StrongOffer

re: Back in March Rabi Schmuley met with Vatican officials to persuade the Catholic Church.

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/30/25 at 9:00 am

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1 Cor. 15 says that Christ must rule until all enemies are conquered, but verse 26 says the last enemy to be destroyed is death itself.

You convienently skipped over 1 Col 21-22: "Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you..." It's the sin that is being described as enemy.

You are not seeing the forest through the trees

Matthew 5:44-45: "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous." Again it says enemies, but it's referring to persecutors. The sin is what is the enemy.

Luke 6:27-28: "But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you." Another example. This is not saying everyone who isn't a disciple is the enemy. It's persecutors.

John 3:16-17: "God so loved the world..." You know the rest. Sin is the enemy, God didn't send Jesus to save just those who followed Him.

re: Back in March Rabi Schmuley met with Vatican officials to persuade the Catholic Church.

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 11:03 pm

So when it says “We were once enemies of God but were reconciled by His death” who is we? Only Christians, only Protestants…?

Also Corinthians is referring to sin and death as His enemies, not everyone who isn’t His disciple.

re: Back in March Rabi Schmuley met with Vatican officials to persuade the Catholic Church.

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 7:44 pm

My point is it says “were”. Jesus’ death “reconciled” it. Nothing you’ve put says all non-Christians are Jesus’ enemies.

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 5:37 pm

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I think you missed the reference. No offense.

Sorry, indeed I did .

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 5:00 pm

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Shake the dust off your sandals and move along...

Nah I’m good

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 5:00 pm

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The tests conducted at Forensics Analytical in 1999 are consistent with rotting bread and inconsistent with heart tissue. In particular: The ortho-tolidine test was negative, indicating that the tissue did not contain myoglobin, and thus is not muscle of any kind

Happy to read where you got that if you can provide it. That’s not what I remember that study saying. Also there was a study done in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2002, and 2004. They all said that?

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 4:17 pm

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No, there aren't. None with any rigor and multiple objective opinions.

The other on in Poland, the one in Argentina that converted a New York scientist after his study...it will never be enough for you

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 4:02 pm

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What if we had never gone there to the extent we did? Who gets the blame for that?

George W Bush. I have no problem saying Republicans have been terrible too. Like Vietnam, we went into Afghanistan without a real plan.

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 3:59 pm

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Because they did poor "research."

Just because your saying it's poor research doesn't mean it was. It's been 17 years. In all likely, it can't be replicated.

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Again, these results can be reproduced by placing an unconsecrated host in water for a week or so in 15% of cases.

Again, this is just not true. The study you first sent me from Imright.com was showing bacteria can form on a host when placed in water after awhile. There are instances of eucharistic miracles in which they tested and concluded it was not bacteria. I'm not saying your study is wrong, it just doesn't disprove the instances in question. Funny enough, that study was also done by a Catholic. You don't mind Catholic scientists when you think their work helps your argument. Curious.

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re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 3:35 pm

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Shoddy research by those who are biased to believe

Reporting their findings negatively effected their reputations and caused them to be reprimanded by their university. They had every reason to not submit their findings. Catholics don't need Eucharistic miracles to prove anything. Despite the surrounding controversy, they stuck by their objective findings.

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re: Back in March Rabi Schmuley met with Vatican officials to persuade the Catholic Church.

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 2:51 pm

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We were once enemies of God but were reconciled by His death (Rom. 5:10)

Read that again

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 2:02 pm

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From reddit

You question the impartiality of a Catholic PhD but turn to reddit for your rebuttal. I'm sure if I kept going, you'd just say you don't trust the nun and priest who found it. There's no changing a closed mind.

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 1:15 pm

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leaving Afghanistan was one of Trump's better policies in admin 1.

Getting out of Afghanistan and returning it to the Taliban are 2 very different things.

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 1:11 pm

Writeup about the one in Poland

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Another very interesting
event observed consists in that the substance found on
the corporal, although slightly changed after being
removed from the water (it had simply dried) a couple
of years ago, it did not change its appearance despite
having been neither stabilized nor preserved at a
particular temperature. “This signifies that if the miracle were due to a bacterium, the material would have
disintegrated, crumbled and would have changed
appearance. Any microbial culture, even placed on the
cleanest possible material, after a single week appears
completely different” added Professor Sulkowski.

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And yet, several people, who not only have
never analyzed the material but they had
neither seen it with their own eyes, have
affirmed that the red color of the Host is due
to prodigiosin, a red pigment produced by the bacterium Serratia marcescens. “Obviously, this is absurd”
affirmed the specialists of Bialystok, also because the
material observed corresponds to cardiac muscle and
not to a bacterium.

Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 12:55 pm

Such a great movie but pisses me off to no end knowing years later Joe Biden and his admin let the Taliban gain control back of Afghanistan. Biden should have been impeached for that and the only person who was fired was someone who criticized the decisions of the admin. Such a shameful bunch that Biden admin was. Sorry, rant over. "Never out of the fight" - Mike Murphy

re: Perfect Bittersweet endings to a movie (spoilers)

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 12:41 pm

Movie/TV Board

re: Back in March Rabi Schmuley met with Vatican officials to persuade the Catholic Church.

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 12:10 pm

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Whatever is to come for the future of the Jews and their conversion to Christ, right now they are His enemies. We should pray for their conversion like we should for that of all nations and peoples, but they are not friends of Christ at this time.

My brother in Christ, no person is Jesus' enemy. Is that not clear in your KJV?

re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by StrongOffer on 4/29/25 at 11:33 am

That doesn't explain the confirmed miracles. Those were not proven to be bacteria. Your example is like disproving me saying my marble is green by showing me that you have a blue marble. My claim isn't that your marble is green, it's that mine is. How did a piece of bread develop heart tissue?