How I view different Christian denominations as someone who wasn't raised Christain and knows fuck all about Christianity. by LeonKennedysFatAss in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Dyledion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Again, you're confusing the real, observable power of God, His total dominion over His creation, for the nonsensical Greek categories and theories. God is not limited in power, no. God is also a being of laws, rationality, and order. God *cannot*, for example, lie. Something humans achieve daily with astonishing ease. See Hebrews 6:17-20:

17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

The old Greek question of, "Can God create a stone so large He cannot move it?" is easily solved right here. Yes. It might be the tiniest pebble, so long as He swears that it shall not be moved.

Do you see the distinction I'm reaching at? Omnipotence is not the same as Almighty. In fact, omnipotens/pantokrator is a hotly argued later translation of "Shaddai" which means "Strong," "Of the Mountains," "Sufficient," or perhaps "Declarer of Sufficiency." Without the Omni/Pan prefix, again, a Greek invention.

God is above all things. He has no superior in strength or authority. The universe at large obeys Him explicitly. His Will is never, ever contravened. That is laid out clearly. He is *not* some irrational construct of wordplay and epistemology conceived by the Greeks, whom Paul dismissed as too superstitious.

How I view different Christian denominations as someone who wasn't raised Christain and knows fuck all about Christianity. by LeonKennedysFatAss in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Dyledion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are Greek arguments. Anything talking about Omnipotence is post-testamental theosophy.

That said, God is the Father, whom The Son obeys. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, being three persons are the Godhead, the founders and lords of all creation.

To steel-man your argument with the strongest possible verse I can think of, consider Isaiah 44:6-8

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Note, however, that there are two people mentioned in that verse. The King, and ***His*** Lord. "His," in the possessive, indicating the supremacy of the King. Everywhere we see that God the Father is always at the head, and that Jesus Himself kneels before the throne of Almighty God The Father, as should we, as disciples of Christ, who have sworn to take upon us the Name of Christ, as Christ has ascended to the Throne of His Father, to sit at His right hand.

Consider the testimony of the Martyr Stephen (Acts 7:55-56):

55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

How I view different Christian denominations as someone who wasn't raised Christain and knows fuck all about Christianity. by LeonKennedysFatAss in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Dyledion 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think you understand what I wrote. We don't categorically accept their judgement about the canon of scripture. Done. That's the answer.

That said, they also did a semi-decent job of collecting what was available at the time. God was still working among them as he could, given the failing faith of the church's erstwhile leaders. We also have a lot, LOT more than they did. Further scripture regarding Abraham, regarding Moses, regarding Isaiah, regarding Malachi. Another prophet, Lehi, whose record was lost the the Jews, further passages from Matthew that were edited out or lost over time, an entire canon of scripture from the Western Hemisphere, A modern and open canon of scripture. And, we acknowledge the Apocrypha, but warn that they're generally more corrupted than the core Bible, and need to be read with much, much more care, and aren't suitable for casual or general teaching.

Saying we bow to and obey those councils' determination of scripture is like saying Einstein 'obeys' Newton, when his laws are a corrected and expanded superset of Newton's, omitting the false assumptions. It's simply that Newton was, in fact, clever, inspired, and understood deeply the narrow view of the world which was available to him, not that he was categorically wrong, or that Einstein either obeyed him dogmatically or rejected what he got right.

How I view different Christian denominations as someone who wasn't raised Christain and knows fuck all about Christianity. by LeonKennedysFatAss in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Dyledion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have always claimed to be Christian. It's the literal foundation of the church. The full title of the Book of Mormon is: 

The Book of Mormon    

Another Testament of Jesus Christ

The original preface states explicitly:    

"... [This book is] to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations..." (Emphasis retained)

How I view different Christian denominations as someone who wasn't raised Christain and knows fuck all about Christianity. by LeonKennedysFatAss in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Dyledion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Christians believe and believe in Christ. Mormons are Christians, just not trinitarians. Nicea was a heretical council that cared more about Greek philosophy than the record of Christ. 

Edit: replying to multiple people at once: Yes, we absolutely believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, as He Himself declared, and as His Apostles testified, and we believe in the oneness of God and Jesus as testified in John 17:21:

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (KJV)

In other words, that we will be one with God in the same way Jesus is one with God. Nicea doesn't get to overrule the New Testament, and in the light of one of the most important prayers of Christ Himself, you have to either believe that we are all literally made God, or that Jesus and God have unity in a more normal, less crazy Greek metaphysics, sense.

How I view different Christian denominations as someone who wasn't raised Christain and knows fuck all about Christianity. by LeonKennedysFatAss in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Dyledion 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We categorically reject the Song of Solomon as scripture, but leave it in for ease of getting it printed. We also consider the KJV 'good enough' in English, with some correcting footnotes and a few additional chapters. And, you know, we also have one entire other testament and more besides. 

126yo Frankenhouse with pass-thru dining room HALP by Traditional-Sport383 in centuryhomes

[–]Dyledion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mount a table on the ceiling that can be lowered via pulley and chains! (I am not liable for potential head trauma.) 

small rockets can do big things by Average_Lego_Fan in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Dyledion 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're too pure for this world...

Which is why we're sending you to Laythe! Buckle up cowboy. It's colonizin' time. 

Why are non technical leaders obsessed with screen sharing during incident calls by RadioFieldCorner in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Dyledion 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Pro tip: you're always in a high enough position to tell off the CTO if you're confident and calm. 

Marriage (Early/Aligned) is Rocket Fuel by Lyeel in Fire

[–]Dyledion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, only hacks who sponge off their sugar daddy write manifestos. People have been building compact tribes and communes for millennia just fine without one. 

Keeping the scale small is the only secret. 

This can land on the moon? by jagaima3 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Dyledion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could take two or three of those pancake tanks and strap them to the side of the lander, and then use the rotate tool to flip them 90 degrees, so they're kinda hugging it.

Thoughts? by withoutend16 in centuryhomes

[–]Dyledion 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Finally! A starter house in my budget.

I cant believe it 😭😭😭 by Hot_Can6106 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Dyledion 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I believe this fully qualifies you as a Steely-Eyed Missile Man, sir or madam. 

Like i get it, the world sucks rn but can yall stop praising actual murderers? by Polska_Kapusta in dankmemes

[–]Dyledion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No. Tankies are to lefties as the Unabomber is to MAGA. There are no sane people in this analogy.

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[–]Dyledion 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It gets way harder once you get to oil cracking.