Caravaggio, The Crowning with Thorns, c. 1602/1604  #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Jesus #painting

WHAT IS APOLOGETICS? _______________ The word apologetics comes from the Greek word “apologia”. It means a speech of defense, reply, or the act of making a defense. It provides the textual foundation for what is called “Apologetics”. Christian apologetics describes the discipline of providing cogent arguments and reasons for why the Christian belief system should be considered true. In scripture, Peter instructs his readers to always be at the ready to provide an oral defense for why they are a believer in Christ. The Christian viewpoint is not to be built on faith alone, it has from the very beginning been built on evidence and reason. “…but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence” ~ 1 Peter 3:15 #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #apologetics #Christianity #God #spirituality If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

“Essentially, I realized that to stay an atheist, I would have to believe that nothing produces everything; non-life produces life; randomness produces fine-tuning; chaos produces information; unconsciousness produces consciousness; and non-reason produces reason. Those leaps of faith were simply too big for me to take, especially in light of the affirmative case for God's existence and Jesus' resurrection (and, hence, his divinity). In other words, in my assessment the Christian worldview accounted for the totality of the evidence much better than the atheistic worldview.” ~Lee Strobel #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #apologetics #Christianity

IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY POINTS TO A DESIGNER _______________ Engineers know the importance of design. One needs to know how the individual parts of a machine interact together. Great care must be taken with the design, material selection, and manufacturing for even the simplest machine to operate well. If one part is not in the design that is crucial for the overall function, then the machine is junk. Would you fly in an airplane that does not have one of its engines? How about no fuel nozzles in the engine? Or missing just one of the compressor blades? The answer is most likely a resounding “No!” Because in each scenario the engine is not functional or won’t be in very short order. Life is very much the same as the aircraft engine. There are structures in organisms that must have all their parts intact or the structure ceases to function. This is known as irreducible complexity. The engine must have all its major parts intact or it does not function, it is irreducibly complex. Each part is designed to fill a certain role in the overall design and interact in certain ways with other parts. Complex structures do not just happen, they are designed with purpose otherwise they do not function the first time or at all. There are many irreducibly complex structures in life a few of which are the circulatory system, the eye, blood clotting, or the ear. Each has been designed to work the first time with all parts interacting. Evolution does not allow this all or nothing design to happen. Therefor, if there is design there must be a designer that is God. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #apologetics #evolution #God If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

You mean health doesn’t come in the form of a pill from Big Pharma? Otherwise we would be a supremely healthy nation! Pharma doesn’t want you healthy… They want your m-o-n-e-y! #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #redpill

Oh man… apple has sure went to crap after Steve Jobs died. Google, I mean Apple glasses… Linux, here I come! #grownostr #nostr #plebchain

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I just told my daughter that learning how to use #bitcoin is as important to freedom as learning how to shoot a gun. #grownostr #plebchain #freedom

(51) At this, one of Jesus’ companions drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. (52) “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”  ~ Matthew 26:52 #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #Christianity #Jesus Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Passion of Christ” (1524-25)

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

The term “conspiracy theorist” is one of the greatest psychological operations ever perpetrated on the American people. Its only purpose was to silence and marginalize free thinking individuals and to bring us into a herd mentality. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr

SOCIALISM IS BASED ON NOBLE IDEAS; EQUALITY, FAIRNESS, AND JUSTICE However, socialism has a fundamental flaw. It is assumed that the system will be administered with ideal morality. This is a quality that no human possesses. We all have lied, cheated to get ahead and oppressed others for gain. Man has innumerable other evils engrained into his being. When you place healthcare, ability to earn a living, or freedom under the sole authority of elected, appointed, anointed, or simply the strongest; you are inviting that evil to take root. This is because you are using the moral foundation of man to rectify the injustice of other men. Equality, fairness and justice can only be administered when you have a standard of morality that is apart and sovereign over man. A standard that is morally perfect, that position is solely occupied by God. Without Him, man has to invent their own moral standard and human morality is subject to fleeting and fickle whims. If you are seeking equality, fairness, justice, love, acceptance and all the other fundamental yearnings that we all have inscribed into our hearts, do not seek them amongst men. You must look to the source, the One that wrote those aspirations into our souls. The divine author that is embodied in our Lord Jesus Christ. Whom, thousand years ago set forth and established the path back to those ideas under the perfect moral standard of God. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #apologetics #God

gadfly - [ găd′flī″ ] noun, plural gad·flies - A person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at authorities. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr

THE MALE-FEMALE PARADOX OF EVOLUTION __________ This is one of the greatest problems for the evolutionist, how did sexual reproduction evolve from single DNA mutations? This suffers from the same basic problem as the Butterfly Paradox. Mainly, a great leap in single mutational changes required to have the correct body types needed with the mechanism for successful procreation of the species at the end of the process. You could say this paradox even complicates the butterfly paradox further by adding another layer of complication to that issue. Evolutionists will say that organisms evolved into sexual reproduction as it is vastly more complicated than asexual reproduction. Basically, going from simple one celled organism that reproduces asexually and mutating into a more complicated multi-cell organism that reproduces sexually. So, how did that happen? To make the jump you must go from an asexual organism to a fully functioning male and female organism. Moreover, the process to procreate must work the first time or the species will not survive as either the male or female cannot asexually procreate on their own. This is an all or nothing process that must happen successfully the first time via the process of random mutation and natural selection, otherwise the species dies out. There must have been a design and therefore a designer for this kind of complexity to happen. It cannot happen by chance. #grownostr #plebchain #evolution #apologetics If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

The feeling of being on nostr is like being on a luxury liner cruising through the ocean waves. On board is a cadre of many guests, conversing amongst themselves, unaware to what is going on around them. Although many of the decks on the ship seem to be complete, splendid in adornment, many are not. Behind the scenes there is a vast array of engineers, machinists, carpenters and other skilled craftsmen working to complete the ship even though it has launched on its maiden voyage. They work away bringing the spender to new heights. Nobody knows where the ship will end up, they are just enjoying the ride. People of all walks of life, enjoying a splendid ride… Splendid indeed. Thank you to all who are working on nostr! It’s a fabulous trip! #nostr #grownostr #plebchain

THE MOST GOLDILOCKS IN ALL OF PHYSICS The fine-tuning of the universe is one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of God. Fine-tuning refers to the “just right” initial conditions that were set into the equations that govern physics and how they effect life. One of the most finely tuned parameters in physics is the entropy of the universe. It refers to the initial low entropy state of the universe, which was necessary for the existence of life. If the Big Bang Theory is correct and the universe started with a massive expansion, our newly formed universe was not a chaotic soup of energy and matter. It was quite the opposite, it was orderly. This is because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law states that there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state. This direction towards disorder is called entropy. The entropy of the universe was fine-tuned to such an exquisite degree. Physicist Roger Penrose estimated that the odds of the initial low entropy orderly state of our universe occurring by chance are on the order of 1 in 10 raised to the 10th power then raised to the 123rd power. [1] This number is absolutely unfathomable odds, even in the world of physics and mathematics. Basically, there would be a VERY large number of universes in which the entropy would be so chaotic in the beginning that it would be uninhabitable for life; before one is formed that could sustain life. This leads to the view that the equations that govern physics and in turn life were designed to be just right for life to exist. [1] Penrose, Roger. (1989). Emperor’s New Mind. Penguin Books. 339-345. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #naturallaw #apologetics #science If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

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This is either two things: The Church does not reflect the teachings of Jesus or the majority doesn’t fully understand what Jesus was teaching. I think it is probably a little of both, but both are the fault of the Church. https://relevantmagazine.com/faith/church/a-majority-of-americans-are-open-to-jesus-just-not-the-church/ #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity