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[1/2] @Ihunanya_chi: “𝘠𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘯, 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘥,” 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺. 𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯? 👇 “𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘦, 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵.” (𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 22:12–13) 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵”? “𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵; 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘎𝘰𝘥.” (𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘢𝘩 44:6) At Rev. 22:13, “the First and the Last” is the Sovereign Lord God Jehovah [יְהוָֹה; Yahweh/YHWH], is “the only true God,” “God Almighty” and “God of gods and Lord of kings” (Exo. 6:3, KJV, ASV; Dan. 2:47; John 17:3; Rev. 1:8), “the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” He is the one to whom Isaiah writes at Isa. 44:6, who says: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.” As at Rev. 1:8, God is also referred to at Rev. 21:6 as “the Alpha and the Omega.” “The Alpha and the Omega” is as much a title as is “the Almighty”; neither of these titles refer to Jesus.⁣ I will elaborate. ⁣ As the angel told John at Rev. 19:10: “Worship God.” Christians honor and obey the King of Kings and Lord of Lords appointed by God, but what we do 𝐧𝐨𝐭 do is worship Jesus, “for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”⁣ ⁣ Jesus said about “the only true God” that he is the “𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 [God] [we] shall … serve” and that “those who worship [God] must worship in spirit and truth.” (Matt. 4:8; John 4:24) Christians are admonished to “fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come,” and that we should “worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” (Rev. 14:7) Jehovah/Yahweh is the “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.” “The God who made the world and everything in it … [is the] Lord of heaven and earth.” (Acts 4:24; 17:24) Clearly, the “Alpha and the Omega” is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 Jesus as indicated at Php. 2:9-11: ⁣ 𝐏𝐡𝐩. 𝟐:𝟗-𝟏𝟏:⁣ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐰, 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.⁣ ⁣ The Lord Jesus Christ is referred to as “King of kings” (1 Tim. 6:15); “Lord of Lords” (1 Tim. 6:15; Rev. 17:14; Rev. 19:16); “the first and the last, and the living one … [𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭] 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝” (Rev. 1:17-18); “the first and the last, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝” (Rev. 2:8); and “Mighty God” (Isa. 9:6).⁣ ⁣ To be clear: It is Jehovah that says, “I am coming” [to execute judgment] …, the first and the last, the beginning and the end,” "the Most High, … [the One] who lives forever" (Dan. 4:34; Rev. 22:12-13), not Jesus, "who died" (Rev. 2:8). Jehovah 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 die; he is "𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥." (1 Tim. 1:17)⁣ ⁣ 𝐑𝐞𝐯 𝟏:𝟖:⁣  “𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚,” 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐝, “𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐲.”⁣ ⁣ 𝐑𝐞𝐯. 𝟐𝟏:𝟔:⁣ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, “𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞! 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝.”⁣ ⁣ 𝐑𝐞𝐯. 𝟐𝟐:𝟏𝟑:⁣ 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝. [cont’d]

[1/3] @rabbriansamuel: 𝘔𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘮 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺. 💔 𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘶𝘬𝘦. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭. 2 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘦𝘭 14:14: 𝘠𝘦𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘏𝘪𝘮. 𝘖𝘩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦? 𝘎𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵? 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴. 𝘚𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘪 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭. 𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦. 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘮𝘰𝘮. 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. Jesus refers "the gates of hell" not prevailing over the church (Matt. 16:18), but there is no "biblical doctrine on heaven and hell." Jesus was referring to the opening of the grave to release the dead by means of resurrection. As to your breaking down these gates 'to get her out if you have to' does sound to me like the grief you're beginning to experience over your mother's death has overtaken you. You speak of salvation, but I'm a Christian, and resurrection is clearly a foreign concept to you. (Acts 17:31; 24:15) The following post from a woman that was going through what you are going through (Christiana Coco) may address the grief you're going through at this moment, but I did read your post and it does indicate to me, Brian, a lack of knowledge on your part about what the Bible teaches: [cont’d]

@YahwehGraced The Trinity attempts to reconcile everything God says about Himself in Scripture into a single teaching, what part of that doctrine do you claim misrepresents what God says about Himself in the Scriptures? I ask because you claimed it is a Catholic, not biblical concept

[1/2] @LatFilosof: 𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵. How many people do you imagine would believe the Theory of Evolution (ToE), the theory that allele [gene] frequencies change over time by natural selection driven by common descent with modification; and that it is by means of such changes in these allele frequencies in a population over time that new species emerge to be as a part of science; if they had been permitted to grow up thinking for themselves and without the indoctrination they received as school children? You do know that there is no one that has 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 observed natural selection driven by common descent with modification cause one species to evolve into another species, don’t you? ⁣ Using the scientific method, one observes what happens and then, based on those observations, postulate a theory as to what might be true, test this theory by making further observations and by conducting experiments; observe what results to see if predictions based on the theory are fulfilled.⁣ ⁣ No one has 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 observed natural selection driven by common descent with modification cause one species to evolve into another, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 no one has ever proffered an explanation as to how it was possible for the prokaryotic cell and the eukaryotic cell to form by chance, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 no one has ever proffered an explanation as to how a single-cell embryonic human zygote could have reached the neonate stage and from being a boy becoming a man or from a girl becoming a woman composed of 100 trillion cells (e,g., bone cells, blood cells, brain cells, etc.) with no human intervention, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 no one has explained from where the detailed instructions embedded in the DNA molecule of plants, animals and humans came.⁣ One evolutionist wrote: ⁣ “We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it’s good, we know it is bad, but because there isn’t any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact, which is a first approximation.…”⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ —Geneticist Jérôme Lejeune⁣ Why don’t we nurture our children to think for themselves? Why do we teach children to respect the authority of teachers, who are strangers to them? Why do we teach children to trust the things that their teachers are teaching them without reservation and without questioning the validity of the things they are being taught? We trust doctors to do no harm, but teachers are not doctors. In his June 2000 “Physics Today” article, a physics professor (Mano Singham) described the ToE as “propaganda” that are “brainwashing our kids”: “We only introduce arguments or evidence that support the currently accepted theories, and omit or gloss over any evidence to the contrary. “I use the trust my students have for me and for the institution, the university (Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio) and the physics department to effectively brainwash them. We who teach introductory physics have to acknowledge, if we are honest with ourselves, that our teaching methods are primarily those of propaganda. We appeal—without demonstration—to evidence that supports our position. “We only introduce arguments or evidence that support the currently accepted theories, and omit or gloss over any evidence to the contrary. We give short shrift to alternative theories, introducing them only in order to promptly demolish them—again by appealing to undemonstrated counter-evidence. We drop the names of famous scientists and Nobel prizewinners to show that we are solidly on the side of the scientific establishment.” [cont’d]

[1/2] @Sean_McDowell:⁣ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘏𝘙𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘐𝘈𝘕 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵. ⁣ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘐𝘚𝘛 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭.⁣ ⁣ 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘏𝘠?⁣ ⁣ @LatFilosof:⁣ 𝘕𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵. 𝘈𝘯 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘵 *𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵* 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮. 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵.⁣ ⁣ Speaking as a Christian on behalf of Christians, not CINOs (Christians In Name Only), but on behalf of genuine Christians, no such problem exists. We know the reason God allowed the Holocaust that affected some six million Jews and three million Poles, as well as gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, the physically disabled and religious dissenters; and we know the reason God permitted the deaths of some nine million Africans in the Middle Passage that were lost at sea during the Middle Passage between the continent of Africa and the US.⁣ ⁣ We know that God has permitted wickedness to occur over the many thousands of years that man has been walking the earth for the very same reason: Every human being is endowed with free will. God has also endowed humans with a conscience, which is essentially a moral law that accuses and excuses the things we do or do not do.⁣ (Rom. 2:14-15) God is permitting each human being to exercise his or her own free will to decide whatever he or she chooses according to what one's own conscience dictatea even if such decisions are immoral. When an injustice occurs, we want justice speedily, but Christians know that God can reverse any adverse decision that humans make and that he will do so, for God is making all things new. (Rev. 21:5) ⁣ The birds neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet they do not starve to death; God feeds them. We humans are much more valuable than the birds. (Matt. 6:26) A sparrow may be viewed as worthless to humans, but these creatures are precious lives to God. “Not one of them is forgotten before God.” (Luke 12:6-7) If God places such value on a single sparrow, of how much greater worth is the life of a single human being?⁣ ⁣ Humans were made in God’s image and are precious to God, more precious than sparrows, and Christians have learned from the Bible that it is through his son, Christ Jesus, that God is going to resurrect the people that died during the Holocaust, and the people that perished in the Middle Passage as well. (John 5:28-29; Acts 17:30-31; 24:15) Many of our loved ones that have succumbed to death will receive a resurrection, whether they died as Christians, as Jews, as Taoists, as Buddhists, as Muslims or as atheists.⁣ ⁣ Over the years, since the antediluvian deluge until now, God has been teaching the generations of mankind to benefit themselves for our profit, guiding us in the way that we should go. (Isa.48:17)⁣ ⁣ Through his word, the Bible, God has taught Christians the reason that we were all born as imperfect human beings with a finite lifespan of 70 or 80 years, the reason that we were handed over to our current imperfect state: Sin. No man has control over the day of his death, by accident or inherited birth defect or through disease, and it is well-known that through many wars, man has dominated man to his detriment. (Psa. 51:5; 90:10; Eccl. 8:8-9; Rom. 5:12)⁣ ⁣ [cont’d]