But Doug Casey has said that anything that is about to collapse anyway deserves to be pushed...
According to the Apostle, Stephen Hawking had one necessary stop before his eternal destiny:
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people..." (2 Corinthians 5:10–11)
Have you earned a soul yet? Or are you still your as your pfp depicts you? 😸
Hmm, never heard of "earning" a soul... So people are born as NPCs, so to speak? 😄
ah, so you believe in conditional immortality. Do you think he would have undergone some punishment before being extinguished?
TIL that many early phone lines were "party lines" that anyone who picked up the phone could listen in on; customers had to pay an extra monthly fee to upgrade to a private line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
#til #todayilearned
Saw this on Nostr for the REALLY old: party lines, and before that barn raisings!
"For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him." 1 Corinthians 8:5–6 (CSB)
I recently read some things that are stretching my understanding of theology. "Psalm 82 explains that God rules over this assembly of other ‘elohim whom He identifies as gods. They are not eternal, all-knowing, or all-powerful like He is, but they are still called gods", Tim Chaffey, Fallen: The Sons of God and the Nephilim (Richmond, Kentucky: Risen books, 2019), p. 91.
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"As strange as it may seem to modern readers, when we put all of these passages together, we see that God gave control of one nation to each bene ’elohim of the divine council. Or put another way, he allotted gods to each of the nations, although He kept Israel for Himself. He charged these gods to rule justly, and now we know why—so that the people would seek God. But we learn from Psalm 82 that they showed partiality to the wicked (v. 2) rather than providing justice. They failed to uphold the practices God required of them, such as defending the poor and fatherless and being just toward the afflicted and needy (v. 3). Do you remember the last line of that psalm? It will make more sense now that we’ve looked at these three passages in Deuteronomy. Psalm 82:8 states, “Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations” (ESV).
"At Babel, God gave the bene ’elohim authority over the nations, except for the one nation He would start with one man and his barren wife (Abram and Sarai). By the time Psalm 82 was written, the divine council members had failed miserably in their assigned tasks. They had led their own peoples into idolatry and injustice. Consequently, they deserved to be judged, and Yahweh would inherit all the nations", ibid, pp. 147-48.
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I believe that's the case as well, but as you know, there's no punctuation in the original Greek text. And Calvinists do believe that unbelievers are not capable of believing because they are not elected for salvation, according to Calvinism/August indianism. So perhaps they might agree that God the Father has blinded them from believing, as well...
I wonder if Calvinists read "god of this age" as referring to God the Father, with a capital "G", instead of a lowercase "g", which would refer to Satan? 🤔
"the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of #Christ, who is the image of God."
–Paul the Apostle, 2 Corinthians 4:4
Why do you have the Church Age starting in AD 75 versus AD 33 (or 30, as some believe)?
Great Heiser quote! Do you have a source for it? (You, trust, but verify)
If you were a con man, making up a religion and claims about a man being resurrected from the dead, would you make these kind of admissions? 🤔
“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith. Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ—whom he did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. If we have put our hope in #Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.”
https://ref.ly/1Co15.12-19 via the Logos Bible Android app.
GM!
One of my favorite verses in the #Bible:
“For we did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord #Jesus #Christ; instead, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
https://ref.ly/2Pe1.16 via the Logos Bible Android app.
If you were a con man, making up a religion and claims about a man being resurrected from the dead, would you make these kind of admissions? 🤔
“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith. Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ—whom he did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. If we have put our hope in #Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.”
https://ref.ly/1Co15.12-19 via the Logos Bible Android app.
GM!
“But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
https://ref.ly/1Co15.20 via the Logos Bible Android app.
If you were a con man, making up a religion and claims about a man being resurrected from the dead, would you make these kind of admissions? 🤔
“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith. Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ—whom he did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. If we have put our hope in #Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.”
https://ref.ly/1Co15.12-19 via the Logos Bible Android app.
GM!
"When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: "Naturally." He then added: "And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?"
–Arthur H. Cash, *John Wilkes: the scandalous Father of Civil Liberty* (Yale University Press, 2006), p. 211
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wilkes#:~:text=When%20told%20by,2006)%2C%20p.%20211
Some people thought it was a cute idea to ban the unvaxxed from flying, and now the pendulum swings back.
How long before they aren’t allowed to grocery shop or go to dinner?
Your social credit score is being updated.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/senate-bill-seeks-to-place-campus-protests-on-no-fly-list/
House bill would send campus agitators ‘to Gaza for six months of community service'...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/college-anti-israel-agitators-sent-gaza-new-house-gop-bill
Socialists prefer other people's money