Acts 2:38, and other links

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• Acts 2:38--Baptism Essential to Salvation? -- “Careful study will demonstrate that Peter does not assert baptism is administered in order to receive forgiveness in Acts 2:38, nor is such a view of the verse consistent with the apostle’s teaching elsewhere in the book of Acts.”
• American Voter Rolls Filled with Errors, Dead Voters, and Duplicate Registrations -- “SAVE collected registration and list maintenance data from 42 states’ registrant files, kept as part of the Help America Vote Act’s mandate regarding statewide voter registration lists.”
• Article 15: On Local Churches and the Sovereignty of God -- “One of the reasons that no other kind of ministry can make up the difference is because Jesus has given these actual, gathered communities genuine authority (Matt. 18:15–22).”
• Calendar Converter -- “This page allows you to interconvert dates in a variety of calendars, both civil and computer-related.”
• Cardinal Burke: Joe Biden is not a Catholic in ‘good standing’, should not receive Communion -- “...a Catholic may not support abortion in any shape or form because it is one of the most grievous sins against human life, and has always been considered to be intrinsically evil.”
• Hate Crime Hoax: Black Teen Painted Own SUV With Anti-Black Lives Matter Messages, Trump Support In Apparent Insurance Fraud Scheme -- “Clifton Eutsey, 18, claimed his BMW X5 was vandalized as part of a hate crime, with the perpetrator writing every message left-wing provocateurs think the Right believes.”
• How two companies sprinted ahead in extraordinary race for a COVID vaccine -- “On Monday, Moderna Inc, a scrappy biotech with nearly $1 billion in research and development backing from the U.S. government, announced what appeared to be its own successful vaccine...”
• Is this election over or not? -- “If you are primarily following this election via cable news, I recommend that you turn to print journalism...cable news is a wasteland of commentary and instant ‘analysis’ which oftentimes ends up being a narrative in search of evidence.”
• Learn Christian Latin, Self-Directed: How I am Doing It -- “Latin is the language of Christendom for over 1,500 years--it is valuable for someone who wants to understand the history of Christianity, to understand the Latin Vulgate and Old Latin Bible translations...”
• ‘More power than traditional media’: Facebook, Twitter policies attacked -- “What I want to try to find out is if you’re not a newspaper at Twitter or Facebook, then why do you have editorial control over the New York Post?”
• No Reason to Fret the Harry Styles Vogue Cover Unless Designed Gender Distinction or a Male and Female Item of Clothing -- “I think that a dress or a skirt on men is still a bridge too far for most men, let alone Christian men, but the defense of that position comes from the Bible.”
• Supreme Court Justice Alito Warns: ‘Religious Liberty Is in Danger of Becoming a Second-Class Right’ -- “It pains me to say this, but in certain quarters, religious liberty has fast become a disfavored right.”
• The Foundations Are Not Destroyed -- “Psalm 2 predicted that all of human history would be characterized by vain imaginations, by nations raging and setting themselves against the rule of God, so when that happens, why are you surprised?”
• ‘Threat To Democracy’: CNN Sounds Alarm Over Conservatives Leaving Twitter, Facebook -- “...CNN reporter Pamela Brown suggested that it was a ‘threat to democracy’ that people were turning away from dominant social media platforms like Facebook and signing up to be on more pro-free speech platforms and sites.”
• Why Covid-19 kills certain patients, especially men, revealed in “breakthrough finding’ -- “‘Why does one 40-year-old get really sick and another one not even need to be admitted?’ asked Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Brown University.”