Nick Acker ⚓️

A new poem on replanting and renewing the seeds of the past

@dominicptaranto Yes it has. I might also point out that fellowship with others, who your worship and love of Christ may be the only connection you have, is good and edifying.

This has been a thing in Anglican churches forever.

@milkandmarrow Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S Wood

I love America and I love Americans and I am excited for a very patriotic summer. I want a good book about our country, please drop your best history nerd recommendations

@KevinMi35432391 It is but fitting for the day

@nick_acker1 One of Lincoln’s best. Thank you for sharing brother

A reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address youtu.be/MSa4lv7WDm8?si…

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy presence, that the good work which thou hast begun in them may be perfected; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

@PhysicistTx @yellowrosey3 A person confused on the Biblical teaching might ask honestly, what has the church taught about these things. Or he might go back to the teaching of the early church and find out what they understood it to mean. Have to considered that or are you just mad?

@nick_acker1 @yellowrosey3 Fully fictional and fully moronic.

Jesus is the most consequential human in history.

@PhysicistTx @yellowrosey3 Tell me your mad at God without saying your mad at God 🤣

@nick_acker1 @yellowrosey3 Grow up, sir.

If you've never read it, here's your chance. There is wisdom in these words.

@caesar_beaver Done. Remember in these situations that faith is a gift of God, not of ourselves. You can plant the seed, but it is only by God's grace that it will grow. Luckily, even when we don't understand, His plan (though not ours) is perfect, for He is perfect.

Please pray for my friend, Dalton. Had a very lengthy conversation with him about his "biblical Unitarianism". It was long and difficult but we got through it. I just want him to recognize that he's wrong before it's too late.

The English Church was separated from Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII, and that allowed those who wanted an actual reform to plan for it. The point is that all those reforms came after his death, so though they could not have occurred if they're were still under Roman authority, they didn't occur with or for Henry, but actually against him and despite him. In all seriousness, he died believing fully in the unreformed faith of Catholicism that Rome practiced at the time. All the reforming occurred later. Hopefully that clears up the distinction. God be with you.

@GordonFbpe @nick_acker1 @RevJaredJones OK well that smells like a no true Scotsman fallacy to me... Regardless, I don't care to do an "inside-baseball" on the origins of the Anglican Church

Grok, sum up the message of Rome during the Protestant Reformation in 6 words

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus Good and bad are moral claims. There is no value if there is no morality. Sure, there are different effects, but not one is better than any other if there is no morality. Value without an objective source, is just an opinion. This without it, all is meaningless.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus your question was not a moral one but about it being fine to eat i gave objective answers why it is not a benefical thing to eat shit you are asking for a moral answer while denying a moral answer at the same time

The same thing that gives humans the right to criticize any claimed authority🤨 Moral reasoning !!! If your “god morals” endorses slavery, genocide, eternal punishment, or suffering, people are going to question it especially when humans themselves are expected to distinguish good from evil in the first place.

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus Why is that bad? Go on. Remember, no appeals to morality

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus contains the cholera and e-colai bacteria which have devastating effects on the human body that alone shows why its not fine to eat... now you prove anything evil without relying on opinions

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus Go ahead. Prove it, without appealing to morality.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus we once again can prove why eating shit isnt a good thing you have yet to prove that something is objectively evil

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus I think a better question g(iven the topic) is, if it didn't taste bad, would it be fine to eat it? The answer is no. It is not because the taste that makes it bad. Similarly, something is wrong (like heinous acts towards children) regardless of either you feel it is wrong.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus then the same can be said about taste so taste must be objective because we all know shit tastes bad right??

Is that typically how you decide if something is yellow, by measuring its wavelength? Further, we could not previously, did yellow not exist before then? Obviously it did. The reality of something exists independent of you, that is what makes it objective. Morality exists independent of our assessment. Your argument isn't, not it doesn't, but I don't know how to measure it.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus we can prove yellow. it has a set wavelenght that does not change we cannot prove evil even general agreement does not prove it

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus No, yellow is observed, but it is not an opinion. Evil is similar. We can observe it, but it is not our observation that makes something evil.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus we can prove yellow things to be yellow you cannot prove something to be evil without relying on opinion

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus That the only value is subjective is the assumption. I can subjectively assess that some things are yellow. That is a subjective evaluation, but it was not my evaluation that made it yellow. In the same way I recognize it is morally wrong to harm children. Morality exist.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus then what is the difference between them and an insect except for subjectively applied value?

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus No, but they know that harm against human children is wrong and you say you don't know that it's wrong. Your willing to compare them to insects, as along as you aren't ask to be, do, or become more than you already are. I really do pray for you.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus i can guarantee you that 99.999% of people dont give a shit about insects children

@therunningdeath @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus But that's monstrous, and most people know it. If you do not, then may God have mercy on your soul.

@nick_acker1 @___TheGOOdWitch @darwintojesus i believe nothing is objectively wrong you for examply wouldnt care about children that are of a different species as you are its SUBJECT to your view of different species