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SuperLutheran (kicky half)One of the greatest things about Christmas is the "calm" that people often feel. I suppose that hearing "Silent Night, Holy Night" might contribute to that feeling, but I find it more to be an instinctual thing for believers. In Isaiah 33:6, the prophet writes that God is our stability and the abundance of our salvation, wisdom and knowledge. On Christmas Day, we celebrate how our Lord reaffirmed this to us with the Birth of Christ.
In this era especially, which demands a radical amount of epistemological responsibility on everyone lest they get scammed, deceived, or confused, Christmas is all the more important. God comforts us with the knowledge that He has brought great certainty in the most important matters. He keeps His promises, and the Infant in the manger is the truest sign of that assurance.
@sickburnbro I'll have to explain to my grandkids that the two solutions were this: 1. Violently destroy society and kill hundreds of millions because we were mad at perverts. 2. Let the problem sort itself out as people kill themselves with their lifestyles. In the meantime do enough lawfare to keep them from accessing children.
Meanwhile, Mangioni looks like someone gave curtis yarvin liposuction, a bad haircut and a bottle of wine. He's dressed like he was auditioning to be an extra in a harry potter flick. Yet chicks are going after Mangioni and not the guy who "looksmaxxed."
@themilkman@jb This is much better than the current popular ideas - that women are biological automata, determined to sleep with whoever practiced Game (tm) enough to manipulate them into fornication.
Well it had to happen eventually. As we go further in the topic of the Woman Question, let's address women's sexuality and relationship habits throughout the centuries...and the really dumb theories posited by both /ourguys/ and feminists alike.
@C_J_S I won't say the first one, but the second... homie, anime is the single most gynocentric media genre in the entire world. It is the strongest woman-propaganda ever made.
@newmodel@C_J_S You can manipulate any number of silly dudes with anime visages. -Want to do pro-batshit-insane woman propaganda? Mimi. -Want to make teachers sound fun and friendly again? Osaka. -Want to make dudes love controlling women? Dudes will respond to Makima with "if evil why hot?" -I guarantee Negev Chan has turned at least one antisemite into a literal zionist (though he'll never admit it)
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SuperLutheran (kicky half)1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.” 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city. -Isaiah 38:1-6
A mystery: God so perfectly knows everything that He *foreknows* whatsoever shall come to pass. Existing outside of our time, He sees the past and present and future as though He were looking down at a table. All things that happen happen by necessity, as Luther says. Yet at the same time, God's Immensity means that His knowledge does not limit nor bind Him. He retains the right to change what He perfectly foreknows shall happen.
Isaiah prophecies to Hezekiah that his sickness will kill him. The thing is from God. It is not a test and not is it a false prophecy; God never lies. Hezekiah is being told point blank that he will die, it is set in stone. Then he prays, and God *changes* that very certain future to extend the king's lifespan by 15 years. Isaiah was not wrong in his oracle, God really did speak the matter and Hezekiah's illness was proving it. But then God *spared* the king by changing the course of time.
I must confess, it is confusing to us when we see it. But something this passage reinforces is the absolute freedom that our infinite God has. He is not bound by things like time or foreknowledge of it. For Him to perfectly know what shall happen affords Him infinite opportunities to *do* something about it. While this may be confusing to us, it is also comforting. We stand with Hezekiah in his illness, and we stand with the Assyrians when they hear Jonah proclaim "40 days and Nineveh shall be destroyed." Though God knows what shall occur, we may in good faith pray knowing that He hears, and may change the future on our behalf.
@Myles With my smooth, buttery cheese voice? That may be why half of them are listening in the first place.
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SuperLutheran (kicky half)36 And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh. 38 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. -Isaiah 37:36-38
The might of man is nothing when compared with God's strength. In 701 BC, the Angel of the Lord (and Old Testament phrase for the preincarnate Christ) killed 185000 men in a single night.
It wasn't until 1945 AD, 2600 years later, that mankind developed nuclear weapons and killed a similar amount. The atom bomb was the culmination of centuries of scientific development, funding that would bankrupt most nations, kidnappings, subterfuge, and of course black magic (look it up, there were occultists involved in the manhattan project).
Since the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, man has developed defenses and counters to the nuclear threat. Presumably, if one country launched a nuke, it could be shot out of the sky or the launch sequence would suffer interference to prevent the missile from being deployed.
You can't do that about an Angel. Isaiah recounts that He just showed up and then the Assyrians died. There is no "angel defense" like there is "missile defense." You cannot prevent it, cannot stop it, and most certainly cannot fight back. The only hope for you is to be on God's side in the first place. When our Lord returns, this will be the only matter separating those who are saved from those who are slaughtered - trusting in Him who made heaven and earth, worshiping Him alone, is the only way to escape the wrath to come.
The article reads like it belongs in the Nag Hammadi Library. I could do an entire Evaluating Gnosticism episode on this guy's weird way of looking at the marital act.
The Church has done this stupid negotiation with gnosticism for the past two thousand years, where the gnostics demand that Christians kill themselves slowly through total self-denial, and then the Church bureaucratically finds labyrinthine ways to convince gnostics that Christians can live.
It went like this: “Don't have sex” >but what if they're married? “Don't have sex” >but what if it's just for procreation? “Don't have sex” >but what if they sleep in separate beds and it meets extremely specific self-giving requirements? “Don't have sex” >but what if the married couple who has penetrative procreative sex once in a blue moon after fasting and prayer after which they go to confession? “Fine. But don't have sex.”
As you can see, the gnostic party in the Church didn't have to budge, but the Christian party in the Church had to give up any sense of neurotypical normalcy. Do this with every facet of life, and you have a clear picture of how the corruption of the Church went down.