Andy Nicholson
@jesusthings.dotni.ch
Alt for @dotni.ch where I wanna post stuff about the Bible, Christianity and the church. Unsure if this experiment is a good idea?
I'm a recovering Pastor's Kid who loves Jesus. I love the Church too – just frequently not what it does.
I'm a recovering Pastor's Kid who loves Jesus. I love the Church too – just frequently not what it does.
Hyundai Ioniq is a great option too 👍
March 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hyundai Ioniq is a great option too 👍
I have a Polestar 2 in 🇦🇺. It’s a brilliant car, thoroughly recommend 👍
March 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I have a Polestar 2 in 🇦🇺. It’s a brilliant car, thoroughly recommend 👍
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I should have read Arendt's "The Origins of Totaltarianism" ten years ago.
Because this is mind-blowing.
Because this is mind-blowing.
March 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I should have read Arendt's "The Origins of Totaltarianism" ten years ago.
Because this is mind-blowing.
Because this is mind-blowing.
Hey @skyejethani.bsky.social the EU agrees with you!
February 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Hey @skyejethani.bsky.social the EU agrees with you!
Gosh, that bleeding person sure does love bandages!
February 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Gosh, that bleeding person sure does love bandages!
I think Musk would stop that now. Trump's too valuable for him!
February 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I think Musk would stop that now. Trump's too valuable for him!
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DO NOT forget what prayer can do. Amid all else God’s calling you to do or speak, never for a moment forget that nothing’s more powerful than earnest audacious persistent prayer. The devil—yes, boomer here said the devil, the ever-real prince of vilest darkness—hopes we’ll lose confidence in prayer.
February 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
DO NOT forget what prayer can do. Amid all else God’s calling you to do or speak, never for a moment forget that nothing’s more powerful than earnest audacious persistent prayer. The devil—yes, boomer here said the devil, the ever-real prince of vilest darkness—hopes we’ll lose confidence in prayer.
So, how to synthesise those two strands that seem to be in tension? Will be chewing on that for a while…
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So, how to synthesise those two strands that seem to be in tension? Will be chewing on that for a while…
I know some have used these verses as a foundational justification for capital punishment:
See, it says right there! People are made in God's image, so if you kill them, you should be killed in return. That's justice!
But to do that would treat the verses as "policy" – and I don't know about that.
See, it says right there! People are made in God's image, so if you kill them, you should be killed in return. That's justice!
But to do that would treat the verses as "policy" – and I don't know about that.
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I know some have used these verses as a foundational justification for capital punishment:
See, it says right there! People are made in God's image, so if you kill them, you should be killed in return. That's justice!
But to do that would treat the verses as "policy" – and I don't know about that.
See, it says right there! People are made in God's image, so if you kill them, you should be killed in return. That's justice!
But to do that would treat the verses as "policy" – and I don't know about that.
So what's the implication? First reading seems to imply something like:
If people spill human blood, then others will spill theirs in turn? But not you, readers – you focus on "being fruitful and multiplying".
But then the line "for in the image of God has God made mankind" seems a bit… clunky?
If people spill human blood, then others will spill theirs in turn? But not you, readers – you focus on "being fruitful and multiplying".
But then the line "for in the image of God has God made mankind" seems a bit… clunky?
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So what's the implication? First reading seems to imply something like:
If people spill human blood, then others will spill theirs in turn? But not you, readers – you focus on "being fruitful and multiplying".
But then the line "for in the image of God has God made mankind" seems a bit… clunky?
If people spill human blood, then others will spill theirs in turn? But not you, readers – you focus on "being fruitful and multiplying".
But then the line "for in the image of God has God made mankind" seems a bit… clunky?
And it had that same fourth-wall-break feel to it, for 2 reasons:
1. You could take those two verses out, and the flow of God's words wouldn't be interrupted.
2. It speaks of God in the 3rd person when God is speaking in the 1st person around it.
1. You could take those two verses out, and the flow of God's words wouldn't be interrupted.
2. It speaks of God in the 3rd person when God is speaking in the 1st person around it.
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And it had that same fourth-wall-break feel to it, for 2 reasons:
1. You could take those two verses out, and the flow of God's words wouldn't be interrupted.
2. It speaks of God in the 3rd person when God is speaking in the 1st person around it.
1. You could take those two verses out, and the flow of God's words wouldn't be interrupted.
2. It speaks of God in the 3rd person when God is speaking in the 1st person around it.
So I was reading #genesis 9 this week, and read this:
"Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." (Genesis 9:6-7)
"Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." (Genesis 9:6-7)
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So I was reading #genesis 9 this week, and read this:
"Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." (Genesis 9:6-7)
"Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." (Genesis 9:6-7)
I think it's too strong to say that editors would be putting words in God's mouth, but it does feel to me like an implied editorial "look-to-camera". A sort of "explains a lot, doesn't it?" kind of glance.
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I think it's too strong to say that editors would be putting words in God's mouth, but it does feel to me like an implied editorial "look-to-camera". A sort of "explains a lot, doesn't it?" kind of glance.
In #Genesis 3, when God is talking to Eve, he says "your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
I've heard it said (and it's compelling to me) that that statement is "prophecy, not policy"
I've heard it said (and it's compelling to me) that that statement is "prophecy, not policy"
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In #Genesis 3, when God is talking to Eve, he says "your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
I've heard it said (and it's compelling to me) that that statement is "prophecy, not policy"
I've heard it said (and it's compelling to me) that that statement is "prophecy, not policy"
I'm studying their Intro to OT subject, which covers Genesis through 2 Kings. There's a lot to read and a lot to learn, and I'm hoping/planning to share thoughts about it with you all as I go.
February 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I'm studying their Intro to OT subject, which covers Genesis through 2 Kings. There's a lot to read and a lot to learn, and I'm hoping/planning to share thoughts about it with you all as I go.
Excited (and a little overwhelmed) to be starting some theological study! It's only a single subject, but it's super great to be enrolled at Melbourne's excellent Ridley College :D ridley.edu.au
February 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Excited (and a little overwhelmed) to be starting some theological study! It's only a single subject, but it's super great to be enrolled at Melbourne's excellent Ridley College :D ridley.edu.au
"Don't piss on the Constitution and tell me it's reigning?"
February 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"Don't piss on the Constitution and tell me it's reigning?"
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Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
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Jesus did not die instead of his followers.
Jesus died ahead of his followers.
The word was not “take your cross and give it to me.”
The word was “deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.”
Those who follow that word will, like Jesus, be counted among the rebels.
Jesus died ahead of his followers.
The word was not “take your cross and give it to me.”
The word was “deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.”
Those who follow that word will, like Jesus, be counted among the rebels.
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Jesus did not die instead of his followers.
Jesus died ahead of his followers.
The word was not “take your cross and give it to me.”
The word was “deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.”
Those who follow that word will, like Jesus, be counted among the rebels.
Jesus died ahead of his followers.
The word was not “take your cross and give it to me.”
The word was “deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.”
Those who follow that word will, like Jesus, be counted among the rebels.
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Privilege is the ability to look away at injustice because you aren’t personally impacted by it.
February 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Privilege is the ability to look away at injustice because you aren’t personally impacted by it.
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I am... baffled.
What did you want, Rachel? You wanted Gaiman to be held accountable, but you didn't want him to lose publishing deals?
What did you want us to do? Drive to his house and yell at him?
This is what accountability looks like! People feel differently about him!
What did you want, Rachel? You wanted Gaiman to be held accountable, but you didn't want him to lose publishing deals?
What did you want us to do? Drive to his house and yell at him?
This is what accountability looks like! People feel differently about him!
January 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I am... baffled.
What did you want, Rachel? You wanted Gaiman to be held accountable, but you didn't want him to lose publishing deals?
What did you want us to do? Drive to his house and yell at him?
This is what accountability looks like! People feel differently about him!
What did you want, Rachel? You wanted Gaiman to be held accountable, but you didn't want him to lose publishing deals?
What did you want us to do? Drive to his house and yell at him?
This is what accountability looks like! People feel differently about him!
I agree with this in theory! Where this gets very hard, in praxis, is the shrinking effect of the internet. Every disaster I read about is now “closer” to me than it ever was, even on the other side of the world. It’s really hard not to feel I should be “doing all I can” in each and every one…
January 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I agree with this in theory! Where this gets very hard, in praxis, is the shrinking effect of the internet. Every disaster I read about is now “closer” to me than it ever was, even on the other side of the world. It’s really hard not to feel I should be “doing all I can” in each and every one…
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“But i hate him for he never prophesies anything favorable about me, only disaster.”
“She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart…the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She’s not very good at her job!”
Who said it better? King Ahab or Biff?
“She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart…the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She’s not very good at her job!”
Who said it better? King Ahab or Biff?
January 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“But i hate him for he never prophesies anything favorable about me, only disaster.”
“She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart…the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She’s not very good at her job!”
Who said it better? King Ahab or Biff?
“She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart…the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She’s not very good at her job!”
Who said it better? King Ahab or Biff?