New Life Baptist Church252 Fairfield St Fairfield East, NSW 2165Australia+61 0497 868 329Pastor Kevin Sepulveda
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>>18623545I don't live in Australia. The sermons I've heard from Pastor Sepulveda are good so I think he's legit. Hopefully you get saved. If not, well, you know.
>>18624382Why do you use racial slurs when your pastor is a beaner?
>>18625552My pastor is white.
>>18623545How was the church service, fag?
How exactly does the Trojan horse "violate' xenia when Odysseus was inspired by Athena to build it? Instead of trying to turn this story into some weird other version of the fall in Genesis they should have been paying attention in highschool lit,
>>18625650It didn't. Its not as though the Greeks sued for peace, agreed for terms, got invited to a banquet to celebrate the end of the war and then killed their hosts. That would have been a violation of xenia. Nolan just straight up invented this dynamic to be relatable to a modern audience.
>>18625684Unironically yes. It is about time the backwards parts of the original Odyssey get filtered through our enlightened lens of reinterpretation. It allows the good parts of it to shine ever brighter without the blemishes of the original age's brutish amorality.
>>18625684sounds like he tried to turn the story into some bootlegged christo morality nonsense
>>18625781Trojans built a wall to keep poor Greek migrants out.Paris was basically Trump.
>expells religious minorities>strict racial hiarchies >massive slave trade>economically backwardsWhy do people love al-andalus so much?Pic not related.
>three old Zoroastrian magi>show up to confirm the next king of the Jews and to bestow gifts onto him>which they figured out using AstrologyWhat was Matthew smoking? Why would this give credibility to Jesus?Did he just think Magi were cool?
>>18623324You don't know the role of those 3 Sages. You're scraping the surface.
>>18625925>This is over 100 years old>an encyclopedia written at about the same time as the Model T car began productionThis is not a rebuttal of the points being raised by the encyclopedia. The 2002 version still identifies them with Zoroastrians>There's a reason their name was both then and now was the very term for magicYes that reason being Greeks not understanding their religious rituals and confusing them for the sorcery Zoroastrians themselves despised>The eleventh of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the bright, glorious Haetumant 31. Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the evil work of witchcraft. 31. The basin of the EtumandroV or Erymanthus, now Hermend, Helmend, that is to say, the region of Saistân. And this is the sign by which it is known, this is that by which it is seen at once: wheresoever they may go and raise a cry of sorcery, there 32 the worst works of witchcraft go forth. From there they come to kill and strike at heart, and they bring locusts as many as they want 33. >31. The basin of the EtumandroV or Erymanthus, now Hermend, Helmend, that is to say, the region of Saistân>32. In Haetumant. -- 'The plague created against Saistan is abundance of witchcraft: and that character appears from this, that all people from that place practise astrology: those wizards produce ... snow, hail, spiders, and locusts ' (Gr Bd.) Saistan, like Kabul, was half Indian (Maçoudi, II, 79-82), and Brahmans and Buddhists have the credit of being proficient in the darker sciences>33. This clause seems to be a quotation in the Pahlavi Commentary. - http://www.zoroastrian.org.uk/lib/avesta-org/vendidad/vd1sbe.htm
>>18625925Joseph gets visited by an angel in a dream. Not the same thing. The point of the author is it fits the profile for Zoroastrian magi, just like everything else they do.The text doesn't go into detail about the nature of the dream. >late workThis is literally answered in the footnote I quoted. Hence I posted the entire footnote.Check this out too I guess:https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/astvat-ereta-savior/>The basic Zoroastrian belief in a virgin-born Savior of the world must have become widely known throughout the Near East in the Achaemenid period, i.e., from the 6th century B.C. onward, when almost all the eastern Mediterranean lands were under Persian rule; and it appears to have exerted some influence on Judeo-Christian thought. It is also considered possible that it contributed, in the eastern border-lands of the Achaemenid empire, to the evolution of the doctrine of Maitreya (q.v.), the coming Buddha, held by the northern Buddhists.
>>18625418>made trips all the time because of signs they saw. Care to back that up?Refer to a post that actually backs your claim not they believed xyz according to person A
>>18627072You want me to time travel? The paper shows it would be reasonable for them to travel around looking for their messiah. Since the prophesied appearance falls in that time period plus halley's comet was in the sky and they saw it as a good omen. If that's not good enough for you then suck a dick I guess.
There’s no time to do anything. I’m just waiting to die and for all of this to be over.
>>18626803Only if you have no friends and family sure. You can just do things OP
>>18627010No, that was mostly Silents. Boomers are servile automatons that don’t have real hobbies or interests.
>>18627019>>18627030My boomer parents just retired in AprilAlthough my mom really can't enjoy it much cause she had a mini stroke or something
>>18627032She probably retired because of the stroke, right? Only proves that boomers will work until they have nothing left to give.
>>18627042No she retired cause she couldn't find a job anymore and just decided "screw it"The stroke happened after the retirement effectively started
Why is divorce a sin? Why is it a sin to marry a divorced person? This makes no sense. Wouldn't God want humans to have a happy relationship instead of an unhappy one?
Saw first hand an unhappy marriage with my aunt and uncle, ending in her "hanging around" with another man as my uncle died from cancer. Yes, they were Catholic, so despite fighting every single day they "couldn't" get divorced. Even if they were basically not together in the last few months of my uncle's life.
>>18625856I'm those days men could just buy virgin wives from their fathers so nobody would bother marring a woman who had already slept with another man or had kids. So if he divorced her no man would want her any and she would have no one to care for her.Today men marry women who had many men before and had many kids because they no longer have access to marry virgins. If men today could easily marry a virgin no one would bother with single moms and promiscuous women.Promiscuity back then was a death sentence for women because no one would marry her and she couldnt survive without a husband.Fathers were desperate looking for a man to marry their daughters early while they were still young and beautiful so they had a chance at surviving and the father couldn't afford to provide for all his daughters.But his son's would work for him so they were a net positive to a father.
>>18625881Before government welfare the majority of homeless and poor people were women. And It still is the case in developing countires. But after the government created welfare to give free money, food and housing to single mothers and promiscuous women, and men are no longer allowed to raise a community of sons to work for him, now the majority of the poor and homeless are men and women don't need them to survive.
>>18625895Women's welfare is a punishment from God on men for pornography and degeneracy.
>>18625858He would've been happy if he could marry a second wife and God would have made his wife humble and submissive who accepts it if he didn't desire her to do degenerate things to him.
>scientifically proves a divine space acting on physical bodiesMaterialist bros???https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YABGFfb4A
He actually uses the word 'normies'
>>18626206>scientifically proves a divine>a divine>title of video is "where do minds come from?"Lol. Lmao even.
How do you connect to the platonic space.
>>18626744By picking it up and saying "Pfft, Ive lifted heavier.">>18626206>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YABGFfb4A"Even a tiny adjustment to that physical embodiment unlocks a whole new Cognitive domain."Have you tried using your third arm?
I don't understand the leap from vsrious patterns in far off galaxies/bsckground radiation and how they exist in the same platonic realm as pure maths. Now that I'm typing though maybe they could?
Danny Lee Hill and Timothy Combs were sentenced to death in Ohio for the brutal killing of a young boy in Trumbull County in 1985. Hill, an African-American, was born January 6, 1967 and Combs December 21, 1967. Not much else is known about their early lives, but Hill had a prior history of violent assaults.
>murder happened when Reagan was president>maybe execution in 2029...
>>18625980this is why the death penalty needs to exist
That kid probably called them the N word.
>>18625980brutal stuff. i could never work in the medical field.
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I'm struggling with orthodox (small o) Christianity because normies/hylics clearly don't have real souls.Can the hylic/psychic/pneumatic Valentinian distinction work within an orthodox framework?
>>18625495>I struggle being spiritual because I'm a sociopath who is incapable of empathyyeah that tends to be an issue, do you even Sonder?
>>18625529I'm not buying this.
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>bro God aint real Bro >Dawkins suffered a stroke in 2016
>>18626998>every pope died despite firm belief in godAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Are churches being beautiful a bad reason to want to convert to Christianity? I’ve been comparing places of worship in other religions and nothing else seems so divinely inspired.
>>18623484>>18622840
I'm gonna convert to whatever religion has that fancy sphere in Vegas.
>>18622558The only reason why anyone should convert to a religion is material benefits. My ancestors converted to Christianity because our rulers wanted to both get lucrative trade deals with the Byzantines, as well as imperial recognition of their kingdoms by Rome. Since Byzantine Rome was closer and had more influence we converted to Orthodoxy instead of Catholicism. If tomorrow being a Muslim gives me a material advantage over non-muslims I would convert in a heartbeat. Of course I wouldn't actually believe in any of their nonsense and would lie to my teeth about following their rules (I'm not getting circumcised, and I'm not gonna quit eating pork and drinking alcohol, I'll just pretend to be following their rules). Same with Buddhism or any other religion.
>>18626782Ah yes, here we see the materialist/atheist with no morals, just wants more possessions and will go along with anything that gets him that sweet dopamine hit. No concept of truth, just profit and loss. Truly a midwit take.
>>18626806Cope and seethe all you want friend, 99% of the population have no morals and will gladly switch sides with the winner if given the opportunity. How did the entire Middle East go from majority Christian to majority Muslim with Christians being less then 1% in some nations. Easy, those Christians didn't really care about their faith, at least not enough to die for it. When given the choice between living as dhimmies, palyng exorbitant tax rates and being at the mercy of Muslims they just did the smart thing and convert to Islam. Just as European pagans converted to Christianity because it made more sense to be close to and get legitimacy from Rome.
And of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture. Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His Name.And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books.And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed with such honor as their faithfulness deserved.And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My Holy Name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honor.
>Then a separate line that's not a part of this family tree is Baptists. >Baptist is just a catch-all name that has been applied to people who aren't part of this family, not part of this group, not part not protesting things in the Catholic Church, not trying to purify the Catholic Church and fix it, but the people that said it can't be fixed.>We don't want anything to do with it. >It's just independent people that are just independently with separate churches doing their own thing.>Never were part of fake Christianity. Don't want to be part of fake Christianity. Don't want to fix this because you can't fix it. >It's of the devil. So that shows you where these come from.>You see why it's important to be a Baptist because you don't want to have anything to do with the Roman Catholic Church. >Look, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. We don't want to be connected with the Catholic Church in our family tree.
>>18626790>You shall be paid in kindWhy do I get the feeling these are like "magic words" to you? Rodent?
>>18626790YOU SAY that you're sick and tired of us protestingI SAY not tired enough to make a changeYOU SAY that you think that all lives matterI SAY no i don't think that's really true...
>>18626801>YOU SAY>I SAY>YOU SAY>I SAYEhhh Macarena!>>18626792Wow, for that you will definitely burn. Yes, yes.
>>18626879>Wow, for that you will definitely burn. Yes, yes.For what?
>>18626887Enjoy the flames. No repentance for you.
>bro G-d isnt real bro, thrust the basedenceWhy does he answer my prayers?I had women ask me out because i prayed Jesus for it because im too autistic to make the first move
>>18626845meant for >>18626840
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Message from the all loving god
>>18626797You will never have power over me, Yahweh. God of the jews, Lord of circumcision and of bloodied baby penis prepuce, you will never sway me to your evil cult. Your words don't reach me for my genitals remain untouched. Thou shall not have the flesh of my foreskin.
>>18626797God hates you, to be clear. I'd love to see the look on your face when you wake up in Hell and realize it's all real. You'll wish you were never born. :)
>>18626797this was the only good advice god gave.
>>18626814>schizo braptist heretic zhang is still posting here after 3 yearsIf that doesn't say anything about god forsaking you i don't know what does
>>18626823It doesn't and you're correct, nothing does. God is with me. Stupid rodent.
