I honestly cannot remember if i did this when I was first introduced to TTN lol. So no time like the present, right? I am currently living in NE Indiana near "the border", but grew up in NW Ohio. Also lived in TX for 5 years back in the '90s. We have several options for fellowship within an hour so I am blessed!

My walk started in about 2013. I was a member of a huge evangelical church in Ft Wayne, and did both church and Torah fellowship for a short time. I was a single working mom and soon realized I had to choose since my time and energy were pretty limited. I no longer consider myself single, as an older brother in the faith has me "covered". I'd love to connect with anyone in the "Fort to the Port" corridor between Ft Wayne and Toledo, OH.

On good vs evil, on why Yahovah allows bad things.

When God had formed man as it were His own image, that which was the completion of His workmanship, He breathed wisdom into him alone, so that he might bring all things into subjection to his own authority and government, and make use of all the advantages of the world. And yet He set before him both good and evil things, inasmuch as He gave to him wisdom, the whole nature of which is employed in discerning things evil and good: for no one can choose better things, and know what is good, unless he at the same time knows to reject and avoid the things which are evil. They are both mutually connected with each other, so that, the one being taken away, the other must also be taken away. Therefore, good and evil things being set before it, then at length wisdom discharges its office, and desires the good for usefulness, but rejects the evil for safety.

Therefore, as innumerable good things have been given which it might enjoy, so also have evils, against which it might guard. For if there is no evil, no danger—nothing, in short, which can injure man—all the material of wisdom is taken away, and will be unnecessary for man. For if only good things are placed in sight, what need is there of reflection, of understanding, of knowledge, of reason? since, wherever he shall extend his hand, that is befitting and adapted to nature; so that if any one should wish to place a most exquisite dinner before infants, who as yet have no taste, it is plain that each will desire that to which either impulse, or hunger, or even accident, shall attract them; and whatever they shall take, it will be useful and salutary to them. What injury will it therefore be for them always to remain as they are, and always to be infants and unacquainted with affairs? But if you add a mixture either of bitter things, or things useless, or even poisonous, they are plainly deceived through their ignorance of good and evil, unless wisdom is added to them, by which they may have the rejection of evil things and the choice of good things.

From Lactantius, an early church father from the 3rd-4th century.

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Isaiah 13;19, “And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.” There is a claim that Babylon was destroyed in 539BC, but if that is true, why do we read this in Revelation 18;2. “And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.” Was John’s vision a vision of the past or a vision of the future? Were the parameters for the fulfillment of Isaiah’s statement met in 539BC or should we look more deeply into what the criteria in order to identify for which we should have been watching? Some may want to try and identify 2 separate Babylons, but that is easily countered by how a nation is identified in the Bible. Instead of assuming that the things we have been taught are indisputable facts, maybe we need to examine these things more closely and include all of the scripture associated with the events. Forensically tracing every clue we haven scripture until there is no doubt one way or the other.

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