NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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Fuck off incel.
Dan Gleesak
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you are saying i'm trying to "squirrel out of admitting something" when I am straight up admitting to you that taxes are being spent on it. How is mentioning the percentage not admitting it? Unless I say the percentage is 0, I'm admitting it. jeez dude lol
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VonBonfire
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VonBonfire
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https://www.saintjohnchurch.org/prayer-for-the-dead/
First and foremost, the Orthodox pray for the dead because the Bible tells us to. As members of the Church, the Body of Christ, we are exhorted to pray for one another (James 5:16). Whether we live or die, “we belong to the Lord” (Romans 14:8). For we are “members of His Body, of His flesh and of His bones” (Ephesians 5:30). The Church is “the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God”. As such, she includes “tens of thousands of angels” and “the spirits of righteous people made perfect” as well as those of us alive on earth (Hebrews 12:22-24).
Because of Christ’s resurrection and victory over death, death does not end our membership in the Body of Christ. For neither “death nor life […] will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39). The Orthodox remember that God “is not the God of the dead, but of the living – for all are alive to Him (Luke 20:38). Therefore, we pray for both the living and for the “dead in Christ” (1 Thessalonians 4:16).
The most notable examples of prayer for the dead in Scripture are perhaps Judas Maccabaeus and Saint Paul the Apostle.
Judas Maccabaeus offered sacrifices and prayers for his fallen soldiers with the future resurrection of the dead in mind. As he said: “It is therefore a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, so they may be set loose from their sins” (2 Maccabees 12:39-46). Most Protestant Bibles don’t include this book as part of the canon. However, both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic canons use the Septuagint version of the Old Testament cited by Christ’s apostles in their writings.
Secondly, we have the Apostle Paul, who prays for his departed friend Onesiphorus. As he writes: “May the Lord grant that he find mercy from the Lord” on Judgment Day (2 Timothy 1:16-18). And so the Orthodox do likewise!
Dan Gleesak
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I like that
Thumbpicker
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Well I agree with certain parts of that... Neither death or life will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord... but that refers to Christians. Those who are not Christians and have died are actually separated unfortunately and there's nothing we can do to save them from the God's judgement once their life is over.
I don't agree the Bible tells us to pray for the dead. There are verses to the contrary however.
Yes that other book is in the apocrypha.
I don't agree the Bible tells us to pray for the dead. There are verses to the contrary however.
Yes that other book is in the apocrypha.
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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Go spend some time with your kids for once, instead of trolling the internet 24/7 like a 13 year old.
Dan Gleesak
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Ah there it is again lol.
We are actually chopping green peppers together at the moment btw
Thumbpicker
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Well what he said is a trifle ironic given he's wasting time on the internet himself.
Bad Brain
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VonBonfire
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In the book of Maccabees Judas is praying for soldiers killed in battle.
The apostles, and Christ himself, drew directly from those apocryphal books so though they aren't in the protestant bible, they are included in Catholic and Orthodox bibles. Christ celebrates Hannukah in the NT, a holiday which is found not in OT scripture but in the apocryphal works.
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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And I'm Mother Teresa.
Not a he, and Dan posts here 100x+ a day vs my usual 3-5. Today is unusual.
Dan Gleesak
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yes, and I feel like I have more than sufficiently explained what I meant by that by now. Several times actually. Intuitive Machines is not a NASA program. NASA gave them business as part of a NASA program sure, but I see that as 2 different things. I even went on to say it saved "you" tax dollars because it costs NASA way less money to farm this stuff out than doing it in house. The shit is gonna happen one way or the other dude
Dan Gleesak
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Dan Gleesak
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She’s just “droning” on again
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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I'll best you in any field, including your own. Now go back to pretending like you care about your kids, incel.
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VonBonfire
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At first I thought that was a picture of your arm. I was like, dang, dude has tiny little boy hands for a grown man, lol
Dan Gleesak
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I’ve gotten by just fine with these tiny arms thank you very much
Floyd Eye
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You know what they say about tiny arms.
