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Ghost for those who don't know is a faux-Satanic Swedish rock/metal band.

I recently heard some songs from a Swedish...I think they're Swedish...band Sabaton. It was playing at the gym I go to. I liked it enough to lookup some of their songs. Even learned some history of that part of Europe I had never heard. Winged Hussars is a thing!

As I experience God and grow in faith, one of the lessons I continually learn is: God is always working. Seen and unseen. It's God who keeps me alive, sustains me and brings me through the seasons of life.

Thank you for the timely message, and blessings to you Fenris

Truth is treason in an empire of lies. - George Orwell

I don't trust any government or politician to police speech.

Free speech is foundational to the American way of governance.
I vehemently disagree with limiting anyone's speech. I would not limit someone's speech that they would like to limit free speech. That 's the beauty of allowing the speech to happen. The sharing of ideas can sharpen viewpoints allowing citizens to have the opportunity to have a voice beyond just voting.

Howdy and welcome

Hey, Kingfisher!

Only had time to watch a couple of episodes, but so far, I'm impressed, and I don't have any problem with the "imaginative narrative."  Much like has been playing in my head for 50+ years...

The story behind the production and distribution is even more impressive.

I love the crowd funded aspect!

The last 2 episodes of season 1 step up the acting and story telling IMO. There's some scenes that gave me all the feels. Looking forward to which stories season 2 takes us through.

Even before I was Baptist I couldn't dance

My wife threatened that she was going to wear steel toes during our wedding song.

I've studied the subject and found that I feel as if my understanding is grasping at the wind.

Middle knowledge does a tremendous job of filling in the blanks between God's foreknowledge and man's free will. Still, the more I dig into it the more questions I find that arise from it. That doesn't frustrate me though. These questions arise from scriptural truths. If I see these truths as contradictory it's the folly of my understanding. Not God's Word.

C.H. Spurgeon went on to say this about the subject...

That God predestines, and that man is responsible, are two things that few can see. They are believed to be inconsistent and contradictory; but they are not. It is just the fault of our weak judgment. Two truths cannot be contradictory to each other. If, then, I find taught in one place that everything is fore-ordained, that is true; and if I find in another place that man is responsible for all his actions, that is true; and it is my folly that leads me to imagine that two truths can ever contradict each other. These two truths, I do not believe, can ever be welded into one upon any human anvil, but one they shall be in eternity: they are two lines that are so nearly parallel, that the mind that shall pursue them farthest, will never discover that they converge; but they do converge, and they will meet somewhere in eternity, close to the throne of God, whence all truth doth spring.

I don't blindly accept apostolic tradition, and you do. Because of that, you judge.

Let's move on.

Apostolic tradition is usually ascribed to the RCC. I haven't seen anyone in this thread that is apologetic to the RCC. Am I misunderstanding your meaning of apostolic tradition?

You've also brought up judging several times as if it's something  that a believer shouldn't do.

You quoted Luke 6:37 Do not judge...

But, Jesus goes on in Luke 6:42 saying remove the plank from your own eye. He doesn’t stop there. If He did you would be right in saying don’t judge. He say’s to examine your eye for a plank. Take it out then remove the speck. Examine yourself, then examine the other person. With that context He’s teaching us not to judge with a hypocritical judgment.

Jesus also said:
John 7:24 "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

Paul goes on to teach…
1 Corinthians 5:3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Paul then goes on to say…
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened.

As can be seen it’s important to judge any leaven that my reside in the lump, then put it out.

Your beliefs are being judged. I see nothing wrong with that. Your salvation has also been judged. The Bible encourages us to do that. Now if I were to say that you are forever lost and have no chance of salvation that would be a judgment to condemnation that has gone too far.