Chris Staley

Christian. Happily married. Proud Dad. Cloud sales guy.

Interested in tech, personal development, and helping others to enjoy life more.

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@mikehoffmann Okay you could making money like this. But it’s not passive income. Managing flaky employees form Craigslist to manage 100+ vending machines is like a full time job in most cases.

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@NatePyle79 @NeilShenvi A choice between “truth” and “feelings” as your foundational commitment does not mean they are diametrically opposed. I’m sure you know that they aren’t always aligned. Obviously you have to pick which one you will go with, during the times that they are in conflict.

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@TylerLeeConway I agree that syncretism is the ever present danger. But this seems to be a danger no matter CN or 2K. I welcome these debates and discussions because it does challenges Christians to think about how we should steward things like power and influence when they flow to us.

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@TylerLeeConway My wife is Ukrainian. Because of seeing lots of corrupt institutions in USSR- you learn to trust info only from people that you know care tor you. For them, Credentials/ stats indicate brainwashing just being for party interests. US is very similar esp. after COVID.

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@drantbradley So true!

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@drantbradley This came up in my reading recently and I recalled this exchange.

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@drantbradley Circling back: I forgot that Paul refers to “one flesh” in his teaching on sexual immorality in 1 cor. 6:15-17… Which would actually make the case for ‘one flesh’ referring to ‘sex per se’ in the text and in Paul’s thinking. How would you refute that text being applied that way?

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@TylerLeeConway Jk

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@TylerLeeConway Are you implying I should repent of treating people like idiots and telling them to repent? NO WAY.

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@pastoremase In short, I’d say that the (biblical and observed) ideal seems to be physical gathering. But if a shut-in, or physically disabled person finds a ‘church community, online’ we should rejoice… and also help or long for them to join the physical gathering of the body.

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@pastoremase I think the question “is only virtual connection wholesome” was answered in COVID. Without physical connection and gathering humans don’t thrive. If hindered, healthy people long for it. None of this precludes offering virtual services. But physical gathering is to be desired.

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@AlsoACarpenter IME the discussion gets off course when you start asking questions in terms the scripture doesn’t answer- like “how many sin units were theoretically covered by the penal aspects of the atonement?”

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@AlsoACarpenter you are right that most lay reformed folks, and many pastors don’t grasp this. But two issues are confused- YES in Christ, human NATURE was brought back to oneness with the divine nature (theosis). It’s obvious tho that this atonement is only applied to God’s people.

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@profsamperry I think this would apply to any Christian’s that find themselves in an oppressive situation that they can’t get out of without risk of grave bodily harm or destitution - wrongful imprisonment, abusive employer, etc. if you can’t leave try to win over your oppressors by conduct.

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@mmmirele @MaryPMyers4 @KyleJamesHoward 3/ but they aren’t in any way being argued for by this author. It’s very easy to read whatever you want into an author you don’t like (or do like). But that’s not the way we should read things. There’s some fair critiques. To be made here. Yours doesn’t seem like one of them

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@mmmirele @MaryPMyers4 @KyleJamesHoward 2/ you could argue that any teaching that encourages women to be receptive to their husband opens them up for abuse. A redpiller would argue that generosity puts men in positions where they are likely to be abused/ taken advantage of. In other words you can read these problems in

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@kkdumez @KyleJamesHoward @jacobhuneycutt_ @JPokluda Ah yes, the affliction of experiencing pain at the hands execution of improper English. Lol

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@MaryPMyers4 @KyleJamesHoward 3/ how does this Josh butler (not Driscoll) “elevate men at the expense of women” in his article? If you have to go to other authors to make your point, you are sort of proving mine … that this critique isn’t warranted of butler.

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@MaryPMyers4 @KyleJamesHoward 2/ any of those conclusions. Do you believe that any form of complementarianism (acknowledging gender differences) is inherently evil? In that case I probably wouldn’t be able to help you with that. Not sure what mark Driscoll has to do with this other than that, but I’m guessing