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@andrewjtaggart I really like the idea that “worry is faith in the wrong direction”. Faith is like holding the door open, worry is like holding the door closed and then feeling validated in your worry because nothing came through. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy.

Worrying isn't a form of care. It's a type of harm. When you worry, you enact a huge energy tax. And when you communicate worry, you transmit nervous energy to your recipient. Instead of worrying, you should cultivate cheerfulness. Everyone wins.

@WithinAllOfUs @FightofFaith Your responses never cease to amaze me. Always illuminating, challenging and a call to a deeper understanding. Thanks for doing it!

@FightofFaith Hell has no entrance or exit as it is not a destination. There are three Greek words translated as Hell and none of them are a future destination of torment. It only takes a little study to realize this.

Hell has no exit. Heaven has one door. Jesus is the way.

@UrantiaBookGems @ScottRoberts Man attempting to make God in his own image…

@ScottRoberts God is divine, wrathfulness is human and self serving

"God is love" is true. But it's not the whole truth. God is also holy. Just. Wrathful toward sin. A theology that emphasizes love while ignoring justice is not biblical. It's therapeutic, and ultimately self-serving. It produces nice people, not disciples.

@ScottRoberts Divine justice is not wrath or anger, it is a correction that redirects towards Love and towards God. God is Love.

@TheNewMystics For all the talk of Revelation on here these days, this is my favorite take. Nice work!

Revelation does not depict a violent Christ (who “changed” from His first Advent as the meek, cross-bearing Savior into a vendetta-bearing warlord). God does not change. The sword He bears is not in His hand but in His mouth (the word of the Gospel). He does not kill the bad guys, but rather “all flesh” (if one died for all, all died). The blood on His garments is His own. St. John “hears” of a Lion, but “sees” a slain Lamb; it subverts our violent narratives. The wrath of God is the “wrath of the Lamb” (lambs aren’t particularly “scary”). The three series of judgments (seals, trumpets, bowls) all consummate with “it is finished,” “it is done.” It is all a Gospel declaration of what Christ accomplished on the cross from Heaven’s vantage point. John, in his Gospel, sees Jesus ascend to the cross. In Revelation 5, John sees the slain Lamb ascend to the throne. This is the exact same scenario, from two different perspectives: one from Earth, the other from Heaven. The cross is the throne, where He rules and reigns by other-giving love. Revelation is vivid imagery depicting Jesus’ Gospel victory from a cosmic perspective - not the dark futurism of a “different” vindictive God. Even the Lake of Fire is the refining fire of His love that purges death itself from us (a “refining fire” attested by literally *all* of the prophets), for “our God is a consuming fire” (Isa. 33). He is hellbent on healing creation from their culture of death. The second death is the death of death. And furthermore, there is no construction of a “third temple.” Christ’s own body is the Temple, and we are His Temple … all of creation becomes the naios (the “Holy of Holies”) wherein “Behold, the dwelling place (tabernacle) of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” God, as St. Paul says, will be “all in all.” Revelation is a vivid story of the violent empire of state (the beast) and the idolatry of religion (the whore) ultimately losing their grip as creation realizes the healing of the nations in the relational, restorative Kingdom of the Lamb. Revelation is not a story of retribution on all sides - “justice” is actually setting all things right - it is a story of the enchurchment of the cosmos. *No motivation to plug merchandise, but we do have a 24+hour E-Course that covers every single line of the Book of Revelation to dispel all the 1980s horseshit you may have learned from American Evangelicalism 😂

@DeeWaynee94 The message of Christ is very misunderstood and the exact opposite of the patterns you mention here… It is Universal, Decentralized and distributed, Liberation-based, and it calls upon what are ultimately intrinsic motivations.

You can tell religion was built by humans because it carries the same ugly fingerprints humans always leave behind. Tribalism. Hierarchy. Control. Reward for obedience. Punishment for dissent. The pattern is doing most of the talking.

@mtaibbi The idea of parents broadcasting that they regret bringing their children into the world via clickbait media is a new low in this culture. I hope their kids have other people around to affirm that their existence is inherently meaningful, beautiful, and a miraculous gift

Sure. I know people who didn’t have kids and don’t regret it. What’s harder to believe is that there’s a large population of people who did have kids, and regret it. That’s not easy to imagine, but again, maybe things change.

@LeavingEgyptMin @LibTheoPodcast This is largely correct, although God transcends all political theology. However, If we are going to equate the life of Jesus to any political ideology, it most closely resembles Anarchism

“Liberation theology” is just statism and socialism too, packaged in the nice sound language of “liberation.” Most people who identify with this label are outright Marxists who are trying to square their worldly socialist views with the Bible. The political theology of God is anarchism. God’s Kingdom is a decentralized society of voluntary charity, organized through congregations and ministers who act as the “government” of this Kingdom. It is neither “oppression theology” or what seems to pass for “liberation theology.”

There are three kinds of theologies: (1) Oppression theology, seen in the video below (2) Indifferent theology, the norm in many churches and identical to oppression theology by complicity (3) Liberation theology, the only option remaining for those who have a moral compass

@jason_howerton The primary call of Jesus is not judgement & condemnation, it is love & forgiveness. Your area of focus and primary orientation is the wrong starting point. (not to mention that you are intentionally smearing a fellow believer with claims of being associated with the antichrist)

James Talarico presents an antichrist version of the gospel, one where he imagines Jesus unconditionally affirms people in their sin. Jesus didn’t affirm sin. Ever. What he did was seek out sinners to show them/everyone He could transform them into new life. “Go and sin no more.” The Talaricos always want to leave out that part. Affirming sin isn’t loving. It’s cheering someone into hell. Probably the least loving thing anyone can do.

@megbasham It’s so sad to see so many politically captured believers claiming other believers are not real believers because they’re not captured by the same politics. Causing division in the Body of Christ is a sin.

I’ll join the chorus and say this is outright heresy. And the logical conclusions of his claim are blasphemous. Increasingly, like the Philistines in 1 Sam 4, we are going to see the Democrats trying to go forward in battle, claiming the ark of the Lord belongs to them. This doesn’t mean that the right is synonymous with the church. It doesn’t mean that conservatives will always get it right. But the left trying to claim the mantle of the Christ is as false a claim as it was with the Philistines. They are foreigners to the true Church and the doctrines of hell that spill out of their mouths demonstrate this.

being against one thing does not make you for another thing

@pewresearch The 50/50 split in the US is clearly the result of a decades long campaign to divide the population into a rivalrous political binary that will blame each other for our nation’s problems instead of the elites who actually hold the reigns of power. It’s a ruse, people!

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: pewresearch.org/religion/2026/…

@__drewface Highly recommend both ‘The Effective Choice’ and ‘Tiny Book of Collected Wisdom’ by Forrest Landry. Also ‘Zen Mind, Beginners Mind’ by Shunryu Suzuki, and currently enjoying ‘The Universal Christ’ by Richard Rohr

what are some books of wisdom that have gotten you through hard times in your life?

@tomowenmorgan Steiner’s mapping of Lucifer, Christ, and Ahriman is so insightful. Hope we can find that balance. I’ve also been thinking about the idea that the Holy Trinity has an inversion that is Lucifer (hedonism), Ahriman (transhumanism), and Moloch (Evil Power). Which also feels timely.

@AJKocman It depends who you think is speaking in John 14:6… the historical Jesus or the Living Christ. Biblical literalism is the shallowest of waters. God uses words, but is beyond them.

To be clear, this is dumb. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” —Jesus in John 14:6

Christianity is meant to look like Jesus. That was the original definition for the term. It doesn't look like power, it doesn't look like wealth, it doesn't look like hate, it doesn't look like violence, and it often doesn't look like victory. But it does look like Jesus.

@ahardtospell In every choice there is a path of right action that leads to more choice and a flourishing of life. There are ways to know how to make that choice. Highly recommend that you look into the work of Forrest Landry open.substack.com/pub/delicatefi…

What I always find funny about the “teaching the AI ethics” debate is it often implies ethics is a solved problem and all we need to do is make sure the AI makes the “right” decision. Ethics is not a solved problem! Humans are not in consensus about it!

@JMGreerWriter Curious why you chose Yeshua bin Maryam instead of Yeshua bar Yosef which would’ve been the actual naming custom of the time.

I don't believe that the person we now call Jesus of Nazareth -- Yeshua bin Maryam, as they would have called him back in the day -- was God, in any unique sense. I don't believe he was born of a physically intact virgin without benefit of spermatozoa, I don't believe that he returned to life after being biologically dead for portions of three days, and I don't believe that he physically ascended into heaven. All those things are standard mythological elements from the Hellenistic folk religions of the time, which got loaded onto the memory of a remarkable Galilean teacher and healer by people who, like Paul of Tarsus, never actually met him. Mind you, it's unquestionably true that people who pray to Jesus Christ very often have those prayers answered. That's true of all gods and goddesses, however, and it's happened rather more than once that invented deities have responded to prayer -- I'm thinking here of the experience of the Reformed Druids of North America, who invented a god of the groves named Dalon ap Landu and started doing rituals to him, and got an answer. For that matter, I've had an uneasy feeling for years now that if I started seriously invoking the gods of the Cthulhu mythos, I'd get an answer, and not a weak one. The universe is a strange place and the Divine seems quite willing to humor us. As for the historical person Jesus of Nazareth, I don't claim to know what he was or wasn't. I wasn't there at the time, and trying to gauge that from a handful of biased accounts written many decades after the fact is a very dubious proposition. That's about as much as I can say on the subject.

@__drewface Agreed! My best thinking work is done when I step away from the computer, turn up the music and dance around my studio for a bit.

do not grind, my friends, but partake! enjoy! gather for communion with the computer! if you are grinding, you are doing yourself and your company a disservice right now. It is a time for creativity, wonder, joy, expression.

you do not need to be hunched over your computer. in our office, we are pacing, coming up with great ideas, swinging kettlebells, musing and laughing and turned to face each other, occasionally interspersed with "computer, go try what we just talked about and show us!"

Hot take of the moment: people who map every aspect of reality on a political map and then tell you that everything is political are actually trying to manipulate you because they’ve discovered that it works.