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[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

I’ve just been Baptized!! Have a blessed day y’all!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

Update, it was alright. I think I’m going to have to acquire this taste though, it tasted good but was a little nauseating (I might have to use 2% milk). Let’s see if I get them gainz

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

Trying out some protein powder, cause I just found out I’m not consuming nearly enough lol. I’ll let yall know if this is any good. Time to get some gainz!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

I’ll go from top to bottom.

Your second paragraph is just untrue. Modern scholars think that the Gospel of St. John was indeed written around or after AD 70 (as well as the book of Revelation) because John wrote those at the end of his life (he lived a very long life but living into one’s 60’s 70’s or even 80’s, while rare, happened and was certainly possible even at the time). The Synoptic Gospels are theorized to have been written around AD 50 or so. We don’t know for sure as none of the original manuscripts survived but our oldest copies lead us to believe that this is true. As for the authorship of the Gospels, that’s not really relevant… at all actually. Given that, with modern archeological knowledge and historiography, villages, land features, obscure political figures, etc have been so accurately represented that if they weren’t written by the Apostles themselves (which, we have no reason to think they couldn't be or weren't), they must have been written eye witnesses of the events (other disciples mainly), it's literally impossible as facts preserved in the Gospels were more true than the best maps, encyclopedias, and almanacs of the time, so unless someone with knowledge from at least the 1850's wrote them and then time traveled to put the ancient manuscripts there, it must have been written by people very close to the events described. Read Colin Hemer's book on the matter.

I don't really understand you're third paragraph. Sure, if you're a naturalist (which you are) and just presuppose that nothing supernatural can happen, yeah that would make it seem like it was faked... but if you're already doing that, you're going to reject what the Gospels say anyway, even if they were written like a modern historical doctoral thesis. As for the written style, exactly the same. The Gospels are not written to be a grad student's thesis, they are written to send a narrative, to teach us. Even then, have you read anything from Pliny the Elder or from Tacitus or any other ancient historian? That's just how history was told, like a story, hence the name lol. They'd find our modern history literature devoid of soul, no wonder most kids except autists fall asleep during history class.

Fourth paragraph, ah the ol Quirinius debacle, a time honored skeptic tradition. I don't really want to get into it because to give a satisfying response to this would take actually like a couple hours and require a lot of work on my part, so I'll give you the spark notes. Based off of Acts, Luke clearly know about the AD 6 Census as he talks about Judas's revolt, and if you read the book I mentioned or read up on the topic in general, you'd find out that Luke is actually a master historian, like on the level of Tacitus and Josephus, so why would he get something so simple wrong? Quick answer, he didn't. If you look at the ancient Greek (ηγεμον), this literally translates to ruler or governor, which sure Quirinius wasn't governor of Syria until AD 6, but the Greek (ηγεμον) is actually more broad than the literally interpretation. Based on how Josephus uses the word (ηγεμον), it clearly meant a more general concept and not a specific office, literally "one who governs/holds authority," And wouldn't you know it, we have evidence that Quirinius was a special legate who was given authority when? Around 5 BC or so, perfectly matching up with the Gospels. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say, claims like this are often way easier to make than they are to prove, and the surface level reading of something is not the best way to obtain truth.

Fifth and final claim paragraph, one could say the very same about skeptics. Just as us Christians presuppose the truth of the Gospels and divinity of Christ, y'all presuppose the opposite. Us Christians, yes, often just take the Gospels at their word, but that's exactly what y'all do, just in the opposite direction. Because y'all presuppose that nothing supernatural can possibly exist, of course you'll be biased to find anything that even could look like a contradiction or disproof, because y'all start with the answer (Jesus isn't God) and work backwards.

To close out, I'd like to thank you. Both you and other skeptics like you, as y'all have unironically increased my faith in Christ and the Gospels. If y'all hadn't raised objections, I'd never have gotten so deep in the history or the Greek and wouldn't have this passion to discover the truth, the Truth. I'm not going to get all preachy and call you to repentance or to belief or anything, I just hope you understand that we, beyond (at least) any other religion, we are rigorous and truth seeking, at least historically. We have answers to all objections, it's up to the listener to accept or deny them. I pray for the best in your week and life, God bless.

Soli Deo Gloria

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@UnBEARableBurr I’ll trust you, you’re quite the expert!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

Trying out some protein powder, cause I just found out I’m not consuming nearly enough lol. I’ll let yall know if this is any good. Time to get some gainz!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@Yoteperson Popular pieces are usually popular for a reason. Debussy was a great composer as it turns out!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@rivka_huehhh Oh yeah I remember that. I await more peak!!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@HSMaxVII @MKnowlesShow I’m a Confessional Lutheran!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@MKnowlesShow @theonekingboo Yes sir! We grow in numbers every day!! (I still don’t think it’s wise to use the label yet, too many connotations, but there are plenty of us fans of anthropomorphic animals who are devout!)

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@RhodesianFur @Krieg_Tortoise Not anymore, now you know everything!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@RhodesianFur @Krieg_Tortoise Just fyi

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@RhodesianFur @Krieg_Tortoise I’m at crunch gym my beloved

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@RhodesianFur @Krieg_Tortoise What? This is outrageous! It’s unfair!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@Krieg_Tortoise @RhodesianFur Sir yes sir 🫡

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Dove & Ivy

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@ThatOneL1br4 @KinglyPancakes Hoi4 my man! More of a Europa Universalis man myself but I respect it

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@KinglyPancakes Where you Ghana go?

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@RhodesianFur @Krieg_Tortoise My palms white, do I get the W word pass?

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@RhodesianFur @Krieg_Tortoise It’s goated

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@CyprienCoon @Donutinha Lovely stuff!!!

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@LutheranAnswers @DarthHarryson Of course brother 🙏🏽

[Gunrunner | Composer | Musician | ✝️🏵🎵 @Gunrunner2003]

@Prestonshepadog Neat. A nice treat then, hopefully not overly sweet.