If there is any thing worthy of praise... think on this.

On visiting Belfast Martyr's Memorial complex the visitor gets to seeing captions with brief comments under numerous paintings, photographs and busts representing martyrs, reformers, preachers, biblical commentators, missionaries or evangelists of renown. A vivid history lesson.

Yet, never in any of that church's services iconography is preached, exalted or observed, contrarily it is dissuaded.
Where the true gospel is preached there is no chance of confusing things. Attenders know well the purpose and difference of culture derived and entrail in the true gospel from false iconography.

Know and use judgement aright, please.

The memory of the just is blessed

Anonymous believer wrote:
Jim Lincoln wrote:
“Through the years, it has been just as wrong for liberals to drag religion into politics as it is for the present day conservatives to do it-- but I assume that that will not stop either group from doing that. “
Any questions?

The command forbidding images comes related to worship, say it forbids the bowing down to them.

You fabricate another strawman about honour.
To honour includes to hold in especial esteem for their significance under God, even in retrospect, but does not include adoration, veneration or devotion.

'love the brethren', or 'esteem those that labour among you and hold them in high esteem' are guidelines that include honour and are far away from worship which is what you fear.

To honour should not be confused with man made exaltation.

John UK wrote:
Greetings Wayfarer Pilgrim. As an observer of American customs, it seems to me that when Americans pull down a statue of a foreign dictator in a foreign land, it raises a cheer and a big Yee Ha. But when Americans pull down a statue of a fellow American, in America, it gets a cheer from some and disdain from others.
Yes, I'm just saying that I have noticed this, and it is very much a matter of opinion as to how to define "lawless".
I always thought it was "lawless" to raise a statue, anywhere, anytime.
For example, would you justify as Christian the "Reformation Wall" in Geneva?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation_Wall

WayneR wrote:
'The sexual revolution: The triumph of the state upon the ruins of the family-the counter revolutionary biblical blueprint' C J Williams
The above book ... highly recommended by Peter Masters- Metropolitan Tabernacle Bookshop in the '90's ... Hard to find ...
It reads like it was written yesterday

We republished one of Mr Williams' pamphlets, 'The necessity of Christian Education' 15 or 20 years ago, in which he elaborates on the same topics, only to be dismissed by some leading evangelicals in NI as a 'reconstructist', and that was enough to set it aside.

Other warning works have been recently published, but they have also been dismissed as irrelevant.
One wonders if the church is passed understanding.

"... Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, ...
But *yet in it shall be a tenth*, and it shall return,
... as a teil tree, and as an oak,
whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves:
*so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof*"

In short, we might arrive to similar conclusions about the staging of pandemics and vaccinations, etc, in regard to global agendas, but from different routes.

The classic germ theory is been missused with false implementations, unethical aims, mal practice, political agendas, financial gain and evil designs. Surely we are all aware of genetic ingeniering, biological weapons of mass destruction, etc.
Yet to rely on a theory that denies germ transmission is ridiculous as even the Bible does not support it.
Have you not heard of the isolation lepers were subject to in the levitical law and in the times of Christ?

Sorry but on analysing theories or propositions my professional background helps where possible to arrive to personal understanding rather than totally relying or parting from specific studies or links to the respect.

Many drugs, not only hydroquinone, including antidepressants, have *serious* side effects as mental issues including suicidal indentation, besides other serious side effects as kidney failure, blindness or heart failure.
When mentioning 'average' meant *common* side effects of not such magnitude as light skin decoloration.
A good number of individuals have tolerated hydroquinone with lesser side effects which balanced positively against the ills of HIV or malaria for instance. Quite sorry to hear about your wife, where medical advice missed best practice perhaps.

In situ germ cultures give basic guidelines. However it is true that every metabolism can present a personal blue print reaction demonstrating individuality as it were, though generalisations might have a scope also upon which predictions can be forecasted after repeating the experiment with obvious satisfactory outcomes.

All drugs have a level of toxicity.
If the patient happens not to tolerate them and the risks are higher than the benefits, the proper course is to stop the intake.

Sorry, but your written communication seems disconnected and your topic sequence lacks coherence to follow your intend making dialogue quite difficult .

Watchmanremo wrote:
Not sure where you are quoting. Viruses live with you not out of you. EXOSOMES.. we need to pass on bacteria one to another yes. But germ theory has never been proven. Never. And keep away from hydroxychloroquine its a trap...

Sorry, have you ever worked in a lab handling and preparing actual germ cultures or simply are you repeating what you have heard from theorists?

There are partial truths and partial lies being sustained and this is the danger of people parrotting theories without full knowledge and understanding.

It takes more than a hearing to perceive the measure of truth in a theory, especially if it contradicts studies that have passed the test of time and are consistent with the scientific method, say, repeating an experiment consistently always brings out the same result.

Hydroxychloroquine has been in the market for long years with average side effects, but is suddenly given a bad press.

Biochemistry is an amazing science to study. For instance, there are protein-like molecules called enzymes that are needed to be 'present' at certain settings for a particular chemical reaction to occur without themselves being affected or involved.
These often circulate in fluid materials as what it seems random 'by-products' of other metabolic reactions, yet they turn up in situ when needed for that particular chemistry to take place.
Who guides this seemingly 'inert' particles of matter to such positions? They are not 'alive' yet they turn up to the needed place to be useful, doing their 'passive' job.
If we did not believe in life being sustained by the Giver of life, (Col.1) all this would not have an explanation.

There is much that is not actually known, sometimes there are guesses or assumptions, so in the matter of viruses, yet we know that their genomes are being twick in labs to enhance certain characteristics.

"Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me;
the new moons and sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies,
I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them."

Watchmanremo wrote:
Where can a VIRUS be found
https://youtu.be/MtWYQS3LFlE

"... he (God only) *changes the times and the seasons*:
he removes kings, and sets up kings:
he gives wisdom unto the wise,
and knowledge to them that know understanding"

And along this, patterns of conduct, trust, and ethics are also provided as here:

"Strive not with a man without cause,
if he have done thee no harm.

Envy thou not the oppressor,
and choose none of his ways.

For the froward is abomination to the LORD:
but his secret is with the righteous.

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked:
but he bless the habitation of the just.

Surely he scorns the scorners:
but he gives grace unto the lowly.

The wise shall inherit glory:
but shame shall be the promotion of fools."

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Jim Lincoln wrote:
excerpt from,"Professor Elizabeth Bartholet's Call for a Presumptive Ban on Homeschooling"