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by Ernie
Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:58 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Evil and Violence
Replies: 14
Views: 209

Re: Evil and Violence

The government is the people that you and your fellow citizens elected. You have just as much culpability in the decisions that they make as some cook on a Navy vessel does when it comes to the decisions that his military leadership makes. Not if I didn't help elect a government. I would prefer a g...
by Ernie
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Evil and Violence
Replies: 14
Views: 209

Re: Evil and Violence

Your thoughts?
by Ernie
Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Anabaptist History Series - 2024
Replies: 7
Views: 272

Re: Anabaptist History Series - 2024

This evening at 7:30 ET, is the next history session with Edsel Burdge.

Beginning of Believers’ Baptism in Zurich, 1525-1527: Grebel, Manz, and Blaurock

See livestream and call-in info here. https://www.plainnews.org/2024/02/22/an ... urse-2024/
by Ernie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 68
Views: 1067

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

These sorts of events are always interesting to me in that they show how FAST we can actually get things done in this country when we actually want to. Yes. Take for example the I-95 bridge collapse in Philly last year, which was replaced in TWELVE DAYS. not replaced. Just filled in with gravel and...
by Ernie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 68
Views: 1067

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Slow motion and narrative.

by Ernie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:42 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Evil and Violence
Replies: 14
Views: 209

Re: Evil and Violence

I think that God does use unregenerate persons to do His will even when they have no desire to do so, but I'm not sure how a person can go to war and kill other people without being evil. Is it not evil to reject Jesus and his way? Yes, I think that could be one definition of evil. Does the same de...
by Ernie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Evil and Violence
Replies: 14
Views: 209

Evil and Violence

Do you support the use of the sword to kill evil people who want to destroy the enemy while hiding behind their own civilians? No. I do not support the use of the sword. I'm simply stating what the apostle Paul says the purpose of the sword is. Yes, I am making conclusions about what is evil. What ...
by Ernie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Pennsylvania Leads the Way in Promoting Agriculture.
Replies: 67
Views: 1087

Re: Pennsylvania Leads the Way in Promoting Agriculture.

According to the census, median per-capita income in Mifflin County is $28,979 which comes to $2,414/month or $13.93 per hour. That calculation only makes sense if everyone (including children and the residents of Valley View) is working 40 hours per week. I don't know if median wage data are avail...
by Ernie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 313
Views: 63867

Re: War in Gaza

Do you support the use of the sword to kill evil people who want to destroy the enemy while hiding behind their own civilians? No. I do not support the use of the sword. I'm simply stating what the apostle Paul says the purpose of the sword is. Yes, I am making conclusions about what is evil. What ...