John Lee wrote:
... Britain may not be communist yet, but it certainly seems to be headed that way ...

"Sarah Phillimore, a family law attorney, said: "I cannot believe the government is being asked to consider surveillance of citizens in their own home ... Will we have an East German-style secret police like the Stasi?"

The Law Commission report said stirring up division over "race, religion or sexual orientation" even in homes, should be criminalized"

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How far will the Lord allow this evil trend to succeed against man's basic civil rights?

Doctored curricula selectively and consistently censored, have chopped away from the classroom important eras of British history, so Britain has been stripped from its past, and forgotten its history, while the church blankly stares at as ignorant as ever.

There had been such times when civil freedoms had been at peril in Britain, but under the national awareness of a Protestant culture and biblical heritage, the nation responded against such barbaric measures, hence the Glorious Revolution and Cromwell's Commonwealth.

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How wonderful and perfect are His ways.

Dr. Cairns can be rightfully known as a true 'Doctor' of the Word. He did not bear the title in vain, because he did not only tell his audience the what of the Gospel, but the why and the how of it, along with its depth, making his passionate preaching glow with assurance, radiance, conviction, and eternal reality.

We bless the Lord for favouring his church in gifting this unassuming Ulster gentleman with specific gifts of grace to unable him to become a master piece of Christian service.

The seeing in part is become now for him the seeing fully about how we have been loved in the Beloved from eternity, which theme he delighted so much to preach on.

Perhaps through the so called 'pandemic' God is fulfilling his plans in our day.
There have been for a long while many strains of evangelical Christianity that needed finished off, and many others, needed hard pruning. It might be the case as in the time of old, that His ears had tired off empty praise. See Isaiah 1:10-14
Perhaps the happenings are His design, yet when all is fulfilled real culprits might not escape accountability.

Chris, your informative insight about the name Palestine is interesting.

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Carol wrote:
Thanks, BMcC. for your recommendation of the lecture of Mr. Giuliani. Our family is listening to the series.
All should give a listen!

Mike wrote:
Yes, Jim has yet to explain why he supports Governors taking away by fiat, State legislators’ responsibilities. Emergency powers? Who decides there is an emergency? Oh that’s right, the governors. Some democracy Jim likes.

No one can be a Christian with that set of mind, so there is only one explanation, a purpuseful destructive intrution against Christian culture and values, and in the end of true Christianity .

This is a token of the flat curve Christianity is at in the present Western Civilization.

See 'Our Declining Culture-2'

JC wrote:
Evangelism and the ministry or testimony of the church are two different items of the same whole.
God draws men to himself by his own means by which any of us will feel flabbergasted, yet we are to content for truth and its purity among men.
You draw parallel lines of the two, when in reality they intersect.
Can u explain what u mean ?

God can reveal himself to any by any means he chooses, say even the stones or an ass could speak for him to the unconverted, or he might make himself known through any other none orthodox means, yet this should not dismiss the issue of our responsibility as we are told "to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints".

Any seeking God will find him, and a version issue will not be the stumbling block, if could be rather the opposite to the elect of God, though definitively is going to be such for any of the none elect.

JC wrote:
I live in a mission field here in the US...people have gotten born again using many versions....i have preferences for sure, and I realize some are not as good. But if someone who has no interest in reading God's word and picks up a Bible of any version, God be praised...taking them down a 'version rabbit trail would please the devil for sure

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Why, John, everyone knows the Vulgate Bible is the only true Bible❗ It uses God's language, Latin. All the newfangled versions, especially the KJV, are heretical corruptions
Remember, adriel, The Vulgate has been around for 1500 years,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate
So I need new upstart version such as the KJV, which is a corruption of God's Word. Well, you might be able to tolerate the Wycliffe version.

The Old Latin bible stood against the Vulgate for over 1000 years. That was the Bible of the none conformists of the dark ages.