u/Plane_Razzmatazz_882

I have so many bad genetics from both sides of my family I would never put that curse on a future generation. I'm never going to have a kid and I accept that for what it is. If that's not what God had intended for me in life, I perfectly understand. I don't want no female attention anyways. I'm ugly and really have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I have absolutely zero to offer. Then the burden of raising a child too. I just hope my brothers succeed since they have different fathers. My dad gave me many bad traits. I'm 28 and never had sex with a woman, and I intend for it to be that way until I die. Maybe not too many people can relate, but that's honestly how I feel.

If it were real, it would imply new physics, which also implies they're not bound by local laws. The only explanation is these are higher dimensional beings. Plus space is nearly impossible to accurately navigate due to how vast it is. You have to understand that an object traveling at lightspeed would liquify your organs and not only that, but lightspeed is very slow relative to space as a whole. For example, Alpha Centauri is 4 lightyears away. To get there from here traveling at constant lightspeed, it would still take 4 years. Also, UAPs were shown to accelerate into thin air without so much as a sonic boom - a feat that is physically impossible under well-established physics. It would require higher dimensions to explain that. There is no known technology or mechanism that allows that. Not even a kardashev ii/iii civilization could conjure up something like that. Every other explanation has holes in it. Look at gravity for example. That might be a transdimensional property.

What I'm saying is, whoever these beings are, they cannot consist of matter as we know it because the physical laws of their realm are completely different. Contrast that explanation with the multiverse theory which is bound by the same constraints as our universe. It only implies extra universes as in probablistic deduction, but in my model these are different realms. And it's funny because if a scientist says there are other universes, nobody bats an eye, but if I say there are other realms, I get called a "religious nut".

Think of a Babushka doll where you take the biggest one apart and reveal a smaller one inside, and another smaller one inside, etc. That's at least my theory surrounding the sacred geometry of life.

Atheists believe that God is not necessary to explain the universe and that it was created by unguided processes. The likelihood of God doing it is considerably more than the universe poofing into existence from nothing. Atheists believed the universe is what's necessary. Creationists believe that God is necessary. In fact, science even points out how fragile the universe is w/ Lambda-CDM and the Past Hypothesis. So the theory that it's simply "necessary" and that the laws of nature explain it when before the universe, there was no laws of nature. Atheists might try to argue semantics and say "which God" when every ancient religion predicted Christianity (including the Epich of Gilgamesh and Egyptian mythology). And every religion since Christianity for the most part only tries to copy from it (like Islam). So we can logically deduce, that of all theistic religions, Christianity is at least the most consistent.

Atheism as an idea literally makes no sense. People like Professor Dave act like it's just common sense in the science realm that no God exists. Their alternative explanations include Vacuum Genesis (which literally makes no sense), the multiverse/many worlds theory/string theory (which has either been discredited or otherwise cannot be proven either), and cyclic models (violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics and general relativity), but all of them make about as much sense as saying our sophisticated universe is simply a cosmic accident.

I would have to say Dillo browser is the best. Firefox/Chromium both are the size of operating systems with tens of millions of lines of code. Dillo is only tens of thousands. It takes only seconds to compile and install, compared to Firefox. Plus it comes without proprietary modern web elements (like javascript, webGTK, etc.). It's fully inspectable and open source. It works well on Linux.

>For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

There's many other verses like it, like John 10:30 ("I and the father are one"). And yet this heresy still persists.

In quantum physics, you would know that the universe is non-local. Meaning NOT REAL. Also, DMT doesn't just exist in humans either. It exists in plants and fungii even. There was a study of mice and some of them had their pineal gland removed and their brain still produced DMT at death. DMT might be the missing link in consciousness, and the hallucinations might be real. There's been reports of people taking DMT and seeing the Earth from space. Again, how would a physicalist explain this, especially when classical physics/materialism only explains reality from an observers perspective. There are some common grounds between classical physics (GR) and quantum physics, however quantum physics violates many things in classical physics about what we know is real. We know that measurements are probablistic rather than deterministic. We also know that a universe cannot exist independently of observers. Some have even stated that the universe itself is conscious and alive and that your consciousness is quantum. Atheists who believe in the afterlife usually cite the many worlds theory meaning that when you die, you'll never observe it, your consciousness might live on in a world where you didn't die. I personally don't believe that, but Spinoza once said you are the universe observing itself, and he was well ahead of his time.

I'm New IFB, KJV only, fulfillment theology, post-tribulation rapture, premillennial, free grace/hypergrace, osas/eternal security, easy believist, antinomian, non-reformed, cessationist, sola fide, sola scriptura, subordinationist trinitarian, etc. Here is what I believe:

Given my use of hermeneutics and understanding of physics and cosmology, the universe began 13.8 billion years ago. Scientists can't explain what caused the singularity, nor does Lambda-CDM (and the fine-tuning problems associated with it). All we know is that we're here. The Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. God said "let there be light" and it was so, and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. Now, in the Bible, it divides creation by "days", but if we read the Bible more thoroughly, that could mean longer (2 Peter 3:8).

Albert Einstein believed that the universe was timeless (which made no sense because we're spacetime, which according to GR is emergent), but Hubble proved him wrong, and later, Georges Lemaitre. The Big Bang is a Catholic invention using Einstein's math. All other models, like the steady state theory, have been disproven using CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background). Evolution I believe in, unlike the moron Stephen Meyer. Recently, scientists were able to upload a fly's brain to a computer, proving that consciousness might be computation. The simulation argument basically says that since reality is computation, perhaps there could be a programmer? God SPOKE us into existence (John 1:1). That's why we're information (geometry and so on).

Consciousness must exist beyond the brain because it's information in a system also. So when you die, you are merely information without hardware, which could still consciously exist in another dimension. Computational functionalism theorizes that the mind is essentially "software" running on the brain's "hardware". Because it posits that consciousness is independent of its physical substrate (i.e., it doesn't matter if it's made of neurons or silicon), it implies that a human mind could theoretically be uploaded and survive on a computer. Whole-Brain Emulation: The theoretical process of scanning a biological brain down to the synaptic level and rebuilding that exact neural architecture as a computer program. Digital Emulation: Transitioning the conscious mind into an entirely digital environment (often framed via the Simulation Hypothesis), making human existence informational rather than metaphysical.

The Bible says that the kingdom of heaven is "in your midst". Luke 17:21 and so on. Look into Bernard Carr's works. String theory is the supposition in advanced maths that suggest that perhaps when you die, the information is consciously preserved in another dimension. At least that's my interpretation of it. And multidimensional doesn't mean "afar off" but rather these are different dimensions within spacetime itself!

But that's just my theory. Does consciousness stop at death or does the software (consciousness) running on the hardware (brain) migrate elsewhere?

I'm New IFB, KJV only, fulfillment theology, post-tribulation rapture, premillennial, free grace/hypergrace, osas/eternal security, easy believist, antinomian, non-reformed, cessationist, sola fide, sola scriptura, subordinationist trinitarian, etc. Here is what I believe:

Given my use of hermeneutics and understanding of physics and cosmology, the universe began 13.8 billion years ago. Scientists can't explain what caused the singularity, nor does Lambda-CDM (and the fine-tuning problems associated with it). All we know is that we're here. The Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. God said "let there be light" and it was so, and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. Now, in the Bible, it divides creation by "days", but if we read the Bible more thoroughly, that could mean longer (2 Peter 3:8).

Albert Einstein believed that the universe was timeless (which made no sense because we're spacetime, which according to GR is emergent), but Hubble proved him wrong, and later, Georges Lemaitre. The Big Bang is a Catholic invention using Einstein's math. All other models, like the steady state theory, have been disproven using CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background). Evolution I believe in, unlike the moron Stephen Meyer. Recently, scientists were able to upload a fly's brain to a computer, proving that consciousness might be computation. The simulation argument basically says that since reality is computation, perhaps there could be a programmer? God SPOKE us into existence (John 1:1). That's why we're information (geometry and so on).

God created humans separate from any other animal and created us to have dominion over the Earth.

They claim that in the old testament, salvation was by works. However, nobody was ever justified by the law. It has always been faith alone. The law only existed to convict the world of sin and pave the way for Jesus. See Psalm 69:30-31, Romans 3:20, Hebrews 8:13, Romans 3:19-20, Galatians 3:23-25, Romans 4:2-3, and so on. Salvation has ALWAYS been by faith alone. The only difference is that in the old teatament, you didn't need the holy spirit to be saved and in fact, you could lose it. In the new testament, a believer is sealed with the holy spirit for the day of redemption and no man, not even satan, can snatch you out of the father and son's hand. See Psalm 51:11, Ephesians 4:30, and John 10:27-29. They also claim that in the tribulation, salvation is of works based off a flawed hermeneutic of Matthew 24:13. However, in Revelation 9 and 16 say that those who received the mark "did not repent". So apparently, they still have an option. Just receiving the mark of the beast does not put you beyond God's grace, otherwise you are denying God's power.

Use NetSurf/Dillo or a terminal browser (w3m, lynx, links or elinks). Every other web browser uses Google/Apple/Mozilla/Microslop for their engine, but these are the only browsers that use their own w/ a small auditable codebase. Firefox's engine uses massive codebases w/ proprietary JS scripts and built-in telemetry. Don't trust it.

First you'll need an 8 layer PCBway PCB w/ VexRiscV on ECP5 CPU, a PCM1802/PCM1808 (TI) ADC and PCM5102A (TI) DAC for a pair of Micca MB42X passive computer speakers w/ Fosi Audio ZA3 or V3 (or other TPA3255-based amps), an ECP5 for your Modos paper display controller, a LiteX + ECP5 NAND/NOR for memory, ECP5 HSM w/ LUKS key stored on it, and an ECP5 running UberDDR3 for RAM controller w/ i/o plug-ins for a Modos paper display monitor, Micca MB42X passive computer speakers + Fosi Audio ZA3 or V3, Keyboardio model 01 keyboard, 3D printed Ploopy mouse, and a Microsoft Lifecam VX-1000/VX-3000 or a Logitech Quickcam 4000/Quickcam Express 1999 web cam w/ two more i/o plug-ins: one for cat6 cable that plugs into another Gentoo on LiteX VexRiscV FPGA SBC but w/o the ADC/DAC and Modos controller, and w/ only two i/o plug-ins that goes to your desktop workstation SBC and your default ISP router w/ ath9k PCIe attached to it (AR9280, AR9285, AR9380 or AR5B22). You will use this secondary SBC as your open 802.11 IP over DHCP router to run ethernet for all connections. Then use Gen1 x1 PCIe on your workstation SBC for a ULX3S to serve as your graphics card, will also need to encrypt the bitstream on the FPGAs, and use the other i/o plug-in for Ovrdrive USB flash drive to flash Hardened Gentoo Linux on the SBC w/ refused proprietary packages upon setup, refuse to install any proprietary packages, harden the kernel, secure the bootchain, run Sway compositor from Wayland to run grayscale for everything so it'll work on your e-paper monitor without ghosting and artifacting out, and use openrc instead of systemd. Then run nftables, kvm/qemu, firejail, pyshark, fail2ban, wireguard/shadowsocks and Netsurf/Dillo or a terminal browser.

And that's basically it.

Limited atonement is a denial of Christ's finished work FOR THE WHOLE WORLD! Not just the elect! Salvation is offered to everyone who believes. Yes, predestination is in the Bible, but it's foreknowledge-based. Man still has freewill. Fatalism is heresy. "Everything happens for a reason" is not how God works.

I'm new IFB. Old IFB are dispensationalists. NIFB are covenant theology. Nowhere in the Bible does it say there's a pre-trib rapture. It says in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says that the earthly resurrection of all believers comes AFTER Christ returns. Dispensationalists do use a certain hermaneutic when interpreting scripture, but the bottom line on their stances towards Israel is that while God has not abandoned his people completely, it still is only for the remnant that believes (NT jews). Not all Jews are going to be saved. All Israel will be saved is not an event that goes against human freewill. Not all of the hard hearted Pharisees of the world that are on Earth today would celebrate Christ's return. Many of them would be casted to Hell for taking the mark.

I believe in a bit of nuance. I don't think that no man was ever justified by the law. Even in Psalms, G-d says that lambs and oxes don't please him, but faith only. I do believe people were condemned by the law then,but that's only because they didn't have the blood of Christ on them yet. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 highlights this. Many Jews today do not believe in Jesus or as the son of God, their Talmud blasphemes the holy spirit when it calls Jesus a 'magician'.

I do believe in dispensationalism in that salvation used to work differently. That is true. In one of the Psalms, David says "take not my holy spirit" and another says "leave me not in Sheoul (Hell)". In 1 Corinthians, Paul said that those who deny the resurrection are not saved. That includes Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and other soul sleepers. They believe Heaven is for God only, but our soul sleeps until the earthly resurrection . This denies the first resurrection of Christ (go back to the Psalm of David saying "leave not my soul in Hell"). Because that's where everyone went in the Old Testament before Christ came to Earth, died, resurrected himself and all then believers lying in Sheoul to Heaven to ascend to the right hand of the father, giving gifts to many in the process. That was discussed in Luke 16.

Seventh day adventists deny the first resurrection, which is giving believers eternal life first in heaven and THEN on Earth after the second resurrection. It even says that in the Bible after Jesus went to Hell for 3 days and resurrected to the right hand of the father, bringing all believers in Abraham's bosom with him. People like A Messenger of Truth on YouTube deny this and say that the Pentecost never happened. What I mean is he twists old testament passages to say that the dead know nothing, when the Bible itself is multi-layered, it means the BODY rests not the soul! Jesus even debunked this claim when he said he is God of the LIVING, not the dead. Whosoever believeth hath ETERNAL life. That's present-tense, not future.

When we die, our soul goes somewhere, and that's heaven or hell, where they have no sleep, day or night. Annihilationism is real common with these cultists also. The Bible clearly says they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever. This is just cope to try to whitewash being dead in your sins without knowing Christ.

The key difference is that SDAs reject Christ's finished work on the first resurrection. This is just like John MacArthur denying the blood of Jesus for salvation, when it's the blood, death and resurrection that saves us. Why? Because they teach soul sleep, which is a heresy. You're still conscious after death before the second resurrection and final judgement of the damned, but you just haven't received your glorified body yet. Their basis is predicated on misinterpreted Hebrew root words, like "soul". Your SOUL is a living being. It is not your whole body or else the Bible wouldn't have verses like "fear not those who destroy the flesh but not the soul, but the soul and flesh in Gehenna".

I don't think the Holy Spirit was fundamental for salvation in the OT. Samson lost his and had to pray for it back. In the NT, you're sealed for the day of redemption. And all believers need the spirit of Christ in order to be saved (or "putting on" christ). The Jews require a sign. Believers are guided by faith, not by sight.

Pastor Steven Anderson is all I listen to anymore. Gene Kim contradicts himself, Bryan Denlinger is against easy believism and believes that you have to bless Israel and be a hardcore Zionist who gets off to blowing up hospitals and refugee camps in Gaza or else you go to Hell, A Messenger Of Truth is a soul sleep heretic who ignores verses like "whoever believes hath eternal life" meaning present-tense, not even future. Further, Matthew is filled with verses with references to "heaven" or "the kingdom of heaven". Further, he's a preterist and "annihilationist". Basically a crypto-Jehovah's witness heretic who's gonna split Hell wide open one day. John MacArthur denies the blood of Jesus for unlimited atonement, not all three (blood, death and resurrection). He also pushes a heresy known as Lordship salvation as opposed to classical free grace. Off The Kirb Ministries pushes the idea that you must produce a certain amount of "fruit" to enter heaven, he is pro-Law, doesn't believe Christ died to end it as bondage to sinners, and believes that salvation is a lifelong process, not a one-time occurrence when you are sealed with the Holy Spirit the moment upon conversion until the day of redemption. He too will split Hell wide open (see Matthew 7:21-23). Aaron Abke denies Paul and is a Judaizer who believes that the Law justifies the ungodly and grossly twists Jesus' gospel when he said I have not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it, meaning HE was the Law, HE fulfilled all 613 of them perfectly, HE was the son of God, the son of Mary, HE was present with God before creation co-eternally with the Holy Spirit, HE bled, died and resurrected for our sins so sinners can leaves Hades and go to Heaven, and HE will return probably soon from the way the world is looking. Robert Breaker is a hyperdispensationalist. I like him. Gino Jennings is a oneness pentecostal - not even a Christian by strict soteriological definition! I could go on. Jacksmack77 and Sniffing Out Pharisees have some good videos, I guess. Jordan Riley is a calvinist.

Since this subreddit doesn't let you provide links, this came from Verse By Verse Ministry's website.

In the second chapter of James’ letter, He writes:

James 2:20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

James 2:22 You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;

James 2:23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

James 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

James 2:25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

James 2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

James’ message to the believer is that we are saved for the purpose of doing good works, but if we fail to pursue good works, our faith is useless to God and to us. That faith is no less real, and therefore we are no less saved, but we will not have fulfilled (i.e., lived up to) the righteousness we have been given by our faith in Jesus Christ.

That’s the meaning of v.22 when James says that faith is “perfected” by our works. In this context, perfected means to fulfill its purpose in our life. God has granted us faith in His Son so that we would be saved and so that we might bring Him glory by our good works, as Jesus says:

Matt. 5:16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

When we do the good works expected of us, we perfect or fulfill the purpose of our faith in God’s plan. When we fail to accomplish the good works God intends, our faith still saves us yet it is useless otherwise. Earlier in James 2 the writer says:

James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

Once again, James acknowledges the presence of faith in the believer. He says that faith is by itself, not invalid or absent. Nevertheless, James says it is “dead” because it exists without works which denies faith its purpose in glorifying God. In this context the word dead means faith that is like a corpse in that it lacks activity or energy.

James does not mean that the faith is false or nonexistent. Once again, whatever is true for Abraham must be true for us. Was Abraham’s faith nonexistent prior to his good works in Genesis 22? No, and therefore we must make the same conclusion concerning the believer today who has placed faith in Christ but has not yet perfected his faith (i.e., produced the good works expected by God).

That is James’ chief concern for the church, that believers would live according to their faith so as to produce good works. Earlier in the chapter, James had chastised the church for failing to show charity to fellow believers:

James 2:14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

James 2:15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

James 2:16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

In v.14 James asks if a faith that does not produce good works can “save” a person? In this context, the word save doesn’t mean yield salvation. We know this because to interpret it otherwise would suggest that good works play a role in our salvation, which the Bible clearly and repeated states is not true.

Therefore, we must consider alternate meanings for the word “saved” in this context. The Greek word (sozo) has a range of meaning to include salvation but also other earthly forms of saving like being healed or being rescued. In this context, James is alluding to the judgment that believers face for their works. Believers are saved by faith alone from the penalty of their sin, but we are judged according to our works for eternal rewards (see 1Cor 3). So James asks can a life of faith without good works “save” or preserve the believer from the poor outcome that awaits him at the Judgment Seat of Christ?

Therefore, the phrase “faith without works is dead” refers to a believer living without a desire to accomplish good works for God. Such a person is still saved by their faith, just as Abraham was, but their faith is useless to God in that it produces no glory for Him. In that sense the faith is “dead’ because it is inactive and without purpose.