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I have some chopped up chicken breast meat in the freezer that I want to use for a meal today, it's divided into four portions so I can use another portion on Christmas day with something fancy. I also have some ham. and lots of vegetables. Too many chocolates too, but they will find a home with...
The prophet wrote to obey is better than sacrifice thus making the case that feeling very close to God and praying, singing, and all the other things that can make one feel close to God is less important than obeying God. One is to be a doer of God's word/works and not one who hears without doing.
This is a simple Christmas cool/cold salad.
Cook some kidney beans, some rice (basmati is best, but a well washed long grain will doo very well too), some chopped mushrooms, and some corn and some peas. Let them cool down, (you can cook the rice with Turmeric to make it yellow if you like)...
Occam's razor and the optics of photos containing one large bright object washing out the faint light of other objects make me think that both NASA abd Facebook didn't lie on the matter of a globe shaped Earth. :)
I do not doubt that some Christian feasts fall on the same days as some pagan feasts did in ancient times but I do not see any good reason to assume that the coincidence of days and dates exist BECAUSE Christians were keen to recruit pagans and used the days as the means of facilitating such...
I marked two statements in your post with bold red text because I intend to reply to the claims made in those statements.
The first statement is 1. "The Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word was God" – meaning the Word was with Himself.
The Greek of John 1:1 ends with καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος...