Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️

I enjoy writing fiction and poetry. See my site for that.

I also enjoy learning and talking about religion, politics, and botany. 😆

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@rootcausesleuth Entropy has ramifications on physics, but it is not limited to physical systems.

Think more information theory.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@JacobAShell @ausar_the They would have had access.

My great grandfather carved a cribbage board out of a mammoth tusk he found in Alaska.

He also had a tooth from the mammoth. I took it to show and tell in elementary school.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@rootcausesleuth @kb_french Yes. This is the standard solution to the problem of evil. God has a higher (good) purpose that is fulfilled by even evil purposes within His creation.

Purposes are composable.

It provides the same defense to Calvinists.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@rootcausesleuth @dhanabarger Creating with foreknowledge is a pretty good definition of determination, from your theological angle.

That's why it is important for Openness to deny "classical omniscience", right?

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@rootcausesleuth All these things are possible for a "classically immutable" God. It is only a problem if a person only considers a narrow slice of Him.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@tim_theoverlap From within time, an immutable God would still appear to change from the perspective of His creation.

More interesting is that creation would be immutable from His perspective. Being within time is just being able to perceive only what is "behind" us on the time axis.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@Soteriology101 Purposes are composable. Even if they are part of some external purpose, our purposes are our own.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@shafiekj @RealShahriqKhan In His life He fulfilled prophetic signs laid out in the old testament, He died as described in Psalm 22, and rose again on the third day.

How the incorrect portrayal of the Trinity makes you feel is unimportant.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@shafiekj @RealShahriqKhan Just as He described in prophetic scripture, including the Psalm you referenced.

An unbroken chain of prophetic scriptures and fulfillment leading back thousands of years before His birth.

His seal is on Christ.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@B33ds89 @RealShahriqKhan @nagoyan2gou The Bible is a record of what happened: good, bad, or neutral.

It documents God's agreements with people, and the response of both sides under those agreements.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@shafiekj @RealShahriqKhan It is an allusion to Psalm 22, which is of triumphant joy and trust in God, even during suffering.

Verses 16-18 prophetically describe the crucifixion.

19-31 describe God's final triumph.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@Ggski202 @Toneskeee I am glad you are allowed to read modern versions of the Bible now.

Are you allowed to read Mark Twain's "Roughing It" yet? He didn't seem to have a negative attitude towards the LDS, so I never understood why it was banned.

[Smarter Every Day @smartereveryday]

Mr. Rogers neighborhood is now on YouTube. I subscribed immediately.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@imPenny2x There are connections elsewhere to be made. It is a bit of a slog for the modern reader with missing cultural connections, but rewarding when the details pop up later in different contexts.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@TheMuppetPastor @WokePreacherTV It is like saying that someone distrusts online banking because they use https when doing their online banking.

Sending the letter with a trusted reader (and often a second person known to the recipient) is another layered protection in a defense in depth strategy.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@TheMuppetPastor @WokePreacherTV Saying they didn't trust the written word is where I take issue. They trusted it enough enough to know how to properly secure and authenticate it.

We use analogous systems with roots in these techniques for securing our communications today.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

This undersells the security mechanisms employed to protect the written word from forgery or alteration.

A few obvious ones that come to mind from the text:

Affixing seals, recognition of handwriting and signature, filling the whole page so nothing could be added, repeating key points in your own handwriting to show proper transcription, appealing to shared knowledge, referring them to trusted associates for authentication of the message, follow-on letters referencing the first.

There were probably others that wouldn't be obvious in the text.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@NickFreiling This made sense to me. Then I learned about Weibull distributions and how warranties work. Now I let the original owner take the hit. Used ftw.

[Steven - 🕯️📜🖋️ ✉️ @SCAlbano]

@rootcausesleuth Of course. The Bible is the record of His relationships and His foreknowledge demonstrated faithfully through history.