Elzonire

Christian, Eagle Scout, ZNG member, linguaphile, Nintendo fan, and a highly outdoorsy dude.

[Elzonire @Elzonire2]

Job 1:21 The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Maximus Minimus
05/08/05 - 11/13/20

[Bella, Mags , Brie and 🌈Bentley 🐞🐞 @ddoggiesmommy]

This is why I love beagles…was playing with Brie and Mags. While recording, caught this move by Brie and just started laughing so hard. Beagles are just joy personified

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Having a son is so freaking cool. The number of laughs per minute is very high.

[Bella, Mags , Brie and 🌈Bentley 🐞🐞 @ddoggiesmommy]

MOOOOOOM! Where is that crazy Brie?! #beagle

[Scott Forsyth @Coach_Forsyth]

Today marks the beginning of Peak Week for my bodybuilding competition on Saturday. From 263 lbs b/w on January 5th to 216 lbs today.

I took a ride on the bench for a one rep of 500 pounds followed by 315x19 just because I could. Crazy how much strength I've maintained through the cut.

@StrengthDebates @bryk_squuaadd @MashElite

[Bella, Mags , Brie and 🌈Bentley 🐞🐞 @ddoggiesmommy]

Brian just asked who changed the new WiFi network to Beagle Circus! Cannot
imagine who would come up with that most appropriate name🤷‍♀️

[Anya @ZxckFair_]

good morning, I love spider aerith.

[Aaron Chapple @big_daddy_chap]

I used to think believing in God meant you weren't that bright.

I'll own that. I looked at faith as a shortcut — a simple answer for people who hadn't thought hard enough about a complex universe. That was my arrogance talking.

But here's what actually happens when you go deep enough:

The deeper you push into physics, cosmology, and philosophy, the harder it becomes to dismiss God. Not easier. The science doesn't close the door on God. It opens it wider.

The Universe Demands a Cause

The Kalam Cosmological Argument follows a simple but devastating logic:

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause
2. The universe began to exist (confirmed by Big Bang cosmology)
3. Therefore, the universe has a cause

That cause cannot be physical, because it existed before physics. It has to be timeless, uncaused, and immensely powerful. That's not a gap in knowledge. That's a logical conclusion from the evidence.

Physics Points to a Designer

Then there's fine-tuning. The fundamental constants of the universe, gravity, the strong nuclear force, the cosmological constant, are calibrated to a precision that staggers physicists. Alter any of them by the smallest fraction and there are no atoms, no stars, no life.

Out of an incomprehensible range of possible values, they landed exactly where they needed to be.

The three possible explanations are necessity, chance, or design. The more you study the numbers, the less satisfying the first two become.

Scripture Saw This First

Paul wrote in Romans 1:20 that God's "eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." That wasn't poetic language. It was an epistemological claim. Creation itself is evidence.

Proverbs 1:7 anchors it: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." Not the end of inquiry. The foundation of it.

Real wisdom doesn't stop at the edge of what science can measure. It asks the deeper question: why is there something rather than nothing?

Reasoned Faith Is the Hard Road

C.S. Lewis made the same journey, from confident atheism to Christian faith driven by reason. He called the conflict between science and faith a misunderstanding of both. Science answers how. Faith answers why. They're not rivals. They're different instruments measuring different dimensions of the same reality.

Blind faith that ignores evidence is weak. But a reasoned faith, built on cosmology, philosophy, logic, and Scripture, is actually harder to arrive at and harder to knock down. It costs more intellectually, because you had to demolish your own assumptions to get there.

That's not a small thing. That's the work.

[Elzonire @Elzonire2]

@JoshPhillipsPhD @artofmanliness That's awesome. 💪

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

@Elzonire2 @artofmanliness I’ve always just been good at benchpress. I don’t know why. I have to assume it’s partially genetics 🤷‍♂️

[Elzonire @Elzonire2]

@JoshPhillipsPhD @artofmanliness You pressed over double your weight? Dang. I expected you to be at least 240. Though 210 is still definitely a big man.

[Elzonire @Elzonire2]

@JoshPhillipsPhD @artofmanliness Dude I still can't believe you can bench 480. That's massive. What do you weigh man?

[🌈Angels Eddie & Ella, Winnie, Johnny, Ziggy & Axl @and_beagles]

Together in heaven 🌈♥️🐾🕊️.
Eddie never loved another dog more than he loved Ella. Forever loved my darling duo ♥️♥️♥️🐾🐾🕊️

[Ferguson y Jasper @BeagsWilliams]

@livewellian Everyone's favorite Coop Trooper: Ferguson Beags.

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

You know what I’ve been thinking about? There are far more racist people in this country than I ever realized.

I have been blown away watching people celebrate the death of a White teenage boy simply because the person who killed him was Black.

This teenager was not on drugs. He was not a troublemaker.

He had never committed a crime.

He played sports, made good grades, respected his parents, and was loved by so many people.

Yet some people have found joy in his death because they care more about race than right and wrong.

That is not justice. That is racism, hatred, and pure evil.

A teenage boy lost his life. Anyone celebrating that should be ashamed.

[Ferguson y Jasper @BeagsWilliams]

Dog park + Drive thru = happy beagles.

[Elzonire @Elzonire2]

@carnivore_eric Looking big!

[Beagle Facts @beaglefacts]

We hypothesize that double the #beagles results in double the trouble but an exponential increase in love and laughter. #beaglefacts

📷 @Willow_Jaxin / Twitter

[Ziggy 🌿 @FaerunSiren]

My dad said on the phone today he’s going to watch my Ocarina of Time remake stream when it drops because the game is so special to him and he said I watched him play it as a kid (I was 8) and now he gets to watch me play it and I just…

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Notice how this Korean lesbian's "girlfriend" is basically a dude while she's the feminine one.

Lesbianism isn't real. They say they reject gender roles but can't be in a relationship without them. They reject men but still need someone to act like the man in the relationship.

You can't escape sexual dimorphism and pair-bonding instincts. Nature wins every time.

[Elijah the Middleborne @TheMiddleborne]

And they want us to think Roman soldiers carving dicks on Hadrian’s wall was a fertility ritual rather than a bored Roman soldier having a laugh carving a dick into the wall