The Foxfire American

"A Real Bro" | Family-Man | Creation-lover | Worship Leader

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

#lifegoals

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@CooperBogetti

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@Brian_Sauve Happy Lord’s Day!!!

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

It feels more and more like the forces of evil are in retreat, like that old devil is on the run.

Hard to explain. Hope and light abound.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

💀💀💀

[beginbot 🃏 @beginbot]

just saw a dev using Opus 4.7 🤣

what month is it little bro

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

based.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@BrookeLig 's EAT album is so good. It's a collection of art placed on the altar of God. If you want easy radio-listening, this ain't it. It's a blessing to God and she's just happened to make it available for us to listen in.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@hicasamadim 36!

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

/simplify is 🐐. It's freakin' token intensive, but it's so worth it!

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@BowTiedBroke 1232

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@SuperVan_15 I’ll say no to a gathering, only to apologize and properly rsvp once I learn that Conecuh sausage is being served.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@CasualThursday 😆

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@LAChas77 @DominoRxxx That’s an oak tree with Kudzu.
😉

[Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville]

If you don’t love our country and are not PROUD to be an American…

LEAVE.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

@CarsonHocevar Dude, stuff like this makes me proud that you are my favorite driver.

[Charlie @LAChas77]

I wonder what the poor people are doing

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.

We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Seeing some response to my statement on @MikhailaFuller's podcast about speaking in tongues. Some potentially helpful clarification:

First, I am not a cessationist (though I see myself being accused of it). I state in the interview that I believe that the spiritual sign gifts (tongues, prophesy, healing) still take place today, just not normatively like they were in the Apostolic era.

Nonetheless, I hold to the standard exegetical position that biblical tongues refer to known languages. In Acts 2, the foundational instance, foreign speakers understood the disciples in their own native languages, establishing the clearest precedent for interpreting the phenomenon throughout Scripture.

Secondly, while bliblical specialists and theologians debate whether tongues encompass human languages alone or include angelic speech, the consensus recognizes that a tongue functions as a language -- either immediately intelligible to hearers or requiring interpretation. The requirement that Paul places on interpretation in 1 Corinthians 14 indicates that tongues contain objective, propositional meaning subject to translation, and his statement that “every valid instance of tongues contains intrinsic, propositional meaning" reinforces this understanding.

A prominent scholarly argument identifies glossolalia as “the miraculous ability to speak unlearned human and (possibly) divine or angelic languages,” with the most common usage of “tongues” referring to ordinary human languages. The term γλῶσσα throughout the NT carries two primary meanings: the human organ or a human language, and careful word studies demonstrate that it never denotes non-cognitive utterance.

However, scholarly consensus isn’t absolute the core agreement across interpretations centers on cognitive content: tongues communicate meaningful, intelligible information rather than incoherent utterance.

Third, the early church evidence after the Apostolic era is virtually unanimous: the Early Church Fathers consistently interpreted the gift of tongues as the capacity to speak the many languages used across the earth. Their writings indicate the gift served an evangelistic purpose enabling communication with non-Christian populations.

The Patristics universally understood “tongues” in Acts and 1 Corinthians to refer to human languages, and ancient Christians understood the biblical gift of tongues as a miracle involving intelligible human languages. When the fathers described the phenomenon, they used concrete language: John Chrysostom wrote that believers “would suddenly speak in Persian, another in Latin, another in the language of the Indians or of some other people” (Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily 35), and Augustine stated that disciples “spoke in the languages of all the nations” (Sermon 269, Sermo CCLXIX.

The most significant, and almost exclusive, early figure associated with ecstatic speech for tongues was Montanus, a 2nd-century prophet whose followers emphasized speaking in tongues; he was actually excommunicated (not necessarily for his position on tongues) around AD 177. By the late 2nd century, ecstatic interpretations of tongues were present but only in context of ecclesiastical concern.

One interesting nuance appears with Philastrius in the 4th century, who understood angels as capable of conversing in all languages and believed the apostles received this same ability at Pentecost. However, this doesn’t represent a departure from the “knowable language” framework rather, the Early Church Fathers understood the gift of tongues as the ability to speak all languages spoken by people. The Church Fathers agreed the gift was the ability to speak all languages known to humankind, an ability they ascribed to angels, suggesting the “languages of angels” would not refer to a distinct heavenly language but rather to the capacity to communicate with anyone encountered.

The historical record shows no discussion among the fathers of ecstatic utterances, unknown languages, or supernatural unintelligible speech. The gift remained firmly anchored to practical, learnable human languages throughout Patristic interpretation.

So if you've stuck around this long, I think my position is both exegetically and historically sound.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

The BEST thing about being a QA Engineer is QA'ing your own work and being dang confident and happy with your work.

[The Foxfire American @rectorsaur]

We used to be a proper country.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Harold's Gas Station, Spring Hill, Florida, 1965.

[Vice President JD Vance @VP]

WATCH: Vice President JD Vance's Rededicate 250 message:

“I always ask people to pray for wisdom and for courage for their leadership. Pray for wisdom that we know the path God wants us to walk. Pray for courage that we have the ability to walk that path.”