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  1. AustinC

    AustinC Well-Known Member

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    Hours before President Biden took the oath of office, he entered the front pew of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, the seat of Catholic Washington, and beheld the mosaics behind the altar.

    An intimate group of family, friends and congressional leaders had gathered for Mass, in the place where Pope Francis spoke in 2015 and where the funeral for John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Roman Catholic president, was held.

    When it was time for the homily, the Rev. Kevin F. O’Brien, the president of Santa Clara University and friend of the Biden family, compared Mr. Biden’s upcoming inaugural message to the words of Jesus.

    “Your public service is animated by the same conviction,” he said, “to help and protect people and to advance justice and reconciliation, especially for those who are too often looked over and left behind.”

    “This is your noble commission,” he said. “This is the divine summons for all of us.”

    There are myriad changes with the incoming Biden administration. One of the most significant: a president who has spent a lifetime steeped in Christian rituals and practices.

    Mr. Biden, perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century, regularly attends Mass and speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his policies.

    And with Mr. Biden, a different, more liberal Christianity is ascendant: less focused on sexual politics and more on combating poverty, climate change and racial inequality.

    His arrival comes after four years in which conservative Christianity has reigned in America’s highest halls of power, embodied in white evangelicals laser-focused on ending abortion and guarding against what they saw as encroachments on their freedoms. Their devotion to former President Donald J. Trump was so fervent that many showed up in Washington on Jan. 6 to protest the election results.

    Mr. Biden’s leadership is a repudiation of the claim by many conservative leaders that Democrats are inherently anti-Christian.

    His rise comes as fewer registered Democrats identify as Christian. Nearly half are religiously unaffiliated or believers of other faiths, a share that has grown significantly in recent years, according to the Pew Research Center; about 80 percent of registered Republicans are Christian.

    Yet the current influence of liberal Christianity in the Democratic Party goes beyond Mr. Biden. Senator Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, won election with a campaign rooted in Black liberation theology. The Sunday after his election, Mr. Warnock preached about John the Baptist, the “truth-telling troublemaker,” he said, who was beheaded by King Herod for his prophetic witness.

    Representative Cori Bush, a pastor who led Kingdom Embassy International in St. Louis, has started her tenure in Congress advocating universal basic income. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez connects her Catholic faith with her push for reforming health care and environmental policy. She has said her favorite Bible story is one where Jesus, in anger, threw money changers out of the temple.
    In his inaugural address, Mr. Biden rooted himself and the country in a Christian moral vision that makes room for a pluralistic society, unlike his predecessor who promised to make America a certain kind of Christian nation. Mr. Biden quoted Augustine, “a saint in my church,” he said, who wrote that “a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.”

    Augustine, the fourth-century North African bishop, recognized that no political community was going to be the city of God on earth, explained Eric Gregory, professor of religion at Princeton University. This passage, from the saint’s “City of God,” has been used in the 20th century “to open up the space for a nontheocratic way for Christians to understand what it means to be citizens in a plural society,” he said.

    For Mr. Biden, “it was a subtle and explicit effort to show a different vision of a way in which a Christian could imagine themselves as part of a diverse America, one that is defined by these common objects of love, rather than by hate and fear or exclusion,” he said.
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    While conservative Catholics have doubled down on abortion policy and religious freedom for the past four years, Mr. Biden’s policy priorities reflect those of Pope Francis, who has sought to turn the church’s attention from sexual politics to issues like environmental protection, poverty and migration.

    On his first day in office, Mr. Biden recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, the international accord designed to avert global warming; ended the ban on travel from predominantly Muslim and African countries; and stopped construction on the border wall.

    Mr. Biden’s support for abortion rights is already causing tension in the Catholic church. Even before the inaugural ceremony had finished, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued an extensive statement criticizing Mr. Biden for policies “that would advance moral evils,” especially “in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender.” Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, who is known for his alignment with Pope Francis’ social and economic priorities, pushed back on Twitter, calling the statement unprecedented and “ill-considered.”

    Mr. Biden’s priorities reflect values that progressive faith leaders have pushed for, and that motivated many to speak out for him during the campaign, said Derrick Harkins, who led interfaith outreach for the Democratic National Committee this past cycle. There is a sense of moral synergy on the left, among not only progressive Christians but also humanists, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and the spectrum of faith traditions, he said.
    The work now “has a chance of really having traction,” he said. “I’m very optimistic about what can unfold.”

    The grassroots progressive Christian movement is center stage in Mr. Biden’s Washington.

    Unlike four years ago, when many of the participants in the post-inaugural prayer service were conservative evangelicals or prosperity gospel preachers, this year’s Thursday service included a broad array of religious progressives, including two transgender faith leaders. Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR, a Jewish community in Los Angeles, prayed for the coming of a new America, one “built on love, rooted in justice and propelled by our moral imagination.”

    The Rev. William J. Barber II, a chairman of the Poor People’s Campaign, preached and directly challenged Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to pursue a Third Reconstruction, decades after the civil rights era. He urged them to address “interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation/denial of health care, the war economy, and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.”

    Jesus taught that a nation is judged by how it treats the least of these, the poor, the hungry, the sick, the immigrant, he explained in an interview.
    “Birth pangs require one thing: pushing,” he said. “That is what the movement has to do.”

    For many believers, the shift in the Christianity of the presidency is already personal. On the eve of his inauguration, Mr. Biden led the nation in a memorial service on the mall for victims of the coronavirus pandemic.

    He adopted the posture of a chaplain, noted Michelle Ami Reyes, the vice president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative, a group that started last year to combat anti-Asian racism rising from the pandemic.

    “That is a deeply biblical posture,” she said, “mourning with those who mourn.”
    In Biden’s Catholic Faith, an Ascendant Liberal Christianity
     
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    I would say Biden is anti-Christian....look at his policies.
     
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    ~~~~~~~The two Candlesticks~~~~~~~

    The two Candlesticks have a specific function:

    - to bear witness of the Word of God in the last days, mainly in the FIRST HALF of the last week-Daniel 9: v.27 - which is close; or 42 months- 1,260 days- Revelation 11:v.1-4;

    - more precisely to announce the righteous Judgments of God and severe punishments;

    - they have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy(this has nothing to do with H2O): and have power OVER waters -peoples, and nations,and multitudes, and (all) tongues) to turn them to blood, and to SMITE THE EARTH with all plagues, as often as they will. This is a final operation to close the door and close Grace's dispensation.

    JESUS warned: Luke 13:v.24-25
    24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
    25 When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, ...



    Revelation 11:v. 15 and 18
    The kingdoms OF THIS WORLD are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.

    And the nations were (will be) angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged, and that thou should give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth.

    Be careful and get ready
     
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    The kingdom of Antichrist that will be established in this last decade-Daniel 2: v.41-43, will be led and guided by the false messiah that will soon manifest itself-John 5: v.43 an d 2 Thes.2: v.3-4 -.

    The main ally of the false messiah is the Sea Beast that has 7 heads for the time being or at this moment, -    Revelation 13: v.1-. Through the false messiah, 10 kings (symbolized by the 10 fingers of clay mixed with iron on the feet of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar-Daniel 2:v.41-43), will be attached to the Beast of sea. As it is revealed, one of the 7 heads of the Beast of sea will be mortally wounded-Revelation 13:v.3- (this seems to be a violent decay in the power of the Sea Beast), but this "wound" will be healed by the false messiah, he will give to the MAN Beast of the Sea, his throne, and his power and great Authority-Revelation 13:v.2.

    And they -the world- worshipped the Dragon -the false messiah-which gave(will give) power unto the Beast: and they worshipped(will worship) the Beast, saying, Who is like unto the Beast?     who is able to make War with him? Revelation 13:v.4

    The battle is as door. Revelation 16: v.13-16
     
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    Does he hold to the true Jesus and the true Gospel?
     
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    What do you think?
     
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    Would say that the evidence shown would be a no!
     
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    Joe Biden is the Shepard to Cultural Catholics. The root of cultural Catholics’ political consequence lies in their progressivism. They reject traditional thinking about family structure and sexuality. Most would also support seismic changes in Church teachings and policies. It will not happen.
     
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    As it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded, but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained FIRE and brimstone from heaven(heaven?Ephesians 1:v.3), and destroyed them all. Thus it is in this Day -the Lord's Day- in which the Son of man is revealed. (is manifested though be invisible still. The everlasting Spirit of God is a devouring FIRE)-

    What will happen from now on is already determined by the Most High and Almighty God.

    The two witnesses have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy(this has nothing to do with H2O): and have power OVER waters -peoples, and nations,and multitudes, and (all) tongues) to turn them to blood, and to SMITE THE EARTH with all plagues, as often as they will. This is a final operation to close the door and close Grace's dispensation.

    JESUS warned: Luke 13:v.24-25
    24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
    25 When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, ...

    The Word is God.
     
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    ~~~~~~~THE LAST DECADE - COUNTDOWN~~~~~~~

    02-07-2021 is the THIRTY EIGHT DAY of the LAST DECADE of the world of Devil.

    The LAST WEEK - Daniel 9;v.27 - is within of this LAST DECADE.

    Be careful and get ready


    The END of the World is at door, but it is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

    G7, and G20, and EU, and UNO, among others Entities, will be DISSOLVED henceforward. Day after day, the happenings of the World will run in this way.

    The heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word were kept in store, reserved unto FIRE against THIS DAY OF JUDGMENT and perdition of ungodly men.

    Seeing then that all these things shall be DISSOLVED, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of God - this Lord's Day - , wherein the heavens being on FIRE shall be DISSOLVED - it is not material or physical fire -, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

    Nevertheless the God's people, according to His promise, look for New Heavens - that is the Kingdom of God - Revelation 11:v.15-18 - the third Heaven, that is the next Heaven-Luke 20:v.35-36- and a new earth -that is a New Israel, the spiritual Israel wherein dwells righteousness (very very different of the present Israel dominated by the red Dragon full of idolatry, actually Sodom and Egypt). Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, BE DILIGENT that you may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

    1John 2:v.28 - And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, all may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

    In Christ JESUS, KING of kings(kings made by Him) and LORD of lords
    Your fellow in Christ
    Oseas
     
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    Biden is a pseudo-Catholic.

    Proof?

    His pro-abortion stance !

    No DEVOUT RC is pro-abortion, nor even pro-birth control ! supportive of perverts, etc.
     
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    The kingdom of Antichrist that will be established in this last decade-Daniel 2: v.41-43, will be led and guided by the false messiah that will soon manifest itself-John 5: v.43 and 2 Thess. 2: v.3-4 and Revelation 13:v.11-18.

    The main ally of the false messiah is and will be the Sea Beast that has 7 heads for the time being or at this moment, -Revelation 13: v.1-. Through the false messiah, 10 kings will be attached to the Beast of sea, symbolized by the 10 TOES of clay mixed with iron on the feet of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar-Daniel 2:v.41-43 and Isaiah 64:v.8. As it is revealed, one of the 7 heads of the Beast of sea will be mortally wounded-Revelation 13:v.3- (this seems to be a violent decay in the power of the Sea Beast), but this "wound" will be healed by the false messiah, he will give to the MAN Beast of the Sea, his throne, and his power and great Authority-Revelation 13:v.2.

    And they -the world- worshipped(will worship) the Dragon -the false messiah-which gave(will give) power unto the Beast: and they worshipped(will worship) the Beast, saying, Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make War with him? Revelation 13:v.4

    The battle is as door. Revelation 16: v.13-16
     
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    He is the shepherd over those who accept killing babies is right!
     
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    Nailed it!
     
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    Is the current Pope a real catholic, based upon his liberal stances?
     
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    The pope is not changing a single doctrine of Catholic Faith. In fact, he did not even change a single law of the Church, notwithstanding all of the accusations to the contrary.
     
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    So blessing same sex unions would be a Catholic thing?
     
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    No, the Catholic Church could never approve or otherwise support “same-sex” marriage, nor could a priest validly bless such a couple as a couple, irrespective of whether the pair had gone through a civil ceremony of some sort.

    However, there are plenty of Protestant denominations which are not only blessing same-sex unions but performing same-sex marriages. I predict the United Methodist Church will be the next to lose it's theological moorings and finally have the votes to override the African delegates votes against performing SS weddings. American Baptists are probably in route to do the same.
     
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    The Pope seems to be suggesting can bless now their civil unions!
     
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