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Sir this is a Sweet Green

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@theistinthought Jesus chooses 12 to Israel. 70 to the nations.

Moses picks 70 elders following God’s orders, challenging the 70 deities in Canaan divine council.

God speaks to prophets in riddles, but to Moses he speaks face to face.

Elders in heaven. Angel ranks. “On earth as in heaven”

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@AnthropoceneMe1 Constant observation of people getting stuck in rabbit holes when presented with seemingly novel information.

Fighting over Jesus’ real name, obsessing over book of Enoch stuff (which I actually hold somewhat true).

False teachers love to leverage this weakness

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

Christianity in the west has this very peculiar flavor to it. Is it the Plato effect?

Like the knowledge overwhelms people and they get this urge to constantly preach something that grabs their attention.

But it’s clearly a head knowledge expression vs. heart.

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@samueleyekosi Search “divine council” for one angle in addition to Trinity.

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@JungAristotle They do do that

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@joshwhitlatch I knew when I started internalizing “he will judge righteously, not gonna stress about this”

[Plumbline Faith @PlumblineFaith]

Twenty-some years ago I was leading many to the Lord, especially from the local jail and other places at the edges of polite society.

I would then try to get these new believers plugged into the church I was attending – which at the time was considered a solid, dynamic, Bible-believing church.

But try as I did, it never seemed to happen. New converts from the “street” are good at reading people and seeing through facades. They’d quickly sense all the hypocrisy and phony represented on the front stage each Sunday – and wanted no part of it.

Essentially, what they saw was more about the power, position, and prestige of the “senior” leader standing apart from everyone on a stage, than about true relational ministry to one another for the mutual edification of each other …

Even though the New Testament condemns the former but commands the latter.

It got to the point that I couldn’t, in good faith, bring them anymore to that church. But I couldn’t find another church that didn’t have the same issues, rooted in the very hierarchical, pastor-centric structure common in nearly all churches here in the U.S. over the last several decades.

So I quietly started opening my home on Friday nights for a meal and fellowship, where everyone could share, be real with each other, and encourage one another in the Lord.

That was the beginning of our journey over the last twenty years into relational participatory gatherings with flat, rather than hierarchical leadership that focuses on ministry one to another instead of ministry by the one.

It’s been challenging at times, but I’ll never go back to the old model.

Perhaps it’s time that you too take a chance, step out in faith, and trust that being the church as the New Testament actually shows it is indeed possible …

Despite all of your prior presumptions about church as you’d previously come to know it.

See what the New Testament actually says, seek the Lord about what He wants and let Him prepare you, then do wherever He says …

Even if it leads you outside your comfort zones.

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@Don4wk @DaneDe4orest How does the decline to not more than 120 years fare tho.

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@hot_cocoa_girl Spiritually, sex is creating. Even without conception.

Rape leaves an insane vacuum instead, a robbing by force.

The vacuum desires to be filled, and seeks to revisit sex in a “right” way. It’s a yearning for what was lost.

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@Thomasdelvasto_ No. You truly don’t owe them anything.

But you also miss out on co-creating with them.

It’s a self-own of sorts.

[Θωμᾶς del Vasto @Thomasdelvasto_]

I really do suspect that if we had mandatory communal dancing and singing twice a week for everyone, most of our cultural divisions would drop away over time

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@cxgonzalez Peacock effect

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

The capacity for sin grows with the body.

Just as the capacity for obedience grows.

Knowledge of good and evil phenomenon.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

after nine months with a baby, most things about Christianity resonate much more for me, but one thing that resonates much less is the notion of original sin, especially in its Augustinian and Calvinist forms, which just seem empirically false. you are clearly born innocent.

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@cxgonzalez The lamb was slain before the foundations of the world.

The reality is that the sacrificial atonement is in spiritual terms, eternal.

But there are pivotal, historical moments that must happen for spiritual/physical realm alignment.

Your will be done, on earth as in heaven

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@Thomasdelvasto_ @angelaramblings This sent me in the middle of an elevator with people

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

Crazy insight. Why did God make humans in flesh bodies that can perish and not new bodies directly?

[simp 4 satoshi @iamgingertrash]

@michaeltastad Because they are in fantasy land

Agency, is emergent from a evolutionary pressure of death

> you must get up and move

A model will never have this incentive

Ignore doomer

Focus on the real doom

The ones who wield these machines

[simp 4 satoshi @iamgingertrash]

A strange truth;

1. The models are intelligent enough to solve Navier Stokes when prompted to

2. The models do not have the agency to solve Navier Stokes without a prompter

The AI’s aren’t taking over,
but beware of the humans
who wield them

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@vividvoid @Thomasdelvasto_ Computational theology

[Fickleme @ficklemeplant]

@Lifa_1990 @cutiepia8395 Read the og post. Now read your posts.

I pointed to stats after you asked for more to my initial anecdote.

You rejected it with researcher conjecture that is not statistically proven. Seethingly at that.

Tell me more.