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@rabbriansamuel ... except that Ezekiel 37's literal future resurrection event would seem to feature the lost Northern tribes in particular.

I hate to tell you this, but the distinction between the kingdom of Judah and the kingdom of Israel is no longer relevant and hasn’t been since the return from exile. All the tribes are Jews.

@Modern1689 @GribbenC So one effect is that the confession sorts out some potential members who are Spirit-filled believers but who may believe a different biblical theology (which may actually be more correct).

@DispyGrace @GribbenC They have to answer for themselves if they can in good conscience submit, or at least not teach contrary to, the eldership of the church, or if they should find a different church. I don’t think there’s absolutely a uniform answer in every context for that.

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@Modern1689 @GribbenC What should happen if someone loves a church but (a) it holds to the 1689 and (b) the person just can't agree with reformed covenant theology?

There’s a lot of assumptions there that aren’t reflective of the historic outworking of confessionalism. We can agree to disagree. I actually believe this and it’s in the confession I subscribe to: “The supreme judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved.” 1689 1.10

"Confession as ballast" also replaces aspects of real shepherding work that Jesus does and his under-shepherds are called to do. "Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. (1 Timothy 4:2). The word of God, particularly the gospel, combined with our continuous humble submission to it, are the ballast he has given.

Confessions work against Semper Reformanda. God can show *any believer* things in scripture that no one else has seen that are important -- things God uses to correct, instruct, or encourage the church. The principle behind "do not despise prophecies" (1 Thess 5:20-21) applies here. The Lord may have revealed something new (that is already there in scripture) to someone, so listen carefully. Paul follows with "but test everything, hold fast to what is good, avoid every kind of evil." "Test everything" does not mean "measure it against a confession", but that's effectively what happens in highly confessional churches. Confessions sort people into camps on the basis of agreement with a non-biblical document, not the core tenets of the faith. In the process, we lose the forward movement of the Holy Spirit as he shows people things in scripture, and we lose the muscle of discernment by which we are compelled to hold only scripture itself as inerrant, search the scriptures repeatedly, and remain humbly receptive.

Not easy as asked. Best code reviews come with context. What's our place in the project, what are the current goals, coding standards, expectations, etc. What is the business optimizing for? What are the ways we're improving the codebase? How long will this code be around? Context governs code reviews. On the other hand, if it's LLM throwaway slop that no one will read or maintain... just test it appropriately and call it a day.

To people who are *good* at reviewing code (or claim to be hehe) - how is that possible? To what extend you can properly review the code with low familiarity with the codebase? Eg. New project, you jump in, Claude Code PR - 500 lines changed - review now What's the strategy?

@AgainstAtheismX Growing up in a church that is not built through expository preaching and the centrality of the gospel, or is not obeying the simple direct commands to church leaders in the New Testament.

Christians What do you think is the most common reason people turn Atheist?

@sargehill69 @innoutburger_ Mmmmmmmm

@DispyGrace @innoutburger_ No they need to be fried in beef tallow

I want honest feedback. Do you really enjoy In-N-Out’s fries?

Laziness is one of the three programming virtues. A "lazy" engineer will work really hard now (through automation, good abstraction, documentation, tight maintainable designs) to avoid work later. It's a habit that tends to produces highly maintainable software. LLMs will are overeager and spit out so much code up front... and it's all a massive maintenance liability with (at best) mimicked but thoughtless abstraction and no reasoning about data and interface design.

Software Engineers, what’s your backup plan if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in 2 years?

@RealFreshPeach @YKalatzis @dhruvmt2 @drummatick did you see the HN discussion? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477466…

@YKalatzis @dhruvmt2 @DispyGrace @drummatick the original post is engagement farming with ai generated writing

crazy results In digital logic, you know that a single NAND gate can build any Boolean circuit. AND, OR, NOT, XOR... all reducible to NAND. Nobody had found the equivalent for continuous math, the stuff on scientific calculators: sin, cos, log, exp, sqrt, etc. This paper shows that one binary operator does it: for example eml(1, eml(eml(1,x), 1)) = ln(x) and eml(x, 1) = exp(x) - ln(1) = exp(x) - 0 = exp(x) once you get ln(x) and exp(x), you can get anything from using same operator again and again

@drummatick @dhruvmt2 If this is one of many such functions, why all the hubbub?

@dhruvmt2 Yup author acknowledges it

@_annieversary Updated link: arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

what the Fuck arxiv.org/html/2603.2185…

@Exodus15_11 They prey on Sunday sabbatarians. Christians need more coherent biblical theology than reformed and puritan doctrine. Those still inherit aberrant Romish doctrine.

Can the reader discern the propaganda of the SDA sect/cult?

@pepe6gorillian @Exodus15_11 @loquens35 10 commandments given to Israel. Spoken from mount Sinai. Most hearers at the time were not believers. They needed to fear God and know their own sinfulness. This was the beginning of the Mosaic or Old Covenant. Its law is intended as a "guardian" or "tutor" to lead us to Christ.

@DispyGrace @Exodus15_11 @loquens35 There’s a reason it’s in the 10 commandments

The shifting of the Sabbath to Sunday and the assertion that Sunday is the Lord's day of resurrection contradicts biblical truth. It is the mark of the beast.

@loquens35 @Pontifex_de That's not what the scripture teaches. Even SDAs don't teach that ...

⁦@Pontifex_de⁩ The Messiah was arrested and taken away on Thursday. On Friday, he was tried, convicted, and crucified. On the same day, he was laid in a tomb. Early Saturday morning, the women came to the tomb and found it empty. He had risen. So he did not rise on Sunday.

@loquens35 That is a teaching of the false prophet Ellen White. She contradicted herself and made false predictions, so to believe she is a true prophet and listen to her is a sin.

The seventh day of creation had no evening and morning mentioned. It was not a law or ordinance, it was a rest God entered and that Adam and Eve entered too. They only lost it when they sinned - and God began the work of redemption. So many centuries later, God instituted the Sabbath to look back to the rest after creation and forward to the rest after redemption (completed on the cross). So the Hebrews 4 "sabbath rest for God's people" is the rest from works of righteousness. Only Christ's work of righteousness can merit salvation -- and he invites us to enter his rest and receive his righteousness on the basis of his finished work on the cross. Now we have the Lord's supper to looks back to his death on the cross and forward to being with him in his kingdom. That is our ongoing outward sign of being in his New Covenant people, the church. It ought to be accompanied by repentance, faith, and obedience -- not sabbath-keeping or any other ordinances from the Old Covenant that is obsolete and has passed away. (Hebrews 8:13).

@Exodus15_11 @loquens35 The sabbath isn’t Jewish. There were no Jews in Eden. The SDA church is gods remnant

@Svigel Quigley Down Under Back To The Future 3 Good Bad Ugly [haven't seen others I enjoyed]

Your top 5 Westerns. Go!

A prominent, very respectable Reformed (covenant theology) theologian used to say he felt "fear and trepidation" when teaching from Romans 11. Does your biblical theology have "problem passages" it finds particularly difficult to explain? You might say "Well, everyone has problem texts" - if you mean isolated verses that seem to say things not repeated or alluded to elsewhere, fine. "Baptism for the dead" is one example. But if you mean one or more whole chapters or repeated themes, then you definitely have a problem. Have the courage to hold to scripture, let it lead where it will, and let that theology go.