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I left Islam because you cannot question the prophet or the book without people wanting you dead. A real faith does not need fear to keep people inside. I am free now. Stay mad. #exmuslim

Cristiano Ronaldo is more clutch than Lionel Messing. Change my mind tomorrow at The Maison Eight. Ticket link in bio.

@TheFergusonWay He’s not a pro. Sooner we admit the better.

Early days but Zirkzee needs to get serious

@Blxiseutd Zirkzee ain’t a pro. Gotta cut our loses and do so hurriedly. Send the Fletcher twins out on loan too.

First Half thoughts ?

@FrankEra_ He’s just not a pro, painful to admit.

Jack Fletcher is desperate for a loan move.

@AlTheis438822 🙏🏾🙏🏾

@AttorneyF_ Brilliant insights! Thank you!

Genesis 3:15 is a masterclass in divine architecture. Before Adam and Eve can even offer an apology, while they are still standing over the ruins of their own failure, God declares war on their behalf. He looks at the serpent and pronounces the judgment: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” When you zoom in on this text, three realities emerge. First, God immediately shifts the battlefield. He does not erase humanity’s responsibility; He assumes responsibility for humanity’s rescue. We know this "offspring" is ultimately Jesus, but God’s language here is deliberately, brilliantly vague. He does not say I will descend from heaven to destroy you. He says her offspring will do it. By keeping His own identity hidden in the lineage of the woman, God amplifies humanity’s role in the triumph. He refuses to keep redemption distant or purely cosmic. Instead, He binds Himself to the very flesh of the species that failed Him, declaring, in essence, I will enter the arena through her womb to defeat you. He does not win the war for us from a safe distance; He wins it as one of us, turning the destruction of the serpent into a collective victory shared by the sons of men. Secondly, God deliberately waives the sovereign privilege of a spotless victory. As the supreme author of prophecy, God had the ultimate license to dictate an untouchable, effortless triumph. Instead, He refuses to pull rank. In the original Hebrew, the exact same verb, ‘shuph’, is used for both blows. Poetically, it reads: “He will shuph your head, and you will shuph his heel.” This is a staggering linguistic equalizer. God voluntarily steps into the dirt, binding Himself to the very same physical verb as His enemy. He allows the serpent to do its worst while He delivers His best. The scandal of the prophecy is not just that God wins, but that He sovereignly chooses to be wounded in the process when He had every right to remain untouched. Thirdly, there is a simple biological detail that changes how you look at this entire sequence. If you or I were writing this story, we would naturally start with the lesser blow and build up to the climax: You will strike his heel, and then he will crush your head. But God says it backward. He puts the head-crush first. Why? Because of how a snake actually dies. When you crush a serpent's head, it does not just go limp. Its nervous system keeps thrashing in a violent, blind spasm. Even a completely severed snake head can still snap its jaws and inject venom purely through muscle reflex. If we read this in light of the whole biblical story, this physical reality illuminates the true nature of spiritual warfare. The strike on the heel is not a parallel attack in an ongoing war; it is the blind, involuntary spasm of a defeated enemy. The devil is not a rival general. He is a crushed serpent fighting exclusively with his ruins. The battle is real, but the victory was announced before the strike even began.

The most ridiculous aspect is that as a Pastor, he doesn’t see the irony in saying “scripture says BUT I say”. That was the same sentence structure Jesus used in the sermon on the mount and He said so because he was God, possessing authority. And even then, he did not deviate from the law but fulfilled it in a way that revealed the true intent of the law. I really pity those who attend this ministry.

@MichaelEze64416 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

@AttorneyF_ "Because of how a snake actually dies. When you crush a serpent's head, it does not just go limp. Its nervous system keeps thrashing in a violent, blind spasm." Clearly explained why the battle is fierce when one is about to hit the victory note, it's all the devil's last graps!

@MitchellPi15753 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️

@AttorneyF_ Thank you for your read. They say Amen means "I believe " Amen Amen Amen.

“Behold the Lamb of God.” John the Baptist says this to Jesus’s face in John 1:29. Then says it again in verse 36. And for the first time reading it today I stopped and thought, damn. That is a really violent thing to say to someone. I am fasting with a friend and asked him to read John 1. So I read it again myself, slowly, so I can walk him through it when we meet. It was a largely peaceful, meditative read. I’ve read it countless times. But I read verse 29 differently today. I’ve heard “the Lamb of God” so many times it sounds like a title, like an honorific. Something you’d engrave on a church wall. But in first-century Jerusalem, lambs weren’t a metaphor. They were being slaughtered daily at the temple. Everyone standing there when John said that knew exactly what you did with lambs. John wasn’t composing poetry. He was announcing a gruesome death out loud, in public, to the man’s face. It’s the equivalent of someone walking into a room and pointing at you in front of everybody and calling you “Christmas Chicken” or “Thanksgiving Turkey.” Then doing it again the next day, just to make sure nobody missed it. And even that comparison is mild, cos no one genuinely believes a human will be dealt the fate of a chicken or a turkey. Everyone knew a lamb’s fate was real. And Jesus hears that and keeps walking. He doesn’t correct John the Baptist, or flinch. He receives the name and moves toward everything it carries. I paused on how agonizing that must have been. He was fully human. He felt what we feel. He knew what lambs were for. The Incarnation was not God visiting earth in a protective suit. It was God becoming killable, knowing it from the beginning, and answering to the name without hesitation. There is nothing greater than that in all of human history.

@JSargentRR You’re spiraling brother. I can’t even place my hand on which response connects with which or what the grouse is anymore. Please chill a bit.

@AttorneyF_ We say God holds the hearts and lifespan of everyone (kings included) in his hands The long conversation about using deception to goad a king into a war to kill him isnt examplifying the high view of truth we hold of Gid Isn't consistent x.com/i/status/20784…

@Blxiseutd Well said 👏🏾

I think we are all over exaggerating the impact of Marcus Rashford on the Manchester United squad to be honest. #mufc

If you are really truthfully looking for someone to guide you towards understanding you can DM me and we can schedule a call where we discuss scripture and your reservations. However if you have your fixed conclusions then let’s not waste each others time as I’ve already told you that I don’t want to get involved in something that is deeper and bigger than me.

@AttorneyF_ Im ready now show me a character of God that spans the beginning of the word to revelations who is designing everything to have a great "personal relationship" and care for his creation

Brother, I’ve seen your many responses on the thread. There seems to be something deeper here that I can’t address, I think whatever you have is between you and God. When you are ready, approach Him genuinely with your questions and He will answer in a way I can’t. I don’t think you are ready to be convinced or even allow your views to be challenged, so all I can do is leave you to the Spirit and pray for you. Cheers 🙏🏾

@AttorneyF_ Hey by the way. If you wanted man to genuinely love you and not through duress and coercion You dont set things up so choosing you is bound to heaven and not choosing you is bound to hell If the priorirty was true love that model isnt getting you there there's another priority

You're completely right that they had agency, free will, and curiosity before the Fall, the text shows that clearly when they named the animals. But choosing a name for a giraffe isn't a test of moral allegiance; it’s just a horizontal choice. The Tree wasn't there to give them free will; it was there to give their free will a vertical choice: 'Do I submit to God’s boundaries, or do I choose to become my own god?' Without a boundary, free will exists, but submission cannot be tested. Cain's disobedience happened later, in a world already broken by the Fall. But in the beginning, the Tree was the boundary marker between Creator and Creature. This is exactly why Jesus is called the 'Last Adam' in scripture. He had the exact same free will, agency, and curiosity. But when He encountered the same tempter in the wilderness, He used His agency to submit entirely to God’s word. Adam used his freedom to grasp for equality with God; Jesus used His freedom to submit.

@AttorneyF_ No, thats what the pastors tell you. Scripture tells us otherwise Adam and Eve already had 1.) Agency 2.) Free Will and Choice 3.) Curiosity All before they ate For "God brought the animals before them to see what they would name them" Cain showed another way to disobey

@CaptainTLB60 It’s hilarious. Like someone is supposed to read the graphic and go “ahhh that explains it” 😂😂😂

@AttorneyF_ Ah yes; Islamic “scholarship” on full display there. And that snazzy graphic lends it an air of legitimacy too.

So the Almighty Creator of the universe and ultimate lawmaker, who spoke existence into being, needed to dismantle an Arabian adoption custom that had granted adopted children too many rights. But instead of just issuing a direct divine decree (like He did for every other major law), the only way He could achieve this was to instruct His favorite Prophet to marry his own cousin, who had just been divorced by his adopted son. How incredibly convenient. The omnipotent Lawgiver apparently required a complex personal loophole to resolve what should have been a simple divine decree. Comedy.

@JSargentRR @DennisOnei9987 Here brother. God values choice, even the Angels possess the ability to revolt. If there was no way for Adam and Even to express disobedience they would have been effectively robots.

@DennisOnei9987 @AttorneyF_ If we cant question God I suppose that same justification can be used to give a pass to "hard" claims in Islam too Shouldn't it? Ah now Islam comes from Ishmael and Christanity from Issac GOD made great nations of both (as he promised Abraham) but didnt keep both truth-wise...

@JSargentRR Because that tree was the only way they could express the choice of disobedience. Without the option to disobey and without a real opportunity for the dignity of an exit then love is coerced and coerced love is not genuine.

@AttorneyF_ Why did God plant that tree there in the first place? And why, knowing he made the curious beings did he walk them to it and tell them not to eat Any kid knows what happens next in that story. Totally disingenuous

@tucker4115 Wonderful! 🙌🏾

what an insightful description. all 3 points are great but i think my favorite might be 2. He absolutely could have chosen to claim victory from a distance. It was totally His prerogative… BUT HE CHOSE TO ENTER HIS CREATION AND GET RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF THE SCRUM!!! He felt levels of pain, agony and sadness to the depths we will never comprehend. What a God we serve! The big question is WHY DID HE BOTHER? “ That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:7 Amen brother!