Stephen Puryear 🌱

@RadioFreeTom Weird ways of putting things are his specialty.

Okay, I take the point that he *sounds* like he could be saying "he's (got) a person I've known for a long time." That's a weird way to put it, but...sure. Of course, he's also saying he has time for golf and obsessing about ballrooms and arches, but not his son's wedding.

@marceelias No offense, but I would have won 65 out of 65.

Donald Trump recently posted that I am "a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record." 🙄 In 2020, my team and I defeated him in 64 of 65 cases.⚖️ Today we beat DOJ in two more voter file cases. We are now 7-0.💪 I guess I'm not so terrible after all...😂

@jhendersonYT You might want to google 'satire'.

‘I was mocked and called a thief by Jimmy Kimmel, John Krasinski, and Jim Carey.’ You were taking a lectern from Congress. And you use that photo in your profile picture.

@PiperK You might want to Google 'satire'.

The man with the "Lectern Guy" handle says he deserves Trump's slush fund money because he'll always be associated with the photo of him carrying a lectern. (Um, he could try changing his handle...)

@megbasham Excuse me, but Mitch Keller is a great pitcher and has never endorsed Stephen Colbert or any other Catholics.

For the record, this is the man Keller told us offered a “brilliant example of how to be Christian in the public square.” This is why I say concern regarding the inability Keller sometimes had to rightly discern a sound Christian witness from an unsound one is justified. It’s the same issue he ran into with his promotion of Francis Collins and Greg Johnson. So it wasn’t just what Keller taught himself that was sometimes an issue, it was also those he recommended we learned from.

@MeghanMcCain Excuse me, but that woman is nine months pregnant.

Can the advance people not put some random mans bellybutton next to our presidents head in the camera shot? Thx.

@DivinelyDesined statedclearly.com/videos/evidenc…

@DivinelyDesined How are endogenous retroviruses in different species evidence of creation? google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…

Here's the thing: Every piece of data regarded as evidence for Evolutionary Theory can also be fairly interpreted as evidence for Creation. But evolution ultimately fails because natural mechanisms cannot explain the origin of the biological structures found in Life. Only intelligence can engineer specified, complex functional systems.

@LatFilosof @KingOfSalt4 Apes underestimate how intelligent apes are.

@KingOfSalt4 Also, apes are extremely intelligent. People underestimate them all the time :(

I have to quote tweet my replies because the "cowboy" blocked me. Yes, Jesus was a primate because of taxonomy. The issue here is guys like you get offended because when the word primate comes to mind, you just think of a stupid banana eating monkey, you're not thinking in taxonomy. Humans are apes because we have the following traits: 1. A spine 2. Four limbs 3. The ability to create milk 4. Developing from a placenta during pregnancy 5. Fingernails enclosed in orbits composed of bone 6. A dry nose as opposed to a wet nose 7. A two-one-two-three dental formula. That is, two incisors, one canine, two premolars, and three molars 8. Nostrils that open facing down 9. Tails that fuse into a coccyx and do not extend past the body wall 10. Y5 molars 11. Flexible shoulder joints If Christ became man, then logically His body is that of a primate. And there's nothing wrong with that unless you despise God's Creation.

@signulll Who eats 240 chips with salsa?

“can i start you off with an appetizer, maybe 30 tortillas?” “god no, i can’t eat that many tortillas!” “how about if cut them up into triangles, fry them in seed oil, & serve them with some salsa?” “omg that sounds delightful”.

@RadioFreeTom He actually said "He's got someone I've known a long time." He's talking about the fiancè.

@JoshuaLWatson Not me. Leibniz aroused me from my dogmatic slumber of nothingness.

i knew there is something rather than nothing even before i read leibniz

@aigkenham How is it consistent with God's character to make billions of animals suffer after the Fall because of the sins of two humans?

Could God have used evolution and millions of years to create? No, God could not use evolution and millions of years. Now some are shocked when I say this as they say, “But God can do anything, he’s the infinite Creator.” Others have said, “But Luke 1:37 states, ‘For nothing will be impossible with God.’” God could not use (or have used) evolution and millions of years. To do so would go against his character. In fact, I would claim that for those Christians who believe in evolution and millions of years, they are condoning a process that is a direct attack on God’s character. God himself is the definition of good. The attributes of God (all loving, all merciful, etc.) are part of what “good” means. When God stepped into history in the person of his Son, he healed people of diseases. He raised people from the dead. After all, God’s Word describes death as an “enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26). Now today we live in a world of death and disease. This is described in Romans 8:22 as a groaning world because of our sin. God didn’t create the world this way because after he finished creating he said everything was “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Our sin messed up this “very good” world resulting in death (which is an enemy, an intrusion), disease, and suffering. Now evolution involves a process of death, violence, and suffering over millions of years to supposedly produce all life including humans. The fossil record, which is supposedly a record of the evolution of life over millions of years, is replete with remains of all sorts of animals, with many bones showing evidence of diseases like cancer, abscesses, arthritis, and more. Now for those Christians who take man’s ideas of evolution and millions of years (which is really a pagan religion to try to explain life without God) and add it into the Bible, they are saying all these supposed millions of years of death and disease existed before man. Now after God created everything including man, he said everything he made was “very good.” In other words, one would have to then accept God is calling diseases like cancer and violence “very good.” That is an attack on the character of God. Instead of trying to add evolution into the Bible, we need to start with God’s Word.

@TedGado @r_graus If by "all that we can't see" you mean "all the physical reality we can't see", then we have no reason to believe that the universe in this sense had an origination.

@smpuryear @r_graus All of the viewable universe and all that we can’t see. The Webb is seeing things that the model did not predict. Like fully formed galaxies! The model predicted that they would be young and not fully formed.

There is no god, no satan, no heaven, and no hell. They're all made up.

@TedGado @r_graus Okay, then let me re-word the question: By universe, do you mean the thing that many cosmologists believe resulted from the big bang, or all of physical reality?

@smpuryear @r_graus I think the James Webb is putting that theory into question!

@classical_ifb @r_graus Yeah, Richard, when are you going to realize that you're not the foundation of all reality?

@r_graus The thing about hell is it’s simple and free to not go there but of course that would require humbling your prideful arrogant attitude that you’re not the ultimate being and that God exists and Jesus paid for your sins. Your life is but a vapor in the grand scheme of eternity.

@TedGado @r_graus By universe, do you mean the thing that appears to have resulted from the big bang, or all of physical reality?

@r_graus If you can explain the origin of the universe I may take you seriously!

@allegiantfaith Does God's existence have a purpose? If so, what is it and where does it come from?

Atheists tell me that atheism doesn't inevitably lead toward nihilism. But the one response regarding purpose without God I've seen the most in the comments has been that there is no purpose. We just live and die and should seize the day. That's nihilism. Why should we seize the day (an alleged purpose) if we're on a quick journey to nowhere on a floating rock in space, upon which we popped into existence as a random accident millions of years ago?

@DivinelyDesined When we find various examples of endogenous retrovirus DNA at the same locations in human and chimpanzee genomes, these similarities are easily explained by evolution but not design. statedclearly.com/videos/evidenc…

Why are similarities in Life better explained by Evolution than Design? Aren't many features in Life equally or even better explained by Design? Evolutionists:

@sarahsalviander What weird thing would you have to believe if you didn't believe in God?

All of that, yes, except being made in the image of God ≠ looking like God. Maybe all of this sounds weird to someone who's not religious, but honestly the things I'd have to believe if I didn't believe in God are a lot weirder.