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If true, this is extremely alarming. "Safetyism" strikes again!

I voted against this. Unfortunately, too many Republicans sided with Democrats and it passed.

@ianedwards99 @LloydLegalist True, but the trick would be too obvious.

@Johnno366 @LloydLegalist Quotation marks would be better.

Nothing in the the English language starts with an N and ends with a G.

@shadymanc72 @LloydLegalist Touché

@Johnno366 @LloydLegalist You should only use 3 full stops in an ellipsis if you’re going for grammatical correctness, although I’m not sure what words you deliberately omitted to warrant its use.

@LloydLegalist Actually, after nothing and language….

@LloydLegalist Technically, you should have a comma after Nothing for this to be correct....

Marriage is probably best compared to a dance. When it works, it is beautiful. When it does not, it is painful. Like dancing, it takes two people who are working toward something together instead of each trying to impose their own rhythm. The man leads. The woman follows. That is the basic shape of it, but neither one is passive. She is not a puppet, and he is not a tyrant. They move differently because they are different, but they are meant to move together. He steps first, but her response affects what he does next. A woman does not merely follow. She responds, adjusts, and adds something of her own. Give a man the lead and a woman room to move, and they will either make a mess of things or make something striking. Sometimes one stands out more. Sometimes the other recedes a bit. The goal is not to make sure both get equal attention at every moment. The goal is for the dance itself to be good as a whole. It is not always neat or predictable. When it is healthy, it has life to it. That is part of what makes it good. Think about Jack and Jill dance competitions. Partners are paired at random, usually as strangers, and given a couple of songs, one fast and one slow. I remember watching one pair dance. There was no practice and no real plan. They simply paid attention, responded to each other, and moved with the music. Nothing was choreographed. They figured it out as they went. The movements were sensual, but not dirty. It was not about lust. It was about attentiveness, self-control, and responding well to another person. It was beautiful without feeling stiff or overmanaged. A godly man does not want a wife who is merely present and agreeable. He wants a woman who responds to his leadership with passion and wisdom. But when a woman checks out, or grows hard and bitter, the whole thing starts to fall apart. The same is true of a man who refuses to lead. Marriage is not a script. It is two people learning how to move together in real time. Sometimes they step on each other's feet. Sometimes they laugh. Sometimes they get it right and both know it. When that happens, it feels solid and good. It feels like something real. The kind of good that reminds you God knew what He was doing when He made them male and female. And that's something worth working towards.

@SarahRBader Great books! Nothing like you imply. 🙄

Well that’s embarrassing. 🤣 bless her heart.

@BMcGrewvy Right, because Scripture teaches that God CLEARLY reveals Himself so that men are without excuse! (Rom. 1:20)

Looks interesting but I really hope a large swatch of this wasn't just bogged down with fine-tuning, which has never been the strongest argument except in limited contexts.

@StevenCurtis So beautiful! Thank you for sharing it! By the way, is that a Martin you’re playing? What model is it?

So raise your hand if you know what today is?“ 🙋‍♂️ That’s right!…it’s “Earth Day”.   Ok, I’m gonna have to confess that I’ve not always paid alot of attention to Earth Day before, but when I saw it today I had the thought, “you know, I am very thankful for this earth that God made, even with all the brokenness that’s here on it for the time being. And I know we’re meant to be “good caretakers and stewards of it” while we’re here. So, it’s a good thing to have a day to remember that...and also to remember the incredible truth that Psalm 24:1 reminds us of: “The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to Him!” So yeah, Happy Earth Day to ya! A few years ago I grabbed my guitar and and came up with an “scc version” of this great old song (always loved Louis Armstrong’s version!), and I thought it would be a good day to share it again! Hope ya enjoy!

@Sarahhuniverse Why are they all taller?

Past Leaders meets their modern-day versions ... .. © ai_kz_corp

Pretty much sums it up 😢

@philipnation a.co/d/0gBTOiU9

What other books do I need about AI? Looking to get better equipped for our world awash in artificial intelligence.

The pseudepigraphal literature, including 1st Enoch (typically what we refer to as “the Book of Enoch” — there are 3 but the 1st on is the famous one), operated within a fundamentally different literary framework than modern historical narrative. 1st Enoch is a pseudepigraphal, apocalyptic collection of narratives and visions ascribed to Enoch. This was a genre that deliberately attributed writings to ancient figures to claim authority rather than to deceive readers about authorship. Understanding the genre’s intention requires recognizing its theological purpose. As a collection, 1 Enoch offers a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later 2nd Temple period (1st Enoch almost certainly doesn’t predate this time), which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world. The primary message was the soon-coming divine retribution of enemies and the judgment and eradication of evil that permeated the cosmos, with the author’s truth and authority relying on his heavenly journeys during which God gave him divine revelation of the coming redemption of the righteous. Rather than presenting factual history, pseudepigraphal works employed symbolic and visionary language to convey theological truths about divine judgment and redemption. Topics like angels, demons, the spiritual realm, and the coming Messiah are all being fleshed out by this type of work. 1st Enoch offers an embellished textual tradition of Gen.6, and the pseudepigraphal accounts parallel the Septuagintal tradition, reflecting the interpretative biases of the period. This interpretative expansion, albeit not literal reporting, was the genre’s defining characteristic. The New Testament’s engagement with 1 Enoch further illustrates this point: Jude draws from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with Jude 14-16 detailing a “prophecy” made by Enoch regarding judgment on sinners and the ungodly, drawing on 1 Enoch 9:1, Jude cites Enoch not as historical documentation but as authoritative theological witness to eschatological judgment. The pseudepigraphal genre was never intended as literal history; it was visionary theology dressed in ancient authority. The question remains, if we take Enoch seriously as actual history then why not the myriads of other pieces of ancient Jewish a Pseudopigrapha, a vast literary catalogue: the Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Daniel, Apocalypse of Elijah, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, and multiple versions of Baruch (2, 3, and 4 Baruch) and Ezra texts (including the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, and Vision of Ezra)? The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs represent a major collection, along with individual testaments attributed to Moses, Job, Solomon, Adam, and the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), why not toss them in as well? All the same genre and vein that Enoch finds itself in. The collection extends to works attributed to David (More Psalms of David), Jeremiah, Isaiah (including the Vision of Isaiah), Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and multiple works attributed to Solomon, including the Psalms of Solomon and Testament of Solomon. The Sibylline Oracles, Eldad and Modad, and the Book of Jubilees also claim ancient authorship. Some of these documents in their earliest iterations are as early as the 3rd century BC (through others the 4th or 5th centuries AD). Sure, read 1st Enoch. But don’t confuse it for something it isn’t.

Glorious!

@TechOperator Get a Mac....

You walk up to your computer and see this screen. Your next move?

@xojex @EricMetaxasShow It seems to me the burden of proof would be on the other side, since we know Adam and Eve were made as fully developed adults right when they were made, and the garden God put them in. How old were they and the garden? How old did they look?

@EricMetaxasShow Given the size of the universe and the speed of light, if creation is only 6K years old, God created the universe with apparent age. I have no idea why that should bother anybody. It doesn't bother me. The only important question is whether God exists.

This is a Difference of Interpretation NOT Biblical Authority...

@Ferndiggity Indeed, and the quote is rich too!

Truly remarkable

@AnalogRules61 @matt_everhard Fair point. I’m only saying, for a minister of the Gospel to be able to rightly divide the word of truth, as Paul admonishes (2 Tim. 2:15), he ought to be able to know that the word he’s dividing is what God actually spoke. How can he if he has no access to the original?

Where does the New Testament make being a foreign language scholar a requirement for Presbyter? I sincerely doubt very many Elders in New Testament times knew any Hebrew....since they had a good Greek translation of the OT. I don't see how we can go beyond the qualifications holy Scripture gives us.

Agree? Ordained ministers - especially Presbyterians - should be able to sight read the Gospel of John in Greek with few helps.