Currently have a 30 gallon with two Nemo bois, and a orange spotted goby for support. Landscape is various corals such as an elegance coral, zoas and a tube anemone. Noticed a lot of bristle worms on the frontlines after lights out, the hordes swarm the soft earth ravenous with hunger. In small amounts I’d have no issue with them, but they rapidly call for reinforcements and I fear I may lose the territory in the coming weeks. What’s the meta build for eliminating the bristle class without negatively impacting my peaceful clownfish players?
"We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion."
I whole-heartedly and vehemently reject the hellfire doctrine, and am not coming here to hear any arguments to support the belief. However, I respect the beliefs of others and am always interested in hearing the basis for such beliefs.
What I am genuinely curious about is who you believe will actually be tormented forever. I am particularly interested in the opinions of parents that have unbelieving children, or perhaps spouses with unbelieving mates; a person with a very close loved one that is an unbeliever. Supposing their beliefs don't change, do you imagine your loved ones in hell?
It might be helpful to have a Scriptural basis for who would potentially qualify for such a judgement. "Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Do not be misled. Those who are sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who submit to homosexual acts, men who practice homosexuality, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners will not inherit God’s Kingdom." (1 Corinthians 6:9, 10)
Thank you in advance for your willingness to discuss this. It is very likely a sensitive subject, I imagine. The only exposure I have had to this is that my father-in-law has an atheist father. But he hasn't really explained to me his thoughts on whether he believes his father is going to hell or not.
My impression is that believers in Hell accept that other people are going to Hell, but never anyone they actually know or love. Is this impression wrong? I appreciate your opinions.
I feel like I remember reaching teachings that if a husband is unrighteous and limits his wife’s salvation, she will be given to another man. Specifically I thought there was talk of these women being sealed to Joseph Smith or BY. Trying to find references for this! TIA
Monday, October 18, 2021
In the book of Leviticus, we learn that an Israelite could offer a communion sacrifice “as an expression of thanksgiving.” (Lev. 7:11-13, 16-18) He made this offering, not because he had to, but because he wanted to. Like those communion sacrifices, our service to Jehovah is a voluntary expression of how we feel about him. We give Jehovah our best, and we do so because we love him with all our heart. How pleased Jehovah must be to see millions of willing worshippers serve him out of deep love for him and his ways! Jehovah sees and values not only our actions but also our motives. For example, if you are elderly and can no longer do as much as you would like, be assured that Jehovah sees beyond your limitations. You may feel that you have little to offer, but Jehovah sees the love deep within you that motivates you to do what you can do. He is pleased to accept the best that you can give.
(Leviticus 7:11-13) 11 “‘Now this is the law of the communion sacrifice that one may present to Jehovah: 12 If he presents it as an expression of thanksgiving, he will present along with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened ring-shaped loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and ring-shaped loaves made with fine flour, well-mixed and blended with oil. 13 He will present his offering along with ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread and the thanksgiving sacrifice of his communion sacrifices.
(Leviticus 7:16-18) 16 “‘If the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left of it may also be eaten on the next day. 17 But whatever is left of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day is to be burned with fire. 18 However, if any of the flesh of his communion sacrifice is eaten on the third day, the one presenting it will not be accepted with approval. It will not be credited to him; it is an offensive thing, and the person who eats some of it will answer for his error.
Apart from a handful of anointed ones (who, incidentally, managed quite fine without an organisation, just a direct relationship with God through Christ and holy spirit teaching and anointing them) Christ's death seemed very unproductive during that time....?
What are witnesses currently teaching about it? What's the point of being a witnesses if we are all gonna "come back"?
Also if someone commits suicide will they be resurrected?
I have a question about the “gods” that are known to exist in the Buddhist religion. (I’m very new to Buddhism so I’m sure I will get things wrong) My understanding of Buddhist deities is that they remain bound within the cycle of samsara, Because they have not attained the knowledge or experience of Nibbana I’ve heard that they are not to be worshiped as gods in other religions are, they are simply not worthy of it. They are flawed as any of us, but simply exist on a different plane of existence.
However I believe I remember hearing that the Buddha taught that we should try to reflect the qualities of the gods because those good qualities are also found in Buddha’s, and serve as a good guide to how we should act
Didn’t the Buddha say something along the lines of: a stream enterer is worth more praise than brahmas?
I guess my question is: If these deities still remain bound in the cycle of samsara, and they still have not achieved Nibbana or even reached the level of a “stream enterer”; is that on purpose? Are they unrighteous beings who do not even desire to achieve Nibbana and would rather bask in the glory of being one of these deities? Are they simply unaware of this path?
Jesus often talks about the resurrection of the unrighteous, and I think if we have a better idea of what was planned out by god(as Jesus said people tend to not listen to prophets)we can have a much more grounded and better understanding of universal salvation.
From the book, Wounded by Love: the life and wisdom of Elder Porphyrios, pp. 64-65:
>On the Feast of the Theophany, after the Great Blessing of the Water, it was the custom to go round and bless people's homes by sprinkling the Holy Water. One year I also went and did the blessing. I would knock on the doors of the flats, and when the door was opened I would enter singing: 'When in Jordan you were baptized, O Lord...'. As I was going down Maizon Street I saw an iron gate. I opened it and entered the courtyard, which was full of mandarin, orange and lemon trees, and walked towards the stairway. It was an outside stair that went up to a first floor and also down to a basement. I went up the stair, knocked at the door and a woman appeared. When she opened the door for me I started as usual to sing: 'When in Jordan you were baptized, O Lord...'. She stopped me abruptly. In the meantime, however, my voice had been heard and girls started coming out of the rooms from right and left in the corridor. 'I see what's happened,' I said to myself,' I've stumbled on a house of ill fame.' The woman stood in my way barring my entrance.
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>'Go away,' she said to me. 'It's not right for these girls to kiss the cross. Let me kiss the cross and then, please, go away.'
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>I assumed a serious and reprimanding attitude and said to her:
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>'I'm afraid I cannot leave! I am a priest and I have come to bless the house.'
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>'That's all very well, but there's no way these girls can kiss the cross.'
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>'But how do we know who should kiss the cross, the girls or you? Because if God were to ask me who should be allowed to kiss the cross, I might reply that the girls should kiss it and not you. Their souls are in a better state than your own.'
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>She blushed for a moment. So I said, 'Let the girls come and venerate the cross.'
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>I signalled to the girls to come forward and started to sing 'When in Jordan you were baptized, O Lord...' with even greater gusto than before, because I felt a sense of joy that God had so arranged things for me to come to these souls.
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>They all kissed the cross. They were all immaculately turned out with their coloured skirts and so on. And I said to them, 'Blessings on you all, my children. God loves all of us. He is very good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. He is the Father of us all and is concerned for each one of us. Only we too must try to come t
After 6,000 year of inhuman suffering, Why is God so intent on making things difficult for people on earth? Why always putting us through series of cruel unnecessary tests? Does he test the angels that way? Why we puny little humans? Some convoluted bullshit!
1 Corinthians 6:9-20 (KJV)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
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Apart from a handful of anointed ones (who, incidentally, managed quite fine without an organisation, just a direct relationship with God through Christ and holy spirit teaching and anointing them) Christ's death seemed very unproductive during that time....?
Do you not know that the unrighteous won't inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the Kingdom of God.
