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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
- By fx77
- The Bear Pit
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Suppressors Best way to clean heavily fouled TBAC can ?
- By Bacarrat
- The Armory
- 131 Replies
Did this to my 338 Gen 2 a couple months back after sending in my Ultra 9 to be cleaned and 30P1 to be recored, CLR soak for 24 hours and pressure washed it. Didn't use the Boretech wand, just a simple pressure washer gun I use to wash my cars with. Did run my borescope down the suppressor and it does get the vast majority of the carbon out, down to the metal.
TBAC cleaned Ultra 9 on the left, Recored 30P1 on the right. It's a huge difference IMO
TBAC cleaned Ultra 9 on the left, Recored 30P1 on the right. It's a huge difference IMO
mid power scope $500-1k
- By Rob01
- Observation & Sighting Devices
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I have a Vortex Strike Eagle 3-18 on my .308 AR and it works great. Good solid optic in that price range. If you like the reticle you can save a couple hundred over the Meopta.
One facet of things going south, most never think of
- By Fig
- Sniper’s Hide Fieldcraft
- 17 Replies
I can summon fire.
Though, I know quite a few people who consider a gas mask essential apocalypse kit.
Though, I know quite a few people who consider a gas mask essential apocalypse kit.
Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)
- By Lawless
- The Bear Pit
- 107702 Replies
When does the correction happen?
Suppressors sig 552 22lr vs gsg-5
- By PhilB
- The Armory
- 24 Replies
Every thread needs pics. Hope the wait was worth it for y'all. 
Finding a wife
- By Fig
- The Bear Pit
- 854 Replies
It's not adultery that has me worked up. Nor would I attend any church that endorses or excuses ANY sin. BUT, to put them in a hiarchy and apply man's societal mores and laws vis a vis the Covenant is wrong. That isn't how God looks at our sin. That isn't how Christ considers our need for salvation. We are filthy and unholy before God to the point that he cannot even look upon us, all of us. NONE ARE GOOD, NO NOT ONE. Once you start to place a hierarchy upon sin you start to buy the stairway. "Well, I'm no Jesus and without sin, but I'm much better than that guy over there!" Wrong. All fall short. None are worthy on their own, and that is exactly how Jesus taught us to regard each other. Man is fallen, and he's not going to get up on his own. So saying that some are better than others is like saying, well that guys legs are broken in thirty places, but that other guy's legs are only broken at the knees. It's not a distinction we are even supposed to make, and if you do you are that much further from understand the necessity for us to not do it through works, and to not try to do it on our own. That no one man's sins are greater than another, and Jesus told many parables to demonstrate just how different God's view of both sin and justice are from our own. If that weren't the case he would not have told us categorically not to cast a stone.
You are reading into the Bible what isn't there. While Paul specifies certain sins are more corrosive and deleterious to the church, he is not placing them in any kind of bad to worst hiarchy specifically, and Christ did not do that AT ALL. In fact, the only thing that actually pissed him off was was blaspheming and apostacy in God's own house. Everything else he pretty much took in stride, and we can speculate on why that is, but I think most theologies think that's pretty obvious.
As for your apostacy (license to sin), of course, but the "why" is even more important than actually "not sinning". Are you not sinning because it is against The Law? There are churches who believe that once you are saved your sinful nature departs and you don't sin, and if you do they say you were never really saved in the first place. This is problematic at all levels. I do not ascribe to that theology AT ALL. No grace. Or, are are you refraining from acting on your sinful thoughts because you love Jesus and no longer want to sin and displease Him? Grace. Putting human law, human politics, and human morality on-top of The Law, and on top of Grace is literally the precursor to a works philosophy. You can't have a works philosophy without that, and you can't have a grace theology with it.
You keep saying that. It isn't Biblical. There ARE NO SMALL sins, and we are fallen and in need of redemption. There are none that are in more or less need of redemption. None that are a little sinful and some that are a lot. There is NO evil or sin in God or Christ. None at all. The test and the mark is absolute purity, and till you understand that it's pass/fail, pure or impure, there is no redemption. The blood covers us and we become white only through faith and love, and before that we are all as black as coal, not shades of gray, and not in degrees.
Ask any pastor and they will tell you that it is a great deal easier to get a bad person to come to Christ than it is one who believes themselves to be good. In fact, that measuring yourself against others and not against perfection (Pride and lack of humility) may be the most impossible obstacle for many "good" people to overcome. You can't use any of man's measuring sticks, only God's, and that one is ridged and unforgiving, and if you fall short you are out. All fall short.
I've said it many times, because I was that guy, and the man who showed my the way probably repeated, "None are good, no not one", to me a thousand times before I actually understood what that meant. There is a ton of mystery, and no one understands completely or completely agrees, and that's ok, but there are big things that Jesus hits you with over and over with, and the need for humility, and understanding how every single person is in dire need of grace is not one of them. That one is clear.
You are right about not accepting sin. But you are wrong that I try to dissociate myself from sinners, because not only am I one, I know that I am no better or worse than they are. I'm just infinitely stronger than they are because I'm not trying to do it off my meager internal power supply. I'm hooked up to a limitless nuclear plant with infinite fuel, and I know it, and I am humbled by it, and I am commanded to try to get them to hook up too, and I'm not going to do that by driving them away or cutting them off. You have to do it sometimes, just as Christ told his apostles to kick the dust off their sandals, but it's a last resort, not a first.
I don't think we completely disagree, and I totally get your point about dating within your church (much less adultery among the married), but I guess it's the inartful way you put it that didn't sound like the tolling of bells to me, but rather more like a clank. Pride is probably the most dangerous and common sin among the faithful, and believing you are without sin, you are just, and you are holy is the most obvious and overt sign of it. Think about Paul in the early letters placing himself just below the Apostles. By his last ones he's chastising the Apostles for refusing to sit with those who don't keep kosher, and he's calling himself "The Chief Sinner". This is the clearest example of Paul growing in his faith, wisdom, and understanding. As all of that grows so too does his humility, and pride becomes less and less of a problem for him. Don't forget, Paul started out a Pharisee believing himself to be holy, just, and higher than all the "ordinary" people. It took him quite a while, even after accepting Grace, to fully get that under control and have the full humility that is required to accept what he really was. It's the same journey we all make, and it is fraught with peril and we must always guard against lest anyone boast.
And that has been the homily for today!
