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@tomieinlove Back in college my favorite tee shirt I owned Saud "I have discovered a truly marvelous tee shirt slogan that this tee shirt is too small to contain"

(Time traveler): We finally proved there's no a^n + b^n = c^n for n > 2. You'll be amazed how— (Fermat): I did it myself! (Time traveler): Well, no— (Fermat): With elliptic curves and modular forms. (Time traveler): ... (Fermat): But of course, it didn't fit in the margin!

@greg16676935420 Ice pops

I’m trying to settle a debate with a friend What are these called?

@DeepTawar @Math_files Making it x^x implies both values have to be the same, which is too much of a restriction

@Math_files Why its X'y and not X'x

Students are taught that any number raised to the zero power equals 1, and that zero raised to any positive power equals 0. However, many mathematicians consider 0⁰ to be undefined. If you try to graph xʸ, you’ll notice a discontinuity at the point (0, 0). The discussion about the value of 0⁰ is quite old, and the controversy around it was especially intense throughout the nineteenth century.

@arccot @Math_files But 0 to the 1 is 0 and 0 to the 2 is 0, so 0 to the 0 should be also? That's the issue. On its own 0 to the 0 power is not a defined object. Context of how the parts getting 0 matters.

@Math_files if 1 to the zero is 1 and 2 to the zero is 1, then it only make sense that 0 to the 0 is 1 as well, otherwise. Every time math makes an exception it tells us math is not complete.

@RevivedThoughts We closed our doors for 1 week during covid, met 1 week outside spread on the lawn and then we're back inside. We'd figure out how to keep meeting. We also have been pushing midweek small groups for years in mind of if we ever can't be open.

If the government tells your church and pastor to begin lockdowns due to the Hantavirus, what will you do?

@Math_files My favorite quote while doing a presentation on Goldbacgs Conjecture in college was "the probability of there being prime pairs is equal to 1, which does not exclude the possibility of infinitely many cases where the theorem is false."

Bad math 2 is the only even prime. But the total number of primes is infinite. Therefore the probability that a given prime number is even is 1 over infinity, or zero. Hence it’s impossible for a prime number to be even — and hence 2 does not exist.

@WonderWomaNinja Keep going through verse 20+

Red letter words here. Do you see it? Does it make you uncomfortable? Do you think it means what it means? “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.” John 17:9 ESV “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.” John 17:9 NKJV “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;” John 17:9 NASB1995

@absolutelyCard_ No, teachers who misunderstood taught them. I learned by pemdas but it was understood that MD was together and AS was together. I've watched a high school teacher teach you flip if you multiply by a negative but not when you divide by a negative.

PEMDAS inadvertently taught an entire generation of people a fundamental misunderstanding of order of operations and what exactly subtraction and division are

@Tusk_4Real My 10 year old has had people over twice. I don't know if I'd trust having her going to other houses. We're down for kids at our house just about any time

I was a kid in the 90s, and by the time I was 12 I had stayed at my friends houses hundreds of nights for sleepovers. My friends stayed with me hundreds of nights for sleepovers. Video games. Making home movies. Snacks. Bewshittin'. My sons are 8 and 12 and neither of them have ever been to a sleepover. Neither of them have ever tried to get one cooking at my house. And don't get me wrong - I do NOT want other kids at my house. But I wouldn't deny my kids the opportunity to make those memories. Are sleepovers just not a thing anymore? What is going on?

@DrFrankTurek It's hard for many to accept the idea of not having to do anything in exchange. Thats tge "relieved the kingdom of heaven like a small child" scripture. Children recuev3 a gift with wonder and joy, and barely think to say thanks. Adults receive as an obligation to give

Many people in the pews of the Catholic church think the way to heaven is through works. Why is that?

@BradyShearer We've added a lot of people watch our stream to check us out first and then start coming in person after a couple weeks.

For a lot of church leaders, the worry about livestream is that it'll cannibalize the room. Pew asked 11,000 Americans and the numbers say something close to the opposite. The most engaged online attendees are usually the most engaged in-person attendees. Same people. Both screens.

@oliverburdick Dinosaurs

Do you think Behemoth and Leviathan from the Bible are real creatures?

@rabbriansamuel In Acts, the people asked how they could each hear in their own language. So my instinctual answer is in earthly languages you don't know

For my weekly sermons, I’m doing an in-depth study on the gifts of the Spirit. This coming weekend, I’ll be covering the gifts of tongues and interpretation. From your perspective, the gift of tongues is: A) The supernatural ability to speak in a legitimate, earthly language you have not otherwise known B) The supernatural ability to speak in a heavenly language that is not understood by any human without supernatural interpretation C) Both D) Neither

@JoshuaBarzon Honestly from my perspective, we have 66 common books. We should focus our interdiscussions on those. If the other ones are needed to argue with the 66, then maybe that's part of why they are not included? Scripture shouldn't argue with itself.

How many books are in the Bible?

@amillaaaa OK so what's the difference to you in simple terms? Because to me they're the same so I want to understand what you think of it

@ubergiants Sure but 1) Jesus was saying that in the context of false teachers/teaching. 2) "saving" faith in James's context doesn't necessarily mean Pauline justifying faith before God. 3) Demons don't have a salvation plan, and if they did, the belief monotheism wouldn't save them anyway.

James and Paul aren't talking about justification in the same sense. We are not justified by faith only (as Paul affirms). We are also justified in another sense by works (as James affirms). There is no such thing as a single justification by faith and works. That makes no sense.

@_pipdid Have you read it thinking of Jesus as the groom and tge church as the bride?

As a married woman, I can appreciate Songs of Solomon 🤭💕 When I was unmarried, it made me incredibly uncomfortable 😂 But that's just because it wasn't meant for me during that stage of my life haha

@jackrwilkie @cha12771 Could that have been for Paul's benefit? I was looking at Acts 19:1-6. What do you make of the distinction between John's baptism, which was water. Vs. This other baptism, which may not have been water

@ubergiants @cha12771 In Acts 22:16, Paul was a chosen vessel before his baptism, but he was still told he had sins that needed to be washed away in baptism

The Great Commission proves baptism is the moment of salvation. If it were something we do after we're saved, it would fall under "teaching them to observe all I have commanded you." Instead, it comes before that.

@jackrwilkie @cha12771 So did Peter? I think I'm missing what you mean by that sorry. Happy to read if you want to make your point more clear!

@cha12771 @ubergiants But did Paul have sins still? Yes.

@sola_chad @JoshuaBarzon Galatians 2 is interesting to me because they agree that Peter preaches to the Jewish and Paul to the gentiles. The RCC says they are passed from Peter, and operate in Jewish fashion. We are gentiles, and follow Paul's teachings.

Ben Shapiro: “The main pitch for me to become Christian would be to get rid of all the rituals. As a Jew, I do more rituals than you as a Catholic. Catholicism is more similar to Judaism than Protestantism. Catholicism essentially backfilled all the rituals of Judaism.” That’s because Rome teaches a false gospel filled with rituals. The Biblical gospel teaches that we’re saved by grace through faith apart from works. Ben would love being a Protestant.