Like many things in our Christian life, we can error to multiple extremes. Most people seem to be worried about arguments between Christians. I’ll admit some of them get ugly and that should never happen. On the other hand, we aren’t supposed to just let error continue, but should correct lovingly using Scripture (not our opinions).
“25This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; 26and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.” (Hebrews 18":25-26).
When a Jew named Apollos was speaking using the Jewish Scriptures, two godly Christians, Aquila & Priscilla, pulled him aside to explain Jesus to him more accurately. They didn’t try to embarrass him in front of people. They didn’t try to beat him at an argument. They gently pulled him aside and explained the truth to him. By correctly him privately and in a loving manner, he became an amazing preacher that defended the faith boldly and correctly and brought people to Christ.
Ignoring error is as bad as browbeating the mistaken. All believers should be searching for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We shouldn’t be trying to look more righteous or to embarrass those who may be less mature or misled.
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I was just reading in my chronological Bible about the crucifixion and saw something I’d never noticed before that started me thinking. John 19:25 says, “ … standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, …” Jesus’s aunt was at His crucifixion. The Bible talks about Mary, Joseph, and Jesus’s brothers. It talks about Elizabeth, a more distant relative. I think this is the only mention of anyone from Mary’s home growing up.
Did Mary tell her parents or sister about being visited by and angel and told she would mother the Messiah by the Holy Spirit or did she remain silent because it was so unbelievable? When she became pregnant, did she then try to explain to her family, but get rejected? Was Jesus’s aunt ever around when Jesus was growing up, or was her first appearance due to her feeling bad for her sister who had previously lost her husband and now was loosing her eldest son in the most horrific way?
In the whole scheme of things, these aren’t critical questions, but it still tells us something about what Mary went through having a child out of wedlock, seemingly through sin.
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Yeah, it's really early, on the road map, but we spent 6 months just doing trial-and-error on the basic data structure and backend (including relays), and tightening performance enough to make it usable enough to demo.
Will take at least 2 more years, and four minor versions (Gutenberg, Euler, Defoe, #Biblestr), to get to v1.0. And we're developing our own Nostr SDK (in C++), and working with the relay devs on the side, and we have all the infrastructure and DevOps to support this, which is its own subproject and is being successively Nostr-ized.
It's actually sort of amazing because we're a bunch of volunteers doing this in parallel to our day jobs and subsisting entirely off of crowdfunding, tips, and relay subscriptions. 😅
Whole thing is sort of insane and the grant funds have just been like no way go away, but we've kept right on grinding for over a year, and we keep gaining steam and adding members, because it's just an inspiring project that is worth building, for its own sake.
I think of it like building a digital cathedral, with Gutenberg, Euler, and Defoe being the building blocks to Biblestr. That helps me keep the product scope of #Alexandria defined and it keeps me motivated.
Providing an uncensorable platform for theological scholastics, debates, research, and discussion is in keeping with the idea that rhetoric is the highest form of speech and philosophy is the highest intellectual art and that protecting people's right to form their own conscience is the reason why free speech exists, in the first place.
So, it seems like #Biblestr is peak Alexandria and then we move on to GitRepublic, to make it easier for us to collaborate on maintaining Alexandria.
I only want to build things I want to use myself or that serve some higher purpose than myself, because otherwise it feels too much like work and then bitch better have my money.
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