@TheMuppetPastor Marketing and capitalism, perhaps?? Why would anyone follow some unknown carpenter? Has any good thing ever come out of Nazareth? 😋
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The greater question is: why did evangelicals fall for so many of these books at all?
Josh Barzon@JoshuaBarzon
You get to pick one book to never have been written. Which one are you picking?
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@luinalaska Lu, this guy is a Catholic and he gives a pretty good explanation of what it means to be a saint. That part starts at 0:45 youtu.be/AWy9zv7qBxc?si…
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Yall can be saints that sounds very scary I’m staying in the lane of childlike wonder and getting excited about plants and babies and snowy mountains. I don’t need to be that clever.
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I can trust God implicitly without declaring myself a saint. It’s not denigrating myself. It’s not woe as me. There is much comfort in being God’s most retarded soldier instead of his most pious self declared saint.
Jeremy Legg@jdleggcan
@luinalaska Yes, we need saving. But we've been saved! The reason we are called saints is b/c we're new creations in Christ Jesus! Seated with Christ in heavenly places. We spend too much time dragging this "worst of sinners" identity around. In Christ, the old has gone, the new has come.
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@1BethDutton Lemon balm would have a definite square stem, marking it as a member of the mint family and the leaves are thicker and a wee bit fuzzy.
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Is this a weed?
Grok says it's a lemon balm but the leaves do not smell like lemon.
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@HwsEleutheroi If we cannot think, then we cannot be held accountable either.
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Someone really needs to take Dale's phone away before a righteous woman walks up to him and knocks him silly. One thing is for sure, I know a LOT of women who think FAR more clearly than this "which way is the wind blowing today" wannabe.
Dale Partridge@dalepartridge
@sgruber91 Women cannot lead because most women cannot think.
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@luinalaska The act of canonizing a saint is still not what makes them holy? I'm pretty sure the Catholic church is making an official recognition of someone having, "practiced heroic virtue?"
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@insanitybytes22 Yes the Church canonizes saints. It’s not just up to us. It’s not a vote we all make to say someone was really really good.
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Wait is this a Mormon troll?!?? Did I find one!? Whew that’s a relief.
P.M. Phillips@S1AL
@luinalaska "Catholics don't read the Bible", but actually.
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@luinalaska Even in the Catholic faith, canonization does not "make" a person a saint, right?
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@insanitybytes22 That doesn’t have anything to do with how we speak of ourselves in conversation with others in a faith that canonizes actual saints.
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@luinalaska Well, in multiple places in the Bible we are called saints. The Apostle Paul often refers to ordinary followers of Christ in this manner. The Apostle's Creed is drawn from this Biblical example and refers to the church as the communion of the saints.
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@luinalaska Well, "saint" simply means a "holy one" or "set apart." All of us who follow Christ and/or have done things like been baptized, have set ourselves apart as His holy ones. Saint does not mean "sin free."
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@insanitybytes22 NOOOOO we don’t get to pick ourselves being a saint even if we sin once in 100 years!!! Never!!!!
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Yes if they’re actually saints!!!!! But ourselves?!?!? ARE YALL DOING THIS?!
insanitybytes22!@insanitybytes22
@luinalaska LOL! Catholics are allowed to call random men and women saints, both theologically and in everyday conversation. I only know this on account of the Great Twitter War of the Saints of '24.
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@luinalaska LOL, I hear you, but maybe if we all embraced the fact that we are actually saints, we would try harder to live up to that role and expectation?
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@insanitybytes22 Now if I die and a Pope canonizes me anyone can call me a saint. BUT ME?!?? About me?!?!
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@luinalaska LOL! Catholics are allowed to call random men and women saints, both theologically and in everyday conversation. I only know this on account of the Great Twitter War of the Saints of '24.
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I’m a Catholic so I can’t go around calling random men and women saints unless they’re actual saints.
OK Rose@Libizis
@luinalaska The term we use for ourselves is Saints. youtu.be/PWiSXDNtikQ?si…
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@capeandcowell I think they were able to eject and they are all accounted for? Praying this is true. Hard to get accurate news.
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In the span of 8 months back in 2020, a guy who died in a motorcycle accident had his official cause of death listed as Covid, the flu decided to take the year off, and Joe Biden got more votes from the black community than Barack Obama.
So yeah, I'm still kind of pissed off.
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@MikeWingerii Middle school mean girls who think they're hot stuff.
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@KaeleyT I'm pretty sure that we've always been living in the Twilight Zone? Grifter "pastors" chasing money, fame, and power are nothing new.
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Most of these men have been completely disqualified from ministry by every biblical standard.
I will absolutely take crap for saying so.
I just feel like we are living in the twilight zone. Where is any semblance of accountability??? Must it always come from outside the church?
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@MrsCMFrancis Oh yes, there are a ton of, "selfish men who are going to be awful" out in the secular world who have no real Christian influences that we can blame it on.
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This may well be true - though I’ve never encountered it - but awful, selfish men are gonna be awful and selfish regardless of the religion they are raised in.
That’s not an excuse for those raised in Evangelical circles, but this isn’t some unique feature of Christianity.
emily may@emilykmay
excellent piece on the culture surrounding marriage in the evangelical sphere. they will say in gender neutral terms "don't expect so much from your spouse" --but they are talking to women.
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Happy Anniversary, Brent and Jennica♥️! Dad and I can't believe it's been 18 years! The time has flown by. So proud of you both and grateful that I can be with my grandsons tonight while you celebrate.
Your marriage has honored God and exemplified Ephesians 5:33: "However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."
@DataRepublican
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@catturd2 This poor truck driver got hurt really bad, but I guess he is stable now, so expected to survive. So now that we know he's okay, let the poo jokes commence. 😂
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@MrsCMFrancis Hard to tell satire from reality these days, but this one is just a jokester.
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I can’t tell if he is joking or not?!?
Rep. Jack Kimble@RepJackKimble
Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.
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@BrandiKruse It's kind of amusing, these delinquents somehow managed to get themselves the best looking judge in America. 😂
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Just learned what “mogged” means. But this is hilarious. Little influencer boy literally breaks his bones to try to be better looking. Older man, who probably hasn’t had work done, absolutely outshines him. Too good.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Looksmaxxer, Clavicular, mogged by “Chad” judge in Miami court hearing.
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