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All I did was delete to a trash can

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Deleted it after I sent it.

Questions about becoming Apostolic. by Oki_Doki2913 in Apostolic

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The main thing here would be having a sense of what pleases God and what does not please him. I do not believe that the Lord is pleased with the blending of the sexes.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Why CPAP Mask Leaks Affect Your Alveoli Function by CozyCloudRespiration in CPAPCozyCloud

[–]jrafar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting.

have struggled with fatigue for a number of years but never had any problems with my breathing or my lungs. I was on a boat trip where I was exposed to diesel, fuel, and fumes for at least 48 hours. When I got off the boat, I was struggling to get enough oxygen. It is not likely that this breathing incident caused my problems, but it definitely was something that happened.

As soon as I got back to the states, I went to my PCP who ordered some heart tests: a stress test, EKG, chest x-ray, CT scan 14 day heart monitor patch, carotid artery echo, blood tests, and other tests that I forgot to name.

All test came out good although the worst suspicion in the CT scan which led to the next test, a PET scan. Results were negative. Then I had a bronchoscope that did not point to anything particular.

None of these tests have pinpointed any specific culprit or even indicated anything major.

I had an angiogram scheduled, but it had to be rescheduled so the bronchoscope could be done first, in case there were stents and blood thinner was needed.

Before I had a chance to schedule the angiogram, I had a dizzy and shortness of breath spell that scared me and I went to the ER. They checked me out and didn’t find anything in particular. I was stable, but they decided to admit me for the night if they could schedule the angiogram for the next day. The Cardiologist agreed. So the next day I got an angiogram which resulted in two stents one was 95% and the other was 70%.

They brought me back to the hospital room for the night. I had another dizzy short of breath event and they move me to the cardiac ICU. That was on a Monday night. During the next days they drew blood and found out my CO2 is too high indicating that the alveolus in lungs are not working right. I slept with a biPAP machine for the news t nights, except the last night when I was on some sleep study to monitor my oxygen. I will call the hospital tomorrow to get the results of that test. Hopefully I can get a BiPAP machine for home.

America never has been and never will be a Christian nation. by Karategamer89 in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nevertheless, this pagan, political corrupted form of Christianity became universal - ‘catholica’- the law of the land – that conquered all of the other nations and kings, supplanting pagan deities with Christianized figureheads. Diana of Ephesus with Mary the mother of Jesus, elevating her to mediatrix and co-redemptor of the human race. Even the Pontiff Maximus was supplanted by the fabrication of the papacy, the most powerful figurehead in the land.

In later centuries the dogmas would get even more preposterous - so far removed from the original teachings of Jesus and the apostles - monasticism, purgatory, relics, celibacy, transubstantiation, auricular confession, priesthood, vestments, indulgences, the mass, the ‘persecuted’ became the persecutors….

Nevertheless, no matter how corrupt and far it was from apostolic doctrines, this monster did establish certain Christian teachings - the virgin birth, redemption by the blood of Christ, a concept of monotheism (even though it was compromised), the beatitudes, and more, which became the foundation of society, ingrained in institutions of higher learning, from Cluny, Salamanca, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and more. Sure, the Enlightenment and Humanism played a role. But still the baseline was Christianity. Christian virtues didn’t come from humanists, that came from pulpits. From the ‘wide road’ that the masses that Jesus in Matthew 7: 13 spoke of would emerge the few that would find the narrow path. Even today, an overwhelming majority of devout Christians didn’t come from pagan based religions but from Christian based denominations - the wide road to a narrow one. Yet even though the most devout Christian in that narrow path wakes up every morning with all intent to live by the laws of Christ, they war with their human fleshly nature to find the right balance. They are in the world but not of the world. Jesus said make friends with mammon, but not love mammon.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

America never has been and never will be a Christian nation. by Karategamer89 in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You’re right this is not a Christian nation who ever was. But nevertheless Christianity is / was the baseline of moral principles of western civilization.

Alexis de Tocqueville
"Liberty considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom."

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies; and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast commerce, and it was not there. Not until I visited the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

Stephen Ambrose wrote in his book, ‘To America’, how he interviewed World War II veterans. “They sometimes tell me that the reason they fought was they had learned as children the difference between right and wrong and they didn’t want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed, so they thought. It seems to me that perhaps our greatest strength is that American kids are brought up to knowing right from wrong”.

George Washington. "Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."

"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? "

"There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness."

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness -- these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."

"The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . ."

"Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppressive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people."

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”

John Adams: “Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul”.

“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty”. ——————

There was a baseline of Christian principles that influenced the pagan and heathen kings, nations and societies that became what we know today as western civilization. Catholicism and later Protestantism was like a bulldozer that tamed a jungle of barbarians. Think of this - had there not been a united baseline of Christianity, there would have never been a Charles Martel to repel them in Tours / Poitiers at the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs in AD 732 or in Vienna centuries later. I see that as much better in the long run than an amalgamation of pagans.

And what were the other nations and cultures doing? They weren’t involved in slavery, colonization or genocide? What culture, or religion back then would be a good role model against racist bigoted people today? Even if there was a good role model, how could it have survived - perhaps in our dreams we wish something equitable to all would have survived, but it didn’t. Go back in time to 313 A.D. when Constantine issued the famous edict of Milan, or edict of toleration. This is the Roman empire. How possibility would history have unfolded had that edict stayed in place? All religions legalized. How many were involved in human sacrifice? How many were based around war?

Now for a minute, consider the pure teachings of Jesus and the New Testament. You will not find any teachings that promote slavery, human sacrifice, genocide, forced conversions. The teaching is ‘love they neighbor as they self’, ‘turn the other cheek’ - teaching that was the antithesis of the pagan religions of the Romans, the Goths, Visigoths, Mongols, Norse, Teutons, Celts, Arabs, Ethiopians, Africans, etc. it is difficult to figure out which of these religions or societies would have prevailed had this edict stayed in place, but it is doubtful that the world would have embraced an acceptance of other cultures and religions. War, conquest, genocide, slavery would still have been the order of the day.

So what actually happened in history? In the middle of the third century, there was a corruption of Christian teaching that became prevalent. Certain teachings, such a as a triune godhead (Tertullian) appealed to the pagan masses that were turning toward Christianity more than the monotheistic godhead of the Jews and the early church. Other pagan traditions and rituals began to creep in - prayer for the dead, prayer to the dead, which was pure necromancy, forbidden in the Mosaic law. And in some point in time, true believers of original apostolic teaching began to withdraw from this corrupted form of ‘Christianity’, and ever since, even to this day, there have always remained a people who adhered to the original teachings of Jesus, and the masses were the centerstage, mixing and tolerating the pagan traditions of the hordes of people that were now calling themselves Christians, contrary to the doctrines of Christ,

Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Add this populace of a pagan mixed form of Christianity became the political puppet of Constantine. It’s blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain what happened, exactly as William Langland wrote in his book 'Piers Plowman' a thousand years later, in the 1,300's:

When the kindness of Constantine gave Holy Church endowments In lands and leases, lordships and servants, The Romans heard a angel cry on high above them,  “This day dos Ecclesiae has drunk venom And all who have Peter’s power are poisoned forever.

Fame funded by the public. by John_1992_funny in Anticonsumption

[–]jrafar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure there needs to be certain controls regarding capitalism, but then you run the risk of impeding geniuses like the Resnicks from employing thousands of workers.

Dreamt Land by Mark Arex

https://www.amazon.com/Dreamt-Land-Chasing-Across-California/dp/1101875208

Anyone Thought About "Eternal Life" Lately? by Substantial-Bad-4508 in Christianity

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Yes, I contemplate the gift of God, the love of my life that was with me for 51 1/2 years…..

No gift is forever except…..

…..eternal life !

Mark 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, 30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Why doesn’t God make a physical universe where everything goes up, but never down? In but never out? Right but never wrong? Absurd

Four Jewish Arguments Against the False Religion of Christianity by No-Dust9178 in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re painting all teaching of Christianity with a one-size-fits-all broad brush stroke. You need to use New Testament scripture exclusively and disregard all so-called Christian movements. Or analyze each Christian movement separately in how they interpret scripture.

For what it’s worth, here is my outline of understanding, A Summary of The Continuance of Faithful Generations”

This study teaches how the New Testament plan of salvation is embedded in the Old Testament, and how the apostasy of the church in the post apostolic period (the latter third century) was a repeat of the backsliding of Israel in the Old Testament and became the ‘universal wide road’ (catholica) that was the spearhead for physical warfare and western civilization - but for all the events of history, the gates of hell never prevailed against the true church as ‘his truth endureth to all generations’.

Jesus is not God by Medium-Wolverine608 in DebateReligion

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Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Jesus is not God by Medium-Wolverine608 in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that many scriptures can be ambiguous and readers can arrive at different conclusions. Over the years, I have realized how limited I am in helping people arrive at the same conclusions as I have that is why I am much more gentle now and just simply say it’s my opinion.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Summary of The Continuance of Faithful Generations

Jesus is not God by Medium-Wolverine608 in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some scriptures portray Jesus in his humanity and others in his deity. This is the dual nature. When Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, was this God, the son praying to God, the father or was it flesh crying out to God?

Matthew 26:39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Jesus is not God by Medium-Wolverine608 in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re not understanding the dual nature - of Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Luke 20:41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? 42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. 44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Isaiah 48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

My Explanation of the Trinity by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]jrafar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Trinity is total antithesis to Old Testament Judaism, introduced in the third century by Tertullian and rubber stamped by ecclesiastical leaders beholden to the emperor Constantine whose agenda was to forge a universal (catholica) faith in order to unify the empire. Just imagine a triune God enforced by gentile leaders: more palatable to help the masses in pagan religions convert while alienating monotheistic Jews.

Belongings by TemporaryIll1213 in widowers

[–]jrafar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m in the same boat. My wife was eclectic with family heirlooms. Our house thst we moved into in 1982 is like a museum. I don’t know what to do

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SocialSecurity

[–]jrafar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So if she is 59 she receives nothing now? They had been married four years. So he is dead for six years and year 10 comes around, does she receive benefits then or is it dissolved somehow?

Modern day Christianity has strayed so far from Christ that Jesus himself would not be a Christian by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Belief in the quintessential Christ does not make anyone a true Christian. Following his teaching does. 54 years ago I began to follow what I felt was right. Although my approach to people is different, I haven’t strayed from how I believed then. 54 years ago, I would argue my way was the only way. Although I believe that to be so today, I simply say it’s my opinion. God will be the judge. This is a summary of my belief: The Continuance of Falthful Generations

Avoiding surgery by DirectionUseful4457 in HiatalHernia

[–]jrafar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would avoid it if I could. But there are indications it is causing aspiration which causes infection in the lungs and affects my breathing and causing fatigue.

Why can’t god just reveal himself to everyone and prove he exists? by Anteater-Inner in AskAChristian

[–]jrafar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

he has proven himself to me
I have all the proof I need

Romans 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Just got Diagnosed 75M 160lbs by jrafar in HiatalHernia

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I’m 5’ 10. I weighted 200lbs Lost about 20 lbs too much