A Tennessee school district is under fire after a group of middle school football coaches were reprimanded for bowing their heads during a post-game prayer and teachers were warned to hide from students if they chose to pray during a nationally organized prayer event.
The only thing that people really decide if they are not of the elect is sinning, I seemed to put up a commentary on volition. God is the only Being that has Free Will, and then He won't do anything that is contrary to his character.
Hmm, people must have thought there was a danger of me becoming a VP? They need not worry.
I will have to agree with Mr. Mencken on this one:
H. L. Mencken wrote: It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
No, I'm not saying that a person isn't responsible to do as much good as he can.
Luke 10 30 Jesus replied and said, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went off leaving him half dead. . . .
33 "But a certain Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, 34 and came to him, and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 "And on the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return, I will repay you.' 36 "Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?" 37 And he said, "The one who showed mercy toward him." And Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."---NASB
Jim, if you vote in someone who says their main goal is to see the human population depopulated, you might find that the human population ends up depopulated.
No, as I said I support Warren Buffet for President!
No, few people, could beat Baby Bush for idiocy and I'm just to modest to think I could outdo him in that!
Besides the oil companies and big business probably wouldn't support me, though in reality I'm not hostile in practice to them, just how their underlings who achieve office like Enron Bush ignored. By the way, have you joined the sit-down strike at Wall Street? I'm not that much of activist to do that.
Jim Lincoln wrote: Why, Mike, you notice I was very polite about BB (Baby Bush) or for that matter Billy Clinton when they were in office. I felt that I had no restraints on me when they had left. And I didn't criticize God for picking them, they perhaps put in the position of President to punish the nation. Gil Rugh, doesn't have nice things to say about Nebuchadnezzar either--except he apparently became a believer--perhaps a step up from some of past Presidents? Perhaps one of the more interesting kings of Judah was Manasseh, one of the longest reigning monarchs in Judah and one of the most evil (and in the end he reformed his ways -- though it still didn't stop the condemnation of him or what is said about him in the Bible for that matter). So, Mike, I think I'm fairly consistent, though not perfect of course, when some sitting President isn't supportive of Israel, I have been known to make an at oblique reference to that.
Why, Mike, you notice I was very polite about BB (Baby Bush) or for that matter Billy Clinton when they were in office. I felt that I had no restraints on me when they had left. And I didn't criticize God for picking them, they perhaps put in the position of President to punish the nation.
Gil Rugh, doesn't have nice things to say about Nebuchadnezzar either--except he apparently became a believer--perhaps a step up from some of past Presidents?
Perhaps one of the more interesting kings of Judah was Manasseh, one of the longest reigning monarchs in Judah and one of the most evil (and in the end he reformed his ways -- though it still didn't stop the condemnation of him or what is said about him in the Bible for that matter).
So, Mike, I think I'm fairly consistent, though not perfect of course, when some sitting President isn't supportive of Israel, I have been known to make an at oblique reference to that.
Jim Lincoln wrote: No, Mike, I'm one of those investors that suffered greatly from the idiot son of Geo. Bush Sr.! Oh, God is a supporter of Obama, He put him office, and it will be his choice if he wins the next election or not.
Ah, the fall-back position. Of course you must then say that God was a supporter of GWBush, "He put him in office" and therefore you have no complaint against him.
Jim Lincoln wrote: No, Mike, I'm one of those investors that suffered greatly from the idiot son of Geo. Bush Sr.! Oh, God is a supporter of Obama, He put him office, and it will be his choice if he wins the next election or not. The Believer and Politics
Jim Lincoln wrote: --- I would have a hard time being President, because I am a Christian, its a good job for a good conservative Jew, however. It's time someone with a sense of the The case for Judeo-Christian values, part 5 and besides I'm a supporter of another Nebraskan for President, Warren Buffett
Not surprising, Jim. He's a mega-rich supporter of Obama. One of many Wall Street crony capitalists looking for exemption.
A false religion as Christ pointed out was making a public show of praying, Mike
What are these coaches and player praying for -- to beat the living daylights out of the other team?
If they are going to do the prayer thing the coaches can start teaching at a parochial school.
I would have a hard time being President, because I am a Christian, its a good job for a good conservative Jew, however. It's time someone with a sense of the The case for Judeo-Christian values, part 5 and besides I'm a supporter of another Nebraskan for President, Warren Buffett
Mike wrote: So Jim, because false religion exists, we should withdraw from any public display of the true Way, so the false religions won't display their traditions? Do you really think that's how it works? Are you sure you're not a Democrat?
Jim Lincoln wrote: Or, Mike, how would you like teachers at the appointed times their rumps in God's face praying towards Mecca? ---
So Jim, because false religion exists, we should withdraw from any public display of the true Way, so the false religions won't display their traditions? Do you really think that's how it works?
Or, Mike, how would you like teachers at the appointed times their rumps in God's face praying towards Mecca? Would that be alright too?
Matthew 6 5 "And when you pray, you are not to be as the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners, in order to be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 6 "But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.---NASB
Are teachers at a religious function praying with fellow Christians? They really do need to understand what Prayer is about.
Jim Lincoln wrote: My, my, apparently most of you didn't even read the quotation I took from Rendering To Caesar: You actually should download the whole thing and read it. Of course if you want to ignore what the Bible says, Romans 13 3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same; 4 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath upon the one who practices evil. 5 Wherefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
1 Peter 2 13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,---
Nothing like acting like the heathen.
So Jim, why do you see it more offensive to bow the head in prayer to God, than you do to obeying ignorant utterances from school officials opposed to the praying?
This is not so simplistic as you would like to make it. v.3 Is it true that we do not have to fear for doing what is good behavior according to the Word of God? v.4 Is it true that if I do what is evil, I need to be afraid? Does the magistrate bear the sword for what God has decreed punishable by His Creator right to rule his creatures? Is Christ Creator God according to the Scripture? v.5 Can I for conscience sake obey a magistrate of which Psalm 94:20-21 is true? "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood." The Christian's warfare is spiritual and won that way v.22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
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