This marks day 151 since @MoonRovingBTC was suspended on X
I am still waiting for Elon and the suspension team to tell me what I did and also how I can course correct to be reinstated.
I believe it was something to do with posting too much about memecoins to bring attention to specific communitiesâŠbut canât confirm.
Iâve always been a standup guy in the crypto community and would be grateful to have my account restated, informed on what I did wrong so I can correct the activity and avoid it in the future.
Suspension should never be for life, especially when the user was never given a warning or even informed on what they did wrong.
Elon, please fix this broken suspension system. You are disenfranchising thousands of people like myself.
I donât believe morality changes when applied to God.
Scripture says God is holy, righteous and just in everything He does (Deuteronomy 32:4).
It also says God gives life and has authority over life in a way no human does (Deuteronomy 32:39; Job 1:21).
Humans are forbidden from doing many things that belong only to God as Judge.
Youâre asking the wrong question.
If youâre asking whether itâs morally acceptable for human beings to kill children or take captives, the answer is no.
If youâre asking whether God, as the Creator and judge of all life, can ever execute judgment on a nation, thatâs a different question entirely. Christianity has always answered yes.
So the issue isnât âharm, consent and dignityâ in the abstractâŠThe issue is whether God has authority that human beings do not.
If God doesnât exist, or if He has no unique authority over life and death, then your objection succeeds. But if God does exist and is the just Creator, then His acts of judgment are not morally equivalent to human violence.
Iâm not insulting anyoneâs intelligence. Iâm distinguishing between what the text says and what youâre inferring.
Could some of those girls have eventually become wives in Israel? Yes thatâs possible and consistent with Deuteronomy 21.
Does Numbers 31 explicitly say they were kept as sex slaves? No, it doesnât.
Youâre asking me to affirm something the text never explicitly states.
If weâre going to criticize Scripture, letâs criticize what it actually says, not what we assume it must mean.
No, the case isnât closed. Christians have always believed the God of the Old Testament is the same God revealed in Jesus.
The real question isnât who gave the command. Itâs why God gave it and what the passage actually means.
Also, be careful not to add to the textâŠIt says to spare the virgin girls. It does not explicitly say they were kept as sex slaves âfor themselves.â
If youâre going to criticize the passage, criticize what it actually says, not a stronger claim youâve inferred from it.
Itâs one of the hardest passages in the Bible and Christians have wrestled with it for centuries. Simply saying âcase closedâ skips the actual discussion and doesnât prove anything.
Not exactlyâŠChristians believe the God revealed in Jesus is the same God revealed in the Old Testament.
Numbers 31 describes a specific act of divine judgment in a particular historical context. It isnât presented as a general command for Godâs people.
If your real question is how Christians reconcile that passage with Jesusâ teachings, Iâm happy to discuss that.
But saying âJesus commanded people to keep young virgin girls for themselvesâ skips over the interpretive questions that Christians have wrestled with for centuries.
Yes. Christians believe Jesus is the eternal Son of God, so He is the same God revealed in the Old Testament.
But if youâre asking because of passages like Numbers 31, the real discussion isnât whether Jesus is GodâŠitâs how Christians understand Godâs justice, judgment and mercy throughout the whole Bible.
At the same time Muhammad is a historical figure just as Napoleon and others from historyâŠwith no divine authorityâŠJust like Joseph Adams.
There is a lot to unpack in numbers 31 but quickly is comes down to judgment and justice, the seriousness of spiritual corruption and a handful of other themes.
I see no issue with numbers 31, even though in snippets it can be misconstrued by those with ill intent.
Have trouble with God cleansing the evilness? There are many occasions, take Noah and the flood for one.