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If you did not say it, I would have. WND is utter trash.

A review of German school curriculum shows that it is still quite an integral part of their education. That said, I can understand that it would not be a principal item of discussion in casual conversation.

@Retrobyter I'll keep this simple. It is mythology. It is the Creation story of the Israelites nation that sets its own national distinctiveness against the contemporary cultures of the day. There are motifs and imagery that are quite similar to other creation myths. And I know saying the word myth, people will jump to the association of "made up" or "fairy tale". The story of creation in the Bible is quite remarkable in its monotheism and the elevation of humankind as image-bearers of God among other things. This position allows one not to get entangled in knots of speculation about "parallel light".

Note that the first pipeline is an oil pipeline. The second one is a natural gas pipeline. Different pipelines. In fact the first link mentions the damaged gas pipeline near the end of the article.

Are you going to address your speculation about parallel light rays from your previous post? I think you need to demonstrate some evidence about that claim before you can challenge others about their interpretation.

On the one hand, he's celibate, therefore not in sin; but on the other hand, since he adds the adjective gay to Christian, he is holding onto his sin. These are contradictory positions.

To which one might reply that any such pronouncement of judgment should be based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

I disagree with this random dude's position that a same-sex attracted person who remains celibate is in sin. The sin comes from acting upon our thoughts or impulses. Complaining that someone stating they are celibate is a bit of bad take and just sort of ignores the breadth of Christian history.

Solar probably still makes more economic sense on new builds rather than retrofits. The switchgear costs are really going down according to an electrician friend who's been installing for some people around here. For my money, geothermal is the way to go, but that too is a expensive retrofit. Cost amortization may not make sense, but some people are looking at it as a philosophical decision.

Here is the "key takeaway" point from the study: From here.

A church should be part of the community.

There is no scriptural support for this. You are speculating (or possibly hypothesizing), but I am not sure how you could test (or even claim) that all the light was parallel from the source at Creation.

I think the main implication here is that these quotes and records will support Dominion's defamation suit. There is very high legal bar for defamation. There has still only been limited information available about this.

Does this mysterious scholar have a name? I'm not sure why you are hung up on a bit of difference between the two verses. They are different genres and written hundreds of years apart. Fine. There was no world. There was primordial chaos. This is ancient literature. I don't even see why this is all relevent. Possibly, but there is very little to go on that. It is a reasonable hypothesis, but I'm not sure how to necessarily validate it. No. I mean contemporary creation myths. As above, they could have a common oral tradition source prior to writing them down in various nations and cultures. The Torah is traditionally ascribed to the pen of Moses. So, who was Moses writing to? When was he writing this? Who was his audience? How would have the audience have understood this from a cultural context. That is why the points I brought up matter.

Well, that's a new interpretation for me. I've been around these discussions for some time and so, one random, unnamed pastor's interpretation is not much to go one. Sounds a bit speculative. Primordial chaos is a common term for the ANE views on what the world was like before creation. There are also the chaos monsters like Leviathan. The sea was often associated with chaos and absence of God. It could be a restoration, but that's not really obvious in Genesis. Of course there were contemporary creation stories. Maybe they are vaiations on the early forms. Abram came from Sumer and would have been well aware of that culture. Israel was in Egypt for several hundred years and would have been well aware of the Egyptian cosmology and creation myths. When Israel was freed from Egypt, they needed a national identity. That is part of reason the Torah, establishing the distinctive identity of the new nation. I have read of some suggesting that Genesis is part of a suzerain covenant preamble, but I'm not sold on that. There is definitely language of suzerain treaty language in the Torah though. So the Spirit, through Moses, redeemed the common ANE cosmology language into a narrative that reveals who God is and what his relationship to humanity is, and humanity's role and purpose in the created world

The "waters" is also a classic stand in for chaos. The opening of Genesis, unsurprisingly, shares the cosmic battle language of other contemporary stories of the day. Except that it simply starts with an unformed world (or wasteland if you prefer) rather than having gods slaying each other and forming the world from the slain God's body (i.e. Marduk and Tomato). There is nothing "evolutional" because that has nothing to do with the story and worldview building.

This was attempted many years ago when automation and industry were supplying goods such that people did not need to work as long as before. The church was advocating 4-day work week. The industrialist wanted to maintain the regular pace, pushing for the creation of more and more consumers. Obviously we know who won that argument. I'll see if I can find a source on that.

This is most likely a reference to primordial chaos. in ANE cosmology. Not an actual material state of the planet.

I did the full retainers and braces as a kid. From 12 to 17 years old. Even had the atrocious headgear It did correct my overbite and made space in my upper jaw but it was not a fun ordeal. My teeth have since crept out of place at bit along the bottom row. Two of our kids so far have had a short stint with braces and now have permanent retainers.

I know what you are saying and I can't dispute the words. But I do believe you are reading our modern sensibilities into the text. The same thing happened with Cornelius. We cannot ignore the prevailing family and social organization of the Roman world - and that meant that what the patriarch says, goes for the family. If those in the family believed, great. I have heard more modern stories of Indonesian villages where the chief decides that everyone in the village is now a Christian (or Muslim, or whatever). It's not a choice - it simply is.

I don't think those households that became Christians were based on personal faith of every individual in that household. The patriarchal society of the time meant that if the patriarch decided they were to become Christian, everyone in the household became Christian. The idea of personal faith, personal relationship, is deeply rooted in our highly individualistic society. I think there is a matter of personal accountability, even in those days, but our concept is pretty new and quite foreign to that time.

I've been listening to a pretty fascinating podcast talking about the history and development of the "New Apostolic Reformation" which had strong ties to the early adoption of Trump as the new "Cyrus" (this predates his nomination). The idea that a pagan can be an anointed king to champion Christians in the USA. I had heard this Cyrus talk with respect to Trump in connection with the official move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but not that it was from a specific prophecy/vision of a particular person before his presidency.

The US was doing that to the Russians all through the Cold War.

The crust is dominantly oxygen. Silicon is number two.

Interestingly, that would seem to conflict with his own quote in your sig line. Even the first temple period is hundreds of years removed from Moses and the likely original formulation of the Divine Council. That is a potentially not a fair remark as I am limiting this to one quote and I certainly get the impression that Dr. Heiser understands nuance.