Posted on 10/25/2015 6:55:01 PM PDT by markomalley
The next statement was rather clumsily stated, and I did not want to mislead you or create a mistaken impression here for others to read.
I don’t support Carson as a Seventh-Day Adventist, just to show how much I buy into that being an important aspect of him.
I meant this to convey that I would not vote for or against Carson based on his religion. If he's a good practicing SDA, I would consider him a man of high moral fiber.
This just isn't the be all end all for me.
As stated, there are aspects of Trumps work experience that I think could help this nation very much over the next four years.
He has a list of very heavy-weight guys that are willing to come work for the nation for no remuneration. Think about that. We'd get a top level economic team devoted to getting this nation back on track, for no salaries.
Trump isn't going to take one either.
I don't care who you are, that is an impressive thought.
Trump is right. It’s much better to worship one’s self.
It worked for Obama, Trump’s 2009 idol.
But every Lord's day Lord's day Lord's day [kata kuriak·n de kuriou] gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, says the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations. (Didache, chap. 14)and Justin Martyr, first apology, chapter 67
And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things, Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying, Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And those who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows, and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds, and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world, and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn [Saturday]; and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them those things, which we have submitted for your consideration.1
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