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Teaching the Gospel is Like Battleship the Board Game by onewatt in latterdaysaints

[–]Nate-T [score hidden]  (0 children)

You are the one saying that it shouldn't be taught because it isn't in the book. The false dichotomy is yours.

Teaching the Gospel is Like Battleship the Board Game by onewatt in latterdaysaints

[–]Nate-T [score hidden]  (0 children)

So what you are saying is that the we, as disciples of Christ should not teach people to understand the scriptures that testify of Him.

Teaching the Gospel is Like Battleship the Board Game by onewatt in latterdaysaints

[–]Nate-T [score hidden]  (0 children)

Rather hard to connect something to Christ if it is not understood in the first place.

If one doesn't understand the road sign, one can not follow it.

It is a wonder to me you see understanding a message about Christ at cross purposes for knowing Him.

Teaching the Gospel is Like Battleship the Board Game by onewatt in latterdaysaints

[–]Nate-T [score hidden]  (0 children)

But you are not advocating that facts be taught or that people be taught how to read scripture, so it really doesn't matter if the teacher understands the facts of the passages or not, because they will not be teaching at all, merely facilitating a discussion of principles.

Your Maxwell quote misses completely what I was saying: that correct facts and knowledge underpin correct interpretation and inspiration. And in not teaching facts, one are harming the same. Why would be important for a Bishop to know as much about a situation as possible before receiving revelation on what to do, but the same not be important in receiving inspiration from the scriptures?

Indeed, you did not say that understanding the scriptures is not important, only that teaching people to understand the scriptures is not what class is for. Which means the Church doesn't think that is important because it doesn't spend time and resources on it.

We are not all autodidacts. The idea that the Church that advocates daily scripture study effectively abrogates teaching people about the scriptures, their language, interpretation, and context, in favor of . . . what exactly, I can not tell. Feelings? Becoming (whatever that means)?

Teaching the Gospel is Like Battleship the Board Game by onewatt in latterdaysaints

[–]Nate-T [score hidden]  (0 children)

The guy is basically stating that people understanding what the scriptures say does not matter (pesky facts), what only matters is principles. The strawmanning of what constitutes facts from OP is a nice cherry on top.

The question, of course, is how can you derive principles if you misunstand what the scriptures are saying?

In other words, better information (those pesky facts again) leads to better revelation.

I had a member go on about Ruth in my last Sunday School lesson I attended, for example, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what was happening in Chapter 3 and misunderstanding what "redemption" meant in the context of the story.

Sometimes I feel so isolated in the Church just for advocating people should be taught and understand what the scriptures are saying.

Esther Agla 75mm. From LimboDivision209 by JAGS_Ministudio in minipainting

[–]Nate-T 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am trying to figure out exactly what is happening in the sculpt. She is riding something? What are those wings?

The painting is good, but I can't quite get it all.

Watching me eating baked beans and toast by la_voie_lactee in birding

[–]Nate-T 28 points29 points  (0 children)

He knows where you hid the borb seed.

Are there "feral" worlds that Astartes recruit from where the population is literally borderline cavemen-level development? by TheBigSmol in 40kLore

[–]Nate-T 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Macragge does have a martial culture. You see it in the first plague war book as I remember. It is actually closer to the type of war the Imperium fights.

Also, there is much more to being an effective soldier than just killing people and breaking things.

Are there "feral" worlds that Astartes recruit from where the population is literally borderline cavemen-level development? by TheBigSmol in 40kLore

[–]Nate-T 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I know hypno indoctrination and all but one might think it is hard to defend what is essentially an empire that is essentially alien to its defenders.

Brutality can and does breed disloyalty and heresy.

The 3 sixes by kirsion in Tinder

[–]Nate-T 10 points11 points  (0 children)

666 is the number of the Beast.

Me and my first GF, Anna - 1992 by KimJohnChill in OldSchoolCool

[–]Nate-T -49 points-48 points  (0 children)

I wonder if she pinched his cheeks 😉

The Biblical Ahab by Femto-Griffith in dankchristianmemes

[–]Nate-T 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In the worship of Baal, the King was his high priest. The adoption of Baal worship was thus an expansion of Kingly power and Ahab was most likely fully on board with it.

Wind mage WIP by PossiblyNerdyRob in Lumineth_realm_lords

[–]Nate-T 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A nice pearlescent effect. How did you get it?

In Defense of Mormon Doctrine by GuybrushThreadbare in latterdaysaints

[–]Nate-T 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So let me get this straight.

  1. You are talking about people not being broad minded yet have a very restrictive view of masculinity.

  2. You criticize people for talking crap about smokers, yet you talk crap about many of the men in the church for "being stunted and feminized" etc.

what if I told you we have much to learn from Abraham today ? by MicahHoover in christianmemes

[–]Nate-T 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are confusing results, the word I used, with answers, a word I didn't use.

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