This is true, which is why Paul says in Romans 6:1-4, "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life."
When God forgives a sinner, it is not that he may go on sinning in a cavalier manner. It is so that he will be made new. The one who is forgiven much loves much. He does not presume upon God's grace.
You are absolutely right that God is both merciful AND just. Indeed, it is specifically BECAUSE he is both that he cannot wink at sin and forgive it without an atonement being made. Again from Romans, this time chapter 3, Paul wrote that Christ Jesus was put forward by God "as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith... so that he (God) might be just AND the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."
You are also confusing hell with the Roman Catholic concept of purgatory. The first is a one way ticket, and the second does not exist. When you sin against an infinite God, a finite man has no means of serving time in hell long enough to pay his debt.
I also think of it in terms of God's restraining grace, whereby he keeps us from going as far down the road to depravity as we otherwise might go.
One means of doing so is the civil government, which he ordains in order to "carry out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer." (Romans 13:4) But what is it that keeps the sin of the civil government in check? For thousands of years it has been the inability to print gold and silver willy-nilly.
So, that all changes in the 20th century, and near the beginning of the 21st, we see Bitcoin come on the scene? I believe Bitcoin is God's new means of restraining the corruption of the civil magistrate.
Either you will be held responsible for your own sins, or Jesus will say, "They have been paid in full."
God's standard is 100% perfection, so, the only way you can pay for your own sins is by somehow figuring out a way to be better than perfect.
God doesn't need a plan B. He never fails to accomplish exactly what he intended the first time round.
I usually start with the bad news, so we know why a new King and Kingdom would be preferable over our current status quo, but yes, I believe you have it.
That is true, but Jesus is more than a prophet. He is priest, prophet, and king.
He did come to deliver a message of repentance as a prophet, but he also came to offer himself as atonement for the sins of his people as their ultimate high priest, and rise from the dead conquering both his and our enemies to rule as king over all creation, to the joy of his people and fear for those outside of the covenant of God.
Same. Keep the kids in the main service with their parents.
Paul's epistles were intended to be read to the church, and there are instructions in them addressed to children. That would presuppose that the children would be present to hear them.
This was a church that shuffled all the children down to childcare services.
My man! I actually ask folks to summarize the gospel quite often.
Back when I was just getting into the reformed faith, I started realizing that all the evanjellyfish around me had no idea what they believe, and so I started asking some folks to send me their answer to the question, "What is the gospel?" The responses were appalling! Went to the pastor and asked him why he doesn't preach Christ crucified on the regular, and he said, "Most of these folks have grown up in church, so they've already heard it enough. I am giving them 'meat' now, since they have moved beyond the milk."
I dropped the descriptions of the gospel on him that I had gathered from his congregation. The next week the sermon was Christ crucified.
NO ONE moves beyond the need to hear the gospel preached on the regular.
Now that I am an elder at my church, one of the questions I ask every time someone wants to become a member of our church is, "What is the gospel?" The answers have done nothing but reinforce my conviction that people need to keep hearing it.
Many Bitcoiners don't understand what Christ came to accomplish, and therefore incorrectly measure his success.
Not using ecash. In my opinion, single custodian ecash has all of the downsides of custodial lightning paired with some downsides of self-custody on-chain. Federated ecash is a better model for that.
This is straight up Wallet of Satoshi style custodial lightning. 100% IOU. The difference is, YOU are the custodian for your family.
Anyone sign into nostr:nprofile1qqsx2wyjt6lmvc05rrvv05r5hm3w3t7h0pcpmkyswrpd4ymd2u09tscpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu339e682mnwv4k8xct5wvhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wscn3xgh via Nostr and figure out how to set up the wallet and top it up so you can boost podcasts?
#AskNostr
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Not the way I have it set up. I still need to manage my node's liquidity. My daughter and anyone else I set up with a wallet, however, do not need to manage liquidity.
Yes, I set up a NWC connection from Alby Hub to Amethyst with zero issues for in-app zapping. But, with Amethyst I could scan the QR, so I didn't have to copy the connection string on one device, send it to the device I have Spring installed on, and paste it there.
Yes, exactly. My daughter has her own balance on my node, using my existing channels for liquidity.
You just need to use the "Isolated" option when establishing a new connection in your Alby Hub.
This would be custodial for anyone I set up a wallet for. I absolutely could rug my daughter.
The idea here is to keep custody close to home, where you personally know the person who could rug you, and have more social consequences if they do.
More than that, being an Uncle Jim allows you to personally teach those you are hosting wallets for, so they can one day "graduate" to a self-custody solution. I would not recommend someone who is already well versed in self-custody lightning to find a friend running Alby Hub who can host a wallet for him.
Happy to report that I got this working!
Rather than trying to do NWC directly from Alby Hub on my node, I just logged into my Alby account and set up the NWC connection there. No issues.
nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm entirely changed the game for being able to easily serve as an Uncle Jim for your family and close friends with Alby Hub.
In just a couple minutes, I set my daughter up with a lightning wallet hosted on my own node, with a lightning address provided by Alby, connected to nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 so she has access through a mobile app, and NWC connection to #Amethyst for zapping.
No need to set up reverse proxies... No need to deal with trying to connect via Tor on Zeus... No need to buy a domain and figure out how to get a lightning address up and running... It just works.
Yeah, I think the "ideal" in P2P is for each peer to be equal to all other peers.
I believe they wanted Keet in particular to be as accessible as possible for those who don't have a personal server at home, and maybe aren't interested in having one. That comes with some trade-offs, though, as I mentioned above concerning media sharing.
I am personally quite willing to run a server to host a Keet room that is always online for everyone else in the room, but then we are really starting to muddy the definition of what P2P means. I suppose the difference is that anyone who is a participant in the room can do the same, so there isn't one central server that everyone has to rely on.
Figured it out!
I bypassed using LNBits entirely and just used the LNDHub connection within the Alby account I set up for my daughter to get her set up on nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 then set her up to zap on #Amethyst with the NWC option inside her Alby account, and DONE!
nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm, you have completely changed the game for being an Uncle Jim!