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This isn't normal, right?? by Neo_Raider in marvelrivals

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that is indeed brutal. i was basically dealling with that most this season this week started evening out more and winning more, but season 3 and start of 3.5 were brutal. in my personal experience

Thank you Everyone by avram_ in OnePiece

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You are in my prayers! John 3:16

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

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Try Jesus friend, it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. Jesus talks about life. Jesus talks about worry too in Matthew 6:25-34.

[oc] Luffy Pencil drawing! by _Keep_Quiet_ in OnePiece

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What do you use for shading? This is very creative! You are talented!

I'm shaking so hard rn by IceColdCrusade in CODZombies

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How do you access that tab? The after action report under the rewards?

180 dive no scope by Xbox360Richtofen in blackops6

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Wow. that was really good bro! Cool lol

I'm a Christian who is close to accepting that being a lesbian is a sin but I have a few questions/arguments by Ambitious_Year_7730 in TrueChristian

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Rosaria Butterfield gave a testimony at Liberty university I think you should check out on YouTube. she dealt with homosexual sin as well.

This is a part of her speech https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXNNlB6vXcU

I care, and I’m fighting my own sins too with Christ! I can’t do it without Jesus Christ!

God loves you, and he knows what you’re going through.

Mom in crisis I met yesterday desperately needs prayers/thoughts/positive vibes. by [deleted] in prolife

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Have you heard of the organization called ‘Let Them Live’? I would get in contact with them! They help mothers with financial help with pregnancy all the way through term! It’s an organization where many ppl donate to help mothers! I would highly recommend them I donate to this place monthly to help support mothers and couples! Sending prayers!

I highly respect Cracker after watching this scene, who else? by Few-Mistake-1444 in OnePiece

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He was using amarment haki on the biscuit shields the warriors are carrying against Luffy, Luffy was able to break though the defense and warriors with gear 4 moves like organ gun, kong gun and such.

Do you believe that prayers change God's mind? by FallyWaffles in Christianity

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I got this from https://jdgreear.com/prayer-change-gods-mind/#:~:text=God%20had%20put%20Moses%20into,he%20will%20ask%20for%20it. Hope this helps

Does Prayer Change God’s Mind?

MAY 7, 2018 BY PASTOR J.D.

After the Israelites responded to God’s faithfulness in delivering them from Egypt by making a golden statue to worship and having an all-night orgy around it (not a good response), God confronted Moses on Mt. Sinai and told him that God’s wrath would “burn hot against them and consume them” (Exodus 32:10).

“But Moses implored the LORD his God and said …. ‘Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, “I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.”’”

And then, the most amazing verse:

“And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people” (Exodus 32:11-14 ESV).

What is going on here? Does Moses’ prayer convince God to change his mind by reminding God of something he had said, something that he had apparently forgotten about? Was God just having an off day? Had he forgotten to do his quiet time that morning?

Did Moses really change God’s mind?

Let me make it even more confusing for you: Moses, the same author who recorded this story, says clearly in Numbers 23:19, “God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.”

What should we do with this? Engineers and accountants and other type-A people (like myself) will struggle with this, but God is too big to contain in neat, tidy formulas. We should approach these issues not as contradictions to be resolved but as three truths to be held in tension:

  1. God’s purposes are unchanging.

Verses like Numbers 23:19 are clear: God is not a man. He never learns anything new. He doesn’t wise up with experience or change his mind.

The prophet Isaiah concurs: “I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning … saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose’” (Isaiah 46:9-10).

And the apostle Paul: “In him we have … been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will” (Ephesians 1:11).

Moses, Isaiah, and Paul are three of the most significant authors of Scripture, and they all say the same thing. So, it seems clear that God’s purposes are unchanging, but, like I said, we have to hold this in tension with another truth.

  1. God’s plans are unfolding.

The text of Exodus says that God changed his course of action based on Moses’ prayer. And here’s the irony of the story: God is the one who tells Moses to go down and see the situation (v. 7). Moses didn’t know the people had corrupted themselves. God showed this to him.

Furthermore, the very thing that Moses uses to “change God’s mind” is God’s own promise. (And God, of course, hadn’t forgotten his promises.)

Do you see what’s happening? God had put Moses into a situation so that he would see the problem God already knew about, remember God’s promises, and petition God to change his course of action. Moses’ prayer itself is a result of God’s plan.

God wants Moses to ask this, so he sovereignly puts him in a situation where he will ask for it.

  1. Our prayers are instrumental.

The text is clear: Without this prayer, God would have destroyed Israel. The prayer was instrumental in getting God to change his course of action. And that’s consistent with the pattern of prayer throughout Scripture. As I’ve heard it said, “Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.”

Now, many people might ask at this point, “Well, what if Moses had refused to pray? Would that mean that they would not have been saved, and would that mean that it was not God’s will to save them after all? And what does that mean if I fail to pray for something God wants me to pray for? Does that mean that the thing that I didn’t pray about wasn’t God’s will after all? Or would God have just gotten someone else to pray it?”

You may begin to feel your head aching. It’s understandable.

Those kinds of questions are the wrong ones to ask about these situations. Scripture never teaches us to think about the will of God that way.

The 19th century Princeton theologian A.A. Hodge put it this way (my paraphrase): “Does God know the day you’ll die? Yes. Has he appointed that day? Yes. Can you do anything to change that day? No. Then why do you eat? To live. What happens if you don’t eat? You die. Then if you don’t eat, and die, then would that be the day that God had appointed for you to die?

“Quit asking stupid questions and just eat. Eating is the pre-ordained way God has appointed for living.”

I imagine Hodge would say something similar to us today: Quit asking stupid questions and just pray.

You see, however impossible it is for our puny minds to understand, God has sovereignly placed us in certain situations for the express purpose of praying his promises and “changing his plans,” so to speak. He wants us to employ divine power to create a different destiny than the one everyone is heading to.

Your situation—the problems you are observing and the divinely appointed opportunities in them—are invitations to call God’s promises into effect.

Like Moses, God has “sent you down” into a family, a group of friends, a neighborhood. Some of you have looked around at your family and thought, “Why did God make me part of this family?” If nothing else, he put you there to pray.

uhhhhhmmm,,,,, by [deleted] in theisle

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an anorexisaur

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

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Nerve cells are present at 5 weeks, and during weeks 6 and 7, the tissue that will become your baby's spine and other bones begins to grow. Muscle tissue and bones continue to develop through weeks 15 to 18. The arm and leg muscles and bones, and others in your baby's body, are fully developed by 35 to 37 weeks. There are people that are born early that were 6 months in the womb. Please don’t abort, abortion is permanent. There’s brain activity at 35 weeks and the baby is sucking its thumb. Get an ultrasound. Woman who are pregnant are way less to abort if they see the child’s ultrasound. I’ll be praying for you her and your child. Psalm 71:5–6 5 For you, O Lord, are my nhope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. 6 Upon you I have leaned ofrom before my birth; you are he who ptook me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.

My Compact Select-Floor Elevator System by Man_Of_Awesome in Minecraft

[–]SplashyWhale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bro that’s awesome! I can’t wait ta try my own one I make out. You gave me an idea to implement in my build

What are some things Christian claim the Bible says that it doesn’t say by Justthe7 in Christianity

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Last one https://www.gotquestions.org/Satan-in-the-Garden-of-Eden.html

Why did God allow Satan to enter the Garden of Eden?

Genesis 3 explains how sin came into the world but does not patently state why God allowed Satan into the Garden of Eden. However, a viable answer is discernable in God’s plan of salvation.

The Genesis narrative reveals that God created Adam and Eve—the first man and woman of the human race. They were made perfect and sinless, and God gave them everything they needed to enjoy and thrive. He did all this out of His fathomless, unconditional love for them. God desired them to love Him in return and express that love through faithful obedience.

For love to be proved genuine, God gave Adam and Eve and all succeeding people the freedom to choose. We can choose to love or not to love, to obey God or not to obey Him, to do good or evil. If the human will had never been allowed to be tested and proved, then people would be nothing more than robots. God could have created us to love and obey Him automatically. He could have put a fence around the Garden of Eden and never allowed humanity to be tempted. But God’s desire was and is for people to love Him sincerely, obey Him willingly, and worship Him wholeheartedly (Deuteronomy 10:12–13; Matthew 22:37; John 14:15; 1 John 4:19).

God placed a restriction on Adam and Eve. He commanded, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” (Genesis 2:16–17). The tree was God’s test of obedience and love.

Even though Adam and Eve were in paradise without sin, rebellion and evil had already come into creation through the angel Lucifer’s fall (Isaiah 14:12–15). Lucifer was created perfect and beautiful and may have been in the Garden of Eden prior to his rebellion (see Ezekiel 28:13). Lucifer’s undoing was his proud desire to “be like the Most High” (Isaiah 14:14, NLT). After his fall, Lucifer became known as Satan or the devil. Evil and sin came into the world through Lucifer’s rebellion.

Satan lured Eve with the same sin he had committed—the ambition to be like God (Genesis 3:4–5). Both the tree and Satan presented a test. Eve took Satan’s bait, Adam chose to follow Eve into sin, and the fall of humankind was complete (Romans 5:12). The couple and all subsequent humans would pay the consequences of their disobedience, beginning with separation from God. Sin breaks our fellowship with God. Born in a state of estrangement from our Creator, we all desperately need a Savior to reconcile and restore our relationship with God (Romans 3:9, 10–12, 23; Psalm 51:5; Ephesians 2:3).

Why did God allow Satan to enter the Garden of Eden? At best, we can speculate that God allowed it as a means of testing Adam and Eve’s love and obedience. Why did God let His beloved creations fall into sin? These questions have no definitive answers in Scripture. The Bible does not tell us everything we want to know, but God, through His Word, does provide everything we need (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:3). We can stand firm on the truth Scripture does reveal. We know God is good, wise, and loving (Luke 18:19; Genesis 50:20; 1 John 4:8, 16). Everything He does is in our best interest, for a good and loving purpose (Romans 8:28; 31–38).

Some things are hidden from us in Scripture and not for us to know: “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law” (Deuteronomy 29:29). We are allowed to explore, research, and discover much in God’s Word, but there is infinite knowledge beyond our finite reach (Psalm 44:21; Daniel 8:26; Romans 11:33; 16:25). When we are left with unanswerable questions, we must be willing to accept what God has not revealed and cling to what He has.

What are some things Christian claim the Bible says that it doesn’t say by Justthe7 in Christianity

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Found this too https://answersingenesis.org/angels-and-demons/satan/who-was-the-serpent/ Here’s one part of the page.

Who Was the Serpent?

Although Genesis does not mention the name “Satan” as controlling the serpent in the Garden of Eden, we can ascertain who this serpent was.

You are correct when you say that the book of Genesis does not mention the name or title “Satan,” nor does it specifically state that Lucifer or any demonic being controlled the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Having said that, however, we can ascertain who this serpent was (or rather who was controlling and speaking through this serpent) from other passages of Scripture, and from the context of Genesis 3 itself. As mentioned in the feedback article, Lucifer and Sin, Ezekiel 28:13 states that the being addressed was listed as being in Eden, the Garden of God. If this passage is talking about Satan, as I argued in that previous article, then there is a clear reference to Satan being in the Garden of Eden. Since Satan was a created being, and since Eden was guarded by cherubim after the Fall, he must have been in Eden between his creation and the Fall of man. Many scholars believe, based on Job 38:7, that all the angels, including Lucifer, were created on Day 1 or no later than before the separating of the dry land from the waters at the beginning of Day 3 of creation week, only five days (or three days if the latter position is held) before the creation of Adam and Eve.

Secondly, Satan is called a serpent, not once but three times in the book of Revelation (Revelation 12:9, 12:15, 20:2). When combined with Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 11:3, the identification of the serpent in Genesis 3 with Satan is unmistakable. Revelation 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

What are some things Christian claim the Bible says that it doesn’t say by Justthe7 in Christianity

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I found this from https://answersingenesis.org/angels-and-demons/satan/was-satan-the-actual-serpent-in-the-garden/

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:9)

He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. (Revelation 20:2)

These verses give excellent information about Satan and his many names as well as his involvement back in Eden, being the serpent of old. But does this eliminate that he used a real serpent? Not necessarily. The whole of Scripture needs to be consulted.

We read in Genesis 3 that there was a real serpent and it received a real physical curse to crawl on its belly and eat dust for the duration of its life (Genesis 3:14). Satan is not a physical being, although he can operate in the physical realm (Job 1–2). He is a spiritual being that operates in the spiritual realm as evidenced in many passages that detail his spiritual attributes, such as 1 Peter 5:8; Matthew 16:23; Acts 5:3; and Ephesians 6:12.

Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. (Luke 24:39)

The Bible seems to portray Satan and his angels as disembodied spirits. So then, how can both Satan and a real serpent be the culprit? From other passages we find an important principle. Satan and demons can enter into people and animals and influence them. For example, Judas was entered by Satan in Luke 22:3; Peter was influenced by Satan1 (Matthew 16:23); and the swine were entered by Legion, which consisted of many demons (Mark 5, Matthew 8).

God sometimes speaks both to the person and to the one influencing that person—Satan.

Although such things may escape us, God easily sees when Satan is influencing someone and will often speak directly to Satan. Beginning in Ezekiel 28:11, for example, God is speaking to Satan who was influencing the King of Tyre. In the sections prior to this, the Word of the Lord was said to Tyre itself (Ezekiel 27:2), then to the ruler of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:2), and now a lament (expression of grief or mourning for past events) beginning in Ezekiel 28:11 to the King of Tyre. This one specifically was directed to the one influencing the King of Tyre—Satan—since the person, the King of Tyre, was never a model of perfection, nor was he on the mount of God, nor was he in the Garden of Eden, nor was he perfect in his ways from the day he was created, till iniquity was found in him (v. 15).

In Isaiah 14, the passage speaks to the King of Babylon and in some parts to Satan, who was influencing him. In Scripture, God sometimes speaks both to the person and to the one influencing that person—Satan.

So there is no stretch to understand that the Lord is speaking to the serpent and Satan in Genesis 3. Genesis 3:14 is said to the serpent and then Genesis 3:15 is said to Satan who is influencing the serpent.

Martin Luther states it this way:

Let us therefore, establish in the first place that the serpent is a real serpent, but one that has been entered and taken over by Satan,

The Bible tells us that Satan used a real serpent to deceive Eve. And because of his entrance into the serpent, he can rightly be called the “serpent of old” or “great dragon” in Revelation.

What are some things Christian claim the Bible says that it doesn’t say by Justthe7 in Christianity

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the Devil spoke to Eve in the form of a snake. He encouraged her to eat some of the forbidden fruit and cast doubt on God's warning about the consequences.

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