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(Nontrinitarian) Christian Advantage

It might be, that as a (nontrinitarian) Christian, I enjoy the capacity to honor, respect, and revere—without snobby superiority—both my Jewish and my Muslim brethren who, like Christians, worship the God of Abraham.

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Jesus’s Miracles

The miracles which Jesus performed closely track the miracles performed by Old  Testament prophets. Perhaps Jesus’s best-known miracle is his walking on the surface of the Sea of Galilee (Matt 14:25-34; Mark 6:48-53; John 6:19-21). While no other prophet traversed a water obstacle in this precise manner, four prophets reached the other side by moving the water. Moses parted the Red Sea to walk on the seabed (Exodus 14:21-22); Joshua parted the Jordan to cross on the riverbed (Joshua 3:13-17), as did Elijah (2 Kings 3:8), as did Elisha (2 Kings 3:14). Show more ›

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Listen Carefully

I am intellectually disconcerted by statements attributing Donald Trump’s survival to God’s protection. Is God’s power limited (Num 11:23)? Is God’s arm too short (Is 59:1)? Can God prevent death but not a wound? Daniel did not emerge from the lion’s den with scratches and God rescued from the firey furnace “men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them” (Dan 3:27). Show more ›

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Preferential parking for public servants???

In 2021 I posted a Louisiana attorney’s video about traffic stops, consent to search, and reasonable duration. I had stumbled onto that video, but for many years there is such a mountain of video revealing the extremes of police self-entitlment (as one former federal prosecutor and a Texas lawyer continually discuss). Not too long ago I observed this parking sign at a national retailer.
Isn’t this symptomatic of the problem? Police are supposed to be public servants, not special citizens. They already invent parking for their vehicles wherever suits them. Erecting signage for preferential parking validates the sense of entitlement. So I parked in that space because a public servant should be happy to defer to the public!