Split: Israel's judgement

[Jersey Girl]

What is your evidence for that claim?

It’s the text itself. Romans was a close collaboration between Paul and Tertius. Two single men, working closely on a collaborative writing down of Paul’s views on life, and they are drawn to write about sexual attraction between men. I’m simply joining the dots.

You might want to join the dots to Paganism.

[canpakes]

Jesus is coming back soon.

Not soon enough for me!

I’m sorry; being not-so-white looking, he was detained at the border and no one has seen him since being tossed into an ICE van.

[I Have Questions]

It’s the text itself. Romans was a close collaboration between Paul and Tertius. Two single men, working closely on a collaborative writing down of Paul’s views on life, and they are drawn to write about sexual attraction between men. I’m simply joining the dots.

You might want to join the dots to Paganism.

Why might I want to do that?

[Jersey Girl]

Quantum here is the entrance to Rowallan that I took while I was there.

[Quantum1982]

Ok

So what is it like in Colorado?

What do you and your husband do?

[Chap]

I would like to urge recent participants in this thread to avoid giving 'in real life' details on the board - which can be read by anybody, and may help them to find out who you are and where you live.

This is a public space, and sad to say there are people in the online world who delight in harassing strangers for no particular reason apart from the fact it makes them feel powerful - I suspect that most of them have sad and empty lives, but that is not our problem.

I would suggest you (in particular Quantum and Jersey) delete any posts that identify you, such as those that indicate where you live and what church you attend. If you want to chat one to one, use the board's facilities to send one another private messages (PMs).


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[Doctor CamNC4Me]

You might have a supernatural experience yourself one day.

And? What if I mistake a brain glitch for a supernatural experience? How could anyone tell me what I saw was true or false? Most people don’t believe other people’s claims of a supernatural experience. For example, do you accept Smith’s claim that he saw and interacted with Nephi Jesus Christ, angels, God, and a Dark PresenceTM? Lots of people make lots of claims and stick to their story for lots of reasons. And The SpiritTM , a.k.a. themselves, confirms (or doesn’t) for lots of people.

If religion does it for you, it should be a personal relationship with a greater thing, not something you swing around wildly in an attempt to control the world around you. That’s your thing, not theirs.

ETA: QED -> https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/14/poli ... pernatural

For years, Gregg Phillips — now a senior FEMA official — has told stories that blur the boundary between the ordinary and the supernatural.

A dead girlfriend once lifted his car off the road to avoid a crash. Satan once spoke to him while he walked across Spain. After collapsing inside an Indianapolis Lowe’s, he came to in a McDonald’s parking lot across the street with 15,000 steps logged on his health app, a Big Mac in his lap, and little understanding of what had just happened.

Do you believe his stories?

[I Have Questions]

I would like to urge recent participants in this thread to avoid giving 'in real life' details on the board - which can be read by anybody, and may help them to find out who you are and where you live.

This is a public space, and sad to say there are people in the online world who delight in harassing strangers for no particular reason apart from the fact it makes them feel powerful - I suspect that most of them have sad and empty lives, but that is not our problem.

I would suggest you (in particular Quantum and Jersey) delete any posts that identify you, such as those that indicate where you live and what church you attend. If you want to chat one to one, use the board's facilities to send one another private messages (PMs).


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Very good advice Chap.

[huckelberry]

Romans 1:26

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

This was Paul processing his natural sexual attraction to Tertius. He was trying to make sense of his sexuality in a world that wasn’t enlightened. He hated himself for it and that comes out in his personal blog/opinion piece, now referred to as “Romans”.

As apposed to this piece of pure speculation one might think Paul was reflecting standard Jewish attitudes toward Greeks and Romans and other nonjews. Now I can see speculating about Paul having homosexual desires is a possible speculation. I rather doubt that Paul hated himself.

[Doctor Steuss]

One possible solution for the Arab Israeli conflict is :

1. Get the IDF to hand out gospel tracts in Arabic to Palestinians.

Given that the IDF has destroyed the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the Byzantine Church of Jabalia, the St. Hilarion Monastery, and the Holy Family Church (where an IDF sniper had previously killed a mother and daughter when they were leaving worship), that might be a hard sell. Destroying various holy sites, including a site that has been used for worship, going back to when the Byzantines utilized it as a church in the early 5th century, probably doesn't help either.

These Palestinians have got so many Arab countries that they can go to. Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, UAE, Iran. Why haven't they gone there?

Where should the Palestianian Jews go?

The Palestinian Jews apparently can't go to Iran, given that Israel blew up the Rafi'nia Synagogue in Tehran with an airstrike last week.