Christopher, a homeless preacher of Jesus Christ. I've eaten the Bible and now I know things. God is love and His Son is life. Choose love. Choose life.
Plain reading is to humble yourself in God's sight, putting aside all argumentation, vain imagination and philosophies of men, honestly seeking the coherence of the truth by sound exegesis, knowing context and intent by studying all of scripture. I preach the
#plainreading
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A test to know if you're reading the Bible plainly: Would your understanding be coherent to the apostles?
The apostles would be baffled by the Trinity. Or perhaps they'd recognize it as Greek philosophy. Either way, it wouldn't fly. And they wouldn't submit to Roman councils.
@DaMadMattster
And yet, their free will remains. If they remain in their selfishness, they will perish along with all the rest.
You really want to give a certain ethnic group a pass, but that ain't gonna happen. You preach a false hope to those with a stiff neck, which is wicked.
@aronaya
@UglyMargarita
@ZenshuJohn
@sandofsky
Nope. I spent a few months integrating legacy COBOL systems with an enterprise messaging bus for a very large insurance company, and the COBOL (and mainframes) are staying.
The Bible describes how God equips and empowers Christian men to fight against evil, and evil will flee in every case EXCEPT ONE: Sexual temptation.
In the case of sexual temptation, men, do not attempt to fight, but instead FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE.
Dead serious here. Quit porn.
@IOHK_Charles
@BillyM2k
Not that adversarial is always bad. I have a project on the back-burner for migrating NFTs from Ethereum to Cardano, by playing a game using Diplomacy mechanics. The NFT on Ethereum gets permanently locked up and associated with multiple value-added cNFTs after migration.
Hey
@book_io
,
@ada_bookworm
and other book friends,
Sorry if I missed it, but does your roadmap include printing and shipping of books with 1/1 covers and/or artwork inside? Custom typesetting options would be rad. I'd buy books this way. I'd want to publish this way too.
@DougTenNapel
They're culpable, and they shall receive forgiveness if they repent and believe in Jesus Christ. We're called to love and pray for our enemies, and yet not to be friends with them, which would be enmity against God.
Can I get an amen?
@haymes_joshua
"Men ought to learn how to cultivate particularly masculine glory."
Cultivating glory for yourself. No.
Do all for the glory of God. You must decrease because Christ must increase. God's strength is made perfect in your weakness. Show His image, not your body image.
I had all the same books. Bezos had the same books. A guy named Ray Kurzweil had all the same books. He's the main guy on transhumanism. I read his book The Singularity is Near when I was still an atheist. It's appalling, and Bill Gates has a blurb on the back gushing about it.
@engineers_feed
The earth is a proving ground. The people there are being tested to see if they're worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven, or not. This is not a matter of doing good works, but of loving God more than themselves. Love enduring, even when facing trials and tribulations. That's faith.
@_Lanette_R1
Yes.
But "Oh my God!" has its place. For instance, when I see a striking sunset, or a magnificent creature, I sometimes say that intentionally to acknowledge the Creator of all. No vain speech there.
"Arise, let us go hence."
Jesus didn't call anyone to go to church. He called His church to go with Him.
The Walking Church is coming to the street, beach, hiking path and public square. It's the church walking in the open air, in faith and obedience, making a joyful sound.
@_Lanette_R1
@MalcangiSarah
God actually said those dudes are gods, and that they'd die as men because they weren't judging righteously over their domain, for the oppressed, the widow, the orphan, the refugee. They were failed gods, charged by God to have dominion and to judge righteously in God's sight.
@neuralink
Follow-up Bonus poll! YES!
If you chose Cyborg in the first poll, which limbs would you have voluntarily amputated, to then have super-powered robotic limbs attached to your skeletal frame?
In 2023,
@EHgreenthumb
and I will be increasing our direct action against abortion, especially in California. Our work involves,
Praying
Making a scene
Preaching the word of God
Praying more
Talking with the public
Helping mothers with their pregnancies
Praying ceaselessly
Despite Baptist tradition, Christians are free to drink alcohol in moderation, but...
Do you desire to behave as a righteous king or as a miserable dying man?
@HKBradshaw
I used to write papers for friends so they could come out and party. No help from robots back in 1990. How was I able to write high-scoring papers with no knowledge of the subject matter? My major was literature and I specialized in deconstruction, which is a clever way to lie.
When I say theology is evil, many think I'm against learning or reasoning, which is the opposite of my position. Theology, which is philosophy on the subject of God, emerges from the vain imaginations of men foolishly going with their own thoughts, and not with the word of God.
Perfection, in the biblical sense, is misunderstood by the world. It means doing what is right in the sight of God.
Your conscience bears witness to what is right in your Father's eyes. If your constant desire is to please Him, you will be perfect, walking with Jesus Christ.
When I say theology is evil, many think I'm against learning or reasoning, which is the opposite of my position. Theology, which is philosophy on the subject of God, emerges from the vain imaginations of men foolishly going with their own thoughts, and not with the word of God.
Sunday school is for fake church.
Real church teaches the children all the time, using all the mothers, working together as sisters, to cooperatively teach the kids in righteousness.
No, that's not happening now. Our church is very unhealthy, and there are reasons for that.
@smashbaals
Indeed.
Also, the book of Judges, where we find Deborah leading, is an encyclopedia of human depravity where everyone was doing what was right in his own eyes. Not good.
A pregnancy is a serious expense for any employer, with ZERO benefit, and large public corporations will greatly recover costs by offering an all-expenses-paid vacation to California to take care of their attendance and performance issue coming in a matter of months.
Unlike false religion (or being a Scotsman), Christianity requires a change of heart and mind that MUST change your words and behavior every day. Christians MUST follow Jesus Christ, or they're false Christians.
Misunderstanding this leads to the No False Christian fallacy.