Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

The old questions of the Enlightenment against Christ and their answers. Q: If nature operates by immutable laws, how can divine intervention fit? A: Immutable natural law is an expression of God's attribute - He doesn't change. Yet, we see Him working in the Bible episodically in many different ways which, on the surface, seem different from each other - even opposite, sometimes! This is the same thing we find in nature, but the Enlightenment binds its adherents to a more rigid interpretation, so they sometimes miss the greatest varieties when they seem to be contradictory. Their fear of losing the advantage over God (though it isn't one, really) is strong enough to keep them from fully embracing their senses in accordance with their philosophies; if they did, they might accept their surprising observations more readily and not immediately throw them out as tainted data. God is immutable from the single point of view of the entire varied Universe. Q: If knowledge must be g...

~~~ YouTube Comment I attended one church that left me feeling off. They had a very active and alive worship before the message. When they delivered the message the congregation was left in the dark. They kept the stage lit up like worship. There was windows but they were covered up with blackout curtains. Matthew 5:15 kept echoing in my head throughout that Sunday morning. "Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house." A bit more extreme is how I find it off putting when more established churches lack bibles for people. There's something about lacking God's word for people to have or borrow. How can we create strong faith in new Christians if they are kept in the dark and lack a Bible to hold. ~~~ RESPONSE That's a very surface way of looking. It's not what the Bible was talking about and sounds like excuses to me. Here's how to tell: Did the sermon preached in the dark contain lig...

One might think Christianity provides a community like others where a person learns to simulate confidence and emulate a stance of belonging. But the thing is, Christ is not like other community builders - He's worthy, and He is a trustworthy basis for the confidence; the belonging is not surface-deep, but deep, indeed, because the substance of Christ is meaningful. We might join a secular club and find people who cheer us on by following the dictates of the group, but they're not like siblings who have learned to conform themselves to Christ's ways.

If all sin is the same, then doesn't God's varying punishment of sin make Him unjust? No. All sin is the same, but God's punishment of any sin could be infinite, so He's limiting it in every case. He seems to use punishment to curtail the people involved and not just to be an equal and opposite power to counterbalance sin in us. But to tell it, we can correlate God's punishment with the sin in question and see if there's a pattern. Then we can know better whether our understanding of the purpose of punishment against sin should contain this element of balanced justice in the first place. Jesus said that the one who handed Him over had a greater sin than Pilate, because Pilate's authority didn't come from himself. That seems to be strong evidence that different sins are different. But the context and wording might clarify a more solid entrenchment of one conclusion or the other. Look into it. Leviticus has different punishments for different sins. That...

[Retrieved from https://glory2godforallthings.com/2007/03/25/in-accordance-with-the-scriptures-2/ on October 18, 2025.] "Beyond that, stretching out from the New Testament forward, this framework of the Gospel continues to interpret the Scriptures. Within a very short span of time very mature interpretive frameworks can be found in St. Paul and St. John which will continue to be augmented though not changed as centuries go forward." - Fr. Stephen Freeman ~~ TL;DR - Too Learned, Didn't (need to) Read There's a test to discern your own veracity by swapping in a synonym and asking if it's still even technically true. The way that it's not true reveals the reason you've been lying to yourself. ~~ From this quote's use of language, we can derive an example about a method we can employ to evaluate a word choice. Notice that this Orthodox Friar is talking about the Gospel and how it can be used to understand the Old Testament. He knows that a changed Gospel i...

παραδίδωμι paradidōmi Do these Greek letters look like the shape of the mouth and tongue when making the sounds? P is a flat mouth at the top (on the outside; the lips) and it flares out back (down) and on the sides (the cheeks). It's seen looking down on the top from behind. A is obvious compared with some others. It is a wide open chamber in the middle, with the lips on the top and bottom (the shape would represent a mouth seen from the side and imagined into). R is a bit harder to visualize, so we won't add it into the evidence here, but go back to discern it once we're more sure of the existence of what we hypothesize that we're seeing. It's possible that they even pronounced it differently, which is just something to remember if we prove the overall system more (and then it would still be an exploratory starting point rather than a hypothetical conclusion to test, like I'm making for these other letters). (I wonder if there's a better way to denote trai...

Everything in the Bible should be checked whether it applies to eternity, to now, to Christ, to Israel or the World, and to ordinary Christians' ordinal, sometimes dull, and usually ordinary lives. It can apply to all at the same time. God's Universe shows how He likes to use layers. His Bible and His Life - He gives us both of them - are not separable, and they are more entangled than a little, simple way which barely meets that assertion. He has riches hidden for kings to find! Look.

From "Gravity Falls", Season 1, Episode 14, "Bottomless Pit". Grunkle Stan is wearing false teeth that makes him always tell the truth. In this wicked show for kids, the writers let out a little open secret when he says, "Sometimes, I think, 'Is this all there is? Is life just some kind of horrific joke without a punchline? That we're all just biding our time until the sweet, sweet release of death?'." This IS what the Worldlings think! They DO worship death. It's their biggest hero and, along with Hell, one of Jesus' two final enemies.

Master Jesus, make all your own to trust you, even if you kill us. Make us rely on you to tell us the truth so we can see how to move forward in our daily lives. Your ability to serve us with continual support through many gifts of you spirit of holiness - as we separate from the sin of our bodies and become clean in our faith in you and in our consciences - your kindness in helping us take the next step and the next along the path we already know is right - these are the things we thank you for, Lord, and we strive without worshiping our own willpower, knowing you love us even though we are miserable. Greatest God, YHWH, thank you. Master Jesus, LET IT BE ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL. We trust your judgment. 

In Philippians 2, Paul said the other guy almost died doing the work you should have been doing. We scream such things, because it seems we SHOULD, as though the intonation is the only suitable one and, assuming we have cause to be so driven as to say such a thing in some context in the first place, we often think we'd be dishonoring the reality if we didn't use loud cries to state the thing. Look how Paul said it, though..

The statement made is true, because I did the things in that moment that its veracity relies on, but it's not the same as pointing out something that happens without my involvement. When I represent a thing in front of a person which is only true in its literal sense due to the fact that I purposely made its bases happen at the same time, that's not always the same thing as speaking about something that has greater connections to the Universe of objects, actions, and states. When something is made to be technically true for the purpose of not lying when it's described, it doesn't necessarily matter as much as the exact thing occurring naturally; even though it remains true, its lack of connections reduces its meaningfulness in context - especially context that's implied along with the descriptive statement but which is not at all true! Political rhetoric and debate techniques use the gambit. It's even morally useful when it does, in fact, connect with greater th...

Doesn't it show that.. James 2 This phrase sometimes assumes in sermons some logical conclusion by less than rigid logic, and then it's followed by explanations. The conclusion is given first, and pieces are glued on to seem like a logical basis for that conclusion. We make radical jumps in logic. Dead faith doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Deadened faith doesn't mean our faith in Jesus' great saving work is null and void! Look closer at what's being communicated about before careless interpretation of God's Word takes hold of your mind and makes you fear falsehoods about Holy things. Language is sometimes difficult. It's not the form that's wrong, but how it's used. Be certain of the real meaning, especially in God's Word.

Jesus destroys His last enemies - a cleared-out Hell and Death - when they are thrown into the Lake of Fire! After that, everyone who was removed from Hell will be judged, their names not found written in the Book of Life, and they will bow the knee to Jesus and then also be thrown into the Lake of Fire. Why would Hitler bow the knee to Jesus when he knows he's about to be destroyed in the Lake of Fire? I surmise that it's because Hell reduced him to the truth.

God is good, and He wants good for us. We are simple, but pride makes us forget that. God is powerfully knowledgeable, and He is the very height of wisdom, itself! Trust Him to look out for you even when you pray for healing and do not obtain what was in your mind.

Luke 6 People want to be kind, because it's how God made us. But the sin-flesh keeps us down with excuses for us to keep submitting ourselves to it. So, when you do plain right all the time, the excuses are taken out of the way, and the other person (even a person who is usually embittered toward us like an enemy) is more free in your company to express the natural things that God created us all to keep delighting in. It's not about tit-for-tat, it's about the natural working of God's Universe. That's what He's been teaching humanity in His Bible this whole time. And the same goes for the painful things that He's been teaching us, too. It's the way His Universe works, and it expresses His attributes, even so much that He called it "very good" when He created it. The Worldlings' sin keeps them from believing Jesus' saving work and verbally confessing Jesus Master to be saved. That's why they remain His enemies and ours. Our sin confu...

[In response to Ken Ham's statement about Voddie Baucham's death. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVfLebbbaM on September 29, 2025.] Here am I, Lord. Send me. The World doesn't know how to respond to Christ, and nothing we say or do can change that. We are to preach the gospel to every nation as a testimony against them! The Church is split. Many in the buildings aren't Christians, and that's okay with much of the leadership. Many Christians, myself included, cannot find congregations we do not feel obligated to shun for righteous cause! It's terrible, and it's true. But the Lord knows. He knows. Here am I, our same Master Jesus. Here are we. Send us to find each other and to help each other when we do. To Your glory, and to our great gladness, indeed!

ChatGPT Summary of an earlier conversation: ~~Condensed synthesis (organized by the claim being made)~~ Claim. The world copies Christian virtues while severing them from Christ, producing an attractive but fragile morality. Proof. Scripture predicts copy-without-power (Rom 1; 2 Tim 3:5); experience shows collapse under sustained cost. Difference. Grace-rooted identity in Christ, Spirit-empowered endurance, an eternal horizon, and enemy-love mark what mimicry cannot sustain. Method. Publicly tie deeds to Christ’s gospel, practice costly mercy, and teach discernment so the root is as visible as the fruit - thereby restoring the “burning coals” effect that convicts and invites repentance. ~~Thorough summary~~ Problem the doc tackles. You argue that modern culture selectively imitates Christian virtues (kindness, charity, civility) while rejecting Christ as their source. After Christ, it became easier for society to detach “morality” from obedience to God and reuse it for secular ends—pro...

Hebrews 10:26-31 (NLT) Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us. For we know the one who said, "I will take revenge. I will pay them back."  He also said, "The LORD will judge his own people." It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ~~~ This is a fearful passage which some have used to great effect to discourage believers into continui...

It's wrong to stumble your Christian sibling. If she thinks that smoking is sinful, don't smoke in front of her. If he thinks that a demonic practice is held in the local butcher's shop, don't eat meat in front of him, because his conscience will be hardened, and you will have stumbled your brother. That's from the the Bible, in Romans. It's been said from the pulpit that you cannot force feed a Christian to cause growth. You cannot replicate your convictions in your sibling due to this principle. But that saying has grown too wildly out of proportion and taken on new meanings in the fervent telling. We can and should tell our Christian sibling about the benefits of capturing every thought and forcing it to obey Christ! And we can do at least as much as you allow with a therapist, to track down the cause. Just don't be like the naturalist therapist and try to hide the guilt somewhere invisible. Remove the cause, and the effect will go away. We know this. We ...

Consider Psalm 21:8-13. It's very interesting how the World keeps harping on about what we shouldn't say or think, and those things are directly related to God's praise in this Bible passage. It threatens direct harm. It speaks of the children of God's enemies in ways that we have been taught is wrong. So, think about it and wonder what you have believed from the World's teaching which seemed good but is actually opposed to right thinking as revealed in God's Word to us. Our enemies are not our friends, like the World is trying to coerce us into believing. And that coercion is very persuasive, because our Master Jesus told us to love our enemies. But His love burns their heads like hot coals. It's straightforward love to us, though. If we cross the line from doing truly kind things to the World and begin to think of them as our friends or as people we have to win to Christ by compromising the slightest goodness, then we've misunderstood Paul's method...

The people of the World have various methods of living. One, which I paint with the wide brush of "Stoics", sometimes crops up in books, and they mimic some of Christ's attributes. I've noticed it throughout cultures and philosophies of living. The example here takes on a laid-back appearance until they've had enough with whatever is around them, and then they claim that they're full up of that nonsense and lash out. The idea is that they have ultimate control and are rationally responding at the very end of the filling up of the cup of wickedness. Of course, that's what Christ is doing right now, and when He returns, His wrath will be intense and definitive, but He'll have waited with absolute patience in this way. Only when evil has done everything it can do will He make a total end of the World and remake it to rule over Himself for a thousand years. And while that's another conversation, consider for a moment how Christ is the Fountain of Youth...

 We've been made to be repulsed by goodness! If you don't believe Jesus was raised from the dead *in accordance with the Scriptures*, then you're not saved!  If you are friends with your unsaved *family members*, then you are acting like God's enemy. If you commune with the constantly sinning sibling in Christ, then you are sinning, and you are both hurting each other by it. We've been made to be repulsed by God's Word in many ways. Believe Him, and you will slowly change your point of view, learn why these things are good, and come to a viewpoint of strength against falsehood. Wouldn't you like that? There is a ripping apart of communion between communities - that's part of what holiness is, but do we despise it and call it wicked in our minds? Don't let the unbeliever into your gatherings, real Christians in our same Master and Savior, the actual - Jesus of Nazareth, God's Christ, Who is also the one Gods ("Elohim" is plural, you know...

 There's an undercurrent, a blanket expectation, that if someone says something in front of you that's the least bit negative, that its meant to be a grating release of their emotions or something perceived as worthless. If they say it directly to you, this undercurrent drives an instant reaction of defensiveness, because it feels like an attack. But what if it's said with an expectation of objective consideration, even without the pressure of attack to drive it into the open? What if it's only of moderate concern by the speaker? I've heard people say that nobody takes things objectively, but that seems to just be another lesson to keep people from doing so. Analysis can be fatiguing and troubling to the soul, but this kind of communication with each other is a love rarely given, which is a shame. Even if it's hard, a little explanation about intentionality could open the line to communicate very - just highly! - useful information to us when we need it the most...

It's not that God won't listen to those who aren't faithful enough. God doesn't take direction from anybody! He is ABLE to help those who are faithful - read that, "trust HIM". We are not worthy of trust, He is. He is interacting with all of humanity as much as we allow Him to. We are sick and delusional. He is coaxing us with gentle persistence. Even those who are being saved would not be if He didn't mark us out from the beginning and arrange things so we would go to Him!

Here's a strategy to resolve tension between Sin-by-Sin Loss-of-Salvation and easy-believism, and the outgrowth of that tension in more modern times between perceptions of how to preach the gospel and how to meet together. Tell them the truth at the outset, because God brings people to Himself in every case, so it's not us whose demeanor matters concerning salvation. It seems like it matters, because demeanor was a large part of the presentation layer of the earlier problem of Sin-by-Sin hatefulness. Adding in the World's recent push to unify, and love seems to be wrapped up in extreme politeness and in sacrificial giving; it's definitely a hard stance, though, to tell someone the actual gospel - we are alive and they are dead, we know God and they don't, we have the answer for eternal life and they will suffer consciously for a lot longer than their present lives on Earth, and the dividing line is believing 4 things and doing 1 thing in accordance with the Scriptur...