Ruben

I love Jesus and my wife.
Sometimes YouTuber.

[Ruben @retank]

Many non believers think there's no such thing as a miracle. I know I was changed by a miracle. I was an atheist, drug addict, sex addict, adulterer twice divorced, and didn't see much value in the world or life. Then I met my best friend and now wife, who led me to Christ...

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

endless pointless war, wages stagnate, everything is expensive, cant afford housing, cant find jobs, competing with the whole world for jobs, have to ask wagies to unlock the plastic cagies to buy toothpaste, have to stand with my back to the wall on the subway, might get stabbed/set on fire on public transportation, cities going to shit, mass immigration, stabbings, beheadings in the street, being told its racist to be angry about that, cant understand our neighbors, deteriorating communities, atomization, loneliness, food is poison, etc etc can go on forever and we cant fix anything without being called racist/anti-semitic/sexist etc and we cant vote ourselves out of it because both parties do nothing about this (as midwit as that sounds its true)

[Ruben @retank]

@cro504 @ShawnTrooper @darwintojesus Ha fair. I was sloppy in my statement.
I guess my bottom line is this. We have a strand of nucleotides that produce instructions.
How that is possible is a presupposition and not a matter of fact.
The naturalist believes it is a mindless process and believers attribute a mind.

[Ruben @retank]

@cro504 @ShawnTrooper @darwintojesus Hey dummy im talking about even getting to DNA.
Based on the fact that we have zero evidence of RNA self-replication in the wild, the conclusion is that it is impossible for RNA to self-replicate without amino acids and proteins.

[Ruben @retank]

@cro504 @ShawnTrooper @darwintojesus Lol. Ok NPC

Prove how amino acids produce instructions.
I'll wait.

[Ruben @retank]

@cro504 @ShawnTrooper @darwintojesus The only observable fact is the biology is governed by a set of instructions that direct assembly and function.
Its not a fact that mindless chemicals alone when randomly combined produce stable repeatable functioning systems.
"Evolution" is a god of the gaps for science.

[Ruben @retank]

If we apply Occam's Razor to this function it is more likely that the kinesin protein is programmed to do so by intelligence and it is less reasonable that this reliable transit system is the result of randomly scrambled amino acids.

[cumi @sambellcumi]

Whenever you feel sad, remember that there are tiny kinesin proteins trying their best to make you happy 🤓

[Ruben @retank]

@blaringharing @paleochristcon @mysteriouskat Or it goes the other way when he asks who and "them" is the response. But if holding ground produces names that are directly refuted it turns out to be gossip.

Names or it's just gossip.

[Ruben @retank]

Im gen X and I think 90s music is better than 80s music.

I said what I said

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Those in the SBC who think I no longer should have anything to say about the SBC profoundly underestimate the power of love. I’d served southern Baptist women for 40 years by the time I left. And when I left, I left directly on their behalf because it became disturbingly clear to me that the SBC as an entity was more interested in protecting shepherds than the sheep entrusted to their care. When protecting the pulpit from women becomes a far greater priority than protecting women (& children) from an abusive pulpit, something is wrong. Which has been the greater problem: women trying to become your senior pastors or pastors misusing or abusing women?

My biggest concern is that what happened with the CRT witch-hunt will happen now in regard to women. The overreach resulted in numerous pastors, teachers and professors dropping the immensely important biblical teachings against racism rather than risk being accused of CRT. I heard from pastors at that time who preached against racism and already had emails Monday morning from people in their congregation accusing them of CRT. Because the difference wasn’t clarified, they lumped all of it into the one category. The aim became: shut every mouth to shut some mouths.

I pled for SBC seminary presidents and leaders to please clarify to pastors and teachers and, thereby, to congregations & students what qualified as CRT and what indeed was the proper and deeply rooted and needed biblical approach to anti-gospel racism.

Crickets.

I see the same potential here. I have never once fought for SBC women to take over church pulpits. I have esteemed and supported the role of male senior pastors. My own pastors would tell you that. If you think I was in the SBC trying to lead a revolution against men, you are clearly not familiar with my materials. What I believed then and believe now is that God has called both men and women to serve their churches and communities and proclaim the gospel. He has poured out his Holy Spirit on men AND on women, calling them to broadcast the good news.

You have beaten the drum loudly about what women in SBC churches cannot do. So, what CAN they do? Clarity here is essential. What is a woman to do who has been gifted BY GOD to teach the Bible, especially if her church has moved to the community group model and there is no Sunday school to teach?

Here is what I see on the horizon. If you leave these matters involving women so vague that it becomes about pastoral roles/actions rather than the title of pastor, it will shift to the subjective rather than objective. I wish I was naïve enough to think that wasn’t the point to some of these leaders but, sadly, I’m not.

What if that senior pastor doesn’t allow a woman on the prayer team to pray over people at the end of the service because he deems she is acting pastorally? What if the pastor sees that a woman’s Sunday school class of WOMEN is getting, in his estimation, a little too big? Can he just decide she acting pastorally and remove her from the role? Can she counsel people with her God-given wisdom and knowledge or would she be acting pastorally? The examples could go on and on. And, of course, I realize many would not use their positions to disesteem women but surely you and I both know countless others would. God only knows how many unqualified, unloving, mean-spirited men are in pastoral positions but the obsession remains the women.

I have no desire to see SBC women leave the denomination. I loved and flourished in that denomination. I want them to be able to flourish in their spiritual gifts. I want them to be esteemed in their serving inside and outside their homes. I want them to be able to serve Jesus and proclaim his glorious gospel.

I know I’m going to get hit here. That’s fine. But you should know I will fight for them to the death. Because I love them. And, yes, whether they love me or not.

[Ruben @retank]

@needGod_net Youre claiming that the Holy Spirit is going to reveal to laymen a proper understanding of scripture. Meanwhile you are implying that the church fathers did not have the same Holy Spirit blessing because they disagreed?
Why would your understanding be superior to Polycarp?

[Ruben @retank]

@LizzieMarbach This is just an attempt at recycling a bad strawman against works.
No denomination is claiming works saves.
Peddling faith alone means you are trivializing Jesus' own teachings where He reinforces that the way to demonstrate your faith IS with works!

[Ruben @retank]

This is just recycling a bad strawman against works and claiming that any emphasis is wrong.
No denomination teaches that works saves.
Peddling faith alone means you are trivializing Jesus' own teachings where He reinforces that the way to demonstrate your faith IS with works!

[Lizzie Marbach @LizzieMarbach]

If you believe in a gospel that says works are necessary for justification, you are not a Christian.

[Ruben @retank]

@GoodShepherd316 The mark of the beast will require those who choose it to denounce God its not going to be some sort of gotcha in disguise.

[Ruben @retank]

Idk when some Christians got it in their head that the mark will be some sort of tech implant but that's just dumb.

The mark of the beast will require those who choose it to denounce God its not going to be some sort of gotcha in disguise.

[JESUSisComingSoon🕚 @GoodShepherd316]

Atheists :
“Y’all been talking about JESUS coming back for years” !

Lukewarm church :
“No one knows the day or hour” !

Born again believers sealed with the Holy Ghost and watching the Signs :

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Luke 21:28 KJV
👀

[Ruben @retank]

@sarahsalviander What i think is hilarious is atheists used to use the argument "if there is no God then the universe would be chaotic and lacking life which is what we observe...."

To now saying "it's scientifically accurate to acknowledge the probability the universe has plenty of life"

[Ruben @retank]

@theepicmap I raise you San Antonio to El Paso as more boring

[Ruben @retank]

@CJVogel_OTF If Tech really wants to play Texas so badly then they can do it in the CFP.

[Ruben @retank]

Do gullible people deserve to be taken advantage of? Or is the one deliberately spreading lies guilty of evil?

"Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road"

[Ruben @retank]

@BishopJaxi @Kalb_157 Ok I did not know this was affirmed as early as Antioch!