If God's word isn't your source for objective truth, you'll fall for almost anything. In fact, Satan is counting on it. Be diligent in these times where conspiracies run amok. Know your anchor.
@SherryLuvsIdaho YES! Both things can be true: plagiarism is indefensible but so is stone-throwing. I guarantee there are things in all of their pasts they would be mortified to have plastered across social media. The prideful self-righteousness is staggering (another sin God hates, btw)โ๏ธ
I don't know anything about academia-world, so I reserve any comments there.
But, heads up for people watching the @WesleyLHuff
(who is UNIFORMLY attested to as a loving, good, and humble man of integrity by those who know him) thing:
A HUGE number of "plagiarism" accusations about verbal Christian content are levied by people with deeply ulterior motives who hate (theologically) conservative Christianity, operating under a Marxist "show me the man, and I will find you the crime" mentality. Their strategy is, "Deconstruct the Faith by problematizing the people who teach the Faith."
Wrote this 2022, and it applies to some of the things being said about him today: https://t.co/gW8PnrXBg2
All my replies today:
โI didnโt sit out the election because I was brainwashed by podcasters! I sat out the election because Netanyahu secretly runs America and the Epstein class blackmailed Trump into fighting endless wars for Israel!โ
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@jkdavis89 Yes missing the blessing in it for believers snd unbelievers alike while picking apart an art direction is wild stuff. The main point of the story: HE WAS CRUCIFIED FOR OUR SINS
Not sure why everyone is picking at this. Angels are the one area where a filmmaker can use some artistic license in a Bible story and do some cool fantasy stuff without committing blasphemy.
I thought the rock monsters in the otherwise blasphemous โNoahโ movie were cool too.
What did you expect? A white robe with golden wings and a blonde mullet like your Sunday School flannelgraph?
It's disappointing to see how many people still don't recognize the style of writing this show uses after we have had 5 seasons of it.
This is very clearly a build up depiction to what Jesus said in Matthew 26:53-54:
Matthew 26:53-54 KJV
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? [54] But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
This show has a great writing style of building up to central story points. From the first episode it started this writing pattern, introducing Mary Magdalene and her being possessed with devils and her suffering, and Jesus healing her. We also saw this with the lead up of Herodias' daughter learning how to dance perfectly to seduce King Herod to ultimately ask for John the Baptist's head. Those are just 2 examples, the list goes on.
This is a depiction. The Chosen have decided to show Jesus Christ seeing angels ready at any time to slaughter those people around him coming to arrest him. I have no doubt they will continue this theme throughout that episode too and Jesus continually keeping them at bay nodding "no," even while being tortured. It's to make you feel exactly what he went through and understand that he COULD have nodded "yes" at any point and that would have been the end of it, but he DELIBERATELY CHOSE to allow it to happen, for you and I.
I now understand why David prayed, โDo not take Your Holy Spirit from me.โ
Without the Holy Spirit, there is no divine direction, no truth to hold on to, and no clarity to navigate life. His presence is everything.