It’s going swimmingly 😂 View quoted note → View quoted note →

The road to hell is paved by the devil with evil intentions.

BREAKING: man who can’t properly handle his own bitcoin private keys has released Bitcoin mining pool. I’m sure this will go well.

"The Protestant movement spread to Oxford, where the great scholar William Tyndale, a master linguist who spoke fluently in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, and English, fled to Germany and carried out his ambition to publish an English Bible. Tyndale used his translation to further Protestant ideas, and upset the Catholic establishment in England by translating the Greek word '𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘣𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘳' as 'elder' rather than 'priest' or 'presbyter', and the word '𝘦𝘤𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢' as 'congregation' or 'community' rather than 'church'. By Tyndale's crafty translation, the New Testament existed for the first time in Church history 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 '𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩' 𝘰𝘳 '𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵'."* *Translations inevitably reflect theology and hermeneutics, but some Protestant translations advance the cause of Protestant ideology more than they provide accurate translation. A good example of this is the New International Version (NIV), so exceedingly popular amongst Protestant Evangelicals today. The theological agenda of its translators is all too clear. Take, for instance, the word in the New Testament for tradition, in Greek, paradosis (παράδοσις). The New Testament refers to apostolic tradition, ecclesiastical tradition, which is to be embraced by all Christians, as well as man-made tradition, unholy tradition, which nullifies God's word and is to be avoided by Christians. Conveniently, but not honestly, the NIV translates all references to Apostolic 'tradition' by the word 'teaching' or 'teachings' and all references to man-made 'tradition' by the word 'tradition'. Hence, the innocent reader of the NIV will come to the conclusion that the only tradition that exists is man-made and unholy, and will never know that there is such a reality in the New Testament as apostolic tradition." -Archpriest Josiah Trenham, "𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴"

☦️ Christ is in our neighbor ☦️ Tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are. Philip's friend was Nathanael. And when Philip found Christ, he went and found Nathanael and said to him: “Come, we have found the Messiah.” Unhealthiness in friendship is betrayal, indifference, loneliness. Philip, this true [friend], goes to Nathanael and confesses to him about the authentic and true Found. But he objected, because he doubted. Philip wasn’t embarrassed, wasn’t disappointed [wasn’t upset]—he didn’t develop a complex. When Nathanael told Philip whether there could be any good thing from Nazareth, Philip did not flinch, but, confident in the One he had found, in the One he had seen, in the One he had believed, he replied: “Come and you will see, come and see.” " And Nathanael went. The Lord is not some idea, some museum, [He] is not someone who needs us. King David, realizing this, admitted: “You are my Lord, because you have no need of what is mine.” Because You are my God, because You do not need me. And when Nathanael approached, Christ, like all the false teachers of the world, did not expect to be aware in order to behave accordingly, but He first turns to Nathanael and says to him, pointing to him to the others: “Behold the true Israelite, in whom there is no guile.” Before this, Nathanael cursed all of Nazareth and Christ along with him. But Christ, delicate and true, seeing the depths of man, recognizes him as good and non-evil. Although, on another occasion, he admonished the young man who called Christ himself good, and said to him: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” And now God, Christ, tells the others about his blasphemer: “Behold the true Israelite, in whom there is neither cunning nor guile.” Who can boast that he has a pure heart? But Christ is not afraid to praise us. And Nathanael said to Him in horror: “How do You know me?” And Christ answered [him]: “Before Philip called you, and you talked among yourself, and [before] you cursed me, then, when you were under the fig tree, [I] saw you.” The fig tree was more than distant from the place where Nathanael later saw Christ. And in horror he confessed: “Rabbi, You are the Teacher, the Son of God, You are the Messiah, You are the Lord, You are my God.” Joy to those people who had this meeting with Christ, with whom all the best that could ever happen happens in their lives - are they preferred? Each of us has this opportunity through everyday human relationships, if we are attentive, and just as fire is kindled from the chair, so through the everydayness of our relationships Christ shines. Otherwise, if we are not perfect with ourselves and with others, Christ will be before us, but we will not see Him, we will never meet Him, and at the Second Coming we will contradict Him. If we are perfect with each of our neighbors, we will immediately see and hear Christ speaking to us what only we know, or what we have not yet understood. So, Christ, whom [we] are looking for and [whom] the world is looking for, is next to us, in our neighbor. - Archimandrite Dionysios

Some might say that @jack willed this into existence View quoted note →

Stay strapped. Especially at Target 🎯

GN ☦️

My XMR node is more reliable than any bitcoin node I’ve ever run. And it’s on a raspi lol

Regulators are on the move. Are you prepared? View quoted note →

Keep it in perspective. Place your hope in Christ, not the world. ☦️ #DeathToTheWorld http://www.desertwisdom.org/dttw/links/dttw-zine01.pdf