1. Walk in stubbornly without a mask and threaten and sometimes even assault a store employee for telling them to put on a mask or leave.
2. Come in a with a mask on but the mask will be under their chin.
3. Stand outside and laugh and scorn anyone going into the store with masks.

John Lee wrote:
Thanks Watcher!
1 John 4:7-16 KJV
(7)  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
(8)  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(9)  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
(10)  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(11)  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
(12)  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
(13)  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
(14)  And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
(15)  Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
(16)  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

HerbalMama wrote:
That there is called bait, Watcher, and this gal ain't no fish. Good day to you, sir.

HerbalMama wrote:
We shouldn't have had one in the first place, Abbott.
I am happy that he's not repeating his first mistake. Texans have had enough. Nobody but a few weak minded individuals take this joke seriously.

So my dear friend, five hours away from me, died of...? So one of my wife's acquaintances died of...?

I never saw flu act like this before. I guess, as ignorant and weak-minded as I must be, I should go back to school and learn all that someone like you knows. You must be very smart to disregard all the medical documentation and live life as normal.

BLESSED VIRUS

Why do we look so negatively at providence? Why do we shun the pains of God’s sovereignty? Is a global virus such a bad thing for the believer? Does the isolation, uncertainty, and loneliness that lockdowns bring afford such unbearable things for a true believer?

Jim Lincoln wrote:
excerpt from, "Judge throws out Donald Trump's bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certification"
https://tinyurl.com/yys2g5lf
Bright judge��
Frank, a better question is can a Christian actually support Trump --I would have my doubts. So do many other Christians. at least 20% of white evangelicals don't vote for Trump, and I'm reminding you of that
https://tinyurl.com/y576t94t (Should Christians try to force the kingdom on others?)---No

Colin wrote:
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.
— 1 Timothy 6:17-19
Paul doesn’t rebuke Christians who are rich. It’s a matter of motivation and intention. Who is your master? Mammon or God? I believe I heard it said that JC Penney the founder of the franchise was a Christian and lived on 5% of his earnings. He gave 95% away. I don’t know if it’s true but it’s a beautiful story.

I would love to see a biblically saved Christian in this day and age blessed by God with riches. It just doesn't happen.

Man is guilty of covetousness in many ways, not just wealth. We are guilty of worshiping our rights and freedoms and demanding God defend them for us. Man wakes up every day because God, in His sovereignty decided to give him the breath and life needed to live. Besides this, we have no business demanding anything. Just being alive should be enough for us to thank Him profusely for His grace.

Dr. Tim wrote:
You must be referring to BBC-type broadcasts. I haven’t seen those. Hollywood films have for 80 years or better portrayed preachers as womanizing, slobbering lunatics, and often as murderous and covetous. But either way, as fairies or whoremongers, they are never shown in a favorable light—unless, of course, they happen to be Catholic priests a la Bing Crosby in “Going My Way.� Wow, you don’t suppose the prince of the power of the air is in the cinema industry, do you?
By the way, Watcher, being a Southern redneck, I tiptoe through the turnips, not the tulips. But I do sometimes wear a tux when I feed my goats.

Dr. Tim wrote:
Watcher wrote: “Just because you are raised in a Christian home doesn't make you a Christian any more than being raised in a garage, makes you a car.� Amen, Watcher. There are those who base their hope of eternal life on the fact that they “grew up in the church,� but there are multitudes of mice and cockroaches that grew up in the church, and none of them are saved. The Bible says “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.� It doesn’t say he that speaks in tongues, or he that joins the church, or he that has been baptized, or he that has “always been a Christian� has eternal life, but only HE THAT HATH THE SON. It behooves each and every one of us to ask ourselves, “Do I have the Son?�

Frank wrote:
Amen Watcher, very wise comment.
Thanks for the information! Sounds like the apostate Charismatics/Pentecostals. My mom went to a tent meeting once and they said that anyone who was saved spoke in tongues as a sign. Anyway, she went up front and nothing was happening. Then someone came up to her and told her to just start mumbling and it would come to her.
The above groups either consider you to be not saved or a second class Christian if you haven’t spoken in tongues.
I only attended catholic churches as a child, so I consider myself to have been unchurched. Praise the Lord, I didn't have to unlearn much if anything.

I did grow up in a Catholic household but gravitated to a Pentecostal/Word of Faith background until I was biblically saved and had my eyes opened to it all. Thank God.

Frank wrote:
I think MacArthur was completely wrong about taking the mark of the beast and then being forgiven. And I think he is also on record for saying he doesn’t remember being saved. I think he said that he was raised in a Christian family and he never felt unsaved or something like that.
But, we all draw lines in the sand and drawing lines is a good thing.

1611 wrote:
Macarthur is also on record saying people can take the mark of the beast and still be saved.

Neil wrote:
A list of Masons doesn't prove the assertion. That some of the Founders were members doesn't logically imply their beliefs were wholly derived from it. Besides, many were also church members, like Washington. Why not give that at least as much credit?

Nick wrote:
Hey Watcher, I'm sorry about the way my post came across, I wasn't very polite. I wanted to mention one example of very definite Christian influence on the founding of the USA. You should research the Baptist pastor John Leland, and the powerful influence he had on James Madison and the constitution. I think you would be encouraged.