Robert Sweeney

Programmer. Co-founder/CEO of Facet. Inventor of binge watching.

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@RickyOrtega___ @LukeFHan It is an angel "flying in midair". It is a symbol of the fulfilment of the prophecy in Revelation 14:6. "Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people."

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@realDrTT 100%!

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@thogge Congrats Tyler! You will be a great VC!

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@realDrTT Wow, thank you Trevor for being such a great example of how Christians should treat each other. We should focus on the truths we have in common.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

I spent a chunk of my early years around Mormons and they were in general exemplary people. Solid families, friendly and open. If I had one complaint it would be aggressive proselytizing - which even happened on the school bus. But that is also a healthy sign of confidence in their way of life.

Exact discussions of their theology strike me as beside the point when they frequently live more ‘Christian lives’ than men serving as Jesuit priests or leaders of prosperity gospel megachurches - which are basically a Sunday infomercial.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

"You aren't a Christian if you don't accept the Trinity."

The history of that statement is quite shocking, and almost nobody who says it knows that acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity was once enforced by exile, fire, and death.

Here is what happened.

For the first 300 years after Jesus, Christians did not agree on how He related to God the Father. They argued about it constantly. There was no official rule. That was just normal.

Then a priest named Arius said the Son came from the Father and was beneath Him. Not equal. Not eternal. A lot of Christians agreed with him. A lot. This was not some fringe group. For stretches of the next century, his side was winning.

Other Christians said the opposite. The Son was fully God, equal to the Father, no beginning. Two camps, same Bible, opposite conclusions.

The fighting got bad. Riots. Mobs in the streets. Christians brawling over the nature of God.

So the Roman emperor stepped in. Constantine. He had just won a civil war and he wanted his empire to stop fighting. He was not even baptized. He did not care about the theology. He cared about order.

In the year 325 he called the bishops to a town called Nicaea. He paid for it. He ran the meeting himself. And they voted. They ruled that the Son was equal to the Father, fully God, one substance with Him. That ruling is the core of the Trinity. It got settled in that room, by that vote, on one word that is not even in the Bible.

They wrote the ruling into an official statement of belief. A creed. Every bishop was expected to sign it.

That is the part people think is the story. It isn't. The shocking part is how they made everyone accept it.

Constantine made the bishops sign the creed. The few who refused, he banished.

Then he ordered every book Arius ever wrote to be burned.

Then he made a law. If you were caught hiding one of those books, you were put to death.

Even after all of that, the Trinity did not win for good.

A few years later Constantine changed his mind. He brought Arius back. And he exiled Athanasius, the bishop who had won the argument at Nicaea. That man got banished five separate times in his life for believing the thing the church now says you have to believe.

For the next fifty years it flipped back and forth. One emperor said Trinity. The next said no. Whoever sat on the throne decided what was true. The official belief about God changed every time power changed hands.

It finally got locked in by another emperor named Theodosius. He made the Trinity the law of the empire. Disagree, and you were a heretic. Not in some spiritual sense. By law. Backed by soldiers.

A few years after that, the empire executed a bishop for his beliefs. The first time the state put a Christian to death over doctrine. It would not be the last.

Then came the document that says it out loud. A creed written around the year 500. Almost five centuries after Jesus. They named it after Athanasius, that same bishop. He did not even write it. They put his name on it for the authority.

It opens by declaring that anyone who does not hold the Trinity, whole and complete, will perish forever. Believe it or be damned. Put in writing, and made the test of who gets saved.

So that is where the line comes from. Not from Jesus. Not from the apostles. From emperors and councils who needed a divided empire to fall in line.

The Trinity did not become the rule because the argument was settled. It became the rule because the side that held it had the throne, the law, and the sword.

The next time someone says you aren't a Christian unless you accept the Trinity, remember what it took to make that rule stick. Exile. Fire. And death.

[Latter-day Truth @Latterdaytruth]

Happy Family Month!

Repost if you support the Family Proclamation!

Let’s #FloodXwithTruth!

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@DChadwickAuthor Most of the people you listed had no children because they were infertile, not by choice.

"We declare that God’s commandment ... to multiply and replenish the earth remains in force"

"the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children"

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

He is Risen.

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@WilliamMeservy lol

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

As a lifelong member of @Ch_JesusChrist, and a friend of @ClarkG_Gilbert for more than three decades, I’m pleased beyond words to learn of his calling to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Congratulations, Elder and Sister Gilbert, and thank you for your service

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@ByuSome @WilliamMeservy Elder Gilbert is Mike Lee’s close friend. They were student body presidents together at BYU.

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@WilliamMeservy lol, sorry buddy. Elder Gilbert is Mike Lee’s best friend.

“Elder Clark G. Gilbert and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) are longtime friends and former BYU classmates who served together in student government.”

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@DerekjAndersen I recently discovered History Channel Vault. $6/month, tons of based shows: Modern Marvels, Washington, Alone, Skinwalker Ranch, Forged in Fire, history documentaries. And it's family friendly.

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@sister_slay It’s pretty easy to prove human bodies were designed, and could not have evolved.

For example, there is some sort of connector that sends vision or touch signals from your body to your spirit. How did they get there if evolution only produces survival traits/features?

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@dustinharding I think you underestimate the impact robotics will have on farming and manufacturing. It will be 100% automated. I actually think the acceleration of robotics and AI is part of the preparation for the millennium.

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@rabois @lulumeservey Also, the ones that disagree with Dario aren't speaking up because they don't want to get fired. Woke mobs inside a company are terrifying. Just ask @PalmerLuckey

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@jeremyphoward @BorisMPower Truly vile to try to bypass the democratic process and impose your own laws on the US military.

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@SirJRG Startups are overrated. Kids are underrated. 😀

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@LukeFHan Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

[Robert Sweeney @rsweeneydev]

@RadderdaySaint The best kind of prank.