Justin Johnson

"all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, And he does according to his will among the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth; And none can stay his hand or say to him, "what have you done?" Daniel 4:35

@DVreenak @oxcrowx I think this is more likely to be the student's fault than any program. I had to take calculus and learn integration in at my community college just to get an ASSOCIATES DEGREE in biology

@oxcrowx This is not the fault of the individual researchers. It is the fault of a system which prevents fields of study from interacting with each other, and this is a particularly egregious example, where simple mathematics does not reach physiology/biochemistry.

Once a doctor re-invented integration by trapezoidal rule because she did not learn it in school. She received 75 citations for her novel work. She even named it after herself. lol.

@howiedoit299187 @RockWallBibles If every single translation translates something the same way, then it may be that the scholars, translators, and linguists know the language better than howiedoit299187 does

@RockWallBibles The fact that they ALL miss is that the word THINGS is not in the original text. They ALL added that word. Which is the cause of a LOT of false doctrine. ONE word.

I don’t think people realize how many more words the NASB95 uses than the ESV. ESV contains ~757,000 words NASB95 contains ~807,000 words A good example of the difference in word count is the rendering of Romans 8:28: “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 ESV (24 words) “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 NASB95 (27 words) This difference stems from the slight difference in translation philosophy between the two. The ESV asks: “what did the original author mean, and what’s the most natural, readable English way to say that?” While still staying very close to the text, just with a little more freedom to let English be English. The NASB ’95 asks: “what did the original Greek and Hebrew say, word for word?” and then tries to mirror that as literally as possible in English, even if the result sounds wooden at times. I am thankful that we have both (and other) good English translations. Which one do you prefer?

@Berean_Patriot @RockWallBibles "Intentionally mistranslates" is a strong and grievous accusation. Could you explain what you see in this verse to me? I can't see a significant difference in meaning between the ESV, NASB95, and KJV here

@RockWallBibles The ESV intentionally mistranslates in a bunch of places (Lev 17:11 is a great example, it reverses the meaning of the text there) so not the ESV. Seriously, compare it with basically any other translation. "Harder to read" is better than "changes the words of God" every time.

@lybrti @RockWallBibles The NKJV and MEV do not "use a different manuscript to translate from" As both were translated from Scrivener's Textus Receptus, which is the Greek text based on the textual decisions of the KJV

The text itself is perfect. Meaning it hasn’t been corrupted. All the modern versions after the KJV use a different manuscript to translate from. The received text used for the versions before, and up to the KJV is the pure line. God is not the author of confusion. The new versions don’t agree with each other in many places and cause confusion.

@_rod_lander_ @banterwithb If you experience something, and then write it down yourself 25 years later, that is NOT "oral tradition"

@banterwithb I was thinking about this topic, Our Savior never wrote anything, so when you're reading the Gospel you're relying on oral tradition that were written afterwards. Thus the eternal loop of sola scriptura contradiction.

The irony of this guy simultaneously knowing what Jesus thinks and claiming we don't know what He said

@exanxc So the majority of Catholics for hundreds of years had no life in them? They only took communion in one kind, after all. They ate the flesh of the Son or Man but did not drink his blood, by your own logic

> Prots: "Baptism isn't required for salvation." Jesus: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." > Prots: "Eucharist is just a symbol." Jesus: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."

@osmotheosis @valigo It does go back that far, but your post is not an example of it. That is a physical description of appearance

@valigo It goes back to the mid 1800's. x.com/osmotheosis/st…

JRR Tolkien used genz brainrot slang over 70 years ago, that's how ahead he was

@valigo People have been using some variation of "cooked" to mean "doomed" for over a hundred years. Every heard of the saying "his goose is cooked"?

Though this post is a joke, I've noticed a trend where Gen Z seem to think they invented everything. People have been using some variation of "cooked" to mean "doomed" for over a hundred years. Every heard of the saying "your goose is cooked"?

@TheIllegit From his replies, he seems to think that 1) souls are physical matter and must obey the laws of thermodynamics. 2) Therefore heaven and hell (and purgatory? He says three places) must have a physical location in spacetime

Does.. he think Christians are origenists or something?

Twitter atheism will look at the universe God created with billions of galaxies, but draw the line at billions of souls

🚨#BREAKING: A South Carolina mother just shared one of the most disturbing school gender transition stories I've read in a long time. Her 14-year-old son attended Beech Springs Middle School in Spartanburg SC. For OVER A YEAR, he was changing into girls' clothing at school, and changing back before his mom picked him up. It was apparently a daily operation, coordinating with another student to bring the clothes, multiple bathroom trips, and deliberate concealment from his parents every single day. Multiple staff members at school had to have seen this. You don't pull off daily clothing changes in a middle school without teachers noticing. But NOBODY called home to tell his parents. Nobody except one teacher. One teacher the previous year did her job, she noticed, she called the mom, and she followed South Carolina law H.4624, which explicitly requires school staff to notify parents when a student expresses gender identity confusion. That call is the only reason the family found out at all. They got their son into gender-related counseling over the summer of 2025. They were engaged, they were involved, they were actively trying to help their kid navigate something difficult. Then the school went silent again. The pattern continued into the next school year and nobody said a word. Fast forward to February 2026. The mom gets her son's hair cut. He cries in class. His teacher sits with him for 10 minutes while he tells her everything, that he wants long hair like a girl, that his parents won't affirm his gender identity, all of it. Again, South Carolina law H.4624 exists for exactly this moment. When a student expresses gender identity distress to a school employee, the law says the school SHALL notify the parents. But the teacher didn't call the mom. She called DSS. That same day, February 13, 2026, she filed a child protective services report against this family for "medical neglect..." Medical neglect because A) the boy allegedly coughed up blood and wasn't receiving care. B) Mental injury because the parents won't affirm a gender transition. And... I'm not even kidding C) making him do "manly chores." The mom asked her son what that meant. He said "cutting the grass." DSS showed up at their home on Valentine's Day weekend. Two days later, the family took their son and got a chest x-ray. His lungs were completely clear. He never coughed up blood. The allegation was fabricated. On February 19th, five days after the report was filed, DSS closed the case. Unfounded. No evidence of medical neglect. No evidence of mental injury. Nothing. So just to recap... A teacher had a 10-minute conversation with a 14-year-old, decided his parents' refusal to affirm a gender transition constituted child abuse, invented or wildly exaggerated a medical claim to make the report actionable, violated state law by never calling the parents, and weaponized DSS on a family over Valentine's Day weekend. And the school's response? The principal wrote back defending the teacher. Called the DSS report "appropriate based on medical neglect suspicion." The report that was closed completely unfounded in five days. The report based on a medical claim that was disproven with a chest x-ray. That report. Appropriate The principal also mentioned that staff had received "gender identity training" and that the school followed "applicable South Carolina statutes." But the H.4624 violation, the actual law that was actually broken, was never addressed. Not once. The superintendent promised a full investigation by a Chief Administrative Officer. Instead, the principal, the direct supervisor of the teacher in question, provided the only written response, and used it to defend her own employee. This school watched a student secretly change genders during the school day for over a year and chose not to tell his mother. That's not an accident. You don't miss daily clothing changes in a middle school. They saw it. They allowed it. They made a decision, collectively and repeatedly, that the parents didn't need to know. Then when that same family's values came up in a conversation, the response wasn't to pick up the phone and call mom like the law requires. The response was to report them for child abuse. The silence for a year and the DSS report aren't two separate events. They're the same event. They both reflect the same institutional decision: we know better than these parents, and we will act accordingly, whether that means hiding things from them or weaponizing the state against them. This family did everything right. They got their son counseling. They stayed engaged. They were present. They got a chest x-ray to disprove a fabricated allegation. DSS came into their home, looked at how they parent, and walked out five days later with literally nothing. But the school is STILL calling it appropriate. The mom has filed complaints with both the school and the South Carolina Department of Education. The school defended the teacher. The state has been silent for over a month. Her son is now homeschooled, by the way and she says he's thriving. The school literally weaponized the state against a family for cutting their son's hair. Let that sink in.

@DrJordanBCooper Who gave Tetzel access to AI??

When I say that Rome's view of grace is often transactional, this is what I mean.

This generation is so slow that reading a book is considered performative

@Mario_Robles442 @IFFFMEISTER Rian Johnson didn't "set the stage" for the Rise of Skywalker. He set the stage for Colin Trevorrow's finale, then Abrams ripped down that stage, undid the only interesting decisions Johnson made, then made the worst star wars movie of them all

Incorrect. The force awakens set the stage, Rian Johnson threw out any semblancy of a cohesive story to write mad libs Star Wars to "subvert our expectations", simultaneously destroying the story of our favorite characters and setting the stage for the worst possible ending to a much awaited trilogy in the rise of skywalker. The Force Awakens was bad, but at least it had some measure of cohesion. The Last Jedi was a dumpster fire.

The Last Jedi is NOT the problem with the sequel trilogy (thread) - Force Awakens is *actually* what cooked the story. It is the real culprit that made things bad, because it sent us back to the status quo of the original trilogy, which was a very stupid decision

@Luthertarian It's an allegory. It's not meant to map 1/1 onto the incomprehensible triune God

Thats MODALISM PATRIIIICK!

Liberals are blaming Trump for the redesigned dime—to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary—when the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, which advises the Treasury Secretary, voted to approve the new design in October 2024. That's right...the designs were voted on and officially recommended in October of that year, BEFORE Trump won reelection. The 2026 Emerging Liberty Dime is a one-year-only US coin designed for the Semiquincentennial, and the left is upset that the reverse of the coin depicts a bald eagle clutching only arrows in its left talon, while its right one is empty. The coin bears dual dates of 1776 - 2026 and will temporarily replace the Roosevelt dime. The omission of the olive branch is a direct nod to the American Revolution, where colonists were still waiting for peace, according to design creator Eric David Custer. The eagle with arrows is historically significant, intended to represent the "fight for independence," and emphasizing strength, authority, and military resolve.

@RoyalBlueRapto1 It's an AI image from an AI parody account

"We turned your grandma's warm, cozy, nature-inspired home into a CEO's cold, sterile, sharp-edged meeting room" NO! THANK! YOU!!!

@AndyMasley Me reading Dune on the subway, shaking my head so that everyone knows I understand that it's a cautionary tale

@Gallo_Woodworks @HumanManBear Coats of arms are no less secular than a logo. You merely don't notice because coats of arms are old and logos are new

@HumanManBear I just think there is, and should be a difference between sacred and secular.

A church should have a coat of arms, the creeds, and a patron saint, not a logo and brand identity.