Again I've already completely disagreed with the Sunday laws. That doesn't align with scripture. Period. Sabbath isn't a judicial law in scripture at all.
That being said I completely disagree with that AI or otherwise modern interpretation. That applies only to the federal government and should and likely will be rolled back. If a state wants to vote in Christian values and standards, that's up to that state and not the scope of the federal government to interfere with.
Keep in mind it's the federal government that told states that they have to allow the murder of unborn children despite what their constituents closely held religious or moral beliefs wanted.
And yes we do need a complete tear down and simplification of modern laws an actual enforcing of the foundational laws and structure that made this country what it was.
That does not include any laws about Sundays.
Chat GPT can be incredibly unreliable in many sensitive topics such as this. It has been programmed to lean highly to the left and overqualify anything remotely controversial.
I would recommend going with gab.ai and specifically use one of the "characters" That would give you the original interpretation and intent of our foundational documents such as the Thomas Jefferson character https://gab.ai/g/65b8311dccea4c861b59b2e8
I agree the state shouldn't be enforcing non-judicial religious beliefs. But all morality is based on something and our laws are either based upon the perfect righteousness of God's law or they are based upon the ever-changing whims of secular society. Personally I like the ground I stand on to be firm and unchanging.
But on the flip side none of the laws of our nation should be in conflict with the moral and judicial law of God. (This is not to be confused with things like the holiness code or instructions for believers, This would be like the laws insurance that applied to anyone within the land to or gentile, like no murdering, theft, rape, stealing land, slavery, etc)
Key word "Congress" meaning federal.
Thank you for underlining the exact point that I made. That means everyone's freedom practice what faith they choose and how to choose it. It doesn't change the fact that the nation is founded as a Christian nation with Christian principles and those freedoms are given under that umbrella.
States are not Congress. States made laws establishing religion. The most recent one would be the Hawaiian Constitution stating that no laws of Hawaii would conflict with the law of Jehovah God.
Go look at that SCOTUS ruling I mentioned. It's a matter of record and ruled on.
Okay you're apparently completely ignorant of our nations foundational principles.
I'll start with saying as a hardcore reformed Baptist and what the left would call a far right "Christian nationalists" (In reality that just means that I believe the Bible and that Christ just King) And I would be completely against any type of governmental Sabbath restrictions. I would however be in favor of employers respecting religious employees choice to not work on the Sabbath.
That being said are nation was founded as a Christian nation. Separation of church and state doesn't appear in any of our foundational documents. It appears one time in a letter and the context of that letter that you need to understand is that they founders were coming from England and Europe were very specific docturnal positions were interwoven with the government. For example you couldn't disagree on something like infant baptism or divorce without committing an actual crime.
After the the revolution (which England called the Protestant rebellion) the founders in their infinite wisdom and very recent experience decided the federal government couldn't declare specific doctoral religious positions but the states could and many did.
In fact the supreme Court even ruled that the United States is a Christian nation in the case called "Holy Trinity versus United States" in 1892
A large portion of our constitution and almost our entire Bill of Rights was taken out of the general equity of God's law. Meaning it was molded from the framework that God gave us in his word.
Our founding fathers recognized the tea Christian faith was a essential part of the foundational principles and framework of this nation.
Have you learned nothing from the enlightenment?
They claim that because without God's grace our natural state is to hate God and to be in open rebellion against Him.
Sin and rebellion are often fun. Antifa has a gay ol time. Gay pride rallies are a hoot if you're into that.
We are not called to be conformed to this world but to Christ and we are told the world will hate us for it
So thank you! Your disapproval means the world to me.
It costs 40-60k to keep someone in jail a year, That money comes from taxpayers.
Hard pass.
Buy an island to drop them and others like them off on for a year or find some shithole country that will take them to be a socialist worker for a year.
If and when they return they will actually appreciate living here.
My point being that if you get the name of the book wrong you're probably going to get the contents of the book wrong as well. You didn't just accidentally add an S. You thought it was Revelations. You were clearly wrong. This should make you question what else you are potentially wrong about if you could be wrong about something so basic.
The end of days referred to the end of the age. This was written before the destruction of Rome in 70 AD. Jesus said this generation shall not pass till all these things take place. That generation has passed. Those things took place.
Must Christians these days have been taught or interpret that as the end of the world where they will be yeeted up to heaven In a pre-tribulation rapture. The problem with that is the tribulation already happened around 70 AD with the with rums siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.
And guess who escaped that? Christians that read the signs and fled to the mountains when they saw Rome, the abomination of desolation, surrounding the temple, the holiest of holies.
You are looking to the future for things that have already happened.
You're taking an eschatological position that's only about 200 years old and not the position that the church is held for about 1800 years.
God wins. These verses help give you an idea of that....
As to the expansion of God's kingdom there will be no end.
Sit in my right hand while I make all of your enemies your footstool (That's God saying that to Jesus and that first appears in the Bible more than any other. Arguably God's favorite Bible verse)
Ask of me and I will give you all of the world as your inheritance (again that's God saying that to Jesus. That begs the question, do you think Jesus forgot to ask?)
Book of Revelation is over 40% quotes and references to the Old testament. It was referring to a localized judgment of Jerusalem within the lifetime of Jesus for crucifying their Messiah.
Everything in it lines up perfectly with historic events and secular accounts like the histories of Josephus and others. If you ignore that and try to make it about future events you have to make these ridiculous leaps of logic like lotuses being Apache helicopters and other such silliness.
And you can think the Schofield reference Bible for all of this. That was the first Bible that had eschatological notes in it that was published about 200 years ago. Unfortunately this was the first Bible with footnotes in it that was widely adopted by pastors and seminaries and it spread this fringe teaching called premillennial dispensationalism or darbyism.
Arguably the greatest lie ever injected into the Christian church. Christians aren't fully obeying the great commission and taking Dominion over every sphere of the world and influence from government, business & entertainment. Christ's blood bought it all. Everything. Every single day belongs to Christ. From Christmas, to Easter, to Halloween, to Toyotathon.
The only thing left is final judgment when Christ returns and puts an in to sin and the wicked are removed from the Earth in a fiery judgment just like the parable of the wheat and the tares. In those days it will be just like in the days of Noah. The ark, which was a symbolic prelude of Christ, is who we are safe in while the judgment comes upon those not in Him.
So yes, you have no fucking clue.
Yeah I'm in Maricopa county too and I drive Uber all over the valley.
Going by the number of yard signs along the results of the election will be:
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Trump
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For sale / rent
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Garage sale
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We buy ugly houses
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$$$ for diabetic strips
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Golden doodle puppies for sale
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Keep off grass
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Biden / Harris (the old one)
We should try to closely reflect and align are justice system with God's Word whenever possible and there are many places we haven't even attempted to do that.
Restitution to the victims for things like theft or damages for example instead of incarceration.
Scripture calls for the victim to be paid back threefold what was taken from them or destroyed. The perpetrator could either come work that dead off for the victim or we could have some type of Job corps apprenticeship type program or work pool where someone could work off their debt and learn valuable skills.
But even keeping a person in regular jail or prison cost typically between 40,000 and $60,000 a year.
This in turn makes every single taxpayer victim as these taxes are essentially stolen from others at threat of violence to feed, clothes, and house people for crimes that in many cases are completely victimless and in other cases could be mediated or solved via restitution.
I don't have any answer as to exactly what it would look like but the fact is we haven't tried and if we did step out in faith and tried to hold to God's word and God's standard than God would bless that and make it work.
Prison system on the other hand will never work. Banishment however.... Now that's something I can get behind and has a basis in scripture.
That's not what the Bible teaches us.
Q doesn't reference reincarnation. Q references God and the Bible.
But the people on the other side are all about the metaphysical mumbo jumbo.
Satan is perfectly happy with you believing in reincarnation or anything else except Jesus.
Jail/prison is completely unbiblical. At no point does God's law call for incarceration.
If a person knows they're going to be executed in the morning they're going to have all night to think about what they need to think about. I'm all for putting a quality gospel track and Bible in their cell and having a pastor come speak with them.
You're not giving the victims closure So they can feel justice has been done and they can heal and move on with their lives by letting them sit in jail. You're also allowing their crimes to fall out of the memory of the public mind in that time. The way you deter crime in large part, is the fear of justice.
It also costs taxpayers between $100,000 to $200,000 a year to keep someone on death row.
As for your last point, I've already addressed that. If someone that brings a false accusation or suppresses evidence can receive the exact same punishment and we hold to that, you will see a very different landscape of justice. Also our standard of evidence needs to be two to three independent lines of testimony or evidence. It needs to be a solid case.
In the heart of the 15th dimension, where the air was thick with the stench of sewage and the echo of nonsensical debates, there lived a particularly loud local known only as "The Wise One." He earned this ironic title not for his intelligence but for his uncanny ability to declare everyone else delusional while insisting that he alone saw the world clearly. Every day, he wandered through the sludge-filled streets, pointing fingers and shouting, "You’re all out of your minds! I’m the only one who knows what’s real!"
The other locals didn’t pay him much attention. They were too busy arguing about whether the sky was blue or purple (despite it being a murky gray) or trying to outdo each other in producing the loudest farts. But The Wise One felt proud. He was sure he was different—better, even.
One particularly foul day, when the stench seemed almost unbearable, The Wise One stumbled upon a broken shard of glass, half-buried in a pile of medical waste. Curious, he picked it up and, for the first time in his life, gazed into his own reflection. The face that stared back at him was not the image of wisdom he had imagined. His hair was matted, his eyes wild, and his clothes were as filthy as the world around him. He blinked, trying to reconcile the image before him with the self-assured person he believed himself to be.
As he stared, a thought crept into his mind, growing stronger as he looked deeper. For the first time, he questioned himself: Was he any different from those he called delusional? The more he pondered, the more he realized that perhaps the problem wasn’t everyone else—perhaps it was him.
In that moment, The Wise One decided to make a change. He understood that if he wanted to see the world differently, he had to start with himself. So, he began cleaning up the mess around him, little by little, and tried to speak less and listen more. The road to transformation was long and challenging, especially in a place like the 15th dimension, but he had taken the first step.
He started to sing....
I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you want to make the world a better place (If you want to make the world a better place) Take a look at yourself, and then make a change (Take a look at yourself, and then make a change) (Na na na, na na na, na na, na nah)
And while the 15th dimension remained its usual chaotic self, there was now one less hypocrite roaming its streets. The Wise One was still a work in progress, but he was no longer content with just pointing fingers. Instead, he quietly worked on becoming the change he wished to see.
That is actually God's requirement in Scripture.
Any kidnapping, rape, or murder would be punishable by a swift public execution after two to three independent lines of evidence / testimony.
No sitting on death row for years. No private little medical painless cocktail. Public, graphic & swift.
Also The Bible requires the exact same punishment for anyone bringing false accusations/testimony that the accused would receive. This would include falsifying / withholding evidence.
In the vast expanse of the multiverse, there existed a place that no one talked about—mostly because of the smell. It was the 15th dimension, a realm so bizarre that even the bravest explorers refused to venture there without a nose plug and a strong stomach.
You see, the 15th dimension wasn’t like the others. While the 4th dimension dealt with time and the 10th with infinite possibilities, the 15th had somehow become the cosmic dumping ground. Farts from across the galaxy floated aimlessly, creating a foul fog that never dissipated. Rivers of sewage wound through the landscape, with medical waste bobbing along like unwanted party favors.
The locals—bless their simple hearts—were oblivious to the mess. They were a curious bunch, known throughout the multiverse as "Dimensionally Challenged." Their favorite activities included staring at walls, arguing over the proper way to tie shoes, and pondering why the sun was so bright. They spent most of their days bumping into each other, mumbling about the meaning of life while standing knee-deep in trash.
One day, a wise sage from the 14th dimension decided to pay a visit, hoping to bring enlightenment to these poor souls. He arrived with a grand plan to clean up the mess and teach them the ways of the higher dimensions. But as soon as he stepped foot into the 15th dimension, he was met with a putrid gust of wind that sent him reeling.
Gagging, the sage stumbled upon a group of locals debating whether it was faster to walk or roll down a hill. Trying to compose himself, he began to speak of the wonders of knowledge and cleanliness. The locals stared blankly at him, then one of them raised a hand and asked, "But can you teach us how to make the farts louder?"
The sage blinked, his wisdom failing him for the first time. Realizing his efforts were futile, he sighed and returned to his own dimension, leaving the 15th to its peculiar ways.
And so, the 15th dimension remained as it was—full of farts, sewage, medical waste, and idiots. The multiverse agreed it was best to leave it that way. After all, some dimensions are just beyond saving.
If you are looking to twitter and it changes its name are you still looking at the same place? Yes.
I lived in a house where they changed the name of the street. It didn't mean I moved.