Here is a tip: The "News Feed" has a drop down arrow. It will let you choose between viewing only those people/pages/groups that you follow or ALL public-facing posts. Remember to set your privacy settings per post. Private group posts won't display in the SHOW ALL posts feed, but public groups will have their posts displayed. I will probably prevent that at my first available opportunity, but I'm not there yet.

With a straight face, a person will say: "Who are you to say what truth is? What is true for you may not be true for me."

You can see how such a confused mindset would undermine evangelism.

The Bible teaches that Jesus is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" and that there is no way to the Father except through Jesus Christ. Be very careful to note that it doesn't say that this proposition is true for some people and not for others or that it is only true for those who want to believe it.

That statement is either absolutely true in reality or not, but its truth does not depend on whether we believe it or we don't believe it.

But there can be no question that this kind of fuzzy thinking presents enormous hurdles for the evangelist who is seeking to spread the good news.

If he is approaching someone who doesn't even accept the idea of truth, it is obviously going to be more difficult to convince that person of the gravity of the matters under discussion.

In short, this type of postmodern thinking has led to intellectual and moral chaos that has undermined our society and our efforts to communicate the Gospel's message. —David Limbaugh (from, Beware of the Perfect Storm)

Via Michael Heiser

You should read your Bible.

That’s axiomatic for Christians, and I’d dispense that piece of advice to anyone.

But reading the Bible is not where our engagement with the Bible ends. It’s where it begins.

You need to go beyond reading the Bible to a serious study of the Bible.

The first step is to realize there’s a significant difference between reading and studying.

Reading is casual, something done for pleasure. The motivation is personal gratification or enrichment, not mastery of the content. Bible reading has as its aim private delight or personal application for our lives and relationship with God. Bible reading is inherently devotional and low maintenance.

Bible study, on the other hand, involves concentration and exertion. We have an intuitive sense that the study requires some sort of method or technique and probably certain types of tools or aids.

Scenarios.

Everything is possible.

China could have staged their coronavirus outbreak last January in order to weaken the world (since we know the rona was circulating elsewhere in mid 2019, we have to ask why it suddenly exploded when it did--just as Trump was signing the China trade deal). We might learn this definitively.

With Trump out of the way, and the compromised Harris administration in place, China might finally make its move on Hong Kong and Taiwan. Pres. Harris will want to do nothing, but political pressure might force action.

Either of these two options could lead to war.

Civil disturbances could escalate such that Harris invites foreign troops (likely from China) to help establish peace. The 100 day lock down, the outrageous gun taxes, the packing of the court, etc, are all things that could escalate things well out of control (from our perspective).

We can't underestimate the influence that China has in the US, in both parties, but especially the Democrat parties. China will obtain by subterfuge if it can, but it is not above violence, either. If Pres. Harris simply delivers the goods to China, why should China resort to violence? This has already been a winning strategy for China (until Trump).

Most of the other scenarios we find in dystopians are possible, as well. The technology to 'chip' people absolutely exists. The impulse to make vaccination compulsory is deep. The view that Christians, and white people in general, are racist bigots who should be drummed out of polite society is wide spread.

One of the reasons I've been 'worried' is... well, let me put it this way. I have believed for years that many of the things people dismiss as absurdly impossible are, actually, on the table. But more recently, many of the things on the table have moved sharply towards the edges of the table. For every action there is a reaction. The prepper community understands that it isn't just the action where the dangers lie, but in how people respond. As things move to the 'edge of the table' more and more people become aware of this fact, and various responses occur, and the unknowns multiply.

There is plenty enough kindling. People are tossing accelerants on left and right.
It only takes a spark.