Fellowship with the Father, and with the Son, and with the Holy Spirit. . . Nothing in the universe is better!

John the Baptist's Dad said this. The Bible is telling one story. God spoke in the past. God promised mercy. God remembers what he said. He keeps his oaths. God is merciful. I dare you to read LUKE 1.

“Modern atheism boasts about putting God on trial. God does not measure up to their standards. A triune God does not measure up to their standards of rationality: How can three be one? A God who expresses jealous wrath against His enemies and His people, or a God who orders the slaughter of the Canaanites, does not measure up to their standards of morality. Atheists think they are being daring, cutting edge, innovative, creative, when they subject God to their own standards, and find that He does not measure up. Hardly. Modern atheists are simply repeating the gestures that we find in the gospel story itself.” Leithart

And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said [SAYS] to him, “You have said so.” Matthew writes the praesens historicum “says” (not “said”) because what Jesus says here is of permanent significance—he is still saying it. (Dale Bruner)

“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. —Jude

'Without Scripture, the whole world would be plunged into the obscurity of deep-shadowed darkness." Henri de Lubac

And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. Revelation 21:6 “There is no God except the God who freely gives living water to the thirsty.” (Leithart)

sinful men want to play god. They want to impose and legislate their fantasies onto the world. When other people resist his totalitarian designs, the sinner resorts to violence to get his way.

understood. i dont interact with many people on nostr or anywhere else in the digital world. too busy pastoring!