God's words have and will always stand the test of time. No man can disprove them, nor will they ever.

God did, Richard, when He told Abraham, He would make of him, and Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's descendant's after him, a great nation. i.e., Eretz Yisrael/Israel.

It is, oh, so simple, and, oh, so very profound, as exemplified by two little verses.(Acts 7:2-3)

Uh, Marty, Would that be God the H.S., who received it from J.C., the Son of God, who originally received it from GTF, God the Father?

Context is everything.

Romans 10:17 is a verse that explains how faith comes from hearing the message of the Gospel, the word of God the Father through Christ, via the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit; The verse is part of a longer passage that discusses the role of preachers, ministers, and apostles in spreading the Gospel.

Romans 10:18 "But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

The Order of Resurrection 1st Corinthians 15:32-34
"If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain?
If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God.
I say this to your shame."

Well, I would look upon that as a bonafide challenge, Marty.

There are two Greek words meaning "word" in the New Testament.

1) Logos
2) Rhema

There are two primary Greek words that describe Scripture which are translated word in the New Testament. The first, "logos," refers principally to the total inspired Word of God and to Jesus, Who is the living Logos.

Logos means in classical Greek both "reason" and "word." The translation "thought" for the Greek term, indicates the faculty of reason, when the word is inwardly conceived in the mind, as well as the word then outwardly expressed through the vehicle of language.

Biblical Examples of Logos

The following passages of Scripture give examples of the logos of God: •“In the beginning was the Word [logos], and the Word [logos] was with God, and the Word [logos] was God” (John 1:1). •“The seed is the word [logos] of God” (Luke 8:11). •“Holding forth the word [logos] of life” (Philippians 2:16). •“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word [logos] of truth” (II Timothy 2:15). •“For the word [logos] of God is quick, and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12). •“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word [logos] of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (I Peter 1:23).

The two ideas thought and speech, are indubitably blended in the term "logos," and in every employment of the word, in philosophy and Scripture, both concepts of thought and its outward expression are closely connected.


Rhema—The Spoken Word

The second primary Greek word that describes Scripture is rhema, which refers to a word that is spoken and means “an utterance.”

"Rhema" means "utterance," the act of speaking or otherwise communicating the conceived word.

Those we should avoid are not the unsaved sinners, but those who falsely present themselves as the most godly of the redeemed, and worm themselves into leadership positions, although they produce no fruit.

2nd Timothy 3:5:
"They will act religious, but they will reject the [spiritual] power [of the Holy Spirit] that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!"

These are the false religious leaders whose only joy was in ruling over other men, those whom Jesus rejected as ungodly men who deliberately projected a false pious external image to maintain their religious authority. Jesus called them "white washed sepulchers with dead men's bones inside;"

Matthew 23:27 -
"Woe to you, teachers of the law, Scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Jesus never rejected humble sinners.

Rest for the Weary Matthew 11:28-30

28 "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

(Also read Luke 10:21–24)

As Noah's descendants gradually fell away from their belief and worship of their Creator God, preferring to build themselves idols in their own images, they wrote down their perverted, reimagined versions of the truth they had once retained from Noah.

Because every word of the Bible was freshly inspired by the Holy Spirit, to God's chosen prophets, and later to the Apostles, it does not matter when the lies of Satan were written. They cannot compete in the mind of those who ask God for the wisdom to know the truth... (James 1:5-6, 4:8)

Because the word of God is supernaturally applied to the mind and to the heart of the sincere seeker after God.

You are, therefore, arguing a moot point.

As to how long this will continue, I believe God nailed it when speaking of the descendants of Ishmail = all Arabs, and by their spiritual motivation, all muslims:

Genesis 16:12 "He shall be a wild ass of a man, with his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him, fierce and untamed, and unsettled in his habitation; or as that creature is (Job 39:5,8; Jeremiah 2:24; Hosea 8:9), living in deserts and mountains, warlike and violent, exercising himself continually in oppressing men, and he shall live at odds with all his kin/brethren." [Muhammad, founder of Islam, claimed descendancy from Ishmail.]

IMHO, the truthfulness of God's Word needs no backing up from secular sources, although, historically, of course, those who have chosen to adhere to worldly standards, have always and will always choose so to believe.

Nor could I ever regard the word of God as merely "religious evidence," because Jesus made it clear that all those who choose to so disregard it, make themselves subject to its judgment. God's words are truth, light and life.

Jesus said, "Whoever rejects Me and refuses to accept My teachings, has one who judges him; the very word that I spoke will judge and condemn him on the last day." John 12:48

God, speaking through the prophet Nehemiah, in the 5th century Before Christ, specifically told the spokesmen of the Iranians, the Arabs and the Jordanians they had no part in Jerusalem. That is no less true today than it was then.

"But when Sanballat the Horonite [1st Persian Empire/Iran], Tobiah the Ammonite [Jordan] official, and Geshem the Arab [Arabia] heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?
"In reply to them, I said, "The God of heaven has appointed us for His purpose and will give us success; therefore we His servants will arise and build, But as far as you're concerned, there exists no ancestral heritage, no legal right, nor any historic claim in Jerusalem." (Nehemiah 2:19-20)

In even the most "humane" wars, armies are trained to kill people and smash things. Israel is fighting for its survival against an inhumane opponent, who is possessed by the most ancient satanic hatred on earth.

The Jews have proven with videos in recent weeks what the discriminating world has known for years, that Hamas like subterranean reptiles, has headquarters and tunnels and weapons beneath the hospitals, schools and mosques throughout the Gaza strip, with which they war against Israel in the most cruel, brutal and indiscriminate manner.

Before commencing their bombing, followed by their ground invasion of Gaza, the Israeli's repeatedly warned the civilian occupants by dropping leaflets in Arabic by the millions, to vacate the area. Hamas, in many instances, prevented them doing so, willingly facilitating their injuries and deaths as a propaganda tool.

The Bible says that Eretz Yisrael [the land of Israel] has belonged to the Jews as an eternal possession, by God's dictate, for almost 4,000 years, – which Joshua 1st made a physical reality by conquest over 3,000 years ago.

The United States, the British, and the 22 Arab nations can and will debate "Mideast peace plans" ad nauseam, however, nothing can or ever will change this pre-eminent fact: Almighty God gave the land to Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as an eternal possession. No one else is or ever will be entitled to the land. The deed is recorded in the Bible, the most historically accurate supernatural document in history.

In the Book of Genesis, God appeared to Abraham and said: “I will assign this land to your offspring” (Genesis 15:18-21). In this passage, God made an unconditional covenant – contract – with Abraham. Throughout the Bible, He repeats over and over that this covenant is eternal and unconditional, and that He alone will perform it. Nothing is contingent upon the Jewish people, or required of them.

The medieval scholar and Bible commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) asked: “Why, if the Torah is a book of laws for the Jewish people, does it begin with the history of creation and the lives of our Jewish forefathers?”

Rashi’s answer foretold that there would come a time when nations would claim the Jews “stole the Land of Israel,” and that the land belongs to others and not to them.

Rashi further explains that the Bible in Genesis begins first with the story of creation to establish that all the world belongs to God, and that He alone has the right to apportion it. Again and again, in the subsequent historical stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses, God promised the land of Israel to the nation of Israel.

God, in the Bible, makes it clear that the land of Israel would not be given to the descendants of Abraham’s son, Ishmael, by the Egyptian, Hagar, but rather to Isaac, the son of promise. In Genesis 17:19, God tells Abraham: “Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will maintain My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring to come.”

In 17:20-21 God promises to bless Ishmael, the ancestor of the Muslims, and use him to create a great nation, but His covenant to Abraham, which again prominently included the specific promise of the specific land, was to be accomplished through Isaac, not Ishmael, removing any ambiguity whatsoever.

When people of faith read the Bible, they understand the intrinsic, unbreakable connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. There are over 1,000 verses in the Hebrew Bible connecting the Jewish people with the land of Israel.

Anyone who questions God also questions the historical veracity of the Bible, by incorrectly assuming that in a proverbial game of "telephone," it was altered over the years.

Extensive techniques have been used by Jewish scribes for centuries to make sure the Bible we hold in our hands today is the most historically accurate document ever produced in the ancient world. Copying scriptures has always been considered a sacred task among the Jews, and therefore literally thousands of quality-control methods were locked into place to ensure reliability.

For instance, the Torah must be written by hand by a scribe, one letter at a time. This process means writing a Torah can take more than three years. And, upon completion, the document is once again checked for accuracy before it can be used.

Further, massive accumulative archeological evidence supports the belief that Israel has been in its land for as long as the Bible recounts and that the words of scripture are all historically true.

Every archaeological dig in Israel supports the truth that Jews have had a presence in Israel for thousands of years. Jewish and non-Jewish archaeologists have found coins, pottery and literally complete buried cities that document the Jewish presence in Israel predating any shrill claims that other people now in the region make.

It is well known and indisputable that the Jews had a presence in the land of Israel until the Romans conquered it. and that they were forcibly expelled from the land during two dispersions, in the years 70 A.D. and 135 A.D..

The Ottoman Turks had control until World War I when they fought against the British on Germany’s side. The British sent troops against the Turks in the Holy Land under the leadership of Bible-believing Christian General Edmund Allenby.

In 1917, Allenby captured Beersheba from the Ottoman Empire, bringing himself within striking distance of Jerusalem, intending to deliver the city as a Christmas present to the British people. The night before the attack against Jerusalem, Allenby prayed that God would allow him to capture the city without damaging its holy sites.

On that day, Allenby sent World War I biplanes over Jerusalem on a reconnaissance mission. The Turks had never before seen airplanes and when they looked into the sky, they did not know what they seeing, and were terrified.

Further, they were told they were going to be opposed by a man named Allenby, whose name in their language means “prophet from God.” The Turks dared not fight against a prophet from God, so the next morning, General Allenby captured Jerusalem without firing a shot.

Not taking the religious significance of his role lightly, when Allenby entered the Jaffa Gate on Dec. 11, he dismounted, and entered on foot, as a sign of respect for the holy city, believing the Scriptures that only the Messiah could enter Jerusalem riding upon an animal.

In those short weeks – 40 days to be precise – between the Battle of Beersheba and the capture of Jerusalem – the Balfour Declaration was issued by the British government. It was a short declaration sent from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to prominent British Jew, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

The Balfour Declaration was meant to inform the local inhabitants of Palestine, but most of all, it addressed the Christians of England.

“England more than anything needed a moral case in advance of Allenby’s taking Jerusalem, not for the Jewish conscience but for the Christian one,” explained Barbara Tuchman in her classic book which I have in my library, "Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour."

That moral argument originated in the Bible, for throughout the Bible, the Lord says that Israel belongs to the Jews.

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The one true Triune God of Christianity and Judaism is distinguishable from all the false gods and their elaborate rituals, rites and doctrines that have been foisted upon mankind by evil [fallen] spirits, contributing to and advising the imaginations of deluded, power hungry men.

Because we live on this one planet, Earth, in a man made world system, of which Jesus identified Satan as its "god," with the existence of many little "g" idols/gods with many competing truth claims; the ability to correctly identity the one true God is of vital importance.

Satan, the great master deceiver of men loves religion. By appearing as an angel of light, he has turned himself inside-out in his attempt to emulate a spiritual counterfeit for all of God's authentic works. One of Satan's most effective frauds is to devise a false religion "preaching a counterfeit gospel." If he can fool you into thinking that all is right between you and God, when it is not, the consequences are eternal.

"Gods that are fashioned by the imaginations and hands of men are absolutely worthless (Isaiah 44:9–10), but the one true God of glory is full of grace, mercy, liberating truth and justice" (John 1:14). The Bible speaks of three divine Persons who share the same nature and essence within one Godhead. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three in one (Matthew 3:16–17; 28:19).

The characteristic of the one true God that separates Him from all other gods of monotheistic religions: God is love.

This characteristic of the one true God separates Him from all other gods of monotheistic religions: Islam teaches one singular god (Allah), who is a false god, because Allah is not love, but only self love, since Allah is not triune.

Any concept of God that excludes Jesus Christ is insufficient and has no salvation. As Scripture says, “No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also” (1 John 2:23).

"Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder], that glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land" (Psalm 85:9).

What Are the Attributes of God?


1. SELF-EXISTENT: God has no cause; He does not depend on anything for his continued existence.

I AM WHO I AM (Ex. 3:14; see John 8:58)
Life in Himself (John 5:26)
First and Last, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End; as the Beginning, God has no cause (Isa. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev. 1:8, 17; 2:8; 3:14; 21:6; 22:13)
There is No God before or after Yahweh (Isa. 43:10)

2. TRANSCENDENT: God is entirely distinct from the universe, as separate and apart as the carpenter is distinct from the bench; this excludes pantheism (God in all - All in God) and animism (everything is a god).

Separate from the world (Isa. 66:1-2; Acts 17:24)
Contrasted with the world (Psa. 102:25-27; I John 2:15-17)
Implied by doctrine of creation (Gen. 1:1; Isa. 42:5)

3. IMMANENT: Though transcendent, God is present with and in the world; excluding deism (God is out there but not here).

God is near, so He can be known (Deut. 4:7; Jer. 23:23; Acts 17:27)
Bound up with God’s omnipresence (Psa. 139:7-10; Jer. 23:24; Acts 17:28)

4. IMMUTABLE: God is perfect in that He never changes nor can He change with respect to His being, attributes, purpose, or promises; excluding process theology, Mormon doctrine of eternal progression.

Unchangeable (Psa. 102:26-27; Isa. 51:6; Mal. 3:6; Rom. 1:23; Heb. 1:11-12; James 1:17; Heb. 13:8)
God’s relations with changing men spoken of as God changing (Ex. 32:9-14; Psa. 18:25-27)

5. ETERNAL: God is perfect in that He transcends all time and temporal limitations, and is thus infinite with respect to time.

Duration through endless ages (Ps. 90:2; 93:2; 102:12; Eph. 3:21)
Unlimited by time (Psa. 90:4; 2 Pet. 3:8)
Creator of the ages ( i.e., of time itself; Heb. 1:2; 11:3)
Implied by doctrines of transcendence, self-existence, and immutability

6. OMNIPRESENT: God is perfect in that He transcends all space and spatial limitations, and is thus infinite with respect to space, with His whole Being filling every part of the universe and being present everywhere (not diffused through the universe, but present at each point in His fullness).

The universe cannot contain God (1 Kings 8:27; Isa. 66:1; Acts 7:48-49)
Present everywhere (Psa. 139:7-10; Acts 17:28; of Christ, Matt. 18:20; 28:20)
Fills all things (Jer. 23:23-24; of Christ, Eph. 1:23; 4:10; Col. 3:11)
Implied by doctrine of transcendence

7. OMNIPOTENT: God is perfect in that He can do all things consistent with the perfection of His being. God cannot do the self-contradictory (e.g., make a rock He cannot lift), nor can He do that which is contrary to His perfect nature (e.g., He cannot change, He cannot lie, etc.).

Nothing too difficult (Gen. 18:14; Jer. 32:17, 27; Zech. 8:6; Matt. 3:9)
All things possible (Job 42:2; Psa. 115:3; Matt. 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 1:37; 18:27; Eph. 1:11)
God cannot lie, be tempted, deny Himself, etc. (2 Tim. 2:13; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18; James 1:13)

8. OMNISCIENT: God is perfect in that He knows all things, including events before they happen.

Perfect in knowledge, Job 37:16
Knows the heart (1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chr. 28:9, 17; Psa. 139:1-4; Jer. 17:10a)
Knows all events to come (Isa. 41:22-23; 42:9; 44:7)

9. INCORPOREAL: God has no body or parts, and is immaterial, being a simple and infinite being of spirit; excluding the Mormon doctrine of God as an exalted man.

God is spirit (John 4:24)
God is not a man (Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29)
Implied by doctrines of self-existence, transcendence, omnipresence, and creation.

10. ONE: God is a perfectly unique and simple, yet incredibly complex triune Godhead, existing as one infinite Being called God. There is therefore only one God, who is called Yahweh in the Old Testament, and who reveals Himself in the persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternally three in One in the New Testament; thus excluding polytheism, tritheism (belief in three gods), and subordinationism (in which Christ is a lesser god subordinate to the Almighty God).

Only one God (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10; 44:6, 8; 45:5-7, 21-22; Zech. 14:9; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:5-6; 1 Tim. 2:5; James 2:19)
All other “gods” are incorrectly “so-called,” (1 Cor. 8:4-6; 2 Thess. 2:4)
Moses was “as God,” not God or divine (Ex. 4:16; 7:1)
Satan, idols, and the belly are all false gods (Psa. 96:4-5; 1 Cor. 10:20; 2 Cor. 4:4; Phil. 3:19)
Wicked judges called “gods” in irony, not to describe nature (Psa. 82:1, 6; John 10:34-36)
Yahweh is Elohim (Gen. 2:4; Deut. 4:35, 39; Psa. 100:3 [thus excluding the view of Mormonism that Jehovah and Elohim are distinct beings])
Implied by the doctrines of self-existence, transcendence, and omnipotence

11. CREATOR: God is the One through whom all things have come into existence; by His unbounded power and knowledge He created finite existence ex nihilo and formed the universe as it now is.

Created all things (Gen. 1:1; Psa. 33:6; 102:25; John 1:3; Rom. 11:36; Heb. 1:2; 11:3)
Made all things by Himself (Isa. 44:24)
Implied by doctrine of self-existence

12. PERSONAL: God, as the author of personhood in the created universe, cannot be less than personal Himself; thus He experiences relationships with other persons, or self-conscious beings. Note that God may be more than personal, indeed, His infinite nature suggests that He must be.

Scripture everywhere assumes the personhood of God in the use of personal pronouns, in recording Him speaking and acting willfully, etc. (e.g., Gen. 1:3, 26; Heb. 1:1-2; etc.)
God gives Himself a name (Yahweh), and says “I am” (Exod. 3:14)
Implied by doctrine of creation

13. INCOMPREHENSIBLE: God is incomprehensible, not in the sense that the concept of God is unintelligible, but in the sense that God cannot be fully and directly known by finite creatures, because of His uniqueness and His infinitude.

None like God (Ex. 8:10; 9:14; 15:11; 2 Sam. 7:22; 1 Chr. 17:20; Psa. 86:8; 1 Kgs. 8:23; Isa. 40:18, 25; 44:7; 56:5, 9; Jer. 10:6-7; Micah 7:18)
Analogical language necessary to describe God (Ezek. 1:26-28; Rev. 1:13-16)
God cannot be comprehended as He really is (1 Cor. 8:2-3)
God can only be known as the Son reveals Him (John 1:18; Matt. 11:25-27)

14. MORALLY PERFECT: The following are the moral attributes of God; they are listed here together because God’s moral nature is perfectly unified, with no tension between His wrath and His love, for example.

GOOD: God is morally excellent, and does only good (Gen. 1:31; Deut. 8:16; Psa. 107:8; 118:1; Nahum 1:7; Mark 10:18; Rom. 8:28)
HOLY: God is morally transcendent, utterly separated from all evil, and perfectly pure (Ex. 3:5; Lev. 19:2; Psa. 5:4-6; 99:5; Isa. 6:3; 8:13; Hab. 1:12-13; 1 Pet. 1:14-19)
RIGHTEOUS: God is perfectly moral in all that He does, doing everything right ( Isa. 45:21; Zeph. 3:5; Rom. 3:26)
TRUE: God is perfectly truthful, and cannot lie (John 17:17; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18)
LOVING: God’s moral character is pure love, sacrificial giving for the true benefit of another (Deut. 7:7-8; Jer. 31:3; John 3:16; Heb. 12:6)
WRATHFUL: God’s moral perfection requires Him to show displeasure against anything which seeks to act contrary to its moral purpose, to judge that which rebels against His authority as Creator and Lord (Psa. 103:8-9; Rom. 2:5; 11:22; Heb. 10:31)

Sources utilized "gotquestions.com," Christian Research Institute, equip.org, and O Bible.org
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If your religion or denomination tolerates immorality, it is a false religion. James said, "Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world" (James 1:27).
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"Religious truth is found in the Word of God known as the Holy Bible. Any religious group teaching doctrines or beliefs that deviate from truth can be defined as a cult. False religions or cults either distort truth or focus on half-truths. The small amount of truth which they do proclaim to snare souls is often well blended with doctrinal error and therefore dangerous. Cults succeed in deceiving many" (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

"False religion does not hesitate to use force. The Bible teaches that Satan is the god of this world and desires to take all the glory from God, in order to receive the worship that rightfully belongs only to God. We who are believers must stand strong no matter the consequences to exalt the name of Almighty God."

Jesus answering, said to them, "Take heed, lest anyone deceive you." (Matthew 24:4)

Historic, orthodox Islam is and has been since its inception in 622 A.D., an all encompassing threefold system, consisting of a religious-political-cultural ideology - whose end goal is that of subjugating the entire world to itself.

Philip Hitti, (1886 - 1978) was a Lebanese-American professor and scholar at Princeton and Harvard University for fifty years, and the leading authority on Arab and Middle Eastern history, Islam, and Semitic languages. One of his books has three parts: Islam as Religion, Islam as State, and Islam as Culture.

Muslims [as well as non-Muslims], however, often appear to fail to comprehend that Islam is more than a "religion," as religion has been typically understood in the West. This is because Muslims operate in obedience to the Qur'anic commandment known as Taqiya or Taqiyya: Hiding one's Islamic beliefs, which has been a feature of Islam since its earliest days, and is acknowledged by Muslims of virtually all persuasions.

The purpose of Taqiya is to serve as a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in order to gain political supremacy over time, as an instinctive method of self-preservation and protection in hostile
(non-believing) environments, - wherever they lack political or militant power.

A related term is Kitmān (lit. "action of covering, dissimulation"), which has a more specific meaning of dissimulation by silence or omission. This is a practice whereby adherents are permitted to conceal their religion when under threat of persecution or compulsion, i.e., literally wherever they are a minority, without political power.

Although the Qur’an is often quoted as saying, "There shall be no compulsion in religion" (2:256), many Qur’anic scholars insist that, within its context, this verse does not imply that non-Muslims are not to be forced to submit to the rule of Islam. Many also teach that this "no compulsion" verse was abrogated (2:106) and is no longer valid, as it was replaced by the later, more numerous verses that say:

"Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and hypocrites and deal rigorously with them." (9:73)
"Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme." (8:39)
"Fight against such of those ... who ... do not embrace the true Faith, until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued." (9:29).

In Muhammad’s day, conquered Jews and Christians (people of the book) who did not convert to Islam were allowed to live only if they paid jizya, a "protection" tax. Pagans were given the choice to convert or die. This was the "peace" offered by 7th century Islam, and is no less so today.

To this day, in every country where Islamic law (Shari’a) is embraced, non-Muslims (as well as women) are treated as second-class citizens. Freedom of religion is forbidden. For a Muslim to "apostatize" means, at the very least: severe harassment, or worse: imprisonment, torture and death.

Islam, is therefore, incompatible with the United States Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution. It is a "religion" and an ideology of deception, cruelty, and ultimately, of death to all who fail to submit and convert to its merciless precepts.

Oh, if the United States can only elect such a leader in 2024!

Geert Wilders, the man often called the Netherlands' answer to Donald Trump, appears to have won the Dutch election after living under police protection for years due to numerous death threats sparked by his strong anti-Islamic views - a religion he correctly describes as "backward."

He has compared the Koran to "Mein Kampf," Hitler's infamous manifesto, and has said he wants to ban mosques and Islamic schools.

The man who has long derided mainstream politics as the preserve of a self-serving elite - is now cast as the most popular leader in a national election.

He celebrated his success in an unassuming bar near the middle of The Hague, watched by the armed police who, for many years, have had to protect him in the face of regular death threats.

Mr Wilders has focused on issues such as housing shortages, the cost of living and access to healthcare, however, and has promised not to break Dutch laws protecting freedom of religion and expression.

He has moved from one safe house to another for nearly two decades but has refused to be silenced.

When he voted this week in The Hague, Mr Wilders was - as usual - flanked by security guards who scanned the room for any threats.

A former Pakistani cricketer was earlier this year accused of offering a €21,000 reward to anybody who killed the politician.

The Netherlands has a substantial Islamic population, however, Mr Wilders has previously said Muslims should only be allowed to stay if they reject Sharia law.

Mr Wilders also wants to ban refugees and retract any apologies for slavery.

"We will have to find ways to live up to the hopes of our voters, to put the Dutch back as number one," he said as his election success became clear on Wednesday.

He said "the Netherlands will be returned to the Dutch, the asylum tsunami and migration will be curbed."

SkyNews

Geert Wilders has been called the Netherlands' answer to Donald Trump

Padremike, it is no reflection on Jesus Christ, no reflection on the Bible, no reflection on our Almighty Triune Godhead, -

just reaffirmation that God has given every man the free will to choose, and just as in the church congregation in Corinth in the 1st century (the ekklesia), there will always be Christians who make carnal decisions that, unfortunately, bring no glory to God.

The word “carnal” is translated from the Greek word sarkikos, which literally means “fleshly.” This descriptive word is seen in the context of Christians in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3. In this passage, the apostle Paul is addressing the readers as “brethren,” a term he uses almost exclusively to refer to other Christians; he then goes on to describe them as “carnal.” Therefore, we can conclude that Christians can be carnal. The Bible is absolutely clear that no one is sinless (1 John 1:8). Every time we sin, we are acting carnally.

Can a Christian, in a time of personal failure and/or rebellion, appear to be carnal? Yes.
Will a true Christian remain carnal? No.

Until we are delivered from our sinful flesh, by natural earthly death, or in the prophesied rapture, there will be outbreaks of carnality. For a genuine believer in Christ, though, these outbreaks of carnality will be the rare exception, not the rule.

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us" (1 John 1:9-10).

According to reuters.com, the DeSantis campaign paid Bob Vander Plaats $95,000.00 [ninety five thousand dollars] for his "endorsement," rendering it meaningless. That, RR, in my opinion, is not a "split," among evangelicals, but rather a betrayal of Christian values!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-iowa-evangelical-backs-desantis-over-trump-in-us-presidential-race/ar-AA1kjIHT

"The DeSantis campaign, a super PAC linked to him and a nonprofit group supporting him together paid $95,000 in recent months to Vander Plaats' organization, the Family Leader, Reuters exclusively reported in August."

Donald John Trump has shown himself to be fearless.

On that one adjective/attribute: "Fearless," all Republicans/Libertarians/Democrats, if honest, must agree.