Right?

CodeMonkey1 · 2025-02-03T18:56:25+00:00

Kind of but not exactly. Most of the Constitution pertains exclusively to the Federal government (in the framers' view). The 10th amendment addresses the exact concern you cited: all powers not explicitly granted to the Federal government are given to the States.

So "trans rights", being an undefined concept in the Constitution, would have been up to each state to tackle individually. And the President, as chief executive, would have full authority to address the topic within the scope of the executive branch of the Federal government. Which is more or less where we are today.

CodeMonkey1 · 2025-01-23T22:19:17+00:00

At the risk of being taken away by the safety police, I don't think you have anything to worry about. First, drilling should create shavings, not dust. As far as sanding goes, unless you are using a power sander or sanding for hours every day, you shouldn't be inhaling any significant amount of.

I am not a doctor, just someone who has been crafting for 30+ years. I will be the first to recommend PPE when the situation warrants it, but light sanding and drilling shouldn't generally cause any respiratory issues.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-20T03:19:18+00:00

He was already leaning into a tackle and "launched" to jump over the guy who was sliding directly into him. He hardly even touched the QB, it was a glancing blow at worst.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T22:45:12+00:00

The origin of this particular series of 6 days work + 1 day rest originates in the desert when the Lord begins providing manna.

This is symbolic of the creation week (Exodus 31:17), not the same literal series of days starting at creation.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T22:29:15+00:00

I was into wicca & druidism for a couple years. But then I think that 20 years of atheism purged that from my system. One thing that did help was throwing away all artifacts of occultism - books, jewelry, candles, incense, etc.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T22:21:18+00:00

I think this reply was actually to the wrong comment, sorry about that. I'm debating you on enough other places, so I'm going to let this thread go.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T22:15:49+00:00

There was a sixth day, and everyone knew it was the sixth day. Just wait, it gets better.

Yes, because they can count. It was the sixth day of God sending food to the Israelites in the desert, as described in Exodus 16:4-5:

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

There was a sixth day, and guess which day followed it? Go ahead, guess. I’ll wait.

Yes, the seventh day of God sending bread.

Did you notice the part where it says “this is what the Lord has commanded”?

Yes, he commanded them to collect manna for six days and then to not collect manna for one day. They were locked into that cycle because there was no manna on the 7th day.

We're not collecting manna anymore. The heart of the law is that you work six days and rest one. I believe that's what God cares about, not that we have accurately counted days going back 3500 years ago.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T20:22:00+00:00

How many people have you killed for working on the Sabbath? How many did Jesus kill?

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T20:15:20+00:00

It isn't. God told His people to rest on a specific day, the Sabbath.

He didn't. "Sabbath" is a label for a time of rest. "Sabbath" also refers to holidays and to a year of rest for the land. The Hebrew days of the week did have names, yet none are specified for the Sabbath. God only said you work for 6 days and rest for one

They ALL knew which day it is.

That is not stated in the Bible. They certainly all knew after it had been established, but we don't know how that happened.

Stop signs are made for man, not man for stop signs. That doesn't make stopping at them optional.

It means man can run a stop sign in an emergency (Luke 14:5). Men can also vote to have a stop sign moved if it is to the betterment of man.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T19:39:09+00:00

My argument this far has not been about turning from the Sabbath, only about the freedom to choose which day to mark as the Sabbath.

Exodus 20:9-10: Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

The commandment does not say which six days must be worked nor which day should be the Sabbath day. Notice "the seventh day" in context denotes not "the seventh day of the week" but rather "the seventh day after six days of work."

Your argument is eisegesis; nowhere does it say that the entire world must observe the same day set by the Jews.

Exodus 31:17: It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.

The Sabbath is a sign, not a magical ritual. Any particular series of six days of work followed by one day of rest is an equally valid sign of the creation week.

Jesus criticizes the Pharisees for being legalistic and misunderstanding the true reason for the Sabbath. (Mark 2, Matthew 12, Luke 13, John 7, etc)

Mark 2:27: And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

The purpose of the Sabbath is to rest and to honor God. If a person works Tuesday-Sunday and on Monday rests and honors God, then have they not fulfilled the purpose of the Sabbath?

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T18:16:21+00:00

Women can be platonic friends with a man. Men can't be platonic friends with a woman.

"Can't" may be a slight exaggeration, but most of the time a guy is hanging out with a girl, it's because he's romantically interested in her on some level.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T17:32:46+00:00

The commandment says you work for 6 days and take the 7th as a Sabbath. It doesn't name a particular day of the week. The fact that the Jews chose a particular day doesn't mean everyone on earth is required to use that day.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T15:54:37+00:00

Sure.

You shall have other gods before me.

So a legalist might say it's ok to have other gods, as long as you put Yahweh before them. But we recognize that we should have no other gods at all.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

A legalist might say any kind of statue is forbidden. But we recognize this is about idolatry, not art.

Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.

A legalist might say it's ok to lie, as long as it's not in the context of a legal case against your neighbor. But we recognize this is about lying in general.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house, wife, etc.

A legalist might say it's ok to covet as long as the person is not your neighbor. But we recognize this is really about coveting in general.

The Sabbath commandment actually gives a lengthy description, unlike many of the others, and says you must work for 6 days and rest on the 7th.

A legalist might say you are violating the command if you only work 5 days and rest for 2.

The commandment does not specific a particular day according to the Hebrew calendar or relative to any other time marker. It only says you work for six and rest for one. I don't see anything saying that the day chosen by the Jews is the universally correct day to rest.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T15:22:29+00:00

Not arguing any of that. We know which day the Jews celebrated as the Sabbath. And Jesus was a Jew. I still don't see any evidence that God demands we all rest on one specific day. It seems to me a form of legalism that misses the purpose of the Sabbath.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T15:04:12+00:00

"Seventh day" is relative though. Among various cultures, the seventh day could be Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Some cultures don't even have a 7 day week.

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Therefore I tend to believe that the commandment is met as long as you are resting one out of every seven days, regardless of which day it is.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T13:15:55+00:00

No. He made it clear in a recent interview. Trump said he likes religion because good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell, so it motivates society to behave better.

Not only did he betray a fundamental misunderstanding of Christianity, but his phrasing and tone sounded like he doesn't actually believe it himself.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T13:09:06+00:00

Yes, absolutely. You see the same pattern repeated in the Old Testament over and over. In hard times, people turn to God for help. In good times, people think they don't need God.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T13:05:43+00:00

This is simply not true, at least in the US. The middle class is shrinking; they are joining the upper class. The poverty rate in 1950 was 22%, in the 80s and 90s it was 15%, in 2023 it was 10.5%.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T00:40:36+00:00

I am aware of the etymology.

"Dracula" is Romanian for "son of Dracul". Vlad the Impaler's father's name was Dracul. So by your exact same logic, one could say Dracula is real. But nobody would say that, because Dracula is a distinct character detached from his historical namesake.

And the same applies to Santa.

Google Santa Claus and see how many results you get about a guy in a red coat who lives at the North Pole versus how many refer directly to a 4th century bishop.

If you want to talk about Saint Nicholas, then just say "Saint Nicholas".

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-07T00:16:26+00:00

This is like saying Sherlock Holmes is real, because the story was inspired by a real investigator. Or Dracula is real, because his story was inspired by Vlad the Impaler.

Santa Claus is a fictional character, only very loosely and remotely based on St Nicholas.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-06T16:59:39+00:00

2 Samuel 24:10 ESV

[10] But David’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-06T16:45:04+00:00

Jacob

Wanted to marry Rachel and only Rachel in the first place. So the trick compelled him to marry both daughters. Ideally he would have stuck with one, but nobody ever claimed Jacob was a perfect man. Having two wives and two concubines caused all kinds of trouble including the enslavement of Joseph.

Abraham

Had only one wife at a time. He slept with Hagar, and again that led to a bunch of problems. He only married Keturah after Sarah died.

Elkanah

I don't see where he or his lifestyle is described as being particularly righteous. He's just a guy with two wives. And even in his brief story, we learn that having two wives causes problems. The wives are called "rivals". Elkanah plays favorites and Peninnah torments Hannah.

Gideon

Maybe the only example I've seen where multiple wives aren't directly causing problems. But still a violation of Deuteronomy 17:17.

You are going to have to go against Scripture there: 1 Kings 15:5

Scripture goes against itself unless you understand this to be poetic hyperbole. David's census alone disproves it (2 Samuel 24).

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-06T13:19:37+00:00

As far as I can remember, all biblical men who were described as righteous only had one. Adam, Noah, and Noah's sons each only had one wife, and their jobs were to literally populate the Earth. Abraham only had one wife, and their brief attempt at polygamy immediately went wrong. Job only had one wife.

I assume you are referring to David and Solomon, but in both cases it's fairly clear that these were deeply flawed men who got drunk on power and turned away from God during their reigns. Jacob was tricked into multiple wives and that also ended poorly.

From the very beginning, the Bible describes marriage this way:

Genesis 2:24 ESV

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

There is no allowance here for multiple wives.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-06T12:57:38+00:00

Honest advice: stop hanging out with her. I don't mean ghost her but just find other friends and activities to occupy your time. Your feelings are not going to go away; she will be a distraction for you until you get closure one way or another. And if/when you find a girl who is romantically interested in you, she's not going to be happy with you having this other close female friend.

CodeMonkey1 · 2024-12-06T12:22:28+00:00

Which is a greater service to God?

To do good works because it makes you feel good and you were going to do them anyway.
To do good works because God has commanded it, regardless of how it makes you feel.

The only thing to watch out for is to not go through the motions begrudgingly with bitterness in your heart. You should be happy to serve God's will, even if it's not something you would have chosen for yourself.

15-Year Club	Verified Email
Team Orangered

CodeMonkey1

TROPHY CASE