Luke Waters

@writeontheedg3 @Orville54310141 Thanks for calling me brother, I appreciate that. I'm not trying to trick you, I'm trying to understand you. When Adam and Eve sinned, something died and was used as a temporary covering for their nakedness which symbolized their disobedience. Why did something have to die?

I’m not really sure what your point is, brother. Yes, Jesus freed us from Sin and Death. He did not do this, however, because God needed His wrath quenched. Not agreeing with the parameters of PSA doesn’t mean I don’t understand the work of Christ as being revolutionary and expansive. I simply stick with the text alone - which has only helped my understanding of the vast reality of the gift we’ve been given.

There is an obsession in some Christian circles with the Wrath of God and how we are deserving of that wrath. Or how that wrath must be satisfied. Even going so far as saying the Father poured His Wrath on the perfect Son at the cross. To me that is a bridge too far, friends. There is a balance between reshaping God into an anti-human rage-monster vs seeing Him as a “it’s all good” hippie god. Let’s try to see the Generous Father for who He is. Yes, there is consequence for sin. That is Death. But the Wrath of God is still being stored up. Our Father is so long-suffering, so yearning to Heal all His creatures and reunite His Family, that He is waiting for the last possible moment before bringing His Judgment upon the rebels. He sent His Son because He loved His Creation. Christ endured torment and death at the hands of those He came to save. Who can tell who deserves the Wrath of God but the Father Himself? Maybe I’m an idealist, I may be wrong, but I refuse to condemn my former self. I refuse to condemn the wandering. Those are the hearts Christ came to rescue. He never rebuked them, never condemned them when they sought Him out. He healed them and said, “go and sin no more” Let’s say instead; Christ came because of Love. Not weak love. Love that is radical enough to die for. Love that even drove Him to pray His own killers were forgiven.

@writeontheedg3 @Orville54310141 I didn't ask about sacrifices, I asked you where the skins God gave them came from. What's Paul saying in Col 2:14? "having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

No more than I think my leather jacket was from a “sacrifice” It’s not about the death. If it is - if God requires something to die in order to forgive then He is the God of death. It’s framing. Is God asking for death? Are the Israelites gifting Him with death at the Passover? Or at Yom Kippur? We have to see with the eyes of the writer. Not our modern sensibilities that shrink back at an animal providing skins or flesh for humans - which would have not been anything but normal for an ancient person. Not sure if this helps, but what we have to do is take your modern glasses off and step into the saddles of an ancient Hebrew, who had not grocery stores or malls or judicial courts. A great book on this idea I read last year:

@_Zaraquin You are wrong! John 10:17-18 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

Jews killed jesus

@conspiracyb0t He is a liar.

Jeffery Sachs: “Israel's doctrine is kill its adversaries. Kill them in mass numbers, kill the civilians, kill the women, kill the children. They don't discriminate between civilians and military targets. They leveled Gaza... It is a rogue, brutal regime...”

@nepentia Look at the chart the same way you look at the clouds... It's the Star Ship Enterprise!

🚨 Nearly $1.8B in XRP short liquidity is sitting above the current price. If XRP breaks higher, a wave of liquidations could follow. Sometimes the next rally is powered by the bears. #XRP

@writeontheedg3 @Orville54310141 Yes. Do you think God sacrificed an animal in order to give them both a covering?

@Revh2oWaters @Orville54310141 You mean the animal?

@writeontheedg3 @Orville54310141 Thank you for your response. One question. Where did the skins come from?

I’ve heard this in sermons too, and it sounds right to our modern ears because we see the death and that’s all we see. But we don’t think the cow that provided our leather boots are a sacrifice, right? This idea doesn’t actually follow from biblical world logic. “So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD“ Ez 16 It would be metaphorical for covering. Covering nakedness can be taken in a couple ways, in this context - but in this context it would refer to an atonement - and by atonement I mean in the original sense “at one ment” or reconciliation. It, however doesn’t have anything to do with death. Remember—and this is important for us to keep in mind when considering a doctrine and how that doctrine paints our Loving Father. He is the God of Life. Not the god of Death. Our Father is the God of the Living, not the dead (Matthew 22) It is a beautiful reality we constantly miss in Leviticus, how the whole thing is actually a practice in shunning death - all death or disordered-nature, it must shunned in the presence of God. The ceremonial laws are a very good window into the order of how God sorts out the categories of these things.

@writeontheedg3 @Orville54310141 What about Adam and Eve? God made coverings from skins. Wouldn't this point to the first sacrificial shedding of blood for the covering of sin and thus establish the pattern of atonement later reiterated through the events between Cain, Able and God all before the law? Thanks!

“His law and wrath against sin must be satisfied.” Brother, nowhere in scripture is this stated. And it misses how Christ actually fulfilled the Law. And how you, through Him, can do the same. 🙌🏼 That’s why PSA is something I speak out against, it actually obfuscates the beauty of Christ’s work of rabbi and Victor. “The innocent Lamb took the death sentence so the guilty could go free.” This is a good example of doctrine laid over the text. There’s anthropological reality here being missed that allows someone to assume this kind of thinking. But the ritual of what becomes Passover is actually established as a tradition prior to the God’s commandment. It was called a threshold covenant—most Christians aren’t taught this in church but culturally this was not an “innocent animal dying for sin” - it only looks like that to our uneducated western eyes - it’s actually a covenant meal eaten as an agreement between two parties All the sacrifices were in fact meals. We don’t say “an innocent cow died to appease God” when I eat a cheeseburger - these sacrifices were meals WITH God. Or meals gifted to God (which is why other things besides the butchered meat was placed on the altar (aka God’s Table) Which is interesting for context in Jesus’ claim of John 6 I have believed this idea of PSA in the past - or elements of it at least - but the more I studied the actual writers of the text the more it became clear I had been taught to place my own pagan western reality of God into scripture. He was not wrathful or needing satisfaction. He actually forgave freely constantly in the Old Testament. The pattern i was taught just doesn’t hold up. So I go with the text. But now that I see the many flaws I just can’t unsee them. We have to be honest and not cling to doctrines but instead allow ourselves to be taught by God and the written word as it is. I do enjoy the conversations though because it challenges my own thinking. I don’t want to settle into any new false assumptions, and this helps!

@Birchley23 @nepentia It's awesome! Institutional buyers keep controlling the price and that allows me to keep accumulating. They aren't buying it to go bankrupt and neither am I.

People keep asking why $XRP didn’t suddenly explode while other coins were pumping 👀 Honestly? Because XRP doesn’t behave like most of this market. It’s not a meme coin driven purely by hype cycles and retail emotion. XRP sits in a very different category: payments, settlement, liquidity, regulation, infrastructure. That’s why some of the biggest catalysts moving other assets right now — ETF hype, speculative leverage, FDV expansion, meme momentum — aren’t necessarily XRP catalysts. And yet… while the broader market saw brutal volatility recently, XRP stayed relatively stable while major assets pulled back hard. That matters more than people think. A lot of holders still expect XRP to react like a fast-moving speculative trade. But infrastructure assets usually move differently. They spend long periods building quietly… then reprice when the market finally understands what’s actually being built underneath 💎

@mrcauliman Thank you. I'm beginning to explore the Ledger. I feel ill equipped but I'm willing and ready to learn. Enjoy your weekend!

@Revh2oWaters Kraken is fine. Your Ledger Nano setup is solid. Uphold is better for how I personally operate. Use whatever works best for you. The important part is that you’re taking custody and learning how to move your $XRP.

I live a simple life and $XRP is a major part of how I operate. I own a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy. This is something I’ve done my whole life and something I’ll do forever. That’s my career. When that money comes in I keep very little fiat sitting in a bank account. I buy $XRP through Uphold. From there, most of it goes into my Xaman wallet and stays there until I need to use it. When I need fiat access, I keep a smaller $XRP stash on Uphold. I sell what I need, load it to my Uphold card, pay the bill or make the purchase, and receive $XRP back. That’s my personal financial flow. My $XRP projects operate the same way. Every project uses Xaman. Each project has separate wallets for operations. Each token has structured wallets for specific purposes. Simple. Clean. Organized. People make this sound complicated because they overthink everything. I earn. I buy $XRP. I hold it in Xaman. I use what I need. I keep building. I’ve done very well in cryptocurrency because I use it for what it is. I stay frugal. I don’t touch my project bags. Not because I don’t like money, but because I’m already happy. Let’s make the world a little better first.

@rootcausesleuth I understand. I hope all is well with you. Have a blessed day!

@Revh2oWaters Sometimes people are just having a rough time irl

Question for rapture believers: Why do you think the rapture happens before the tribulation, since the rapture involves a resurrection, and when the first resurrection clearly happens after the tribulation? Revelation 20:4-5 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.

@rootcausesleuth Thank you! It would have been nice to have had a sincere and loving interaction.

@Revh2oWaters I’m sorry that happened

@_BrettRyanMusic @rootcausesleuth 2/2... I actively share Christ with everyone whom God gives me the opportunity. Living for Christ means dying daily to ourselves! Are you actively sharing Christ with everyone around you on a daily basis? If not, who's actually hiding and looking for an escape on a daily basis?

@_BrettRyanMusic @rootcausesleuth Those are strong claims, presumptuous regarding the motives of those who hold those scriptural beliefs (of whom yam one) all while not citing one scripture. Why does my belief in a pre tribulation rapture get associated with carnal motives? 1/2

@Rickylznwg @rootcausesleuth What does your rebuke reveal? Careful!

@rootcausesleuth Repent of your arrogance. You people are always so vain.

Yes, prayer can change God’s mind.

@XRP_DataLab Please read this... x.com/i/status/20596…

I won't lie, watching Ripple get valued at $40B, expand institutional liquidity, file trademarks for hedge funds, securities lending and treasury services… while $XRP still sits around $1.30-$1.35, starts messing with your head after a while you begin wondering if the market is massively underpricing what XRPL could become, or if utility and price simply don't connect the way most of us thought they would

@Ripple_Mino Here is some encouraging information... x.com/i/status/20596… Enjoy the read!

I have xrp. I love the project. But after doing more research, I can say I was wrong. Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t wrong about the project, I was wrong about how far in price it would go. I was thinking “1,000, or hundreds” The reality is, it may not even reach that. Most likely what it will go to is $25-$50 in reality. Even the $15-$20 range would be good

🚨Ripple FILES Letter To SEC To OFFICIALLY Treat XRP Like BTC/ETH + 0% Haircut Collateral Status to RLUSD 👀🔥 @Ripple just filed a MASSIVE letter to the @SECGov Crypto Task Force OFFICIALLY asking regulators to modernize crypto rules for the institutional era. ⚠️ @Ripple wants the @SECGov to: ✅ treat $XRP the SAME as BTC & ETH ✅ recognize $RLUSD as top-tier collateral ✅ reduce $RLUSD reserve “haircuts” from 2% to 0% ✅ and make blockchain registries the OFFICIAL legal ownership record for tokenized assets 👀🔥 Ripple specifically wants $XRP classified as a “readily marketable” digital asset alongside $BTC and $ETH. 🤯