If you see a comment that fills you with anger respond with this video…. This is the only response that truly matters. Save the video and use it, let’s expand his legacy and the gospel he preached 🩷🩷 Let’s share this far and wide because the gospel saves. If we want change we need to make disciples. #CharlieKirk

It’s that time I remind people that I’m not anti-Calvinist. I get pushback and disappointed sighs from friends when I do this, but it’s always worth reiterating. Calvinists are brethren. They aren’t apostate or moving toward apostasy. I don’t consider them heretics. I welcome fellowship within reason. I’m not out to vanquish Calvinism or put a stop to it. I’d take someone being a Calvinist rather than an atheist/agnostic/non-believer. I don’t think we worship a different God, I think we believe different things about the same God. When I make exceptions to any of the above it’s a fault of the individual being unreasonable and belligerent or moving into actual heresy. I have 3 little brothers. We’ve fought, bickered, and argued many, many times. Still brothers, still love each other. Still do the same at times with Calvinist brethren here.

There is no substantial way to date this simply to 250, it is entirely possible to put it mid/late 3rd century, however, the style of the scribal hand more realistically places it anywhere between the late 3rd and early 5th century. @TheJohnRylands, where it’s housed (digitalcollections.mancheste…) even places it’s dating into the 4th. Many papyrologists, like @papyrologyatman, have dated it as late as the 9th century (dates throughout the 7-9th are not uncommon). No one is denying that Mary veneration has evidence within antiquity, but this is an obvious post-New Testament accretion that takes place in the centuries after the time in the Apostles. Noticeably, it is nowhere to be found in the Bible itself (cf. Luke 11: 27-28) Matt. 12: 46-50). One can argue reasonably for its development but the Sub tuum præsidium (Mary hymn) doesn’t really come into its own liturgically until the Middle Ages. Aside from all this, always be skeptical when people put single round dates for manuscripts, dating manuscripts is never that easy and precise (find out how it’s done by going here wesleyhuff.com/blog/2024/10/…).

It takes 51 senators to steamroll the filibuster and end the shutdown. That’s it. There are 53 republicans in the senate Anyone blaming the democrats for this is lying. The White House is banking the stupidity of the MAGA vote

The Vice President of the United States @JDVance just said that the Hindu traditions that his wife and millions of Americans share is just not good enough. Not a winning strategy for someone who wants to be President for ALL Americans.