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I will be deleting/abandoning/orphaning this npub soon. 10,000+ follows even as I interact with *maybe* 50 people. Those who appreciate my content will be able to find me again.

2026-07-22 18:37:59 CEST

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Finally, I had a painting of Jesus walking with the lost sheep, now found.
My tradition, the reformed faith, takes a strict position on the 2nd Commandment (graven images) ; we believe the spirit of this law forbids a believer from keeping images, especially art, of heavenly things, including even the earthly body of the Messiah, for His divine nature is inseparable.
Even this painting, which many would argue passes the letter of the law, does violence to the spirit of the law. When I disposed of it, my flesh resisted and I felt wounded. In this, I understood how man's fallen heart is eager to replace God with objects and become attached to them.
When I meditated on it, searched the Scriptures, and prayed... I became convicted that God wants His people to depend wholly on Him. So simple, yet difficult for us. The flesh clings to this world, and resists the Spirit.
Repent always.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-22 04:27:00 CEST

I had filled my life with things God hates.
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-22 04:25:01 CEST

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"Your sins will be forgiven and forgotten."
This framing actually wrong.
Your sins will he paid for, and you will enter eternity through Christ's righteousness.
God is perfect justice and holiness, so he punishes every sin perfectly, either through Christ or through Hell.

2026-07-22 04:17:06 CEST

I understand why faith is hard on a rich man. There can be no half measures when forsaking the world and following Christ. May God discipline you, brethren. 🙏
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-21 23:05:55 CEST

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This one was hard. My wife and I had two wedding ceremonies: one in a chapel in the US and one in a shrine in Japan.
As part of that latter ceremony, we recieved a temple charm with my family name on it and both our names.
This charm is the most egregious of all the betraying momentos, aka religious objects that I possessed, since it literally was a signed seal over our marriage covenant.
It had become an important momento and symbol of our marriage. But now, as the Spirit is pressing me to rightly order my affections and clean my house, this charm can have no place in my walk.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-21 19:23:42 CEST

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Be honest about your position instead of attempting to undermine your opponents credibility.
#nevent1q…st7u

2026-07-21 19:20:01 CEST

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The Spirit is pushing me to 'clean house' right now, in terms of my life. There will be a time for meat.

2026-07-21 18:55:54 CEST

According to trustworthy #Bitcoin influencers, Bitcoin will fail unless we don't kill grandma by December.
#BIP110 stop the spread. 💉

2026-07-21 18:48:52 CEST

#bip110 = pandemic scare tactics.
Lockdown or #Bitcoin will fail.
Don't kill grandma. Stop the spread.
😷🦠

2026-07-21 18:46:08 CEST

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In most of the ways that matter, #Bitcoin is superior to gold.
Surprisingly, I have not heard anyone evaluating these moneys in terms of the ability to change them at the cellular/rules/consensus/software/chemical level.
#nevent1q…0men

2026-07-21 18:44:24 CEST

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Gold is a rock.
#nevent1q…0r5p

2026-07-21 18:40:48 CEST

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Individual nodes are just people. People can be hacked by Sybil attacks. The question is what happens then.

2026-07-21 18:37:43 CEST

#Bitcoin's greatest weakness is that humans can change it gradually over time, and so it can be socially attacked.

2026-07-21 18:33:21 CEST

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Narrator: it didn't end up being a problem at all.
#nevent1q…2gvv

2026-07-21 17:43:38 CEST

The nonsensical pressure to constantly change #Bitcoin significantly undermines the value proposition of Bitcoin.

2026-07-21 17:03:25 CEST

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100%

2026-07-21 16:20:31 CEST

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It is God who draws His people by all means, not JBP who himself denies Christ.

2026-07-21 13:39:24 CEST

Gold doesn't have the core vs knots civil war. That's one of it's most redeeming features.
#Bitcoin

2026-07-21 13:19:17 CEST

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Anything not confessing Christ is a snare.
#nevent1q…69q5

2026-07-21 13:06:37 CEST

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Looks chalky.

2026-07-21 11:37:31 CEST

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👋

2026-07-21 10:54:07 CEST

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That a thing? I know they've had a bad time experimenting with immigration after being pressured or fooled by the West. I understand they are changing course now.

2026-07-21 10:47:44 CEST

Your books are monuments to your values. Every author a disciple over your life. Consider them in this light.
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-21 10:00:29 CEST

Jordan Peterson, surrounded by idols and brutalist art in his residence.
Beware the deceiver who leads people to admire the Bible while refusing to bow to Christ as Lord and Savior.
Spiritual deception dressed up as wisdom.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-21 04:32:31 CEST

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"Turn to God" = repentance = forsake everything and follow Christ.
Fruit born of salvation is evidence of justification, not it's cause.
Those whose life is not transformed by faith are not saved. Faith apart from works is dead.

2026-07-21 03:48:25 CEST

The Gospel in 60 seconds.
#ToChristAlone
https://blossom.primal.net/b15028474bca7f3adf4e1559fe37d8d6535bc9197564a3647a6420121302dfdb.webp

2026-07-21 01:32:03 CEST

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Liver has felt like a space heater today.
#Peatstr
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2026-07-21 01:25:07 CEST

@nprofile…kclk please implement a feature that allows curse words to be censored with asterisks; presently I need to add them to mute words which causes the entire post to disappear, which is undesirable. cc @nprofile…lwnv

2026-07-21 01:17:28 CEST

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At a microdose it provides a very pleasant low and slow burn. Great for hot sauces if done right.

2026-07-21 01:16:46 CEST

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It has an extremely ominous taste in the first 2-3 seconds. Slow to arrive, but like the first crawl of a roller coaster, you begin to understand what you're getting into within 20-30 seconds.

2026-07-21 01:14:25 CEST

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I've had to mute Alan. Do not be decieved by his false gospel. I pray to the Lord that he is disciplined and brought #ToChristAlone.
#nevent1q…fj9l

2026-07-21 01:12:00 CEST

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I should say that I desire and desperately need God's discipline, because even though I am in the hand of our Lord, I was a severe sinner whose entire life was dishonorable to Him.

2026-07-21 01:10:20 CEST

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All glory to God.

2026-07-20 23:24:56 CEST

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By any standard I have nice, well made possessions. I qualify as a Biblical "rich person", which I suspect the Spirit is guiding quickly towards a long road of discipline.

2026-07-20 22:51:03 CEST

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"according to your religion"
I'm not sure what you mean. The reformed tradition?
I do not own fancy clothes or watches or anything else. That's not something I can take credit for me, but the helper within who is guiding me.
Christians are temporary pilgrims in this world. What do luxury goods say when a Christian collects them?

2026-07-20 22:16:24 CEST

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Truly, brethren.
https://blossom.primal.net/49000d88dc29fb488621096cdd21fa91dd367f7998f13d7e2b41ee6484840015.webp

2026-07-20 22:04:03 CEST

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As someone who grew up with a fascination of Japan, I ultimately traveled there many times, participated in many Japanese activities, and acquired many momentos.
Festival garments, wishing coins to donate to the Shinto temple, little charms for good luck, etc...
Japan is a secular nation that still practices many annual ceremonies of their Shinto/Zen past. To them, it is inert, but culturally rich. The spiritualism of it has faded with the younger generation. Now people go to enjoy the music, food, and sense of ancient times and culture of their people.
Before I was born again, I viewed this as harmless, and was fascinated with their far eastern way which was so exotic and strange compared with the west, especially Japan which has a wholly individual and unique culture.
Now, as someone being made progressively conformant to the Lord, I understand that these are objects and ceremonies of false religion, and even if I do not treat them as implements of worship, but as mementos, they still dishonor my Lord and must go.
Repent always.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-20 17:29:29 CEST

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Yes.

2026-07-20 17:21:51 CEST

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Another area of which my conscious, and the Spirit, had convicted me was possessing Daruma dolls from trips to Japan. Those have already been disposed of. Repent always.
#ToChristAlone
#nevent1q…jgca
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2026-07-20 15:10:18 CEST

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If you wanted the best of both worlds:
I. Owner profile: bare bones
II. Secondary A: KYC/true name usage.
III. Secondary B: NoKYC/sensitive usage.
Use SecA for daily driver. SecB temporarily, then end session to encrypt at rest. When going through airport or travelling, end session on both. Note: owner will be able to see all apps installed. No golden bullet.
Will be alot less convenient. Notifications and certain management is a PITA.

2026-07-20 15:04:17 CEST

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Secondary profiles and guests can use "End Session" to purge their encryption keys and go fully locked down, even while the device stays on.

2026-07-20 15:02:14 CEST

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For me, I would rather have a cryptographic guarantee that secondary data is impossible to access, than "hide" owner apps but have their data be potentially compromised.
The data is more sensitive than the apps themselves. You can't easily remove the owner profile the way you can secondary profiles. You can't easily encrypt/decrypt the owner profile in day to day life either.

2026-07-20 15:00:29 CEST

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The guest profile cannot see what the owner profile has installed. Only the owner profile can view apps installed in other profiles through those special Settings menus. Non-owner profiles, including guest, are restricted — the Settings app in guest won't show apps that exist only in owner.
This setup actually works the way you're thinking: put your sensitive or "concealed" apps exclusively in the owner profile, then use the guest as your daily driver. The guest stays clean and isolated from seeing what's in owner.
Here's the tradeoff, and it's a big one.
The owner profile has to stay unlocked for the device to run at all — its data stays decrypted and in memory the whole time you're using the guest profile. You can't "end session" on the owner without rebooting.
Secondary profiles can be encrypted at rest when logged out the way a computer with LUKS is when powered off. That's a cryptographic guarantee that snoopers can GFY.
Cable hacking like Cellebrite might be able to get into Owner one day if the phone is on, since the session is decrypted.

2026-07-20 14:56:09 CEST

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There is no way to conceal which apps are installed, only to seal their data and provide a cryptographic guarantee that that data cannot be accessed.
cc @nprofile…acwr

2026-07-20 14:45:46 CEST

The dollar milkshake theory will only provide temporary relief from the #AI spaghetti strainer, where all value becomes so liquid and diffuse that legacy institutions will lose their forms, turning into sludge.

2026-07-20 14:19:17 CEST

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"A big theme of this administration has been relocating federal activity away from blue states and cities."

2026-07-20 04:55:35 CEST

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"Divine Council"
"Table of Nations"
I'm not familiar with these terms.
Where are they from?

2026-07-20 04:47:39 CEST

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Keeping an eye on Cape. 👀
#SovereignStack
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2026-07-20 04:23:39 CEST

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When your conscience is bothering you about a religious object, that’s not something to argue with or rationalize away. That’s the Holy Spirit doing His job. The issue isn’t whether the object is "just a souvenir." The issue is that its tied to false worship and God doesn't want that kind of thing in the home of one of His people.

2026-07-20 04:11:02 CEST

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Idols can be idols even if you don't treat them as an idol. Keeping this in your home as a Christian is indefensible.
https://blossom.primal.net/11e3cc16569d3c8caec166581f15f53da94134a1b57583b63fd4f071dad1fdfb.jpg

2026-07-20 04:09:08 CEST

Wanted: this hard to get book.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-20 03:35:44 CEST

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Be sure your salmon is not farmed, otherwise you might as well be chugging canola oil.

2026-07-20 03:33:51 CEST

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Keeping idols so other Christians don't call me a cage stage Calvinist.

2026-07-20 03:00:45 CEST

I have a small handmade totem pole and similar Christmas ornament that I got while in Washington State as souvenirs. ⛰️🌲
Determined they need destroying. Very disrespectful to my Lord to keep these in the household. Repent always. 🥾🙏
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-20 02:53:18 CEST

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coq10 maxxing

2026-07-20 02:47:38 CEST

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"if we keep putting it on"
Brother: if salvation were up to you to "cooperate" with, you would be lost.
We all would.

2026-07-20 01:43:13 CEST

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Even though saints are in the flesh, and the flesh resists the spirit, leading them to sink even in their pilgrimage, God is not content to let His people stray, and will discipline them and bring them back into the light.

2026-07-20 01:41:40 CEST

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We are made saints by the Spirit, and the Spirit that preserves us until the end.
Jesus fails to save none of those who the Father sent Him to save.
"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day." -John 6:39 (ESV)
Those who fall away were never born again. They only decieved themselves, and Christ never knew them.

2026-07-19 22:04:13 CEST

"Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin." - Romans 14:23
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-19 18:15:28 CEST

God is like a star at the top of a mountain where wordly men cannot even enter to climb and even the most holy men are incinerated into dust after a thousand feet of climbing. ⛰️✴️
Noone can ascend to meet a perfect God. Noone. Nobody is pure enough to commune with our Creator in eternity. Nobody can go and be where He is.
We must be escorted by the One sent down to vouch for us. We must obtain a righteousness that is not our own. We must have our sins atoned for.
We must forsake everything and follow Christ Jesus.
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-19 17:51:10 CEST

You are not sovereign.
You aren't.
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-19 17:01:09 CEST

Accidentally spilled liquid vitamin D on my arm. Each drop was 5,000IUs. Took some extra Vitamin K spectrum to manage the mega dose of calciferol. 🤪
#Peatstr

2026-07-19 16:58:08 CEST

Go to church! ⛪

2026-07-19 15:58:56 CEST

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Is the "death spiral" in the room with us right now? #Bitcoin $MSTR
#nevent1q…vglq

2026-07-19 15:19:21 CEST

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Do you even own a Bible?
Jesus loves the church deeply. Ephesians 5:25 says, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." He sees the church as his bride, sacrifices for her, nourishes and cherishes her, and aims to present her holy and spotless.
On gathering together, Hebrews 10:24-25 puts it plainly: "Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near."
Jesus himself says in Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."
The early church modeled this in Acts 2:42: they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayer, meeting daily with glad hearts.
And 1 Corinthians 12 pictures the church as one body with many members: we need each other to function, serve, and minister together. That’s where fellowship, worship, and ministry happen.

2026-07-19 15:16:32 CEST

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The tribe of Judah, the Jews, succeeded the twelve tribes of the Hebrew people, and Jesus Christ fulfilled their law and brought in the New Covenant, where He and His followers (the people of the way, later Christians) succeeded them.
The "religion" has always been for the true people of the God of Israel. When Jesus came, died, was resurrected, and ascended, the Kingdom expanded beyond the Jews to the Gentiles, such that the children of Abraham became all those who forsook the world and followed the Christ.
It was at that time that those still remaining in the Rabbinic/Talmudic world of the Jews forked off the longest, true chain of redemption.
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-19 02:04:47 CEST

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Christians are not "at home in the world", we are temporary sojourners on pilgrimage to our Lord and Savior.
Anybody teaching a false gospel will answer to Jesus Christ on the judgment seat.
Repent and believe the Gospel.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-19 01:50:43 CEST

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Thich Naht Hanh is a deciever with a false gospel. He turns communion into Buddhist mindfulness and the kingdom of God into the cosmos, then claims we are "of the same reality as Jesus".
Hahn turns the resurrection into a mindfulness technique anyone can practice, saying: "If Jesus Christ could do it, then we human beings like him can also do it." He says that Christ is not the sole mediator.
In Thich's deception, Buddhism sets the boundaries and Christianity gets rewritten to fit. The historic Buddha and the historic Christ cannot be reconciled: one points to extinction with no personal God, the other is God in the flesh who came to save.
Reject Hahn, follow Christ.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-19 01:25:38 CEST

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Zazen is not neutral. It's designed for Buddhist emptiness, no-self, and self-enlightenment, not Christian mind renewal by Scripture (Rom 12:2). Using it risks importing incompatible ideas.
In love, I think you should confess/repent and pivot to Holy Meditation, instead. Obtain everything and depend on God alone. Do not be decieved.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G315QWPR
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2026-07-19 00:22:21 CEST

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Alan Watts was an enemy of Jesus Christ. He openly mocked the virgin birth, resurrection, and the need for salvation through Jesus. He teaches a false gospel that leads people away from Christ.
The "religion of Jesus" Watts pushes is just his own Eastern-flavored spirituality. He calls the biblical Jesus a "human freak" who was "unnaturally born and whose corpse was weirdly reanimated". He says the most reverent act is to destroy the church's image of him.
True Christianity has always been a religion about Jesus: His life, death, and resurrection as the only way to the Father.
Zen, an esoteric religion of self actualization and self enlightenment, is not neutral and not compatible with Christianity.
Reject Watts, follow Christ.
https://www.wisdom2be.com/essays-insights-wisdomwritings-spirituality/was-jesus-a-freak-excerpt-p147-cloud-hidden-whereabouts-unknown-1971-by-alan-watts
#ToChristAlone
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2026-07-19 00:03:52 CEST

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Jesus didn't operate from His own judgment, He submitted Himself fully to the authority of the Father. He repeatedly said he could do nothing by himself and sought not his own will but the will of the one who sent Him. He judges as he hears, and his judgment is just because it's not His own.
This is our model. It is the opposite of Zen self actualization through meditation and enlightenment. Jesus shows that we should be entirely dependent on God, not ourselves.
Anything not from the Father is of the world. Zen is not neutral and it is not compatible with Christ.

2026-07-18 23:26:49 CEST

Only takes 90mins to hear the Good News. 💡
#ToChristAlone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQuj5LjID_w

2026-07-18 22:54:46 CEST

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Luke 17:21 is Jesus telling the Pharisees the kingdom of God is already among or within them. It's not a future visible spectacle but a present spiritual reality.
Zen folks often interpret this as "look inside for enlightenment," but the context is the kingdom arriving through Christ, not self-realization.
Be careful trusting your own judgment on matters of life or death.
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure" - Jeremiah 17:21

2026-07-18 22:13:29 CEST

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Christians are to test the things of the world to see if they are of God.
"Explore" sounds more like indulging in the things of the world, which Christians should abstain from.
Zen Buddhism is not of God. The goal of a Christian is to fill the mind with the things of God, to commit God's word to his heart, and not to empty the mind or attempt to enhance the "experience of living".
Christians are temporary pilgrims. We are of another nation. We are do not belong to this world.

2026-07-18 22:08:40 CEST

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Jesus Bar Joseph
Jesus of Nazareth
Christ Jesus
Jesus the Christ
Jesus Christ

2026-07-18 21:51:39 CEST

Evangelism is simply sharing the Good News. It is not making sure that the other person responds to it correctly. Zero pressure is needed. Any pressure is harmful. God saves, not us. We spread the Gospel.
#ToChristAlone

2026-07-18 20:44:40 CEST

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Augustine rejected pagan philosophies/empty meditations as idolatry, urging ordered love of true God (Confessions, City of God).
Zen's non-theism/emptiness incompatible.
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm https://www.ccel.org/a/augustine/confessions/confessions.html

2026-07-18 20:29:24 CEST

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Loyalty to Christ must be extreme and to the exclusion of other "spiritual" delicacies.
This world is not a buffet, but a snare.

2026-07-18 20:17:23 CEST

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That being said, I think a standolone Apocrypha belongs on every protestants bookshelf, just not for worship.
https://blossom.primal.net/1bc3aae10015264c0e0d10c9572256689f72cf3fa1b4b22f84f9187836973132.webp

2026-07-18 20:12:40 CEST

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In the reformed space, we don't believe the intertestamental are divinely inspired.
https://tabletalkmagazine.com/posts/should-protestants-read-the-apocrypha/

2026-07-18 20:00:24 CEST

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Have you migrated to #GrapheneOS yet, anon?
#nevent1q…lme8

2026-07-18 19:53:59 CEST

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When building out your Bible library, it's good to choose a Bible from a few translation traditions. 📖🙏
For example:
- LSB for high formal equivalence.
- ESV for essentially literal, day to day reading.
- CSB for optimal equivalence, balancing easy reading while retaining most idioms, theology, and literary forms.
- NLT for hyper readable, trading off accuracy.
Both the CSB and especially the NLT start to decay from being pushed into modern, liberal English. But they are exceptionally readable, so with proper discernment, they can enhance your overall comprehension dramatically.
I make my home with the ESV+LSB, which are trustworthy but take much time and study to comprehend well, and then venture out into the CSB and even the NLT when beneficial.
Any modern, less literal translation should be marked up to defend yourself:
I highlight in red gender inclusive renderings, writing the Colorado Springs guideline next to it, in red, in the margins. I do the same when the textual rendering is too liberal, or compromises age old reformed doctrines.
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**OT**
Gen 1:26-27 - man/male-female (CSG A3; gender/creation formal).
Gen 2:24 - clings to his wife (gender roles).
Gen 5:2 - man for human race (CSG A3).
Gen 48:21 - father not parent (CSG B3).
Exod 9:16 - caused to stand (predestination).
Exod 19:6 - sons not children (CSG B2).
Deut 32:22 - Sheol/hell.
Ps 1:1 - the man (CSG A4; gender).
Ps 1:2 - generic he (CSG A2).
Ps 8:4-6 - son of man (CSG A9; Christology/gender).
Ps 16:10 - Sheol/grave/hell (Messianic).
Ps 34:20 - generic he (CSG A2).
Ps 45:6 - O God throne (deity).
Ps 72 - Messianic.
Ps 90:3 - man for humanity (CSG A3).
Isa 7:14 - virgin (doctrine/formal).
Isa 24:22 - Sheol/hell.
Ezek 29:11 - man for humanity (CSG A3).
Dan 3:25 - Son of God (deity).
Dan 7:13 - son of man (CSG A9).
Hab 2:4 - live by faith.
Mic 5:2 - Bethlehem prophecy.
**NT**
Matt 1:18 - pledged in marriage (gender).
Matt 5:9 - sons of God (CSG B2; gender).
Matt 6:9 - masculine God (CSG A10).
Matt 11:23 - Hades/hell.
Matt 12:36 - every careless word (CSG A5).
Matt 16:24 - anyone vs any man (CSG A6).
Matt 18:15 - brother not brother/sister (CSG B1).
Matt 18:18 - binding/loosing.
Matt 21:32 - believe vs repent.
Mark 1:4 - baptism of repentance.
Luke 7:29 - justified.
Luke 8:13 - believe for a while (perseverance).
John 1:11-12 - receive Christ.
John 1:14 - only begotten (sonship).
John 1:18 - only begotten God (deity).
John 2:25 - man for humanity (CSG A3).
John 3:16 - only begotten (CSG A10).
John 3:18 - only begotten (CSG A1).
John 12:32 - all people (CSG A8).
John 14:23 - generic he (CSG A1).
Acts 1:16 - brothers/men.
Acts 3:21 - receive/retain.
Acts 6:3 - brothers.
Acts 20:30 - aner as man (CSG A4).
Acts 22:1 - men brothers.
Rom 1:17 - live by faith.
Rom 1:26-27 - unnatural relations.
Rom 3:25 - propitiation (atonement).
Rom 9:17,22 - predestination.
Rom 14:23 - not of faith is sin.
Rom 16:1 - deacon (gender).
1 Cor 6:9 - males who have sex with males.
1 Cor 7:39 - only in the Lord (marriage).
1 Cor 13:11 - aner as man.
1 Cor 15:21 - man (CSG A5).
Phil 2:6-7 - form of God (Christology).
1 Tim 2:5 - man Christ Jesus (CSG A5; gender).
1 Tim 2:12 - woman/authority over man (gender roles/Reformed; CSG retain masculine).
Titus 2:13 - great God and Savior (deity).
2 Pet 1:1 - God and Savior (deity).
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This allows me to frequent less trustworthy translations, benefitting from their readability, without degrading previously established truths on more literal, less readable translations.
God speed.
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2026-07-18 19:07:01 CEST

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Are you under the impression that man is so strong as to not be "easily put off balanxe by exposure to other" religions?

2026-07-18 16:50:12 CEST

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Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
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2026-07-18 14:46:29 CEST

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Prioritize love for God (Deut 6:5); disordered "all love" ignores holiness/sin.

2026-07-18 14:40:04 CEST

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"Idolatry and false worship empty true knowledge of God; Zen's impersonal void fits this."
- John Calvin
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2026-07-18 14:20:45 CEST

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See here.
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2026-07-18 06:03:31 CEST

"kjv is the only true bible" 🤝 never read the entire bible

2026-07-18 06:01:31 CEST

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CSB seems to be wherr all the conservative NIVs went.
Their gender renderings conform to the Colorado Springs (Sproul, Piper) guidelines.
I like it! Very useful "optimal equivalent" translation for easy reading or ironing our difficult passages.

2026-07-18 04:23:04 CEST

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God's sovereignty = we are doing things according to the purposes of God, not us.
For He says to Moses, “I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION.”
- Romans 9:15 (LSB)

2026-07-18 04:02:37 CEST

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"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
- 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (ESV)
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2026-07-18 02:10:44 CEST

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On my primary, KYC profile, I'm content to run Play + Play Services sandboxed (how GrapheneOS does it by default). It's very secure and convenient for every day use.
My NoKYC usage is in a secondary profile. I don't currently run Play or Play Services there.

2026-07-18 02:09:13 CEST

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You can actually create a new random gmail when signing up for Play Store.
I do that and never use it for anything else.

2026-07-18 00:16:00 CEST

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That being said, it's incredible to have modern translations like the ESV and LSB which fought off hoards of libs to stay true to the word.

2026-07-18 00:14:50 CEST

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Alot of translations like that.
NASB95 folks had to fork to the LSB after the NASB20 went woke.
The problem with modernizing translations into contemporary English >2000s is the gravitational pull towards gender inclusivity and social justice which undermines the truthiness of God's word.

2026-07-17 22:40:37 CEST

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No experience with the NIV84, but I know the NIV tradition is what most Christian kids grew up with.