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Tom Bradford discusses if Rosh Hashannah is in the biblical texts.

Whenever anyone asks where all the vegetation went during the flood they always assume all plant "life" was destroyed. However the purpose of the flood was to destroy all flesh that had the breath of life in it's nostrils.

>>For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
>>Genesis 6:17 ESV

Of course because they don't believe the written account, I then have to point out that plant matter floats and that's how we have trees older than the flood and how the insects, who were not purposefully brought aboard the ark, survived the flood. Even when you show them video evidence of a floating forest ecosystem they refuse to even consider it. I shared the following video to show how trees can survive floating on the surface of the water.

"A substantial forested floating island of trees has been spotted moving around a reservoir in Northern BC Canada." https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/x5aOvrBQR1

Here is a video of some trees being uprooted and floating upright down the river: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amazing/s/zV9ucf5rdV

Do you guys have better videos or arguments to answer this question?

Just a reminder that Yom Terruah (the day of Trumpets) is next week beginning Sept 11 at dusk. Be ready to blow your shofar or just make a joyful shout to help announce the arrival of our King!

As a Jewish person I don’t particularly like Christianity as an institution….not because I dislike Christians many of whom are decent people and I have friends who are Christian and have even family members who are too but because of the historical theology that developed around Judaism. The doctrine of supersessionism (aka replacement theology) argued that Christianity fulfilled Judaism and it framed the continued existence of Jews as a people as evidence of a kind of religious and epistemic error. That idea had enormous consequences for how Jews were viewed and are viewed in Christian societies. Even many of the Church Fathers expressed this quite explicitly. Justin Martyr argued that the Church had become the true Israel. John Chrysostom delivered his infamous Adversus Judaeos sermons condemning Jewish religious life. Augustine was more restrained arguing that Jews should survive as witnesses to Christian truth, but even that relegated Jews to a subordinate theological role rather than recognizing Judaism as a living covenantal tradition.

A lot of this I also think echoes of that framework today, albeit often in secularized form. Many people who would never identify as Christians still instinctively treat modern Jews especially Israelis as somehow not authentically connected to the Land of Israel, as though Jewish indigeneity ended with the destruction of the Second Temple or the exile. The irony is that Christianity spent centuries claiming to be the new Israel while simultaneously diminishing the historical and covenantal relationship between the Jewish people and their ancestral homeland. Today’s political debates are obviously shaped by many factors beyond Christian theology, but I think it’s worth asking whether some inherited assumptions about Jews as a people whose role in history had been superseded continue to influence how many view Jewish national identity today.

What has also always struck me as ironic is that Christianity eventually tried to distance itself from the Jewishness of its own Messiah. Jesus was a Jew who lived as a Jew, worshipped in the Temple, celebrated Jewish festivals quoted the Hebrew Scriptures and whose earliest followers were themselves Jews. Yet over the centuries much of Christian theology came to define itself in opposition to Judaism transforming Jews from the people from whom Christianity emerged into a symbol of spiritual blindness or failure.

None of this means every Christian today believes these things. Many churches have explicitly repudiated supersessionism and anti Jewish teachings, especially since the Holocaust. But from a Jewish historical perspective it’s difficult to ignore nearly two millennia in which theological replacement contributed to a culture that marginalized, segregated, expelled, and at times persecuted Jews.

What features and functionality would you want from a Torah based website?

Edit: My purpose in asking this more open ended is to try to see what people are interested in to see if there's a missing niche in the market.

Here are areas I think are available.

• Fellowship finder
• Torah Dating Site
• Feast Day Gatherings
• Torah Teachings and Commentary
• Torah Shops
• Q & A Forum (reddit is good in this area)
• Calendar Resources

I'd still like to see what kind of additional functionality people would like to see in each of these areas. Have you tried other sites? How well did they work? What did you find was missing?

I grew up evangelical, but I'm currently leaning more into Absurdism and questioning whether objective morality even exists. My dad (trying to bring me back into the fold) and I have been engaging in a years-long discussion via hand-written letters in which I recently posed the classic Trolley Problem (save five people tied to the tracks by actively diverting the trolley to kill one, or do nothing and let 5 people die). He made it a point to take a biblical perspective in answering the question, but what I found interesting was he initially took the utilitarian position (it's morally right to kill one person so that 5 can be saved), and later moved to the deontological position (murder is always wrong - pulling the lever is playing God, it's better to preserve God's will by not pulling the lever). He used scripture to support both positions, which got me thinking.

We see this tension in many other sticky issues too: mass murder (my dad cited Truman "weighing the decision most prayerfully" before dropping the nukes), slavery, divorce, homosexuality, gender identity, etc. Atheists like to point out Mosaic law is largely considered immoral by today's standards - slavery in particular. Christians like to give a rebuttal along the lines of Mosaic law no longer applies due to Jesus' salvation, or they delineate between what is permitted/allowed and what is commanded. In support of that position, one user in this sub said, "If human beings are to be treated as real human beings who possess the power of choice, then the ‘better way’ must come gradually. Otherwise, they will exercise their freedom of choice and turn away from what they do not understand."

Any moral framework that evolves gradually is, by definition and in practice, moral relativism. And as history and modern debates have shown, Scripture can be used to validate completely opposing moral actions depending on the chosen text, context, and era. But if God's morality is objective, then what IS the actual, unchanging standard? What, specifically, are God's moral absolutes?

And before anyone cites the 10 commandments as a kneejerk response, please understand that too is Mosaic law. Moreover, "Though shalt not murder" seems to have an asterisk by it in many situations, as does every other commandment.

The mainstream church caters to cultural Christians, the lukewarm, not those who seek God's truth, the Bereans.

I have some sites selected across a state. I have two vicinity maps, one to show the county in relation to the state, another to show the site in relation to the county. My Atlas is set to my site layer. So, my county v-map when I set to be controlled by atlas is centered on my site instead of the county, which pushes the county out toward the edges of the map border, not ideal. Not being controlled by the atlas, the v-map does not center on the county or sites.

How do I make this v-map center on the active county instead of the site layer? I've tried getting the extents of the active county geometry, but maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Title. Would just like to see anything built with these newer flexible screens. Saw the Samsung z foldable and immediately thought it would maybe be good application in acyberdeck.

How do you know if something is a sin or not? The only way is to know God's law.

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>>Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

>>1 John 3:4 ESV

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We're instructed to test the spirits (1 John 4:1). Test them against what? What is the standard of truth? The only answer is God's law.

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>>The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

>>Psalm 119:160 ESV

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I run debian and installed steam a few days ago. I used my switch 2 pro controller to play silksong on steam. With Bluetooth connection there was extreme lag, connected with USB there was less lag, but was still very significant. Have steam input enabled.

What do?