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I believe you hit the nail on the head And your bio reflects my personal experience; it is something so good and so awesome; it is out-of-this-world, and so, o

I believe you hit the nail on the head And your bio reflects my personal experience; it is something so good and so awesome; it is out-of-this-world, and so, out of describable, out of computable, beyond > He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. john1 It cannot. As a straw cannot receive an ocean @dang I would say far from offtopic, this is the most ontopic comment...

nickpsecurity 3y ago
Indeed. Receiving eternal life instead of wrath is already awesome. Then, we see how Christ transforms people and works in their lives. I’ll give fresh examples. I was out door to door today. God put several of them right in front of me as I was about to knock. All good conversations. Several had struggling families, people who went trans & Satanist, etc. They were greatly encouraged by God’s Word, one to tears. Another had just asked for God to send her an answer about where to go and I knocked on her door with that answer. A number had left churches due to the worldliness I referenced in my comment, too. Outside of that, we’ve seen amazing things happen. People close to Christ were about the only folks with peace and joy working retail during COVID. My prayer group has seen two people supernaturally healed with doctors baffled. One still has the neurological damage but no symptoms. Hardcore folks in our local prisons are begging for more of the Word with some transforming. One evangelist I met was doing drive by shootings in his past. It’s just amazing watching Christ work miracles and change lives every day while the news focuses on alternative philosophies doing record damage. The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. Then, we’ll see real change happen.
- talldayo 3y ago
  > The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. If media discards secularism, news becomes worthless. No organization that spans the trust of religious and non-religious audiences would acquiesce to the promotion of an arbitrary religion - I doubt you'd support what you're asking for if it treated Muslim revelations with equal weight. Regardless, showing people at mass on TV will not solve food inequity or goodwill towards mankind (ask me how I know; I grew up in Detroit). Your heart is in the right place, but compared to the "struggling families" you've described, you might be the least functional of them all. You require the illusory promise of salvation to persist; denying it for you is almost like killing your own ego. You flip-flop between counterintuitive stances based on what the bible or the ecclesiastics say is right. Perhaps your own notion of morality and logic is stunted, because you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you. In a world full of realized problems and pragmatic failures of the human condition, faith is the least realistic framework for actually fixing our world. Convincing people to reject personal willpower and self-righteousness is how you kill the individual and create a mentally-neutered sycophant.
  - tsegratis 3y ago
    Thankyou @talldayo, it is lovely to hear from you > promotion of an arbitrary religion Truth is in short supply. I think in secularism, and the religions as you described, people push their own advantage, rather than an independent truth. But the idea that our ultimate goal is truth -- i.e. truth is God, God is truth: This is the only truly trustable source; since anyone who places something higher than truth, such as life, will sacrifice truth to get that. So considering God, to be truth can be the only fully trustworthy position This is quite different to your conceptualization > you might be the least functional of them all "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied" 1cor15. So Yes :) > you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you I really really appreciate your feedback!! However I would attest to many many personal revelations and observed miracles to the point i would consider myself insane not to believe. i.e. It is very much personal choice I appreciate your other comments too, but my reply is already long
    - talldayo 3y ago
      > So considering God, to be truth can be the only fully trustworthy position Has "God" and his proclamations not been proven wrong over the age of the Earth, the origins of mankind, geocentrism, global flooding, etcetra? If secularism promotes the warping of objective truths, then religion reciprocally practices the interpretation of fiction. As a rational person I'd rather argue over the merits of rational information. From my perspective, the existence of a God is used as a ersatz explanation for determinism. Not to get too far off in the weeds, but this is usually the Achilles heel of religion. We create religion because man feels a need to justify irrational suffering. Why aren't the crops growing, why did our king die, how does space work, who made us, all of these questions have been skewed by religion since time immemorial. When you deconstruct Christianity and the merits of religion from a postmodern worldview, you very quickly identify how it digs it's claws into people. The founding fathers of America, Christian though they may be, even acknowledge the poison that is a state-affiliated church. Thousands of people have senselessly lost their lives throughout history due to deference to religious interpretation over logic. I've heard the gospel since I was a kid, and I've watched the wheel go round with or without the dedication of the faithful. People deserve a better education than a penitent mindset. Peace and suffering are thermodynamic certainties, religion will make no sense of it unless you reject reality entirely.

nickpsecurity 3y ago

Indeed. Receiving eternal life instead of wrath is already awesome. Then, we see how Christ transforms people and works in their lives. I’ll give fresh examples. I was out door to door today. God put several of them right in front of me as I was about to knock. All good conversations. Several had struggling families, people who went trans & Satanist, etc. They were greatly encouraged by God’s Word, one to tears. Another had just asked for God to send her an answer about where to go and I knocked on her door with that answer. A number had left churches due to the worldliness I referenced in my comment, too. Outside of that, we’ve seen amazing things happen. People close to Christ were about the only folks with peace and joy working retail during COVID. My prayer group has seen two people supernaturally healed with doctors baffled. One still has the neurological damage but no symptoms. Hardcore folks in our local prisons are begging for more of the Word with some transforming. One evangelist I met was doing drive by shootings in his past. It’s just amazing watching Christ work miracles and change lives every day while the news focuses on alternative philosophies doing record damage. The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. Then, we’ll see real change happen.

talldayo 3y ago
> The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. If media discards secularism, news becomes worthless. No organization that spans the trust of religious and non-religious audiences would acquiesce to the promotion of an arbitrary religion - I doubt you'd support what you're asking for if it treated Muslim revelations with equal weight. Regardless, showing people at mass on TV will not solve food inequity or goodwill towards mankind (ask me how I know; I grew up in Detroit). Your heart is in the right place, but compared to the "struggling families" you've described, you might be the least functional of them all. You require the illusory promise of salvation to persist; denying it for you is almost like killing your own ego. You flip-flop between counterintuitive stances based on what the bible or the ecclesiastics say is right. Perhaps your own notion of morality and logic is stunted, because you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you. In a world full of realized problems and pragmatic failures of the human condition, faith is the least realistic framework for actually fixing our world. Convincing people to reject personal willpower and self-righteousness is how you kill the individual and create a mentally-neutered sycophant.
- tsegratis 3y ago
  Thankyou @talldayo, it is lovely to hear from you > promotion of an arbitrary religion Truth is in short supply. I think in secularism, and the religions as you described, people push their own advantage, rather than an independent truth. But the idea that our ultimate goal is truth -- i.e. truth is God, God is truth: This is the only truly trustable source; since anyone who places something higher than truth, such as life, will sacrifice truth to get that. So considering God, to be truth can be the only fully trustworthy position This is quite different to your conceptualization > you might be the least functional of them all "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied" 1cor15. So Yes :) > you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you I really really appreciate your feedback!! However I would attest to many many personal revelations and observed miracles to the point i would consider myself insane not to believe. i.e. It is very much personal choice I appreciate your other comments too, but my reply is already long
  - talldayo 3y ago
    > So considering God, to be truth can be the only fully trustworthy position Has "God" and his proclamations not been proven wrong over the age of the Earth, the origins of mankind, geocentrism, global flooding, etcetra? If secularism promotes the warping of objective truths, then religion reciprocally practices the interpretation of fiction. As a rational person I'd rather argue over the merits of rational information. From my perspective, the existence of a God is used as a ersatz explanation for determinism. Not to get too far off in the weeds, but this is usually the Achilles heel of religion. We create religion because man feels a need to justify irrational suffering. Why aren't the crops growing, why did our king die, how does space work, who made us, all of these questions have been skewed by religion since time immemorial. When you deconstruct Christianity and the merits of religion from a postmodern worldview, you very quickly identify how it digs it's claws into people. The founding fathers of America, Christian though they may be, even acknowledge the poison that is a state-affiliated church. Thousands of people have senselessly lost their lives throughout history due to deference to religious interpretation over logic. I've heard the gospel since I was a kid, and I've watched the wheel go round with or without the dedication of the faithful. People deserve a better education than a penitent mindset. Peace and suffering are thermodynamic certainties, religion will make no sense of it unless you reject reality entirely.