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by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 423
Views: 78208

Re: War in Gaza

News is reporting that Hamas has accepted a ceasefire proposal: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-humanitarian-aid-8659eae6e0a7362504f0aa4aa4be53e0 And that Israel and Netanyahu are the obstacles and announcing their rejection of a ceasefire. I'm curious to see if intern...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Morals & ethics behind supporting certain mission efforts?
Replies: 15
Views: 527

Re: Morals & ethics behind supporting certain mission efforts?

Interesting. I believe City Light would be Charity, right?
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
Replies: 43
Views: 1741

Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events

When Pilgrimsplit from EPMC they would NEVER have supported a web page. Not judging but clearly their standards have moved sufficiently from Eastern that some are not happy….hence the creation of Northeast Conference The Internet didn't exist in the way we think of it today in 1991. It's curious to...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 6:46 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 34
Views: 785

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

Where does the Bible say we have to accept as authorities on topics of morality people who are anti-Christian? The Bible talks about sins of speech, but it doesn’t say I have to accept as a moral authority in righteousness every person who makes claims to be one. And the Bible does teach we should a...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 34
Views: 785

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

I don’t think pointing out someone is of poor character is “as hominem”. Basically. I don’t think people of poor character and with a fundamentally anti-Christian worldview are the right place to go for either the truth or facts. Of course, some people want to divorce their poor character from their...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 12:52 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: A great analogy for Anabaptist church/state understanding
Replies: 1
Views: 69

Re: A great analogy for Anabaptist church/state understanding

Putting aside the political figures discussed or this former pastor's Nov vote choice, I thought his analogy of ambassadorship was very good... I'm not sure what branch of Christianity he comes from, but he almost sounds like an Anabaptist. The ambassador for Christ analogy occupies about the middl...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 12:15 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 423
Views: 78208

Re: War in Gaza

America loves doing that. Iraq, Afghanistan. “Hearts and minds.” It is called the Three Block something or other. The first block is the fighting, The next block is the securing the infrastructure and the third block is humanitarian, if I am remembering it right. The US military used this in all th...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 423
Views: 78208

Re: War in Gaza

I would be rather surprised if George Soros were paying anyone to engage in anti-Israeli protesting, given that Soros has a long history of promoting pro-Israeli policy. I guess I could see him conducting a “false flag”?
by Josh
Sun May 05, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 643
Views: 40884

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

For example, here on this forum it took me only a couple of minutes to find these examples of posters here using the term to describe people who have not yet been convicted of felonies in a court of law. Josh and Grace have objected to Trump being described as a criminal because he has not yet been...
by Josh
Sun May 05, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Morals & ethics behind supporting certain mission efforts?
Replies: 15
Views: 527

Re: Morals & ethics behind supporting certain mission efforts?

We have a variety of folks here that like to think through things and I hope this subject can be discussed in a mature manner and not get political more than it has to be. I was recently made aware of most likely the biggest drug problem we have in American in Kensington Philidelphia, which is clos...