September 2024
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Fulfillment of Jesus’ Great Commission, which missionary-minded (i.e. Biblically-minded) Christians long to see, simply will not happen without far greater manifestation of Acts 1:8 martyr-witness empowerment than most of us modern Western believers are used to seeing. Indeed, the Spirit of Pentecost was bestowed for this purpose: to grant POWER for Christ’s disciples to serve…
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Constantine’s goal in convening the Nicene council was to resolve some disputes among Christians, in order to attain ecclesiastical unity, in service of (presumably his ultimate goal) of political unity within the empire. One problem with that program is that ideas about Jesus (e.g. homoousios) are not what bind the body of Christ together. Rather,…
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There are many different people named “John Smith.” Using probabilistic modelling, ChatGPT estimates that we should expect more than 50,000 John Smiths worldwide, and LinkedIn produces 97,000 hits for people with that name (although that number could easily be inflated for various reasons). I likewise propose that a number of entirely different things go by…
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