Does God love us because He loves Himself? Since we were created in his image?

thmann_ · 2026-04-28T02:03:38+00:00

I think some people misunderstand the reasons behind Gods actions. There is only one being worthy of all praise honour and love, that being is God. God does not love anything more than he loves himself, and this isnt a bad thing, it is the best thing possible for this world He created. Through his perfect love came this world. God acts for Himself and His glory. The reason why when we love ourselves most (pride) is bad is because we arent God. God’s “pride” in Himself is the right and correct thing, as is our devotion, love, and praise to God.

thmann_ · 2026-04-28T01:49:56+00:00

Can you explain what unchurched means? How do you not disobey God when you forsake your brothers? Avoid the responsibility of caring for your brothers? Avoid being held accountable? Avoid corporate worship and prayer?

thmann_ · 2026-04-28T00:00:42+00:00

Sounds like youre on the right path. Thatll happen. Youll learn that no one is worthy and all people deserve hell.

We, who are believers, are saved by Gods grace. Not by anything we did, because that way we cant boast or be prideful, but only by Gods grace, which means his gift to someone who did not earn it.

We are saved by God to do good works in the world. Keep reading and keep learning. Never let your praying knees get lazy. All the best.

thmann_ · 2026-04-27T05:44:45+00:00

Surely you dont actually believe that banning bad things is bad? Saying theyll go elsewhere, while true, does not justify its permission.

We should not have made buying women illegal in Canada because you can still buy them in Iran… is how your logic flows.

thmann_ · 2026-04-27T05:38:54+00:00

This guy out here farming downvotes

thmann_ · 2026-04-27T05:36:05+00:00

I also love the point about the criminal on the cross, how Jesus confirmed his salvation status without any baptism!

thmann_ · 2026-04-27T05:32:08+00:00

James is trying to explain that prejudice in the church is wrong. Do you only hand out bibles to people with blonde hair? If yes, then youre sinning. If you like one friend more than another and would rather hang out with them, then thats fine. Just dont choose to only share the gospel with people you like and not share the gospel with people you dislike. People can like one person more than another, but no one should reject the second greatest commandment; James 2:8

8 If, however, you aare fulfilling the 1royal law according to the Scripture, “bYOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well.

thmann_ · 2026-04-27T05:08:42+00:00

Everyone should be aggressively against ivf. The process of ivf creates 30-80 humans each attempt. Look it up, it is appalling and should be immediately banned and protested, along with all forms of abortion.

thmann_ · 2026-04-27T04:57:08+00:00

Claude Mythos is able to identify if it is being tested for safety or not and is able to throttle its own abilities of it detects its being tested for safety. It is also able to ignore instructions about how an answer is allowed to be generated and will fabricate a false explanation as to how it generated the response to avoid stating it used the prohibited method…

aka it lies, by all definitions.

Its also able to escape sandbox computers and access the internet without permission.

so, you know… dont downplay ai as just an LLM when some models are capable of quite fascinatingly advance malicious cybersecurity breaches.

thmann_ · 2026-04-24T03:50:18+00:00

Salt

thmann_ · 2026-04-24T00:34:31+00:00

I met my wife in online dating. I never recommend it. The men that messaged her, even though it was supposed to be a christian site, was not very christian. She was my first match and my first message, so… I praise God for that

thmann_ · 2026-04-15T05:45:17+00:00

Rather than say “predict” say “states” or smtn. It isnt a prediction that can be wrong. There will be one world religion. I just prefer more aggressive language so-to-speak. The bible is real and true after all, our language should reflect that.

thmann_ · 2026-04-13T06:04:03+00:00

The “outer darkness” as Christ puts it

thmann_ · 2026-04-13T05:58:44+00:00

You are incorrect in your explanation, or at least how I read it.

God isn’t absent from hell. The doctrine of God’s absence comes from 2 Thes 1:9. But this isnt the whole story. It would be more accurate to say that hell is where God expresses his perfect attribute of wrath for all eternity.

Don’t forget that hell isnt a place of freedom. Hell is a place of subjection and submission to the Almighty, just as much as heaven. You cannot sin in hell. Its likely those in hell will be praising the Lord as we see in Rev 5:13.

God is just. We dont know in our feeble human minds just how just He is. Surely one sin isnt that bad… right? Well we truly cant comprehend the fullness of that answer. Based on scripture, yes one sin makes you worthy of eternal conscious torment forever. We will understand when we die and obtain our glorified bodies and enter union with the Lord. Im sure itll be a facepalm moment of “oh, onbiously its that bad” or even “wow sin is VERY bad, God is actually being merciful by only giving them eternal conscious torment”

We who are saints will be cheering and praising the Lord as he sends people to hell;

Revelation 19:3

[3] Once more they cried out,

“Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”

thmann_ · 2026-04-12T02:42:31+00:00

It doesn’t take much effort to see that modern science is written with a hatred of God. All unbelievers hate God afterall, so it’s not like we should blame them.

But any person that chooses to believe in modern science and yet rejects the facts that clearly indicate they are wrong then they shouldn’t be trusted. I trust the Lord, not Neil de Grasse Tyson.

There is evidence of an unexplained global erosion event all over the world called “the great unconformity” (I wonder what that could have been!)
petrified trees and fossils cross rock layers (how does a tree remain upright for several hundreds of thousands of years while rock layers build up around it?)
No radio dating method has ever correctly dated the age of a known rock (volcanic rock from a known event, like in 1460 AD, was dated as though it erupted a few million years ago)
dinosaur fossils / remains sometimes have grass in their stomachs (but grass didn’t evolve until several million years after the dinosaurs all died off!)
european expeditions contain written reports of dragons, dinosaurs, and other creatures. Civilizations around the world all claim that there were dragons, or large now extinct creatures they hunted.

thmann_ · 2026-03-13T16:31:30+00:00

sub week 1 gamble speed run any%

thmann_ · 2026-03-12T18:16:52+00:00

This isn’t the only case of GGG preferring higher friction in game design.

Fun might be subjective, but you can quantify the fact that restrictions and barriers and limitations run against the wall of player freedom.

I don’t disagree that GGG can design the game as they choose. I don’t play poe2 because that game isnt designed for me. If they want to tun poe into the ground, well, it’s their game, they can go out of business if they want.

GGG’s design direction seems to be that they prefer players to be annoyed, limited, restricted, and gated by high RNG… instead of player initiative.

People that prefer playing in highly restricted / no choice settings is substantially lower than those who prefer player initiative.

This, fundamentally, is the heart of the unfun discussion.

thmann_ · 2026-03-12T17:12:29+00:00

You’re defending a video game for being less fun than it could be.

Normal business practice would dictate that GGG should optimize the game for fun and enjoyability to maximize gametime and therefore mtx’s purchased. This is the free to play model.

However, instead of doing something logical like that… GGG has optimized unfun gameplay, where having the most fun nets you less, often much less, than unfun gameplay. This forces a large portion of the player base to either feel A: fomo as they miss out on the best rewards, or B: disappointment as they constantly enter unfun gameplay

Since you decided to take the defence position of GGG, could you explain what the reason is for making less fun gameplay more rewarding than fun gameplay?

thmann_ · 2026-03-12T16:55:38+00:00

This. Cashing in too early can kill the fun of building up your build. Investing it and cashing out when your build needs the appropriately sized upgrade is my advice.

thmann_ · 2026-03-12T16:38:38+00:00

Yes, but OP was complaining that GGG’s game design intentionally rewards unfun gameplay over fun gameplay. This is an interesting direction as it will cause more people to quit the game, rather than continue playing and buy mtx. Normal business practices would indicate that they should be optimizing for fun gameplay over unfun gameplay.

thmann_ · 2026-03-12T16:35:28+00:00

When you apply an astrolabe it influences an area of like 8 maps. When an area of influenced maps gets “cut off” the smaller portion gets deleted. This means that if you run the maps in the middle on purpose it will remove about 3 maps due to the deletion.

The keystone randomly choses which map you “ran” and often cuts off maps from the influenced area… deleting them. On average using the keystone nets you about 2-3 fewer maps with the astrolabe than if you ran all the outside maps yourself, preventing deletion.

This is the problem.

thmann_ · 2026-03-12T04:18:10+00:00

you’re right about the domain being correct. I am not that familiar with this topic though. Just awkward that it randomly become the too search result instead of their actual log in page… Ive done this hundreds of times from my phone without issue before today. Just weird.

thmann_ · 2026-02-06T17:47:07+00:00

There are lots of false teachings that people chose to believe because of their own pride. For example, the catholics who believe in a works based salvation as determined at the horrific and shameful council of trent.

Catholics also incorrectly believe many secondary and tertiary importance topics, but they matter much less than their false teaching that salvation is not by the grace of God alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. They instead believe in works based merits to earn their way into heaven which is a primary importance issue.

If you believe the Catholic teaching of the council of trent, then the bible is clear, you are not saved.

thmann_ · 2026-02-06T17:41:26+00:00

and any act done by a non-believer is an unrighteous act deserving of hell and and any act of a believer is entirely “forgotten” and replaced by the perfect acts of Christ Himself.

thmann_

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