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But, Pope Benedict is still a Pope! He doesn't do all the traveling and kissing of feet, but, Benedict is still a Pope! Remember, Bible prophecy must be fulfilled as the Bible says it should be fulfilled. Our own man-made ideas don't mean anything.

My first car was one of these, same colour. 65 Plymouth Valiant Signet, 2-door with a slant-6 motor that never died no matter how I neglected it:

I agree 100 %! If that text covers many sinful acts, do we need a special divine commandment for every potential sinful act? If God had elected to provide specific prohibitions for every potential violation of his will, how many thousands commandments would we have in the Decalogue instead of Ten? If Jesus said that hate was included in the commandment that prohibits murder, does that mean that we need a special prohibition for abortion? If hate--lack of love--is included in said commandment, how can we argue that abortion--lack of love toward one owns child --is not included in it?

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech Because those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. No one can ever forget that September 11. It was 15 years ago but I can vividly recall exactly where I was standing and what I was thinking when I first heard that America was under attack and that the World Trade Center was falling. It’s hard to believe that there are young people for whom the events of that horrific day are not personal memories but simply moments of recorded history. Yet 9/11 was not just traumatic, it was transformative. It brought a new understanding of the threats to our very survival. 9/11 was a wake-up call for civilization. Let us take stock of these five major messages, mindful of Santayana’s famous warning that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. 1. We Are All Israelis Immediately after 9/11, the phrase “we are all Israelis” appeared in some reports. But it was soon forgotten or hijacked by other groups and different causes. Yet it captured a profound truth. The enemies of Israel turned out to be the same enemies intent on destroying the Western world and civilized society as we know it. For years the United States as well as other democracies watched the terrorism and the intifada and the butchering and the sadistic slayings of innocents from afar and thought it had nothing to do with them. Suddenly came the recognition that there is no longer a concept of distance for terror. 9/11 made clear that an ocean can no longer keep Americans safe from attack and that the battle against jihad isn’t restricted to Jerusalem. 2. The Terrorists Shouted Allah Akbar No amount of verbal camouflage can hide the truth. The people responsible for the murder of over 3000 innocent Americans were Muslims who proclaimed their deed a glorious act bringing glory to their God for the death of deserving infidels. The extremist fanatics of 9/11 must be denounced in every mosque, condemned by every imam, censured by every fatwa on the anniversary of the day which ought to bring shame to every believer in a God of mercy and compassion. Let us be ready to agree with all those who loudly proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace – but let us be convinced of their sincerity by their willingness to openly censure all those who continued to justify barbaric behavior in the name of their religion. 3. America Had No “Settlements” The Palestinians have perfected slogans to justify their actions. It’s “the settlements.” It’s “the occupation.” It’s the flavor of the month they choose to give legitimacy to their cause. No one seems to wonder why the same hatred and desire for the destruction of Israel post 1967 and the settlements was just as intense before Israel prevailed in a war not of their choosing and in which despite unbelievable odds they proved victorious. There were no settlements nor was there an occupation when the Arabs massacred Jews in Hebron in 1929, just as these rationales for Jew hatred did not exist when the United Nations established legitimacy for the creation of the Jewish state only to be followed by a declaration of war intent on its destruction by the seven Arab nations surrounding it. The attack of 9/11 against the United States was, in the words of Bernard Lewis, “a clash of civilizations.” Yes, there are those who want to see an end to democracy. Yes, there are those who want to see a global caliphate governed by the rules of sharia. Yes, 9/11 was a demonstration of the larger truth that there is a culture of hatred in the world which masks its essence under the guise of grievances which have nothing to do with its true motivations. 4. Real Evil Exists In This World Shortly after 9/11, Newsweek magazine featured a column by a college student asking for “greater perspective and greater understanding”. After all, this spokesman for cultural relativism plaintively asked, who is to say whether those responsible should be judged by the standards of our morality rather those of their culture in which they died as martyrs in the name of a greater cause. It is a point of view which still seems to enjoy some legitimacy in the academic halls of supra-liberalism. Some people, as Bertrand Russell famously put it, are so open minded they allow their brains to fallout. Cannibals may have justified eating other human beings, but being civilized surely demands a higher standard for ethical dining. Spare me the similar defense for Nazis who took part in concentration camp atrocities because “at the time” pushing Jews into the crematoria was considered acceptable. Evil is evil. “Thou shalt not murder” was spoken for all times, for all places and for all people. A post-9/11 world needs to remember that extreme evil must be fought even more than it must be understood. 5. Crises Remind Us of Our Potential for Greatness There is a final message to be learned from 9/11. It is the one with the greatest power to turn tragedy into hope, despair into optimism. Those of us who lived through the horror recall another part of the story. It was the remarkable effect of communal pain creating an unparalleled sense of comradeship. Unbearable hardship gave us a kind of kinship we hardly ever experience except in times of severe crisis. Somehow we knew and we understood that we were all in this together. Reading the stories of those who perished made us relate to every life in a way we never thought possible, and allowed us to understand all the better the preciousness of every moment of our own existence. So many of us realized that we could just as well have been among the victims and felt a keener sense of gratitude for all the things we normally take so much for granted. Abraham was tested with ten trials. The Hebrew word for tested has a dual meaning. It tells us he was tried but it also, remarkably enough, teaches us that he was elevated. Having endured the difficulties he gained even greater stature. That is what 9/11 must achieve for us as well. On its 15th anniversary, let us hope it can accomplish that if we but heed its crucial lessons. Click here to read more articles about 9/11. I know I'm a few days late! But better late than never!!

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) will officially launch its three new television channels with a special ceremony scheduled on Sep. 15, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. in Miami, Florida. View the full article

My first one is a 52 ford 1/2 ton something like the attached.. Some thought it was a '49 Flathead V8

Nice car. I always liked the way the Dart and Valiant looked!

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My first car was a 1959 Rambler American (Look it up, it was neat.). I drove it to the Seminary. It died just before I left and I sold it for $14.85, to get it off of my hands as I was leaving the Seminary. A picture of that car in in the post below. The color is same as my car was also I had the tire mounted in the back with a cover which is missing from the car in the photo. I note that today the Internet lists such cars for sale for about $5,000.

Answer: In 1934, the breakfast cereal Wheaties began the practice of including pictures of athletes on its packaging to coincide with its slogan, "The Breakfast of Champions." Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees was the first athlete to appear on a Wheaties box. Initially, and for nearly the next twenty years, the athletes were depicted on the back of the Wheaties box or on its side panels. Athletes appearing on the front of the Wheaties box would not begin until the 1950s. Gehrig would later make another appearance on a Wheaties box in 1992.

I have no idea, so lets see what the answer really is!!!! B. The view from the insane asylum, post-breakdown After his breakdown in which he cut off his own ear, Van Gogh spent some time at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, where he painted "The Starry Night," a depiction of what he could see from his window - sans bars, of course. Source: various web sites.

Really though, the big difference is that this story has taken a very long time to get media attention, to get any traction. For weeks now secondary sources have been on this story of Trump's alleged bribing of Bondi and illegally using his foundation to hide it. But few of the large news networks have given it more than a passing reference until recently. And it is distinctly something real and serious. As compared to the instantaneous and sustained coverage of nothing of any real substance in terms of wrong doing or scandal or corruption about the Clinton Foundation. Continuing to beat on Clinton over nothing really does seem like persecution. NBC did just headline it, but only after the NY Attorney General announced opening an investigation of Trump's Foundation. Since it is a NY based private foundation, it is properly within its jurisdiction to do so. State attorney generals have regulatory and legal compliance oversight responsibility for nonprofits within their state. The IRS is not commenting because legally they cannot do so. But it would not surprise me if the IRS is not finished with this. This is important and significant. There are too many missteps for this to have been a simple honest mistake, or clerical error. And the explanations really don't quite add up. This appears to be just one example of the way Trump has been using his foundation for similar self dealing. Like using the foundation to buy a painting for $20,000 of himself at a charity auction. Or reporting donations that never happened or that really were't from him as he claimed. Not trying to toot my own horn on this, but this is an issue within my area of legal expertise. I am just saying that so you understand that I do know what I am talking about on this issue.

No. There is a hard core group of people on both sides who are not going to change their minds. But, there are others who may be beginning to look at the issues. For these people, the discussion is helpful in making up their minds.

Do you think that the dismemberment or poisoning of 60 million unborn babies in the U.S. alone is not equivalent to what is described in this biblical passage: "they have filled the land with violence?

Nic, The Bible commands certain forms of killing. Hatred would convert that killing into the crime of murder, which was to be punished with death. Killing had to be without hatred in order to comply with God's law. I'm quite sure most people who choose to get an abortion do not do so out of hatred for their unborn. If you were to say a "lack of love" was the basis for prohibiting abortion, how do you know if there was a lack of love? Consider the case where the parents really want the child, but something goes wrong and they must choose to abort because it's not going to end well in any case. It happens. The abortion itself is not hatred. Therefore, motivation must be considered on this issue.

21 hours ago, Green Cochoa said: Please answer just one question for me: How does the Bible define "soul". 45.So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam a life-giving spirit." 1 Corinthians 6 The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2 …6But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. 7Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.....Genesis 2 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2 God is Love!~Jesus saves!

Nic, The Bible has areas that are black and white, and it has areas of gray as well. The gray areas are shown in the Bible to be inferior, but permissible. For example, eating meat. That is one of the gray areas. Other gray areas include polygamy, drinking wine, killing in war, being wealthy, wearing jewelry, slavery, and abortion, the topic of this thread. Because these are gray areas in the Bible, much wasted time and lots of heat are generated over these topics. Not once in all of the Bible is polygamy forbidden. Please keep in mind that the Bible speaks of Jacob's four wives, not one wife plus three paramours (or whatever epithet one might give such ladies). When you are married to someone, and she is your wife, it is not adultery to be with her. One does not commit adultery with one's own wife. The ten commandments prohibit adultery, not marriage. Adultery is defined in scripture as stealing someone else's spouse. The commandment condemning smoking marijuana is in Ezekiel 8:17 coupled with 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 10:31. That text in Ezekiel says: "Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose." I see that new renditions of scripture equal new theologies. I remain unpersuaded by them. Use the KJV if you wish to support any real doctrine. That said, the Bible teaches we should have two or three witnesses to establish something. Where is your other text about abortion?

Amen, brother! What sustains life is oxygen. When God enabled Adam to breathe, he received a supply of oxygen. The same is true about the unborn. When conception takes place, oxygen is supplied to the unborn through the placenta.

I am in agreement!

For what it's worth, I and many others on the Left deplored the 'naked Trump' statues. His policies are the issue, and bodyshaming is both off topic and a bad thing in itself.

Green said: 1) Please show me why you don't believe the OT. Jesus said "Search the scriptures…they are they which testify of Me." He was speaking, of course, of the Old Testament. Yes, they do testify of Christ. They show how He worked with wayward Israel to win them back, even then they took multiple wifes, offered their children to other gods (who were no gods), and wanted to be like other nations and have a human king over them. Israel fought even though that was not God's plan and why did they fight? Because their minds were blinded. Do we need to still be blind today? The oldest book of the Bible lays the foundation, which if ignored will lead to the conclusions that Green has come to. Green said: 2) Why are you trying to find Jesus hurting someone? Christ is the revelation of the Father. If you have seem Me He said, you have seen the Father, John 14:9. Christ mission was to reveal the character of God. We we ever see Christ killing people? No. Green has stated in another forum that he believes we learn little of the character of God from Christ short say on earth. But this is contrary to scripture and the writings or Ellen White. Green said: I have stated that the Bible defines the soul by its breath. But Green ignores the fact that an unborn child lives by the breath. There is not separate entity of a soul that magically enters the body at birth. Green ignores the testimony of the New Testament of John the Baptist on this point. The Bible definition of a soul is the whole person. Green said: If I work a solid day's labor, and my wages are $120, did the dollars pay me? Who paid me my wages? Wages do not pay themselves! God will pay the wages. He tells us so. If you smoke, does God have to step in and give you lung cancer or COPD? If you don't take care of your teeth, does God step in and cause tooth decay? Sin pays it wage, and when it is full grown, brings death, not execution by God. EGW who Green claims to believe in, says, Nature recoils from the thought of dissolution, which is the consequence of sin. {5Red 81.2} The sacrificial offerings were ordained by God to be to man a perpetual reminder and a penitential acknowledgment of his sin and a confession of his faith in the promised Redeemer. They were intended to impress upon the fallen race the solemn truth that it was sin that caused death. {PP 68.1} Had Satan and his host then been left to reap the full result of their sin, they would have perished; but it would not have been apparent to heavenly beings that this was the inevitable result of sin. {DA 764.2} Stan said: Those who oppose it, in my opinion, should also be willing to step up to the plate and support the mother, esp if she is a single mom, with true love, necessities of life, babysitting, diapers and school expenses and so forth. And Stan said: Even though my position is a strong one, I can say this. those who have had an abortion will always be welcomed, with no condemnation, into my circle of friends. Amen Stan. James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

That is certainly true. How fortunate that some have found a country to live in that has a absence of truly awful people

Excellent question! Of Jesus it was said: New Living Translation He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. Finally he will cause justice to be victorious. [Matthew 12:20] Think of this. It states that Jesus would not put out a "flickering candle," yet we are arguing about putting out the life of a human being being created by the power of God. Jesus identified with "the least of these." No other group of human beings deserve more the "the least of these" label than the unborn. Every abortion harms Jesus himself.

About 10 years ago I was in New York City with a friend riding the subway. A man and a woman came on, and we offered them our seats but they refused and just stood in front of us. Their discussion showed that they worked in theater. They would occasionally look at us and smile and when we got off they thanked us for the offer of the seat when they came on. As we left the subway my friend said to me "Didn't you recognize who that man was?" I replied "No" and he said "That was Gene Wilder" I was use to only seeing him younger, but realized how much he looked like him only older than the picture in my mind. of course I'm not positive but it could have been him.

I am going to take an unpopular position. "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Matthew 5). I believe that God's promised blessings to His followers who endure trials - are forfeited when they seek secular litigation against the cause(s) of the trial. "For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps" (1 Peter 2:20-21).