA, as it does all the time. Eric Garcetti is the worst mayor of all time. He hasn’t bothered to do his job in years. The Democrats running LA are the most incompetent people on the planet.
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