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my food is to do the will of my Father.
Paris, France Katılım Kasım 2013
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People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why.
The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it.
He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen.
This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed.
Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it.
Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade.
As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed.
The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible.
You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.
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@AttorneyF_ Well said
I wrote this poem in response to @elonmusk saying he was OK with going to help, since that is the destination of the majority of humans
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Tongues on Fire@OnTongues
Was I great or was I small No one here knows me at all It is so dark I cant be seen None can hear me Over the screams Cant remember Can barely think For taste of rot & smell of stink Under corpses Eaten by worms Mind in torments Nothing to learn Woe to me & the majority
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@AttorneyF_ I like to read your tweets. Thank you for putting this together and sharing it.
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@AttorneyF_ Oh myyyy. This was very beautifully written. I recently did an exposé on "What hell actually is." And you also phrased it impeccably.
Hell is permanent separation from GOD.
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@AttorneyF_ Thank you for this. Like apples of gold in silver settings.
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@AttorneyF_ I once told a friend, “You think YOU’RE going to be in charge in hell?”
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#MUFC fans, I'm interested. Give a grade for each of Casemiro's seasons at the club.
Talk of the Devils@TOTDevils
With Casemiro's time at Manchester United nearing its end, the guys look back on his four years at the club and try to determine which season was his best. @ianirving_ @ankaman616 @lauriewhitwell #mufc
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@AttorneyF_ “and He is conspicuously unimpressed.” Powerful sir! I had not thought of His observations while on earth in the flesh like this.
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@AttorneyF_ Beautifully written. This is the high-res photo. The piece itself proves the real vista is going to wreck us—in the best way.
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@KevWms Thank you sir! There’s a lot already on my Substack [open.substack.com/pub/crossroads…]. And of course by Gods grace a lot more to come here. 🙏🏾❤️
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@AttorneyF_ Relevant, rational, and relatable. I look forward to reading more.
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Speaking at the Africa CEO Forum Presidential Panel yesterday evening in Kigali, I re-emphasised that Africa must put Africa first whilst creating opportunities for intra-Africa collaboration between our countries.
Our continent cannot build scale by looking outward first. We must invest in one another, trade more with one another, build the corridors that connect our markets, ensure our innovative youthful population get the support they need, and give African businesses the confidence to expand across African borders.
Nigeria’s reforms are not only about fixing yesterday. They are about preparing our economy to lead in the Africa of tomorrow. With AfCFTA, digital trade, shared infrastructure, stronger logistics, commodities exchange, and deeper private sector partnerships, we can turn Africa’s population and resources into real continental prosperity. The global risk and financial architecture must also give Africa a fair deal that recognises our local nuances and contexts.
I thank my brother, President Paul Kagame, for his warm hospitality and for Rwanda’s continued leadership in showing what discipline, clarity and execution can do for development.
Nigeria will continue to work with Rwanda and other African partners to build a continent that produces more, trades more, connects better, and competes with greater confidence in the world.
Africa’s future will not be handed to us. We must build it, own it, and defend it together.
~ Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
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Beautifully said.
God is life in its purest essence, so anything away from Him is quite literally the opposite of existence. It’s quite laughable to think hell holds some sort of glamour.
We forget that the very breath in our lungs and the consciousness to even contemplate pleasure are sustained second-by-second by Him.
To choose eternity without God is to choose a state where the very foundations of existence and joy are completely undone.
There is no flex in the dark.
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People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why. The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it. He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen. This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed. Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it. Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade. As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed. The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible. You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.
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