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2025-06-02 21:08:11 GMT

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A friend and I were debating this today and came to the conclusion that US leaders may have made promises not to expand NATO eastward, but nothing official like a treaty was put in writing stating that. My friend's position is that therefore, there was no promise. He states that in diplomacy a formal written agreement has to be signed by both sides.
Therefore, NATO was free to expand into other countries, including #Ukraine. However, I can still see why that would be threatening to #Russia, if NATO brought nukes pointed at them right on their borders.
#nevent1q…l030

2025-06-02 20:59:41 GMT

> ...the Clinton regime [failed] to keep the promise made by Washington that in exchange for Soviet approval of the reunification of Germany, NATO would not move one inch to the East"
https://tinyurl.com/bdhttzhk
#Russia #Ukraine

2025-05-08 15:50:21 GMT

Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney worked for Goldman Sachs and was a central banker.
Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz is former BlackRock executive.

2025-05-07 05:13:10 GMT

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@npub1gdu…6nak: "Wouldn't you prefer a king and a 3% tax on tea, rather than a vote and a 70% tax on your income?"
A Brit, to a group of Americans: "You Americans revolted over taxation without representation. How do you like taxation WITH representation now that you have it?"
https://fountain.fm/episode/3D4QaNUUZAUS6jX95mxo

2025-05-05 01:42:03 GMT

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I just published "Following Jesus" on following.space !
https://image.nostr.build/50c6b357c56ff085dd0fc1f07a4996db412277f546437d1c66053c63b065086f.jpg
Many more names to be added. Message me if you'd like to be enrolled. This is the closest thing on Nostr to the Lamb's Book of Life! 👀
#nevent1q…pju5 #grownostr #christian #Christianstr #catholic #orthodox #jesus #christianity

2025-05-02 13:50:00 GMT

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Politics aside, that one man can decide on behalf of over 340 million Americans is absurd, and I'm not talking about Trump. Trump was at least elected, for what that's worth, and was the choice of millions of people to pursue many of the policies he's pursuing. But here we have single individuals, not elected by anyone, but rather selected by partisan politicians, enforcing their political preferences on everyone else.
https://fountain.fm/episode/aLP5Xs0lNZdTGoS455OS

2025-05-02 12:29:08 GMT

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More and more need to wake up to this fact

2025-04-26 22:22:37 GMT

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And you think Elon Musk doesn't know this? 😄

2025-04-26 21:06:56 GMT

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Why do you think Venus is a better candidate for terraforming?

2025-04-25 14:01:54 GMT

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> "For most of American history, I think housing prices were something like 3 or 4X median income, which sounds very affordable. Today it's about 11X median income, and housing is consistently rising in price faster than the inflation rate. Now obviously that's not sustainable. At some point nobody can afford a home anymore."
–Kallan Welsh
https://fountain.fm/episode/vZWSOeK0vagBs0RWBM9O

2025-04-25 06:35:20 GMT

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Was this the military using Bitcoin to prepare people to accept CBDCs?

2025-04-25 03:42:12 GMT

#TodayILearned if the next Pope chooses the name Sixtus he would be Sixtus the Sixth. 😄
#TIL
https://fountain.fm/episode/B1FfmpGKWPyJoMLTSkgE

2025-04-23 06:26:41 GMT

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I've read that book. I'm just not sure about the further idea of angels marrying women and having children by them (Genesis 6).

2025-04-23 04:06:55 GMT

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Thanks for sharing! I'm always up for a good treatment of Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 since they seem to present the most formidable challenges to Christian anarchism.
That "Deuteronomy 32 worldview" is still new for me and one I haven't fully embraced yet (from the book's description: "an ancient biblical framework in which the nations were placed under rebellious spiritual powers, while Israel was called to be God’s distinct people). Do you subscribe to this view?

2025-03-05 06:04:24 GMT

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Ooh, this would be tough, and I'm not Roman Catholic but I might do this too...
#nevent1q…kk37

2025-03-05 05:31:17 GMT

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😂 https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/114/107/838/723/863/254/original/c790de1838822c90.png

2025-03-05 04:58:45 GMT

Going back and watching this from the beginning since I first caught toward the end. As #Trump entered the House some Devilcrat woman was holding a sign that read "This is not normal." Some guy (Stephen Miller?) snatched it out of her hands and threw away and she stood there looking violated.
A few minutes into the speech, another Devilcrat, one Mr. Green, was shouting and being disruptive and the Speaker of the House had the Sergeant-At-Arms remove him from the chamber. Wasn't expecting that kind of drama! Can't wait to see if anyone else gets kicked out! 😄
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:36:44 GMT

#Trump just said autism in children has gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 36! 😱
Tragic if true.
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-04 20:31:24 GMT

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Would more relays make it take longer to find notes, potentially?

2025-03-04 03:16:44 GMT

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I would have to check back on the podcast I was listening to, but it was some foreign policy guys that would know better than I

2025-03-03 18:56:14 GMT

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I've heard that despite the sanctions Russia's economy has been doing well.

2025-03-03 17:14:26 GMT

What you lack in skill make up in passion 😄

2025-03-03 05:28:38 GMT

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Someone deeper than James Comey could be a lot of people, but I'm thinking Bill Barr, former attorney general, who I also learned today got his start in the CIA.

2025-03-02 16:12:01 GMT

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Ok, Christians aren't literal enemies with each over these differences (and even if they were, they are supposed to love their enemies).

2025-03-02 01:11:45 GMT

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It's almost like Christianity: when folks have so much truth and get so much right it's hard to see them believing even a little bit of error! 😂

2025-03-01 20:54:38 GMT

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Would love to see this on Android, too!

2025-03-01 20:47:51 GMT

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The press was told to leave the room but I guess someone kept the camera rolling 😄

2025-03-01 20:31:05 GMT

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Hopefully the Bitcoin-only, fundamentalist, anti-💩-coin, maxi position will be represented as well.

2025-03-01 20:09:57 GMT

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He just got older and more hip in his clothes 😄

2025-03-01 18:46:40 GMT

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I've never heard that. Did the emperors that followed him keep it in place? Of course, Rome was known for "bread and circuses" even long before Julian.

2025-03-01 18:38:17 GMT

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And if you can receive it, sex is not a need.
Except for the propagation of the species.

2025-03-01 18:33:31 GMT

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Sad.
I even saw a Tesla yesterday with a bumper sticker on it that read: "I bought this before Elon went crazy."

2025-03-01 14:55:18 GMT

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Thanks for sharing these excerpts. I agree with you and Calvin that sabbath-keeping is not a 'law' for Christians but is a 'pattern' and a good example for us to follow.
I also particularly enjoyed this from Vos:
"The Sabbath brings this principle of the eschatological structure of history to bear upon the mind of man after a symbolical and a typical fashion. It teaches its lesson through the rhythmical succession of six days of labour and one ensuing day of rest in each successive week. Man is reminded in this way that life is not an aimless existence, that a goal lies beyond."
Similarly, to me, the daily, rhythmic pattern of working during the day, sleeping at night, and then rising again, foreshadows the resurrection: we work in the day (life), we sleep at night (in the image of death), and we rise again to a new day/life (resurrection).

2025-03-01 05:27:18 GMT

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Thanks, I'll take a look at these resources. I'm currently under the persuasion, however, that Christians have no specific commands as to how frequently or when to gather together, only that they do so:
"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing..." (Hebrews 10:25, NIV)

2025-03-01 04:50:38 GMT

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I looked it up earlier, too. I thought he had invented peanut butter but no. 300 other uses for peanuts, but not the butter.

2025-02-28 23:33:17 GMT

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Carver was a devout Christian who prayed "Lord, show me the mysteries of the peanut," and he believed that his discoveries arose from communing with God (also true of Isaac Newton).

2025-02-28 00:06:06 GMT

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Beautiful, but I hope there's no one in that church hungry or in need...

2025-02-27 17:21:28 GMT

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Even more unpopular opinion:
https://fountain.fm/clip/bDBUFxCnHPPUPorCg8NI

2025-02-27 17:07:24 GMT

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Things that can happen when you have a sovereign wealth fund, especially when your politicians are short-timers, in and out and there to mainly benefit themselves and their cronies, while they can...
#nevent1q…uns0

2025-02-27 16:43:39 GMT

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Where do you find a weekly day of rest creational ordinance prescribed for Christians? Is it through extending the Ten Commandments to Christians, even Gentile believers in Christ?

2025-02-27 12:59:12 GMT

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But what did the Apostle Paul say?
"One person judges one day to be more important than another day. Someone else judges every day to be the same. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind. Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord [*but whoever does not observe the day, it is to the Lord that he does not observe it].
(Romans 14:5–6, CSB) https://ref.ly/logosres/LLS:CSB?ref=BibleCSB2.Ro14.5-6)
* included in some manuscripts

2025-02-27 12:38:54 GMT

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Sounds similar to what just happened in Germany's elections, with AfD winning around 20% of the vote but being excluded from the government...

2025-02-27 12:28:02 GMT

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Who is Q? Is that going to be revealed too? All the secrets need to be exposed.

2025-02-27 12:24:07 GMT

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> "...you will never know true manhood, never know true love, commitment, peace, and fulfillment, as long as you live your life between your legs. You are not a dog prowling the alleyways looking for a ten second thrill each night. "

2025-02-27 04:58:14 GMT

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> My first thought was “Why in the world is God telling *us* not to pray for this people? Doesn’t the Bible tell *us* to pray about everything?”
That *us* is key. God didn't tell *us* not for the 6th-century Judeans, he told *Jeremiah* not to.
But around 700 years later, the Apostle Paul does tell Christians to pray for all people, as you cited above from 1 Timothy 2:1, and we know that these instructions are applicable to us who believe even today.
I agree with your overall points about praying according to God's will and that sometimes it is not His will to bless a nation, and I think that God telling Jeremiah not to pray about something shows that God might tell us the same; there's precedent for it. Of course, God always means it for good. He wanted unrepentant Israel to turn back to Him, and He was willing to tolerate some discomfort in their lives to motivate them that way, if their hearts weren't already too hard. In 1 Corinthians 5 it talks about a man in the church who was engaged in egregious fornication (worse than even pagans normally did!) and Paul told them to "turn that person over to Satan" for the destruction of his flesh so that perhaps ultimately his spirit would be saved! It doesn't say, but I'm sure they prayed for that man even as they excommunicated him, and we read in 2nd Corinthians 2 that he did repent and was eligible for restoration into the church (and Paul had to tell them to restore him since they were unwilling to!) I've heard Christians say before that they were praying for God to "drop the rock" on somebody, figuratively, of course, meaning let them face some difficulties in their life so that they would repent and turn to God. While that is not necessarily praying for someone's material well-being, they are seeking that person's overall spiritual well-being, which is of greater importance. What good would it do to be the richest person in the world and still lose your soul and go to hell?

2025-02-26 03:40:05 GMT

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Judging Freedom is a good one, and I also listen to Doug Casey's Take regularly, and sometimes The Duran, which is usually international in focus. They had a good recent episode with attorney Robert Barnes...
https://fountain.fm/episode/O6z4uS4EauVpswsxoCUW

2025-02-25 06:08:36 GMT

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The powers-that-shouldn't-be intend to destabilize all countries to the point that they beg for a centralized, one world government. Or so some say.
https://media.tenor.com/HhA-coxG7gAAAAAC/plan-planned.gif

2025-02-25 05:25:53 GMT

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I'm glad you liked it. I've become a fan of this podcast myself.

2025-02-25 04:44:00 GMT

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Why would cops ever give guns back? Wouldn't they think it's safer to err on the side of caution?

2025-02-25 02:51:23 GMT

> HOST: I'm reminded of a recent story on this show about an exorcism in Madagascar where an evil spirit comes out and says,
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> "Well, the jig is up. We know that your God is the true God."
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> And most of us are thinking, "Wait, what?!"
https://fountain.fm/episode/yzEZPGK8aDEN7xNQz2l2

2025-02-25 02:23:27 GMT

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"anything *else is slavery"

2025-02-23 00:00:12 GMT

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This kind of has the makings of a slogan: "#Nostr: The Protocol to Replace Platforms"
https://media.tenor.com/pe29WBMbN-wAAAAC/toy-story-look.gif

2025-02-20 23:30:34 GMT

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May all your memes come true?
#nevent1q…kuc6

2025-02-20 19:32:20 GMT

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Why didn't Trump do this in his first term, as promised? Because he didn't know what he was doing? Because he got waylaid by the Swamp with the false Russiagate allegations?
Could it be said that the Swamp drained Trump the first go around?
https://image.nostr.build/182d641cd972469c89a8c39b6ad81831d7d19ce0c952e5899208ed7edae2cb0e.jpg
#nevent1q…he3m

2025-02-20 18:00:08 GMT

> "During the last century, especially in the last three decades and in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Congress has made federal crimes out of an astonishing array of behavior, much of which is already prohibited by state law, could be better addressed with civil penalties, or is considered wrongful not because it violates anyone’s rights but only because Congress says so."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-doing-public-service-turning-doj-upside-down#:~:text=During%20the%20last,Congress%20says%20so.

2025-02-20 16:57:24 GMT

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Like any real American. Trump must have had to pay taxes before and also came to loathe them.
It honestly amazes me that the 16th Amendment and income taxes were ever put in the Constitution. After seeing how the government and Deep State dupes Americans time and time again, I have to believe it was done through fraud.

2025-02-20 06:43:08 GMT

> ...the Constitution gave the federal government the power to “coin” money. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, one does not “coin” paper money.
https://www.fff.org/2025/02/13/paper-money-and-the-fed-have-destroyed-the-penny-and-the-rest-of-our-money/

2025-02-19 23:43:38 GMT

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> "What [Open Theist Greg] Boyd has to say is that God is so smart that he has contingency plans for everything that happens. So he's like a sort of chess master who's playing a game against a novice and the chess master is so skilled that he knows whatever he will do in response to the novice's move. Now, he doesn't know what the novice will do – the novice may do things that are unexpected – but he knows that whatever move the novice makes he knows how he will respond to that. Now, what's odd about that is that ascribes to God a kind of divine middle knowledge of his own decisions, that God would know whatever the novice does this is how I would react. And that actually destroys divine freedom because it would make God have middle knowledge of his own actions prior to God's divine creative decree of a world. And on the Molinist view what God has middle knowledge of is statements about what creatures would freely do in any circumstances. But God doesn't know the truth of statements about what he would do in any circumstances prior to the divine creative decree—that would remove or annihilate human freedom. Rather what God knows by his middle knowledge is what any creature would freely do in any circumstances, and then God chooses to actualize one of those worlds involving those circumstances and, at the same time, simultaneously declares what he would do in any of these circumstances. So on Boyd's view, if he thinks that God has this pre-volitional middle knowledge of his own decisions that's actually going to destroy divine freedom, paradoxically. So I think Greg's view is not carefully thought out..."
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/reasonable-faith-podcast/four-views-on-divine-providence/#:~:text=What%20Boyd%20has,carefully%20thought%20out

2025-02-19 23:41:08 GMT

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An argument of Craig's that stands out to me is that there are true future contingent propositions, some things that WILL happen in the future, and that God knows they will happen. In the transcript of the Reasonable Faith podcast episode I linked to above Craig states: "There's no argument given as to why there cannot be future contingently true and false propositions." It is often said "God knows the end from the beginning," and Scripture and history bear that out. How does Open Theism deal with that?
I'll look for the episode of Unbelievable?, a great podcast, by the way. I may have heard it before, but I thought it had more to do with Calvinism. Incidentally, I've been privileged to meet both Drs. Craig and White.
I'll continue to try to expand my understanding of Open Theism, especially since I don't know how it got started, and why. It seems to me that it may have tried to solve problems with Calvinist doctrines, but I think they were already adequately solved with Molinism.
While I do think these issues seriously impact our view of God, I don't think disagreement on them means we both worship different a God! I'm inclined to believe this is one of those non-essential issues we should give each other liberty in.

2025-02-19 18:33:08 GMT

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Bring them all home. From Western Europe, too.
#nevent1q…px7p

2025-02-19 18:08:00 GMT

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I'm exploring the topic more than I have previously, though I remain unconvinced it's correct. An intellectual much smarter than I whose scholarship I respect, Dr. William Lane Craig, rejects Open Theism, and so I have been looking at some of his work trying to understand why:
https://youtu.be/xMOXpcs8cWU
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/reasonable-faith-podcast/four-views-on-divine-providence #OpenTheism

2025-02-19 15:39:13 GMT

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Heck no. The fact that they've cast a black woman should help underscore that she in no way represents Jesus Christ.

2025-02-19 05:47:58 GMT

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This is true of #California, too.

2025-02-18 23:40:01 GMT

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Thanks for this chart; I've seen it before and it also came to mind.
It is true that the Protestants/Evangelicals jumped out of the Roman Catholic Papists boat, though not out of the ark of salvation.
Christ is the ark of salvation. The church is His body and we various Christians are members of it. In this analogy, someone might be an arm (or part of an arm), or part of a leg, or some other part. Christ is the head, of course.
Another biblical analogy that Christ gave is that He is the vine and we His followers are branches. If you took that chart and turned it sideways, it would look more like a tree, which Jesus also said the kingdom of God is like, which started from a tiny seed and it grows into a large tree, and the birds make their nests in it's branches (Luke 13:18-19). Jesus is the root and the trunk/body of the tree, and us followers are various branches.
I consider myself "catholic" with a small "c" in the sense of the word that means "universal". I believe the body of Christ, the church, is comprised of believers in Christ throughout the world, in various fellowships, hence universal. But I am not a Roman Catholic, with a big "c", nor a papist. I agree that Christ alone is the head of the Church.
I consider myself "orthodox" with a little "o", in the sense that I believe in Christ and the teachings of His apostles, contained in the scriptures and articulated in the early creeds of the church. These are the correct doctrines, hence "orthodox". But I am not Eastern Orthodox with a big "o", as I do have some issues with their practices.
I usually say "Roman Catholic" rather than just "Catholic" and "Eastern Orthodox" rather than just "Orthodox" because all Christians should be catholic and orthodox. I suppose I could call myself an orthodox catholic 😄, but I do stem from the Protestant/Evangelical branch.
As is often attributed to Augustine: "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity (love)." I believe the various branches of Christianity are united in the essentials, the main ones being Jesus is Lord and God has raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9-10), but we need to show more liberty and charity to other Christians with whom we differ in non-essentials.
Anyway, just articulating some of my views on the various branches in the great tree that is Christianity. I hope it is edifying for some who took the time to read it.

2025-02-18 20:01:00 GMT

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I appreciate your gracious response, brother, and I'll keep this brief for now. I think I will have to read some things by open theists to examine it more critically. There are things I don't understand how they could work, such as prophecy, which would seem to require God to know the future; that there had to be an actual future that would exist.
Don't feel obligated to explain that to me right now, but you can if you would like to. I have to be going at the moment. Blessings to you!

2025-02-18 19:04:15 GMT

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Where do you put the Protestants/Evangelical Christians? Under Orthodoxy, or with the Roman Catholic Papists?

2025-02-18 18:43:29 GMT

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I pretty much agree with what you have said here and I see it similarly because I also believe in free will. I take it you're not a Calvinist who believes that God has Himself pre-determined everything that will happen, because you allow for human freedom. Your description to me sounds more like what is called "middle knowledge" which refers to God's knowing all of the various choices a person could make and what would happen as a result.
Where Open Theism goes beyond middle knowledge, in my understanding (I haven't read anything on it, only heard it discussed), is that Open Theists view the ACTUAL future as unknown to God until it occurs; that God is learning and experiencing what happens almost like we do, except that He also knew all of the other possibilities of what could have happened. So in your example of David and Keilah from 1 Samuel 23, God knew all of the counterfactual possibilities of what could happen, according to whatever choice David would make, but He didn't exactly know which choice David would make until he actually did it. Once David made his choice, God then also did know by His foreknowledge what would result. But then what about all of the future choices that hadn't yet been made?
This differs from my more traditional, I believe, non-Open Theist view that God is omniscient, i.e., all-knowing, meaning that He not only knows all contingent realities of what could happen, but He also knows what choices we WILL freely make, while not determining them. God knew all of David's possible choices, and also what the people of Keilah would do if David chose a certain way, but God also knew in advance the choice David was actually going to make. But knowing what David would do in advance doesn't mean God decided it for him. Some people believe that God simply knowing what will happen determines the future, and I don't believe that is true out of necessity. I believe Calvinists view things this way (and Muslims, too, who also don't believe in free will), but there are numerous problems with that, including making God the author of evil!
I'm sure Open Theists don't want to deny God's omniscience, and so they would probably say that omniscience means that God knows everything there is to be known. He knows what actually can be known, but not what can't be known. Since the future hasn't actually happened until it occurs, God doesn't know something that is not yet actualized, that is, not real. To my mind, however, this views God too much like us humans; it ascribes our human limitations of knowledge (and time, as we experience it) to God. I believe God not only knows everything that could happen under various circumstances, but also what actually will happen, before our choices are made.
Judas Iscariot provides an example of this; it was God's plan to have Jesus betrayed and executed to atone for the sins of humanity. God knew that Judas would choose to betray Jesus, so Judas was the man for the job. But Jesus said it would have been better had Judas never even been born than to do what he did. So God knew in advance that Judas would betray Jesus, and that Judas would be wrong and punished for that, but Judas had the free will to choose differently, otherwise it would be unfair of God to punish him for something he had no choice in. God's middle knowledge and foreknowledge of what choice Judas would actually freely make is why God had Judas in that role. If God didn't actually know how Judas would choose, Judas possibly could have chosen to not betray Jesus, and God's plan would have not played out as He willed.
Sorry this got to be so lengthy. I didn't plan for it to be or know it would end up this long before I started writing! 😄 If you can point out how I may not be understanding Open Theism correctly, I'd be happy to hear it. I may need to do some reading on it!

2025-02-18 08:01:41 GMT

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So on this view God doesn't know what WILL happen until a person does it, right?

2025-02-18 07:43:07 GMT

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Doesn't Open Theism also say, though, that God doesn't know what will happen, only that He knows all of the potential outcomes?

2025-02-18 03:00:02 GMT

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Yeah, I've read how that when Jefferson received a copy of the draft US Constitution while he was away in Paris he was shocked by it. He thought only a few changes needed to be made to the Articles of Confederation, which was the current constitution at the time, and actually ensured more freedom.
Some interesting counterfactual history you propose there, and possibly a lot more peaceful.
It's true that European nations still retain more of their sovereignty while in the EU than do American states, and their people still think of themselves in terms of their individual nations; but of course history and different languages and cultures help in that regard. I was pleased to see that the UK was allowed to peacefully secede from Europe, despite the fact they did not allow the American colonies to peacefully secede a couple of centuries ago. Perhaps sometimes lessons are learned from history.

2025-02-17 23:38:24 GMT

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And these 20 million are all Democrats and they all vote.
#nevent1q…ngq4

2025-02-17 23:25:13 GMT

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> Unfortunately the USA was usurped without a shot fired in 1789.
I wonder how many understand this. Good points.

2025-02-17 23:18:37 GMT

Heard on the radio: "Smoking won't send you to hell but it will make you smell like you've been."

2025-02-17 18:54:15 GMT

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I agree with you. My post was more a thought experiment, toying with the idea of purchasing defense on the market, as anarcho-capitalists argue should be possible.
I agree that any people that want independence from another are entitled to it, even down to the individual level.
But shouldn't a smaller country be able to purchase the aid of a defense firm for their protection? It's the nationality/government that gets in the way.

2025-02-17 17:45:59 GMT

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I know, don't give Trump any ideas!
But why do people in China believe they have the rights over people in Taiwan? If you look at the two land masses, they are not connected.
https://image.nostr.build/c9c92d58421d2d5a677af78336046bd8d9f740bb45882878b426d45e0b6c5af0.jpg
Do they believe they are authorized to dominate the people living there? Or is there some private entity in China that owns the land in Taiwan and wants it back?

2025-02-17 17:34:05 GMT

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Could another country hire the U.S. military to provide it's defense? 🤔 #asknostr
#nevent1q…jm2t

2025-02-17 06:49:51 GMT

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Yep, even with the "Funding Fathers".
I haven't read this book yet, but I learned from another how that even George Washington was enriched from his stint as President...
https://a.co/d/5jLpgnd
https://image.nostr.build/5ba850cf77eaa2a4159c1a24d38d4378da33c83f14f1b8e741fdaa063b3fc1f4.jpg
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2025-02-17 06:32:42 GMT

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You could, but it's disingenuous, isn't it? For the wrong motives.

2025-02-17 02:37:13 GMT

What if there was like an #AskNostr app or feature that had zap bounties for answers to questions asked? The person who posted it could offer like 500 sats or whatever for what they decide is the best answer, after a certain period of time. It could incentivize answering questions. The app could even boost/surface questions that haven't been answered yet.
You could even use this for best memes contests. I know this can be done with regular notes now, but a special app or feature for it could be cool, too.
#nostr-ideas #nostrdevs #Nostr

2025-02-16 16:28:29 GMT

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As I mentioned, I'm currently listening to the New Living Translation version. The original post by @nprofile…0w8g mentions that Alexander Scourby also recorded a reading of the Revised Standard Version. I listened to the English Standard Version of the Bible last year. Christian actor Max McLean did a recording of the New International Version (NIV), which I've also listened to, and it is good. Just about all of the newer Bible translations also have audio formats because they are under copyright and it gives the publishers something else they can sell.

2025-02-16 12:39:08 GMT

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I do like the ESV, although lately my preferred version has been the Christian Standard Bible (CSB), formerly known as the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB).

2025-02-16 12:36:14 GMT

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The open source nature of the KJV is one thing I forgot to mention but intended to; thanks for reminding me. Aside from it's beautiful prose, the KJV owes it's popularity in large part to the laws, originally by King James putting his name on it and making it "the Authorized Version" to be read in the churches. This is true as well as in modern times, ironically, since the KJV is one of the few versions you can freely quote from and use as it in the public domain. Copyright laws actually keep people from being able to extensively cite or use newer translations in books or apps, etc., which leads people to go back to using the KJV.

2025-02-16 12:10:38 GMT

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> “The queen of heaven was the Assyrian-Babylonian goddess Ishtar, parallel to the Canaanite goddess Astarte. Both were astral deities (perhaps Venus) linked with love, fertility, and warfare.”
Christian Standard Study Bible Notes, note on Jeremiah 7:18.
https://ref.ly/Je7.18 via the Logos Bible Android app

2025-02-16 11:51:54 GMT

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I love the King Jimmy (KJV) as I grew up on it. I believe that familiarity with it gave me an advantage when it came to reading and watching Shakespeare when I got to jr. high and high school. I've even listened extensively in the past to this recording of the Bible by Alexander Scourby, and it is excellent.
This year I'm listening to the Bible in the New Living Translation (NLT) and find the contemporary English of it refreshing. While I appreciate having memorized many passages according to the KJV, I do prefer that people read a Bible version that they can understand. I don't think language should be a barrier to understanding God's Word, and for some, the "THEEs and THOUs" of the 17th-century English of "the Authorized Version" can be off-putting. God and His Word is for today, and today we speak modern English. You don't still talk like the Pilgrims do (unless, perhaps, you are Amish or Mennonite, and I'm not certain they do, or if that's just a stereotype).
Someone said "The best version of the Bible is the one that you will read." The best version is actually the original language versions, but I find some truth in this saying, since most people don't read Greek and Hebrew. And, if you're not big on reading, listen to the Bible. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
https://fountain.fm/episode/rAdIHvQGMt5exOyfW4rT
#Bible #Christian #bookstr

2025-02-14 11:01:10 GMT

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How much better could the world be if the United States weren't destabilizing governments, overthrowing democracies, and engaging in psyops?
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2025-02-14 10:45:20 GMT

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Let sleeping (and chilling) dogs lie.

2025-02-14 01:57:21 GMT

> For decades a corrupt American establishment has been running the government for their benefit at the expense of the American people. Trump says he intends to take government out of the corrupt establishment’s hands and put it back in the hands of the people. That is the last place the establishment wants it.
## The Deep State Strikes Back... ##
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/paul-craig-roberts/a-fight-to-the-death-is-underway/
#DeepState #Trump #USA

2025-02-13 20:12:05 GMT

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Ron Paul has advocated a foreign policy that follows the Golden Rule: do to others what you want them to do to you. It's not exactly "do to others as they have done to you," because that's more like taking vengeance. BUT, if you presume that people are following the Rule, then you can do back to them what they are doing to you, because they are indicating to you that is how they also want to be treated, right? 🤔 But there's the rub: people probably AREN'T following the Golden Rule...

2025-02-13 19:55:43 GMT

Elon Musk: U.S. govt should delete entire federal agencies... 💥💪
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/elon-musk-calls-for-the-us-government-to-delete-entire-agencies-remove-the-roots-of-the-weed.html

2025-02-12 06:10:51 GMT

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According to Snopes this claim is false:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chelsea-clinton-84-million-usaid/
#nevent1q…rp2z

2025-02-11 16:16:43 GMT

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'OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the offer in a pointed response on Musk’s social platform X, stating: “no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.” Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 before rebranding it as X, responded with a one-word post: “Swindler.”'
H/T: @nprofile…6rqg, @nprofile…gsje

2025-02-11 16:07:33 GMT

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Either it had a very bad lawyer, or wasn't even afforded legal representation!

2025-02-10 23:12:47 GMT

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Chelsea Clinton got $84 Million from the federal government?!!
https://fountain.fm/episode/LB3WXaHCBERN4ijKRK1X

2025-02-10 20:23:33 GMT

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This is similar to USAID dollars funding NGOs that are facilitating illegal immigration.
This is what socialism, i.e., other people's money, enables...

2025-02-10 02:20:31 GMT

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How about the USA get out of the "dirty deeds" business? Get back to Jefferson's policy of "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none." The USA should not do to other countries what it does not want done to itself. Benz is lacking this kind of moral clarity. The word "smarmy" often came to mind listening to this. At one point he even said "The Blob is family," and lamented how devastating it would be economically to the region of Northern Virginia if USAID funding stops. Aren't those zip codes around the District of Corruption already the wealthiest in the nation? Apparently from grift...

2025-02-09 21:25:11 GMT

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On the show they say that there are already 80 million Americans that don't file. I wondered how many of those include children that don't have to file? But if 80 million is an accurate figure, how many would be enough for critical mass?

2025-02-09 17:14:26 GMT

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Is this what zen looks like? 😄
Can they actually breathe underwater for lengthy periods of time? 😯

2025-02-09 16:56:52 GMT

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"Unless it's against my whiskey tax."

2025-02-09 16:52:07 GMT

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End the gravy train.
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2025-02-08 18:59:06 GMT

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Like Paul Craig Roberts said, how about we keep the illegal aliens and instead deport the liberal Democrats?