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LUNG1954

Mon 06/19/23 01:10 AM


A Christian website interprets Ezekiel 38 and 39 as follows:
The prophecies are written in such a flexible and miraculous way that they can be applied many times. This prophecy, which includes chapters 38 and 39 says there will be wars against the church. Wars are waged against the people of God, whoever they are (the people of Israel before Christ or the Church after Christ). God intervenes in time to defeat the enemies of the Church.
This war is a symbol of the ongoing enmity against the kingdom of God (John 15: 18, 19). After Christ brought peace to his church, the enemy of goodness stirred up all kinds of wars against it. He started with bloody persecution and failed, then he tried to provoke divisions, but in the last days it seems that he will raise a terrible war against the people of God. It also seems that victory will be his ally in the beginning, but the verse turns against him and he perishes because it is God who protects his church. These last wars are called in the book of Revelation, the war of Gog and Magog against the Church.
Gog is the name of a savage and bloody barbarian king in his wars, and it may symbolize Antiochus Epiphanius, or as it will happen in the days of the appearance of the Antichrist. And some say that he is the president of Russia, because he is mentioned here as the president of Rosh Meshech and Tubal. They interpret Rosh as Russia, Meshech as Moscow, Tubal as Tobolsk, and all this in Russia. But the closest thing to truth is that Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal are tribes that lived in the regions of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Gog is the son of Japheth, and Magog is probably the land inhabited by Gog, as we say Pharaoh and the land of Egypt. Or we say England means the land of English people Notice here that Magog is The land of Gog.
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Sam

Wed 06/21/23 08:32 PM

^^ this is why i dont like religion. no logic and it was written by other men not gods, and at a time when we didn't know the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. science on the other hand, embrace it, it also accepts when it is proven wrong.
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LUNG1954

Thu 06/22/23 12:51 AM

Many people confuse religion and science. The monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam are from God when He sent His teachings to the prophets Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. These teachings are written in the Bible and in the Quran. Because more than one person translated the Bible, errors and sometimes distortion occurred. But his core remained steadfast.
Scientists, on the other hand, have worked hard to explore the laws of nature set by God and to take advantage of the information accumulated in technology. However, they also made mistakes and others corrected the mistakes of the previous ones. Therefore, there is no justification for loving science and not loving religion. Rather, the correct thing is that we love religion and adhere to its correct teachings, because they are the teachings of our Creator, who determined on the Day of Resurrection to hold all creatures accountable, to punish the wrongdoers, and to reward the believers. At that point, the love of science is useless without faith.
The difference between belief in gods and belief in God the Creator
Some earthly religions divide the functions and the power of more than one deity, this is a god of rain and that is a god of wind and so on. And in the time of the Prophet Moses, the Samaritan made a calf for his servant, the Children of Israel
In primitive beliefs and pagan religions, the god takes the form of a human being, an animal, or perhaps an inanimate object. People turn to him for help and assistance. In Greek mythology, the gods become more like humans, and when they get angry, anger is accompanied by punishment in the form of a natural disaster, such as storms, thunder, rain, and eclipses.
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Unknow

Sat 07/01/23 10:26 AM


I am not trying to ofend anyone. Its just a topic for discussion. Religion is opium for the masses (). The most religious people are the ignorants, poorest, ignorant and mostly illiterate at the merci of their leader


you can hardly spell, speaking of ignorant illiterates!
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LUNG1954

Tue 07/18/23 04:21 AM

British broadcaster proves that the Holy Qur’an in Surat Al-Nur verse 35 preceded modern science with an accurate knowledge of the fluorescent lighting characteristic of plants, and she explains that that God, the creator of the universe, revealed that to the Prophet Muhammad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwfYw8jkpEQ
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Etsin

Tue 07/18/23 01:44 PM

:point_up:
Whether she is or was affiliated with BBC or not; which I don't know, she expresses her own views, giving a twisted exegesis to fit with what she thinks science says about the matter.
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Martin Hobson

Thu 07/20/23 05:43 PM

I am not trying to ofend anyone. Its just a topic for discussion. Religion is opium for the masses (). The most religious people are the ignorants, poorest, ignorant and mostly illiterate at the merci of their leader



lucky they are illiterate or science and logical thinking would kill their last remaining God. And their faith with it that needs to be replaced with believing in life. The only one you get makes it just that little bit more valuable and better respected.The new 21st centuries Gods 'Mother Nature '
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Martin Hobson

Thu 07/20/23 05:46 PM

lucky they are illiterate or science and logical thinking would kill their last remaining God. And their faith with it that needs to be replaced with believing in life. The only one you get makes it just that little bit more valuable and better respected.The new 21st centuries Gods 'Mother Nature '



and Father Time. Evolution is now a scientific fact and explains a theory that is the absolute opposite of
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LUNG1954

Fri 07/21/23 04:52 AM

Mother Nature is not the new 21st centuries Gods 'Mother Nature ' and Father Time.
Mother Nature (or Mother Earth) is the earliest usage as "Mother Gaia", written in (13th or 12th century BC). In Greece, the pre-Socratic philosophers had "invented" nature when they abstracted the entirety of phenomena of the world as singular: physis, and this was inherited by Aristotle.
Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius opens his didactic poem De rerum natura by addressing Venus as a veritable mother of nature.
Amalur was the goddess of the earth in the religion of the ancient Basque people. She was the mother of the sun, and the moon. Her name means "mother earth" or "mother land".
Science says:
Biological structures frequently exhibit modularity and symmetry, but the origin of such trends is not well understood. It can be tempting to assume — by analogy to engineering design — that symmetry and modularity arise from natural selection. However, evolution, unlike engineers, cannot plan ahead, and so these traits must also afford some immediate selective advantage which is hard to reconcile with the breadth of systems where symmetry is observed. In a new paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists introduce an alternative hypothesis based on an algorithmic picture of evolution; it suggests that symmetric structures preferentially arise not just due to natural selection but also because they require less specific information to encode and are therefore much more likely to appear as genetic variation through random mutations.
The Bible says:
God created the universe.
The earth was created by God
God upholds the earth
Just as the earth and every living creature, along with all spiritual beings, were made by the power of God’s Word, the whole creation is kept together by the word of His power (Hebrews 1:3).
We should not worship nature
The earth reflects God’s goodness and wisdom
God created the earth as the dwelling place for humanity
The earth will be renewed and restored by God

https://www.biblword.net/what-is-the-biblical-view-of-nature-is-the-earth-our-mother/

Evolution is not a scientific fact opposite of religions.
In bonus footage from the new episode of Science Uprising, “Human Evolution: The Monkey Bias,” geologist Casey Luskin explains why the iconic image is more imagination than reality. The scientific evidence is plagued by ideology-driven interpretation, fanciful reconstructions, pathetically sparse fossil remains, “missing transitions,” and other problems. The story of human origins is subject to constant rewriting, which is to say reimagining, making firm fact-based statements perilous. Yet this reality is largely concealed from the public, including from students, even from non-specialists in relevant scientific fields. Why? Dr. Luskin sheds light on that question, too:

https://evolutionnews.org/2021/10/human-origins-the-scientific-imagination-at-play/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw2eilBhCCARIsAG0Pf8ucXsMMQzugrQOhPjt3DhaxDrVA1qd_vBfwy0cYSXPAhGe6W_VMumIaAkKCEALw_wcB
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LUNG1954

Sun 08/06/23 01:19 AM

Adherents estimates (according to 2010 stats):
Christianity 33%, Islam 24%, Judaism 0.22%, Hinduism 15%, Buddhism 6%, Sikhism 0.35%, Baha’i 0.11%, other religions 10.95%. An estimated number of non-religious 9.66%, of whom 2.01% are atheists.
BBC website report
Is religion dying around the world?
It is expected that the rate of increase in the number of Muslims will reach about 70 percent, as their number will increase from 1.8 billion Muslims in 2015 to 3 billion Muslims in 2060, and thus this group will represent 31.1 percent of the world’s population, while it currently represents about 24.1 percent.
Is Christianity dying?
Today, about 31 percent of the world's population profess Christianity, according to the Pew Center. But more Christians die than those born in Europe, which is the heart of this religion, while Christianity is spreading rapidly in the African continent and Latin America, but this increase does not match the increase in the number of Muslims worldwide.
And what about atheists?
The Pew Center estimates that the percentage of atheists will decline from the current 16 percent of the total population of the globe to 13 percent, despite the increase in their total number from 1.17 billion in 2015 to 1.2 billion in 2060.
Other religions
Buddhism is expected to decline from 500 million people in 2015 to 462 million people in 2060. This is mainly due to the decline in fertility in countries such as China, Thailand and Japan.
It is expected that the number of followers of African, traditional Chinese and indigenous religions in North America and Australia will increase by about 5 percent, bringing the number from 418 million people currently to 441 million.
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Sam

Sun 08/06/23 01:27 AM

Three words: John, Patmos, Revelations

Where John your apostle was, and what that island is famous for; that is, psychedelic 'shrooms. And wrote Revelations there in a cave.
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LUNG1954

Tue 08/08/23 01:09 AM

The believers at the time of every prophet were few and the deniers were many. After their prophet warns them and they do not respond to faith, God send down punishment on them. For example, God drowned Pharaoh and his soldiers in the sea, and saved the people of the Prophet Moses. After the end of the time of the prophets, the descent of torment was postponed until the Day of Judgment. And the torment of non-believers and deniers begins from the moment of their death, and God will judge them on the Day of Resurrection and they will enter Hell.
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LUNG1954

Thu 08/10/23 12:08 AM

Why delay the punishment for those who disbelieve in God until the Day of Resurrection?
God is Forgiving and Merciful, so He delays the punishment of the infidels to give them the greatest opportunity to repent. He slows down and does not neglect.
The Quran said:
‘Your Lord is the All-Forgiving, Full of Mercy. If He were to seize them ˹immediately˺ for what they commit, He would have certainly hastened their punishment. But they have an appointed time, from which they will find no refuge.’
‘If God were to punish people ˹immediately˺ for their wrongdoing, He would not have left a single living being on earth. But He delays them for an appointed term. And when their time arrives, they cannot delay it for a moment, nor could they advance it.’
‘Do not think ˹O Prophet˺ that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them until a Day when ˹their˺ eyes will stare in horror.’

As for the one who persists in his disbelief and obstinacy, delaying his punishment will lead him for acquiring more sins, so his sins will increase, his excuse will be cut off.
God said:
‘Those who disbelieve should not think that living longer is good for them. They are only given more time to increase in sin, and they will suffer a humiliating punishment.’
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Unknow

Fri 10/13/23 11:13 PM



A Christian website interprets Ezekiel 38 and 39 as follows:
The prophecies are written in such a flexible and miraculous way that they can be applied many times. This prophecy, which includes chapters 38 and 39 says there will be wars against the church. Wars are waged against the people of God, whoever they are (the people of Israel before Christ or the Church after Christ). God intervenes in time to defeat the enemies of the Church.
This war is a symbol of the ongoing enmity against the kingdom of God (John 15: 18, 19). After Christ brought peace to his church, the enemy of goodness stirred up all kinds of wars against it. He started with bloody persecution and failed, then he tried to provoke divisions, but in the last days it seems that he will raise a terrible war against the people of God. It also seems that victory will be his ally in the beginning, but the verse turns against him and he perishes because it is God who protects his church. These last wars are called in the book of Revelation, the war of Gog and Magog against the Church.
Gog is the name of a savage and bloody barbarian king in his wars, and it may symbolize Antiochus Epiphanius, or as it will happen in the days of the appearance of the Antichrist. And some say that he is the president of Russia, because he is mentioned here as the president of Rosh Meshech and Tubal. They interpret Rosh as Russia, Meshech as Moscow, Tubal as Tobolsk, and all this in Russia. But the closest thing to truth is that Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal are tribes that lived in the regions of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Gog is the son of Japheth, and Magog is probably the land inhabited by Gog, as we say Pharaoh and the land of Egypt. Or we say England means the land of English people Notice here that Magog is The land of Gog.


i read but still you never read it right, you this god lives in buildings, apparently you do. wrong. sadly so many people can not teach right. this makes people unbelieve

a bible has to have 100 percent
facts
past, now, and future

or other wise it is not a religion,
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Unknow

Fri 10/13/23 11:20 PM

Ezekiel 38 and 39

since he never explained it right.

38 Ezekiel 38
The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of[a] Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. 5 Persia, Cush[c] and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, 6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

7 “‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. 8 After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety. 9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

10 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. 11 You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. 12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.[d]” 13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages[e] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”’

14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it? 15 You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. 16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

7 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. 18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD. 19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign LORD. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. 23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’

that is the verse, and to prove the hatred, again they are atacking isreal. so they will fail, its not time yet.

oh and those countries, go back 2000 years ago, then look at the names now.

and north of isreal is what countries.
Edited by Unknow on Fri 10/13/23 11:26 PM
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Toodygirl5

Sat 10/14/23 01:30 PM


Religion is used to manipule people, to attain certain self centered goals. It serves the leaders and distroys the followers reasons why its dogmatic.


False religion does.

Seems you don't know the difference. What's false or true.


However, The Holy Bible is the only infallible Word of God.

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Unknow

Wed 01/10/24 11:02 AM

John3) 16. .19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


or

Matthew 13
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.


that is why some understand and some of their own free will never will.
Edited by Unknow on Wed 01/10/24 11:03 AM
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Toodygirl5

Sat 03/30/24 05:28 PM


Religion is used to manipule people, to attain certain self centered goals. It serves the leaders and distroys the followers reasons why its dogmatic.



The real Scam is not knowing who God really is. He is the Creator of everything in the Universe.
Knowing God and have that relationship with the creator is Awesome.

Religion is manmade and many are in Religion so it can be false.
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Sat 03/30/24 11:48 PM

Two religion community, each one tries to define as true an better, but both have maximum destroyed their own original civilization and culture an tried to spread more conversions(forcefully or emotion ally) 2,500 years ago and 1,400 years ago...
Commander can be a king never a G###
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Whatdoctor

Thu 04/11/24 12:22 PM

God is so amazingly unlikely that there is no way he could have just spontaneously happened. He must have had a creator. I believe that creator was man.