@stealthxbomber@Xtopher_Uzo It highlights visible, structured transmission of the Spirit through authorized ministers. The Bible shows order, authority, and ritual in the apostolic church, not individualism.
@jrb528 When someone who is actually on the ground, walking with families, showing up in the hardest moments, and working every day to bring peace to a community speak, people should listen. This isn’t just theory or a talking point. It’s real lives, real loss, and real responsibility
@BibChr@CBT_91 Resurrection in Scripture always refers to the body. Souls don’t lie in tombs, bodies do. Paul says Christ brings the faithful with Him (1 Thess 4:14), then their bodies rise. So the passage describes bodily resurrection, not the soul coming back into existence.
@BibChr@CBT_91 Pro tip: Luke 20:38
“He is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.” Jesus says this about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — men who had physically died centuries earlier. Jesus teaches that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not dead. They are alive in God’s presence.
@Olangeeni @mdb2050 @Jwantstobegin@trad_west_ Human dignity, moral frameworks, human rights, universities, hospitals, meaningful structures that shape our reality. Science tells us how to cure cancer.
Religion asks why a human life has dignity in the first place.
@Olangeeni @mdb2050 @Jwantstobegin@trad_west_ It works because we live in a universe governed by consistent, discoverable laws. That didn’t have to be the case. It didn’t have to be https://t.co/lBT5f0Gqc7 didn’t have to make sense to finite human minds.Yet it does. That’s not a scientific explanationit’s a philosophical one
@Jwantstobegin@trad_west_ Isaac Newton — Christian (Anglican) — Laws of motion, universal gravitation, calculus
Johannes Kepler — Christian (Lutheran) — Laws of planetary motion
Robert Boyle — Christian (Anglican) — Founder of modern chemistry; Boyle’s Law
@Jwantstobegin@trad_west_ Nicolaus Copernicus — Catholic (canon) — Proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system
Francesco Redi — Catholic — Helped disprove spontaneous generation
Francis Collins — Christian — Led the Human Genome Project
@Jwantstobegin@trad_west_ Gregor Mendel — Catholic (Augustinian monk) — Founded modern genetics; discovered laws of inheritance (dominant & recessive traits)
Georges Lemaître — Catholic (priest) Proposed the Big Bang theory
Louis Pasteur, Catholic, Advanced germ theory; developed pasteurization&vaccines