Nathan Shane Miller

@BreeSolstad It's just hyperdulia not latria. Totally fine, right?

No one likes to talk about it or admit it, but this is what most of modern idolatry actually looks like.

@no_limit_soja @TheBillsGuys And other GMs didn't. The Bengals traded away their top 10 pick. The Rams selected a backup quarterback at 13. The 49ers traded out of the first round. Those moves are all comments on this draft.

@TheBillsGuys It's not our job to say who we'd have picked at #26. That wouldn't be credible. However, other NFL GMs thought the picks were worth trading up for. I think that says something. Now combine with urgency cited for firing McD and having a good enough roster. Doesn't make sense.

Coming from the guy who loves to yell just to hear the sound of his own voice, I’m telling you some of you are way too in your feelings over all the trade backs. This wasn’t the draft to trade up + we didn’t have a 2nd Rd pick + we have a multitude of glaring roster holes. Whoever we take at 35 will be close enough talent wise to who we woulda gotten at 26, 28, or 31. You can be mad all you want at the GM who assembled a roster that needed so much depth resetting, I am. I don’t think he deserves to be in that room he shoulda been out the door with Sean. But being mad at him for the trade backs, especially when 99% of you aren’t willing to stand up and state clearly who you woulda taken at 26 is a little over the top.

@Rblv73 Mormons are not Sola Scriptura.

Sola Scriptura in theory. Sola Me in practice. Still producing false Christians today.

@ReformedToRome @NathanBozeman2 Absalom goes to Joab.

@NathanBozeman2 That’s objectively present in the text. Can you name a single other person who is said to have been an intercessor in closer/higher relation to the King than the gebirah in the Davidic kingdom?

Reading through verse 25 really puts a damper into this theology.

@MattWalshBlog A core issue that you’re missing is that Hollywood is a union town. SAG-AFTRA, WGA, DGA, and IATSE already have contracts restricting the use of AI. That’s a bottleneck that will slow integration, and in tech fields those who are first usually benefit.

Okay so you make some AI slop film on your computer. How will anyone know it exists? Whats your marketing budget? And where will we watch it? Do you have relationships with any distributors? You can’t even begin to compete with Hollywood. In fact AI will make the imbalance even worse, because now they can put most of their production costs into marketing and distribution.

@grok @CatahoulaCowboy @fuchs_emmett It seems very unlikely that they would hold a wedding on the Sabbath.

@CatahoulaCowboy @fuchs_emmett That's a common interpretation—John's structure echoes Genesis' creation week, with Cana as the seventh day, symbolizing renewal through Jesus' first sign. The wine as "new creation" ties into themes of abundance and transformation in Scripture. Interesting parallel!

Protestants would rather assume Christ broke the commandment to honor your mother and father, than do proper exegesis. Why Jesus actually called his mother “woman”. 👇 Jesus was referring to her as “woman” echoing back to the “woman” of Genesis. His mother is the “woman” of a new creation through Christ, in obedience undoing the disobedience of the “woman” in the old creation. John’s gospel is reflecting on the Genesis creation account, revealing a new creation through the incarnate Christ. When Jesus said my hour has not yet come, it’s because the wedding is happening on the 7th day (read John’s gospel and count the days, wedding occurred on the 7th day). The 7th day is God’s rest, so Jesus is pointing to his divinity as God.

@UberHansen It’s advantage Buffalo, because the Pats have to play the Bills twice.

Yes, the #Patriots play a 1st place schedule next season and the #Bills play a 2nd. But is it an advantage for Buffalo? Different opponents: BUF: BAL, @ HOU, @ LAR NWE: PIT, @ JAX, @ SEA

@RyanBretonWX His defense and dumb luck brought him to the Super Bowl. He was terrible the entire postseason.

For all the people hating on Drake Maye, he made it to a Super Bowl before Josh Allen. And he's 23 years old.

@MrKrabstheMan @BWLH_ Source?

@NShaneMiller @BWLH_ She literally did lol

Except his wife once banged his backup at UGA to make him jealous…

@manichaeanincel Amen. Appreciate you.

@NShaneMiller Anyways, this was a nice conversation. But I pray by the grace of God alone we both increase in our justification towards God. Goodbye.

On the contrary, I deny Baptism is necessary for salvation per se, but affirm Baptism is necessary for salvation per accidens. Yes, the Thief was not baptized, also he didn't explicitly believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. So what?

@manichaeanincel Yeah, I would regard someone very skeptically who claimed to be a disciple of Jesus and rejected the sacrament Jesus instituted. But I think that's conditioned not just on means / opportunity but also understanding / ignorance.

@NShaneMiller Also your sins won't be forgiven despite Baptism if you could get baptised and denied to do so. This would be considered as denying Christ.

@manichaeanincel Yes, very clearly we can increase in sanctification, being transformed to be more and more like Christ. But that's not salvation. Our names are in the book of life or not. I'm forgiven or not. I'm not more saved or more forgiven because of baptism.

@NShaneMiller Yes, Scripture does speak of salvation as binary (elect and reprobate), but also it seems as a gradation, since you can increase by the grace of God alone in Justice/Sanctification.

@manichaeanincel "Fuller remission" seems problematic because Scripture speaks of salvation as binary. Wheat/tares, sheep / goats, eternal life / eternal destruction If my sins are forgiven despite water baptism, I don't think it makes much sense to say it's super duper forgiven after baptism.

@NShaneMiller I deny the terms spiritual and water baptism as Scripture doesn't use nor any early Church Tradition. I think a better term would just be "forgiveness of sins" as St. Thomas used. Also, the distinction gives off the sense that baptism is merely a symbolic act, which I also deny.

@manichaeanincel Well for clarity sake, perhaps you could restate it in your own words. I'm not sure how much we actually disagree, but the sufficiency of desiring or cognitively yielding to baptism, is itself, a demonstration of the distinction between spiritual baptism and water baptism.

@NShaneMiller Fr. Haydock on 1 Peter 3:21 (highlighted) I think you missed this part.

@manichaeanincel You did. But the subsequent argument put forth is necessity per se, not per accidens. Or at least that's what it seems to me.

@NShaneMiller I just said that in my first post. I believe Baptism is necessary for salvation per accidens, not per se.

@manichaeanincel If you can be saved despite not being physically baptized in water, then water baptism is definitionally not intrinsically necessary for salvation in all circumstances.

@NShaneMiller 1 Peter 3:21 makes no major distinction between Spiritual Baptism and Water Baptism. The Thief was saved despite not being baptized, like he was saved despite not believing explicitly in the Trinity. Fr. Haydock on said verse:

@manichaeanincel But if we're not making a distinction between the physical expression of baptism and the spiritual reality of baptism then the thief on the cross is not saved. And I think that distinction is made. 1 Peter 3:21

@NShaneMiller Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the one baptism of water and spirit as Holy Writ testifies. (Jn 3:5, Titus 3:5, Eph 4:5)

@manichaeanincel Not quite, though I do think there's a valid distinction to be made (even Taco emphasized the NEED for baptism by the Holy Spirit). But "fuller remission" suggests a gradation of salvation, when the Bible speaks of it in binary.

@NShaneMiller Ok, so would you agree with the distinction of "need" that I presented using St. Thomas and Fr. Haydock?