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It’s undeniably cool.
But people are talking like Elon personally did something greater than Newton inventing calculus.
This is neat, but it’s not a tech breakthrough…it’s just a cool and ridiculously expensive concept car.
Guys this isn’t magic.
This is well understood physics and similar and more impressive things have been done than this.
It’s just never been publicly done with a car before.
Hate to dox myself a bit but have worked on just about every fighter jet the US has. I have seen some impressive technology over my career but this is a whole other level. I have so many questions and need to know how this works. How much edge compute is needed to make this happen? My first thought is dual processor + 1TB ram. That way it can handle the fuckquintillion process per second. There was zero correction it nailed it 100%.
Praise God!
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Because there’s no power in worship unless we choose to worship him of our own free will.
The consequence of free will is evil, but the alternative is much darker.
A people created and programmed to worship God or not isn’t true worship.
And foreknowledge is distinct from predestination.
Actively encouraging people to leave their church if their pastor doesn’t agree with you on secondary and even some minor theological issues is a huge sin.
You’re encouraging the sin of schism.
Please stop.
Find a new church if your pastor:
- Says that Mormons are Christians.
- Says that Calvinism is heresy.
- Doesn't believe in a literal rapture or Tribulation.
- Thinks that the millennial reign is happening right now.
- Has a soft stance on Islam.
- Judges parents for celebrating Halloween or Santa.
- Wears skinny jeans and designer T-shirts.
- Claims that the gift of healing still exists in 2026.
- Refuses to preach verse by verse.
- Has been unfaithful to his wife in the past.
- Allows women to preach in the pulpit.
- Believes that drinking alcohol is a sin.
- Promotes the idea that God used evolution to create the Earth.
- Refuses to encourage his flock to vote for Bible-aligned candidates.
- Spends more time on podcasts than meeting people within his own church.
- Cusses and has no remorse.
- Uses props like ladders or Lamborghinis during sermons.
- Promotes the prosperity gospel.
- Believes that Jesus loves all of humanity and ultimately, everyone will go to heaven.
- Thinks he knows when the rapture will happen.
- Refuses to carry out church discipline for homosexuality or living together before marriage.
Did I miss any?
If you think swearing and cursing the most vile stuff at people online makes you more righteous than Pope Leo because he’s anti-death penalty, then you’ve most likely backslid all the way out of your salvation.
I can’t say that with a guarantee because I don’t know how God will judge.
But I can say that your soul is in grave danger.
To be clear, I think we need a new category. Howerton and other leaders in the evangelical space are usually Christian, but they aren’t Protestant.
He claims the Protestant mantle and approach here, but they are quite far away from it.
Evangelical is a better category than Protestant.
It’s embarrassing how bad many evangelicals misunderstand how Protestants and Catholics approach and interpret Scripture.
They literally just don’t understand the view.
They just think we don’t read Scripture or ignore it.
We interpret in light of other factors…which of course the evangelicals also do, but they just won’t admit it, to don’t understand it.
It might’ve been permitted by God for a time in which there was no other way to keep the community safe from violent offenders.
God doesn’t change, but he isn’t static. God understands context and situation. And what he permitted in one context, he might ban in another.
Even Paul makes this distinction about the law being a placeholder and that while God doesn’t change, the way he asks us to live and make moral decisions may change contextually.
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Just because something has been historically seen as okay doesn’t mean it’s okay.
You could make the same argument about slavery.
This is the definition of an unsound argument.
I’ve seen this a bunch so I think it’s important to say that I do this under the authority of the office of presbyter given to me by the Church through the Bishop who ordained me in 2020 in an apostolic successional lineage going back to Christ himself.
That’s the authority that I use when I proclaim God’s good news, preside over the sacrament, and call sinner’s (including myself) to repentance
The Scriptures also said if your curse your mother and Father you should die.
So…why don’t you follow that? Do you perhaps interpret the Scriptures in light of other authorities that has led you to stop wanting to execute people for cursing their parents?
Could you maybe see how other may do similar interpretation to say that the Scripture you reference may no longer apply in light of historical development?
In an ancient society where the only way to protect your neighbor and get justice, the death penalty was permissible.
In a modern society with secure prisons, killing doesn’t get anymore justice….it just denies the possibility of repentance for the offender.
God isn’t stupid. God understands historical context and the variables that may make the death penalty permissible 500 years ago, but may no longer be permissible in a modern society.
This is the worst argument I see.
Do you think that someone should be put to death if they curse at their mom and Dad?
Because the Bible says that too but you don’t follow it.
These folks just aren’t theologically capable enough to understand that what constitutes sin can be derived from the Scriptures and historical contextual development without being explicitly listed.
Even if they are capable, they choose bloodlust instead.
