@rootcausesleuth Of course. The Bible is the record of His relationships and His foreknowledge demonstrated faithfully through history.
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@SCAlbano
I enjoy writing fiction and poetry. See my site for that. I also enjoy learning and talking about religion, politics, and botany. 😆
Katılım Kasım 2011
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The miracles were signs. The seal certifying the Messiah. Disregarding that context, they are only food that perishes, distracting from the eternal:
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 6:26-27
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@XFreeze Neuralink is a much bigger breakthrough than most people realize. Enabling people to control a computer with their mind and the completely blind to see are Jesus-level miracles.
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Why don't you like meatloaf? And what's wrong with meatballs? You suddenly hate Italy and Sweden now? Basically this is a tirade against prosciutto and IKEA at this point. If you lived through the depression, you would know they didn't have Fiats and directions to assemble furniture. Anti European rice cooker chauvinism. I see the way of it...
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Yes, it is wrong for you to like meatloaf. That is exactly what I said.
Philip Turmel@PJTurmel
@Strangeland_Elf Huh. It's wrong for me to like meatloaf? I didn't grow up in the depression, but money was tight when me and my six siblings were growing up. Meatloaf is comfort food for me.
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@just_keep_read @rootcausesleuth @BaptistBavinck @handmadeshoesia Composable means they (purposes) can be put together into a larger whole.
Bad purposes (Joseph's brothers selling him) can be composed into good purposes (God saving from famine).
To you deny that creation is a purpose of God's? If not, then it is a subtype of purpose.
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@SCAlbano @rootcausesleuth @BaptistBavinck @handmadeshoesia You are using some esoteric language here.
“Creation is a subtype of purpose”?
Something about God composing?
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Of course we are co-creators with God!
Please respond with how/what you have created!
I’ll go first, below
@DrawNear_
@handmadeshoesia
@Ink_Spot_Global
Rachel on the Battlefield ☦️@writeontheedg3
For some reason the idea that God allows us to co-create with Him is not okay. What is it about this idea that seems to be triggering people? Let’s look at ways we clearly co-create with the Father: 1. Family Creation 2. Procreation 3. The Arts 4. Inventions 5. Farming/Building And these are just off the top of my head. So many people overlook this reality and make it seem a small thing, but God gave Adam dominion over the Earth. This is God delegating rulership to His Creation. We see in Deuteronomy 32, after the Tower of Babel, God handed the Nations over to the Sons of God to rule over (they were rebuked in Ps 82 for ruling unjustly - Paul even eludes to this idea that those in Christ will judge these beings in some way - 1 Corinthians 6:2–3) In other words, God is pleased to create Living and Free worlds - we are blessed to have scripture to reveal these things to us. Let’s not be afraid to search it out.
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@rootcausesleuth @BaptistBavinck @just_keep_read @handmadeshoesia It is obscured by using creation/sub-creation verbage. Creation is a subtype of purpose.
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@SCAlbano @BaptistBavinck @just_keep_read @handmadeshoesia I don’t believe we were talking about God’s purpose in this thread
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@rootcausesleuth @BaptistBavinck @just_keep_read @handmadeshoesia It does not taint God's purpose though. God's purpose is good regardless of our sub-purposes within it.
It is just reframing the problem of evil, and when unpacked it is answered the same way.
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@SCAlbano @BaptistBavinck @just_keep_read @handmadeshoesia I mean, our sin did taint creation, and creation is groaning to be freed, so there’s that
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@rootcausesleuth @BaptistBavinck @just_keep_read @handmadeshoesia The answer is that it really doesn't matter for the conversation. Purposes are composeable.
We create our sin (sub-creation), but the character of God's creation it is composed into is not compromised.
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@BaptistBavinck @just_keep_read @handmadeshoesia @Ink_Spot_Global It’s a simple conversation.
It speaks to the issue of us creating.
Who creates thoughts?
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@Strangeland_Elf Grains are fruit. Single carpal, with the seed fused to it
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@Yoimati_Moon @jackpot_teemo Yes. The thick, leathery petals made me suspect magnolia, but I had only seen species with white flowers.
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@jackpot_teemo リプでいろいろな呼び方があることを学びました。私はこの色のものをモクレン（木蓮）、白いものをビャクレン（白蓮）と呼び、小ぶりで春真っ先にびっしり花をつけるものを「コブシ」と呼んでいます。海外ではまとめて「マグノリア」ですね。
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地主の人にダンプを止める駐車場にするから山の一部を伐採してって言われたんやけど見慣れへん花が咲いてた。
俺「立派ですねー」
地主「そやろ？30年前くらいからあるで！」
俺「何て木なんですか？」
地主「知らんw」
両方「ガハハハハハ」
地主「ほな切っといてなー」
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@rootcausesleuth ??
I was speaking of old Catholic on Catholic sectarian troubles of the past, going along with the topic of the prior post.
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@bomber_bookworm Yes, the God shaped hole problem. So, how does an Almighty being outside of space and time probe He exists?
What is the seal He uses on the documentation? It is a communication problem. There is a solution.
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@gnostrils And the symptoms: "No symptoms for 2-3 weeks, then [most horrible painful demise imaginable]"
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I wouldn't say it just so, but the solace you note is one thing that spoils the effect.
If the writing is the song, and your mind is the instrument it is played on, cosmic horror requires the instrument to be broken in a very specific way. Like a damaged music box eerily playing a familiar tune. If it is not broken, or broken in a way that does not sound unsettling, both ruin the vibe.
Great writing, like Tolkien's, can be played to good effect across many sorts of instruments. The story itself changes with you, an entirely different song based on your current mind and capacity. I wonder if a similar work could incorporate cosmic horror as a superficial theme above the deeper and noble.
(My apology for the quote post. Replies were closed for me.)
志波 煌汰@siva_quarter
@SCAlbano Is cosmic horror—which lays bare the notion that the universe is merciless and cruel—a source of fear not so much for those who have faith, but rather for those who lack the solace of faith?
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I only found it frightening before I became a Christian.
It was frightening because it lays bare the consequences of nihilism and relativism in the irreligious. The little gods are only a stand-in.
Cosmic horror is philosophical, not religious. It requires a big cosmos, not a small one.
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@Nafe_nasutetsu Two walls of bookshelves, and need more. Nightstand is preferred to bookshelf though for the specified purpose. Bookshelf space is at a premium...
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ここに付いた衝撃的なリプライ
”アメリカ人は本を読まないので家に本棚はない”
NaFe@Nafe_nasutetsu
せっかくなので確認したいんだけど、アメリカ人、緊急事態は本棚を押すと秘密のガンラックが出てきてそこからデケえ銃を取り出したりするんですよね？そうだと信じてる
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@xUZR7bD9xk59183 Solomon wrestled with this in the book of Ecclesiastes.
A striving after wind...
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@KristinaKing121 My background from my day job. Simple by comparison.
Be sure to have an up-to-date off site backup!
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@SCAlbano That’s next-level organized. I’m over here with one doc and vibes while you’ve got a whole production pipeline. Respect.
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Just curious, but very interested:
What writing platform do you use? Do you use multiple platforms or just one?
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@birdflower105 Those that I have been part of have open communion. If someone is a believer, they are welcome to participate.
There are some with closed communion, but whichever the case, they will let guests know beforehand.
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カトリックでは聖体拝領はカトリックの洗礼を受けた人だけでその他の人は祝福をいただけます。プロテスタントにカトリックの信徒が行く場合はどうなのでしょうか？知ってる方教えてください🙏
めりー🌸💙✝️🇯🇵🇻🇦@himery_iddm
ふと思ったんだが、カトリックの人がプロテスタントの⛪️で礼拝に参加した場合、プロテスタントの人がカトリックの⛪️でミサに参加した場合、「聖体拝領」ってどうなんの？食べちゃダメ？「祝福」を与えられるだけ？「祝福」もなし？ いつか礼拝にも参加してみたいので前情報として教えてくだちい。
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Matthew's gospel (1:24-25) says that Joseph obeyed the angel, and took Mary for his wife, but he clarified that they waited until after Jesus had been born to consummate their marriage.
You can disagree with him if you want, but it is unkind to mis-characterize those who accept his testimony.
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Protestant Joseph be like:
"AAAAARGH I MUST HAVE SEX SO WHAT IF MY WIFE GAVE BIRTH TO GOD HIMSELF AND GOD IS LIVING IN MY HOUSE I JUST NEED THE SEX SOOOO BAD"
Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️@JennMGreenberg
I never understood the purpose of this doctrine. Obviously Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, but why must she remain perpetually so? Especially when the Bible talks about Jesus’s brothers. She was married to Joseph and sex within marriage is good, not sinful.
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