Matthew Hartke

It is finished: youtu.be/_x8SB_gy8jg

Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking.

“The early Christian belief in the parousia of Jesus had a kind of compensatory function, enabling the preservation of certain utopian aspects of the messiah myth alongside the many concessions to the circumstances of Jesus’s life.” - The Grammar of Messianism, 213

I appreciate what this is trying to do politically, but it’s not good history. For the NT, “the classically messianic functions are not abandoned or reinterpreted; they are just postponed until the proper time.” - Novenson

@WilliamsNietzs3 I think it’s trying to flip the script, since evangelicals & conservatives have felt embattled by critical history for the past couple centuries. In a sense Wright’s whole career has been an attempt to domesticate critical history in the service of faith, but he’s largely failed.

@MatthewHartke How do you now feel about this?

Just wait lil Matt

‘What A Friend I’ve Found’?!?!?!?!

Nothing turns me into a Christian again faster than Cutting Edge era Delirious. ‘Lord You Have My Heart’?! Bro. ‘Find Me In The River’?! Brooo. ‘Obsession’?!?! Broooooooo.

I don’t agree with every point made or every scholar cited here but overall this was a masterful response to @WesleyLHuff’s apologetic slop, stuffed to the brim with references to top tier biblical scholarship youtu.be/Q24wA_KuT1I?si…

@realRobertArmel @birdtrees I’ve also been using em dashes since long before LLMs were ever a thing, if that’s what made you ask.

@birdtrees @MatthewHartke Matthew isn't AI. He has been discussing these topics for quite a long time. mlhartke.wordpress.com

Of course they’ve tried. But those “answers” are only convincing to people whose faith commitments require Matthew and Acts to agree with each other—and you don’t have to be an internet atheist to see that.

@tormntos What do you mean “ya’ll”? mlhartke.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the…

@MatthewHartke Who cares how? He died shortly after betraying Jesus. The word even reports he tried to give the silver back to those who paid him. You know Matt..there are more and more of us who do not believe in inerrancy. As such what y'all think cancels the Truth...DOESN'T

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

@SoFiSupport The fact is that the amount of money, the type of transaction, the time (middle of night), & the day (Fri) all should have been dead giveaways that you should’ve had systems in place to account for & protect your customers instead of leaving us high & dry for potentially weeks.

@SoFiSupport I’ve spoken to 4 representatives already. The problem is the fraud (which was obvious) took place on a Friday, so it’s not just waiting 24-48 hours for the transaction to fully post to my account, bc then it’s the weekend and you guys won’t even begin to do anything till Monday.

Don’t bank with @SoFi. They don’t care for their customers. All of my $$ was stolen at 2am on Fri via obviously fraudulent charges, & not only did SoFi do nothing to stop those charges, they won’t even begin investigating till Mon & it could be WEEKS before they restore my funds.

It was fantastic

Amaze!