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[Shay @RightsideRa]

Trump is backing legislation to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent year-round, eliminating the twice-yearly clock changes. Which option do you prefer?

1. Permanent Daylight Saving Time (later sunsets year-round, darker winter mornings — Trump’s current push via the Sunshine Protection Act)
2. Permanent Standard Time (earlier sunsets, more morning light — what many health experts and “end DST” advocates want)
3. Keep the current system (spring forward/fall back twice a year)
4. Other / No opinion

[Shay @RightsideRa]

@theerealtao You do not understand how ancient civilizations worked 😂

[Shay @RightsideRa]

@godlywomanhood Expository preaching is the best kind ⛪

[Shay @RightsideRa]

Absolutely! Here are three quotes

Pseudo-Eustathius (c. 375–500) even pointed to fossils as evidence of the Flood: ‘Since the waters covered the summits of the mountains, they were covered over and hidden by their flowing. For in these times of ours also, on the summit of Mt. Lebanon, men who cut stone for marking boundaries find various types of marine fishes, which must have been gathered together in the caves of the mountains when they were caught in the mud.

Tertullian (c. 160–225), the prolific Carthaginian apologist, spoke of fossils in the mountains testifying to a time when the globe had been covered by water. ‘There was a time when her whole orb, withal, underwent mutation, overrun by all waters. To this day marine conchs and tritons’ horns sojourn as foreigners on the mountains, eager to prove to Plato that even the heights have undulated.

Justin Martyr (103–165) affirmed the universality of the Flood when he wrote that ‘the whole earth, as the Scripture says, was inundated, and the water rose in height fifteen cubits above all the mountains.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

Ah, the classic Straw Man + False Dichotomy combo: turning the unchanging biblical God into a “volatile monarch” with “violence modes” that allegedly violates impassibility/simplicity.
Nobody claims God has mood swings, genius. One eternal, simple, holy nature—justice and mercy—expressed consistently toward varying creaturely realities. Flood/Canaanite judgments? Targeted justice after centuries of patience against child sacrifice & depravity (Gen 15:16). Same God offers the ark, spares Rahab, sends Jonah, and goes to the cross.
Your “oscillates” is the fiction. Impassibility means He’s not passively changed by us—not that He never acts in righteous judgment. Church Fathers & Christ Himself affirmed both.
You’re not defending classical theism; you’re smuggling modern discomfort with the hard texts. The text doesn’t bend to your selective lens.
Stay dry or get on the ark. 🌊

[Shay @RightsideRa]

Ah yes, the “impassibility” eject button.
Because when the text gets uncomfortable, nothing beats slapping a Greek philosophical term on it and declaring the plain reading “violates Divine simplicity.”
Impassibility doesn’t mean God is an emotionally lobotomized blob who can’t judge sin without “switching modes.” It means His essence isn’t jerked around by creaturely passions or external forces like ours. The same unchanging holy nature that drowned a violently corrupt world in justice is the One who absorbed that justice at the cross in mercy. No oscillation. No volatility. Just perfect consistency meeting rebellion with wrath and repentance with grace.
You’re the one smuggling in the volatility by demanding the Bible’s judgment texts be allegorized or labeled “human projections” until they match your preferred non-violent aesthetic. The prophets, Jesus, and the apostles had no problem affirming both the flood/Canaanite judgment and the unchanging God. Your filter does.
If the cross “violates” simplicity, then so does the incarnation, the exodus, and every single act of God in history. Classical theism figured this out centuries ago without turning the OT into emotional fanfiction.
The God who judges is the God who saves. Your version just can’t handle both without editing the script.
Stay dry or get on the ark. The water (and the final judgment) is still coming. 🌊

[Shay @RightsideRa]

By rising from the dead, Christ conquers those obstacles not by destroying His enemies, but by subsuming them. He changes the very grammar of victory. The Resurrection proves that God’s power is so absolute, so irresistible, that it doesn’t need to break anything to get its way.”
Cute poetry. Too bad it’s a false dichotomy dressed in theological cosplay.
The same Christ who rose from the dead also warned repeatedly about hell, eternal judgment, and His return as King who will “strike the nations” and tread the winepress of God’s wrath (Revelation 19:15; Matthew 25:31-46; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9). The Resurrection doesn’t erase judgment — it guarantees the final one. God’s power is so absolute He can both judge in history and offer mercy through the cross. The flood and Canaanite conquest weren’t “breaking things for fun.” They were targeted justice against cultures that had filled their iniquity with child sacrifice, sexual depravity, and violence after centuries of warning.
You’re trying to pit the “gentle Jesus” against the OT God, as if the Bible contradicts itself. It doesn’t. The God who drowned a corrupt world also parted the sea for escape, fed His people in the wilderness, and ultimately took the judgment on Himself at the cross. Same character. Same standard of holiness and mercy.
“Subsuming enemies” and “changing the grammar of victory” sounds profound until you realize it’s just fancy language to dodge the hard texts. The Resurrection proves God’s power includes defeating death itself — not that He’s suddenly allergic to righteous judgment.
The text is consistent: He is both just Judge and merciful Savior. Your selective lens makes Him into whatever feels nice this week. The actual Bible doesn’t play that game.
Stay dry or get on the ark. The water (and the final judgment) is still coming. 🌊

[Shay @RightsideRa]

@mynameiskiiiid @RhamphyLJ @LucifersTweetz “ You didn’t answer. Are you MAGA ?”
Adorable. When the biblical text keeps embarrassing your “God is a baby-killing monster” meme, just spam the political loyalty test like it’s a gotcha. 😂

[Shay @RightsideRa]

@1963Canuck @Dinerotodawrld2 @StephanMarbury @Machi1Nne Try reading the Bible a third time *with understanding because clearly you're having significant difficulty understanding basic concepts that include God is Love and there is no darkness in him at all. It's people who are evil.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

Got it. You MAGA ? That would be a perfect bookend. Worship a baby killer and a pedo protector.”
Ad hominem speedrun any% — when the biblical arguments get too uncomfortable, just scream “MAGA!” and slap on some lazy political slander. Classic. 😂
The God of the Bible isn’t a “baby killer.” He’s the Judge who ended a civilization where “every intention of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually” and the earth was “filled with violence” (Genesis 6:5, 11). Not a daycare of innocent toddlers — a nonstop depravity festival with child sacrifice, rape culture, and total corruption. He gave them 120 years of warning while Noah preached repentance. Most rejected it. Judgment came. Mercy was offered (the ark, Rahab later, the cross ultimately).
Calling the sovereign Creator who withholds life He gave a “baby killer” is emotional manipulation dressed as morality. By that logic, every just war, every execution of the guilty, or any natural disaster is “killing babies.” Grow up.
And “pedo protector”? That’s just desperate mud-slinging with zero connection to the text or the argument. The same God who judged the pre-flood world and Sodom also commands severe punishment for sexual exploitation of children. He’s not protecting predators — He’s the ultimate standard who will judge them perfectly.
You didn’t engage a single point about justice, warning, or the nature of evil. You just pivoted to politics and playground insults because the actual Bible makes your “moral monster” meme look like the emotional fanfiction it is.
The God who judges evil also saves. Stay dry or don’t. The water’s rising either way. 🌊

[Shay @RightsideRa]

Wow. That’s a lot of fancy words to smuggle in the old Euthyphro dilemma while pretending it’s a gotcha. 😂
Newsflash: Christian theology has never taught that God’s commands are arbitrary whims from a cosmic tyrant. The Good is not “whatever God feels like today.” It flows from His eternal, unchanging nature—holy, just, loving, and perfectly good (1 John 4:8; Psalm 119:68; James 1:17). He doesn’t make up morality on the fly; He is the standard. Commands reflect who He is, not random power plays.
Your “arbitrary divine voluntarism” is a straw man. The flood and Canaanite judgment weren’t “cruelty” for kicks. They were measured justice against cultures drowning in child sacrifice, sexual depravity, idolatry, and violence—after centuries of patience and warning (Genesis 15:16; Deuteronomy 9; 2 Peter 3:9). The same God who judges also offers mercy (Rahab, Nineveh, the cross). He’s not “undifferentiated power.” He’s the One who defines real love by laying down His life.
Without that eternal standard grounded in God, your distinction between “cruelty” and “unconditional love” is the actual semantic illusion—floating in mid-air with no foundation except whatever feelings or cultural trends you currently vibe with. Atheism can’t ground objective morality at all. It can only borrow the capital while pretending the Lender doesn’t exist.
Nice try dressing up “God is a moral monster because I don’t like the hard parts of the Bible” in philosophical drag. The text is clear: He is both just Judge and merciful Savior. Your objection assumes a moral standard you can’t justify without Him.
Stay dry or get on the ark. The water’s still rising. 🌊

[Shay @RightsideRa]

I am not convinced your Invisible Sky Wizard exists. You cannot prove your fucking claim…”
Oh, the classic “personal incredulity + straw man + special pleading” hat trick. Checkmate on yourself, champ.
Calling the eternal, self-existent Creator who spoke the universe into being and upholds it moment by moment an “Invisible Sky Wizard” is just emotional fanfiction for people who need to mock what they can’t refute. It’s not an argument—it’s a tantrum dressed in Reddit atheism cosplay.
You demand He appear in a burning bush just for you, on your terms, or else He doesn’t exist? That’s adorable. God isn’t your personal genie or Zoom call buddy. He gave the pre-flood world 120 years of warning while Noah preached repentance. They ignored it, kept raping, murdering, and filling the earth with violence (Gen 6:5, 11). Judgment came. Mercy was offered. Eight got on the boat.
You want a miracle? The universe itself, fine-tuned for life down to the constants, the historical resurrection evidence, the transformed lives, the billions who’ve encountered Him… that’s on the table. But you reject all that and demand a custom shrubbery performance like a toddler stamping his foot. That’s not skepticism. That’s moving the goalposts so you can keep pretending “nothing created everything” by magic instead.
Newsflash: If the God of the Bible exists (and the evidence says He does), your “not convinced” doesn’t veto reality any more than a flat-earther’s feelings veto physics. He’s not going away, and neither is the coming judgment.
Grow up, repent, and get on the ark while the door’s still open. Or keep yelling at the sky. Your call. 🌊⛪️

[Shay @RightsideRa]

God is sovereign, and he executed justice; this is not murder. God retains ownership of all life on earth, including yours, so he can give life, and he can withdraw life, and he’s within his rights to do either. The Canaanite children, had they grown up, would have continued in the same depravity as their parents. He withdrew their life, but that doesn’t mean the children’s destiny was hell. Most likely God’s brought them into His Kingdom.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

What evidence do you have that God is a moral monster? Because when I read the text I read about a loving Father who repeatedly shows mercy and kindness over sacrifice. Instead it’s the people in the stories are evil. For instance, when God orders the destruction of the Canaanites the text portrays their destruction not as arbitrary, but as divine judgment for their sins and a necessary measure to prevent the Israelites from adopting their customs: things like chid sacrifice, depraved sexual practices, idolatry and corruption. The Bible portrays this as a case of "filling up their iniquity" after a period of over 400 years for repentance. In n the Bible there’s examples of repentance and exceptions. For instance Rahab, a Canaanite woman + her household was spared.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

The Bible teaches that the antediluvian (pre-flood) people were fully accountable and judged because their knowledge of right and wrong was written on their hearts and evidenced by their structural, deliberate corruption. Even before the formal Law of Moses, God judged them because their rebellion was conscious, continuous, and absolute

The pre-flood generation did not suffer a surprise judgment. God provided them with both time and a clear message of righteousness before the floodgates opened.

The judgment of the antediluvian world serves as a primary biblical example of what happens when human understanding of truth is completely suppressed by wickedness. In Romans 1:18-20, Paul writes that God's wrath is revealed against those who "suppress the truth by their wickedness." Because God's eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen through creation, the Bible concludes that humanity—including the pre-flood world—is "without excuse."
When God judged nations in the Old Testament, children often suffered the physical consequences of the society they lived in. The pre-flood children were drowned physically, but this does not dictate their eternal destination.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

The children were being taught to repeat the same sins as the parents. This was a society that was evil. They did evil and they thought nothing but evil in the sight of the Lord. They had 120 years to repent but refused. The flood God sent was a judicial act, not an arbitrary one. He delayed judgement for 120 years to give them an opportunity to repent.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

@BalterBobb14932 @LucifersTweetz What evidence do you have that it's a myth?

[Shay @RightsideRa]

LucifersTweetz dropping the classic “God is just Santa for adults” cope. 😂
If an adult believed in a jolly fat man who lives at the North Pole, slides down chimneys once a year, and keeps a naughty list… yeah, we’d call that delusional.
But billions have met the living God who spoke the universe into existence, raised Jesus from the dead, answers prayers, and will judge every deed. That’s not a bedtime story. That’s the Creator revealing Himself.
The real irony? The account named after the “lightbringer” is pushing the exact blindness the Bible warns about. Satan, the god of this world, has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they can’t see the light of the gospel (2 Cor 4:4). He loves when people reduce the eternal Judge to a fairy tale — keeps the focus off the actual deceiver running the show.
Your “invisible man” jab isn’t clever. It’s the same old garden lie with better marketing. God isn’t hiding. You’re the one not seeing clearly.
Santa never rose from the dead. Jesus did.

[Shay @RightsideRa]

You're first reply was ridiculous caricature that doesn't resemble Christianity at all and was intended to mock God. Reality is recognizing God as the Supreme Authority and your proper relationship to Him;—that of sinner in need of redemption. Growing up means accepting that reality instead of treating it like a fairy tale

[Shay @RightsideRa]

When God sent the flood it was a judicial act, not an arbitrary one. It's a warning to us that we will be individuallly judged according to his Holiness which is perfect. God saved Noah and 7others to demonstrate his sovereignty over creation and his Holiness.
A proper understanding of the Word of God demonstrates he is a God who prefers mercy over sacrifice. It wasn't he that fucked up but the people who were doing nothing but evil continually and refused to repent. They were not ignorant of God’s will for them, for Noah preached it to them. For 120 years God delayed judgement, for their sake, not his. But then judgment eventually came to that society. He's delaying judgement again in our present day. But as the flood reminds us: Judgement is coming.