Jesus directed the conquests of Canaan via Joshua after the Exodus. There was much heroism there.
He also gives authority ("the sword") to the civil magistrate to execute justice by being a terror to evildoers. This includes putting the evildoer to death.
You are right that Jesus didnt conquer sin through the bloodshed of others, but rather shed his own blood. Yet he is the ultimate Judge and arbiter of justice and he often uses human agents (civil authorities) to carry out His justice.
A charitable response 🤝
The an-cap mind cannot comprehend and resorts to calling you a cucked statist.
He said "external" stressors
His Name for ever shall endure
last like the sun it shall;
Men shall be blessed in Him, and blessed
all nations shall Him call.
Now blessed be the Lord, our God,
the God of Israel,
For He alone does wonderous works,
in glory that excel.
And blessed be His glorious Name
to all eternity;
The whole earth let His glory fill.
Amen, soet it be.
Merry Christmas, #nostr
#ToChristAlone
Faith is trust, and trust is established through a reasoned assessment and assurance that the object of that faith is trustworthy. Faith is neither blind nor superstitious no wishful thinking nor *only* personal.
Reducing faith to merely a personal relationship with Christ that has no real weight of objective truth behind it and no real requirements on the world is antithetical to the Biblical definition of faith and is one of the biggest reasons the West is on the suicidal path it has taken.
nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 is fantastic, and to me the most important app in the android ecosystem.
Zapstore combined with nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 makes me feel like I own my phone again.
Yes 🤝
Jesus says that He is God. And he was murdered for saying it.
As C. S. Lewis put the famous trilemma: Jesus is either a lair, a lunatic, or the Lord. There are no other options.
What is weird is when someone is publicly against homosexuality and people think that automatically means the man is himself some closeted self-loathing homosexual.
It is possible to be straight, to think homosexuality morally deplorable, and mean it.
Yes and justice flows from God's moral order and law. As I have mentioned elsewhere in this larger conversation, all magisterial law and action follows some kind of moral standard. It can't help but do this. So then we have to ask, which ought it to be? It cannot be neutral. And a Christian moral standard of justice and civil order is the most ideal because it is the only one that is most in accord with reality and most honoring of Christ.
I know that various people within CN have different visions for what a Christian nation is, but what I mean to argue here is a pretty plainly Scriptural and standard historical view in which the civil magistrate weilds the sword of justice, protects private property, and, most importantly, acts as a protector and promoter of the True Religion. From what I have gathered of nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt 's posts, I think this is where he is at too, but I won't speak for him.
Not surprising for its time.
My wife watched the whole series and said she agrees with your assessment but also appreciated they they were more on the nose they were when most other shows began to shy away from negatively representing foreign peoples.
Never watched 24 but I have seen that silly grip used in other shows.
Open to the Titanic possibility but haven't explored it.
Definitely convinced of the MK Ultra connection toanson and the Unibomber. And that MK Ultra is still happening under a different name.
Re: "I'm not saying your view is incorrect, but rather that there are different ways of understanding God."
In order for your view to be correct, the Biblical view nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt is espousing would necessarily have to be incorrect.
God cannot both be a perfect, complete, transcendent being who is outside and independant of His Creation and simultaneously be an incomplete, dynamic, unfolding process that is dependent on Creation.
This is an either/or, not a both/and theological assertion. Either your view of God is correct, or Laser's view is correct. Even if you believe that there are different ways of understanding God, you will necessarily hit limitations in just how many are coherent before you run into irreconcilable contradictions of belief and possibility.
I imagine he actually believes it. More transhumanist utopian delusions.
One of the many results of the factory model of post-industrial public education.
It is always time for some Daft Punk
Yes. 🤝
Though that can happen by people simply opting out of government schools and the repealing of property taxes, which is how the schools are primarily funded.
I agree. The Epstein thing isn't good optics but any issues concerning core devs is going to be quite far removed from most people's thinking. Particularly when most people can't even define what fiat means or what a blockchain is.
nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg do you know of any good and thorough tutorials on Bitchat?
A fair point. What I am saying relates to arguments I have seen from a number of people in and around this core discussion. You are right that no one is specifically shitting on marriage and children. I am responding to what they *are* saying.
Also, the use of the word "essential" was only in one of his recent posts on the matter but there are other posts he has made that got equally hostile responses.
For what it is worth, I personally would say that marriage and family are *essential* for a society but *normative* for the individual.
What I have noticed from many of the detractors of these posts about marriage and children by nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs is an underlying rejection of an objective moral standard.
The strong libertarian ethos of the Bitcoin and Nostr community has many positive qualities, but one of the biggest ditches libertarians fall into is the *everything is subjective* mindset and the assumption that freedom means people can do and think whatever they want (always with some vague caveat about not hurting other people) because every lifestyle decision is of equal moral value and deserves to be respected.
But there is an objective moral standard and there are objectively bad reasons to not get married or have children. If someone chooses not to get married or have children for one of these objectively bad reasons, they are *free* to do so, but that decision is still, nonetheless, a morally impoverished one.
Coming up with a thousand nuanced situations that justify a person not having children doesn't change the normativity of having them, the joy and fulfillment found in having them, the objectively superior moral value in having them, or the civilizational suicide course we are on because we aren't having them.
Respectfully, if even now you think it is possible that a robot can someday achieve being a better human than a human, this tells me that you don't currently understand what a human or a robot is.
We may deceive ourselves into thinking of robots and software as bearing the qualities of being humans through clever tricks and anthropomorphizing, but that only reflects our easily duped and depraved minds and doesn't reflect reality.
The Christian Church is the true Israel of God and all faithful Christians are the children of Abraham.
To truly make America great again is to return to a national recognition that Christ is Lord and to therefore submit to his Lordship in faith the way Abraham did.
So, yeah, let's support Israel. The true Israel.
#ToChristAlone
Lord willing, it will replace them in the corporate economy and aid them in the household economy.
I used nostr:npub10hpcheepez0fl5uz6yj4taz659l0ag7gn6gnpjquxg84kn6yqeksxkdxkr to summarise the proposal page: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/18/2025-15697/request-for-comment-on-innovative-methods-to-detect-illicit-activity-involving-digital-assets
Got my mind around the content and then generated various opposition responses focused on things like user privacy and dev burden.
Workshopped the responses until I got something I liked and posted it here anonymously: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/TREAS-DO-2025-0070-0001
The whole thing took me 30 minutes.
Do your part, anon
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Crusades, but based on actual history and not anti-Christian propaganda.
What things will he eat?
We have done a homemade chicken stock soup with chicken and some veggies. The chicken gets very tender and the bone broth is very nourishing.
https://www.westonaprice.org/chicken-stock/
You can also try chopped liver. Very nutrient dense and easy for a one year old to eat.
1 lb beef liver
Butter or lard for cooking
1 large onion sliced
3 hard boiled eggs, peeled and diced
Salt, to taste
1/4 cup Mayonnaise (I add based on taste and texture)
Can provide instructions if you are interested.
Culture comes from the word cultus, which is where we get the word "cult", and cult had the historical meaning of "worship".
Every single culture is built around worship of something. There is a God of the public square. And unless that God is Christ, the Author of Life, we get a culture of death; the slow-motion civilizational suicide via a rejection of children is just one example.
I have echoed nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs's calls to start families and for the love of God and the love of my people I will continue to do so.
Get married
Have children
Worship Christ
Save in #bitcoin
Leave a legacy
Do your duty
You mean you don't want to recieve counsel from demons through a lady diviner?
#GrapheneOS
Forcing them into a corner where they speed up their efforts around Digital Identity and CBDCs will likely mean they get sloppy and make mistakes. Reminds me of the covid tyranny: Too much too fast with too many variables to account for and the whole grift collapses under its own weight.
