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2023.06.07 08:11 guyfierisdives Ranking how much I think Duggar couples actually tolerate each other

I just indulged in some Devil’s Lettuce while watching JoKen’s wedding and thought it would be fun to figure out which couples can be in the same room together, and as someone who over analyzes mundane things that have little to no meaning in this world I thought this would be fun.
1.) Jim Bob and Michelle - These two are odd. I think they love each other but in an unsettling way? It always feels like they’re overcompensating for something. They seemed pretty normal (as normal as they could be) but once they were really deep into IBLP and quiverfullness they got strange. Also I cannot stop thinking about Rim Job doing that to Meech while mini golfing. They kinda feel like that couple in school that gave way too much PDA that made everyone uncomfortable.
2.) Josh and Anna. What hasn’t been said about Pest and Anna’s relationship at this point. I just think it’s complicated and don’t really want to think about them.
3.) John-David and Abbie. They’re so boring but they’re boring for each other. JD is super mellow in a way where if he was with an extrovert he would probably be extremely uncomfortable so Abbie balances him out well. He also really cared for Abbie in the little time we saw their on screen relationship and although it’s the bare minimum, he’s a fundie man so it’s impressive he cares. They seem genuine.
4.) Jill and Derick. These two are ride or die. SHP really cemented for me how much they care for each other, especially Derick talking when Jill was uncomfortable with a subject. Jill seems to be in the early stages of deconstructing and has clearly been working through trauma which helps when you have a supportive spouse such as Derick. He also is a petty little shit and dislikes Rim Job so I feel that has also helped Jill see some of the dysfunctions of how he’s been treating the family.
5.) Jessa and Ben. Bin was horny for a girl he saw on tv and Jessa was presented with a man that wasn’t a weirdo (her words not mine). She clearly runs a tight ship and is head of the household while he has nothing in his brain and just stares at a wall. I think they used to be super in love before Bin realized that she has a strong personality and isn’t just a hot girl who sometimes is funny. I think after Surgery’s birth he started to become “the lights are on but no one is home”.
6.) Jinger and Jeremy. In the beginning these two were nice, but as time went on it seems the relationship became more one sided. Also Jeremy’s ego has gone so far through the roof that I think he doesn’t pay attention to anyone but himself anymore. If Jeremy likes the color red then I like the color red.
7.) Joe and Kendra. Giggles and Joe are definitely in love. Joe seems sentimental and sensitive and Giggles is a very happy person in general and they actually enjoy each other’s company. They also have a gazillion children and can still tolerate each other so that helps.
8.) Josiah and Lauren. I feel like if Josiah could have lived a real life he would have been a theater kid, and having a wife that sings every second of the day would help with that. They do balance each other well and are staying off social media so good for them. I can’t ever unhear Siahhhh though.
9.) Joy-Anna and Austin. Austin makes me feel weird and he looks disinterested a lot of the time, but he and Joy seem to like each other. He also lets her be Tomboy Joy and even though being yourself is the bare minimum it helps when you’re in a fundie relationship.
10.) Jedidiah and Katey. Jed! is a slug who will never cease to irk me and Kathy looks like she’s always a blink away from berating him. She has always looked sick of his shit and their whole relationship is so weird to me. He also told her she ate too much while pregnant so I don’t know what will come of these two.
11.) Jeremiah and Hannah. I’m going to be honest I forgot Jer and Hannah even existed as a couple. I’ll just give them the benefit of the doubt and say they’re fine and like each other, but please don’t name your next kid Laekrypple or something like that.
12.) Justin and Claire. The child and the Jana look alike. They’re also weird to me only because Justin and her got married the second he could to the clone of my high school English teacher. I feel more chemistry between Claire’s mom and Justin, maybe that’s why they haven’t had 8 children yet.
I had fun making this and would love to hear some thoughts!!

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2023.06.06 19:27 ir1379 NYT article from 1971

THE compulsive gambler sub consciously wants to lose his shirt, of course, along with everything else he owns, and so he again and again puts down the rent money on the Montreal Expos or 80‐to‐1 2‐year‐old maiden fillies wear ing blinkers and bandaged forelegs. And if he's nothing else, Walter Matthau, the 50‐year‐old stage and movie actor, is a compulsive gambler. A few years ago, for instance, while in Florida to film episodes of a TV series called “Tallahassee 7000,” Matthau breath‐takingly managed in a mere two weeks to drop no less than $183,000. He lost the money, moreover, not by backing crippled nags at Hialeah but mainly instead by betting on the outcome of spring training baseball games, a way of tossing bundles of money out the window that should surely that year have won him the Nobel Prize for masochism.
Since dropping that $183,000, sum that eventually took, him six years to pay off to his increa ingly impatient Mafia ‐ connected book maker, Matthau has cut down con siderably on the amounts that he bets, especially when he goes to race tracks, and on a good day at Holly wood Park he can now come happily home having lost only $400 or $580.
Still, he continues casually to bet thousand dollars or so on things like N.B.A. play‐off games or whether or not a friend can name the capital of Albania, and so remains a prime example of the evils of gambling to all those New Yorkers who are thinking of taking a first‐time fling at the ponies because of an easy access these days to offtrack betting windows in Grand Central Station and elsewhere. “I think that off‐track betting is great for New York,” dryly remarked Matthau during a recent three‐day visit to the city from his home in California. “I mean, it's so democratic—if they keep up off‐track betting long enough, every body in town will be on welfare.”
Of course, though he has the mo rose, hangdog look of a chronic loser, Matthas is scarcely a loser in everything he gets mixed up in. Far from it, as a matter of fact. For example, when signing contracts for his last several movies he chose to gamble on accepting a percentage of the profits in lieu of a salary, and at least one of these gambles has al ready handsomely paid off—his per centage of “Cactus Flower,” a film he made a couple of years ago with Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn, has so far amounted, to more than a million dollars. And he's also on the way to making another million or so as his share of the profits from each of his two most recent pictures—“A New Leaf,” a wacky comedy in which he is co‐starred with Elaine May, and “Plaza Suite,” the film version of Neil Simon's exceedingly successful Broadway play. So, unlike almost every other compulsive gamb er in the country, Matthau is nowadays just about literally rolling in money. Besides, pleased with the way that his career is going, with his marriage, with his three children, and with his seaside home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., Matthau is even happy, an emotion not normally associated with the compulsive gambler.
HOW does a compulsive gambler get to be one? The story of Matthau's life is perhaps an object lesson to all of those who have lately been spend ing their lunch hours in Grand Cen tral Station to wait in line for the dubious privilege of giving away their money to Howard Samuels and his Off track Betting Corporation. In any event, Matthau was born on the lower East Side of Manhattan on Oct. 1, 1920, the son of an impoverished Russian‐Jewish immigrant from Kiev, in the Ukraine, and of a Lithuanian born Jewish mother.
When Matthau was 3 years old, and his older brother, Henry, was 5, his father, a worker at such odd jobs as serving subpoenas for law firms, lit out for parts unknown, leaving him and his brother to be raised by their mother, Rose, who managed to scrape a marginal living for herself and her sons by working as a sewing machine operator in garment district sweatshops. In 1935, when Matthau was 15 years old, he learned of his father's death in Bellevue Hospital. His mother is still living, and—sup ported in the grand manner by her sons (Matthau's brother lives now on Long Island and is a jobber of surplus Army‐Navy goods)—divides her time these days between a penthouse on West End Avenue and a condo in Miami Beach.
During his childhood, Matthau, his brother and his mother lived in succession of cold‐water tenement apartments in the Ukrainian area of the Lower East Side, that is, around East Fifth Street near Second Av enue, being forced to vacate each apartment after only a few months because they'd got so hopelessly far behind in the rent that their land lord would have them evicted. Years later, when Matthau briefly sublet Paul Newman's house in Hollywood for $3,700 per month, he recalled with a shake of his head that $3,700 was more money than the Matthau family had spent on rent during 20 years on the Lower East Side. Mat thau, however, hasn't the slightest nostalgia these days for his poverty ridden childhood. “It was a night mare—a dreadful, horrible, stinking nightmare,” he grimly remembers.
On the Lower East Side, Matthau recalls, the highest ambition of most of his class ates was some day to become a salesman for a garment district dress house, for he himself secretly had far more exalted am bitions — by the age of 8, a day dreamer, a loner, a reader of Shake speare, he'd already determined to become a famous writer and actor. Encouraged by a teacher who ad mired his speaking voice, Matthau appeared in a number of school plays and also regularly recited poetry in school assemblies. On East Fifth Street, anyone who evinced an interest in poetry was thought by his classmates to be seriously lacking in machismo, and Matthau often found himself getting beaten up at recess by schoolyard bullies. So, already feet tall by the age of 10 (he weighed only 90 pounds, however, and, says Matthau, who is today 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds; “when I drank cherry soda, I looked like thermometer”), he put himself through a regimen of muscle‐building until “I had Popeyelike bumps on my skinny arms and could beat up any body who made snide remarks about my poetry reading.”
When Matthau was 11 years old, in fact, one of those whom he alleges to have beaten up in the schoolyard was none other than Rocky Graziano, who grew up, of course, to become the middleweight boxing champion of the world. Of Matthau's claim to having beaten up Graziano, one can unequivocally make the following statement: The story either is or is not true.
IN any event, along with being a compulsive gambler, Matthau is also something of a compulsive stretcher of the truth. Or, to put it perhaps a bit more tactfully, a compulsive weaver of fiction when it comes to talking about his past. For example, bored with repeating the story of his life over and over again to interview ers, Matthau has on more than one occasion told newspapermen and magazine writers that his father was a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest who'd had to flee for his life from Czarist Kiev in 1906 because he'd been preaching sermons in support of Pope Pius X. And this story, told by Matthau to interviewers with an absolutely straight face, has appeared several times as the God's truth in such usually accurate publications as Time and Current Biography.
NOT long ago, too, when Matthau was in New York for a round of newspaper, maga zine, radio and TV interviews to promote “Plaza Suite,” chanced to be in earshot when he told a story to Neil Simon that he'd heard the night be fore from Gene Saks, the director, about a somewhat aging and hard ‐ of hearing actor who'd had trouble re membering his lines in a play last winter at the Palm Beach Playhouse in Florida. So, as Matthau told the story to Si mon, a prompter, unseen by the audience, was hidden in a hole cut into the front of the stage and instructed to call out only key words to the actor when a line was for gotten. “Drastic,” whispered the prompter when the actor went up in his lines on the opening night of the play. From the hard ‐ of ‐ hearing actor, no response. “Drastic,” repeated the prompter in a somewhat louder voice. Again, no response. “Drastic,” the prompter now all but shouted. Still no response, upon which a man in the second row of the orchestra stood up and yelled “Dastic!” The actor heard him, smiled, remem bered his line, and the play went on.
As show‐biz stories go, not bad. Not so great, either. The following evening, however, happened to be on hand when Matthau was being inter viewed by David Frost on Frost's TV talk show and was asked, “What was your most embarrassing moment in the theater?” And, without batting an eyelash, Matthau pro ceeded to tell the “drastic” story as though it was some thing that had happened to him years ago on Broadway.
He concocts personal anec dotes that aren't true, Mat thau later somewhat abashedly told me, because they liven up otherwise boring inter views and make his past seem more colorful than it really was. “Like saying that my father was a Catholic priest — I figure that makes me more interesting than just another Jewish actor who had a pair of Jewish parents,” Matthau explained to me with a grin. “Jewish and Catholic— if I can just work a Protestant into my background, I'm all set.”

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2023.06.06 15:21 wdmcarth Daily Bullpen Usage: 06/06/23

Last updated: 06/06/23 09:02:37 EST

LEGEND

Note	Description
Italics	Pitched previous day or twice in last 3 days.
~~Strikethrough~~	Pitched back to back days.
Bold	Recent transaction.
^L3:##	Number of pitches thrown in last 3 days.
***	SP first start.
**	SP yet to reach 5.0 innings in a game.
*	SP yet to surpass 6.0 innings in a game.

BULLPEN USAGE

Team	Opp	SP	CL	SU8	SU7	MID	LR
ARI	@WSN	Tommy Henry	Miguel Castro^L3:19, Andrew Chafin^L3:26		Scott McGough^L3:13	Austin Adams^L3:8, Kyle Nelson, José Ruiz, Kevin Ginkel^L3:11	Drey Jameson^L3:45
ATL	NYM	Bryce Elder	Raisel Iglesias^L3:21	Nick Anderson^L3:11	Collin McHugh^L3:27	A.J. Minter^L3:10, Jesse Chavez^L3:24, Joe Jiménez, Kirby Yates	AJ Smith-Shawver^L3:39
BAL	@MIL	Kyle Gibson	Félix Bautista	Yennier Cano^L3:9	Bryan Baker^L3:15	Mike Baumann^L3:28, Cionel Pérez^L3:11, Keegan Akin^L3:24, Austin Voth^L3:13	Bruce Zimmermann^L3:28
BOS	@CLE	James Paxton*	Kenley Jansen^L3:43	Chris Martin^L3:13	Josh Winckowski^L3:16	Justin Garza^L3:26, Brennan Bernardino^L3:54, ~~Kaleb Ort^L3:44~~, Corey Kluber^L3:40	Nick Pivetta^L3:31
CHC	@LAA	Hayden Wesneski	Mark Leiter Jr., Adbert Alzolay	Michael Fulmer^L3:39	Brandon Hughes^L3:13	Jeremiah Estrada^L3:25, Julian Merryweather^L3:18	Javier Assad^L3:38
CHW	@NYY	Lucas Giolito	Kendall Graveman^L3:6	Joe Kelly^L3:17	Reynaldo López^L3:14	Liam Hendriks^L3:32, Keynan Middleton^L3:8, Aaron Bummer, Gregory Santos^L3:12	Garrett Crochet
CIN	LAD	Luke Weaver	Alexis Díaz^L3:12	Lucas Sims^L3:7	Buck Farmer^L3:14	Ian Gibaut^L3:13, Alex Young, Fernando Cruz^L3:17	Eduardo Salazar^L3:39
CLE	BOS	Shane Bieber	Emmanuel Clase^L3:34	James Karinchak^L3:30	Trevor Stephan^L3:8	Eli Morgan, Enyel De Los Santos^L3:24, Sam Hentges, Nick Sandlin	Xzavion Curry
COL	SFG	Dinelson Lamet**	Justin Lawrence^L3:15	Pierce Johnson	Jake Bird^L3:24	Brent Suter^L3:11, Daniel Bard, Brad Hand^L3:26, Matt Carasiti^L3:33	Peter Lambert
DET	@PHI	Tyler Alexander***	Alex Lange^L3:38	Jason Foley^L3:32	Will Vest^L3:21	José Cisnero^L3:16, Chasen Shreve^L3:14, Tyler Holton^L3:19, Mason Englert^L3:52, Tyler Alexander	Garrett Hill
HOU	@TOR	Hunter Brown	Ryan Pressly^L3:19	Bryan Abreu^L3:14	Hector Neris^L3:22	Rafael Montero^L3:13, Phil Maton^L3:17, Ryne Stanek^L3:47	Seth Martinez^L3:21
KCR	@MIA	Zack Greinke*	Scott Barlow^L3:31	Aroldis Chapman^L3:10	Taylor Clarke^L3:20	Josh Staumont^L3:42, Carlos Hernández^L3:23, Jose Cuas, Nick Wittgren^L3:18, Jackson Kowar^L3:23	Mike Mayers^L3:75
LAA	CHC	Tyler Anderson	Carlos Estévez^L3:11	Chris Devenski^L3:28	Jacob Webb^L3:12	Ben Joyce^L3:31, Aaron Loup, Sam Bachman^L3:38, José Soriano^L3:12	Tucker Davidson
LAD	@CIN	Tony Gonsolin*	Evan Phillips^L3:20, Brusdar Graterol^L3:16, Caleb Ferguson^L3:23			Yency Almonte, Shelby Miller^L3:11, Victor González^L3:5, Alex Vesia^L3:8	Tayler Scott^L3:32
MIA	KCR	Jesús Luzardo	~~Dylan Floro^L3:17~~	Tanner Scott^L3:14	Huascar Brazoban^L3:26	Steven Okert^L3:24, JT Chargois^L3:14, Andrew Nardi^L3:19, George Soriano^L3:61	Bryan Hoeing
MIL	BAL	Freddy Peralta*	Devin Williams^L3:26	Peter Strzelecki^L3:11	Joel Payamps	Hoby Milner^L3:7, Elvis Peguero^L3:14, Trevor Megill^L3:46, Bennett Sousa, Jake Cousins	Bryse Wilson^L3:24
MIN	@TBR	Louie Varland	Jhoan Duran	Brock Stewart	Jorge López^L3:31	Caleb Thielbar^L3:10, Emilio Pagán^L3:4, Jovani Moran^L3:19, Griffin Jax^L3:11	José De León^L3:12
NYM	@ATL	Carlos Carrasco	David Robertson^L3:28, Adam Ottavino^L3:17		Brooks Raley^L3:13	Drew Smith^L3:18, Jeff Brigham^L3:11, Dominic Leone^L3:18, Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek^L3:47	Josh Walker
NYY	CHW	Clarke Schmidt*	Clay Holmes^L3:33, Michael King^L3:33, Wandy Peralta^L3:27			Ron Marinaccio, Albert Abreu, Tommy Kahnle, Jimmy Cordero	Nick Ramirez
OAK	@PIT	James Kaprielian	Trevor May^L3:8	Shintaro Fujinami^L3:30	~~Sam Moll^L3:26~~	Richard Lovelady^L3:34, Lucas Erceg^L3:57, Austin Pruitt^L3:17, Sam Long^L3:39	Ken Waldichuk^L3:34
PHI	DET	Taijuan Walker	Craig Kimbrel^L3:11	Seranthony Domínguez^L3:32	Matt Strahm^L3:22	Gregory Soto^L3:14, Connor Brogdon^L3:26, Jeff Hoffman^L3:13, Andrew Vasquez^L3:39, Yunior Marte^L3:13	Dylan Covey^L3:27
PIT	OAK	Mitch Keller	David Bednar^L3:25	Colin Holderman^L3:41	Dauri Moreta^L3:25	Jose Hernandez^L3:15, Yohan Ramirez^L3:20, Angel Perdomo^L3:49, Chase De Jong	Rob Zastryzny^L3:21
SDP	SEA	Joe Musgrove	Josh Hader	Nick Martinez^L3:29	Steven Wilson^L3:17	Tim Hill^L3:13, Tom Cosgrove^L3:15, Brent Honeywell^L3:15, Domingo Tapia^L3:37	Drew Carlton^L3:56
SEA	@SDP	Logan Gilbert	Paul Sewald	Justin Topa^L3:22	Trevor Gott^L3:27	Matt Brash^L3:19, Gabe Speier^L3:17, Tayler Saucedo^L3:39, Matt Festa^L3:47	Chris Flexen^L3:51
SFG	@COL	John Brebbia**	Camilo Doval^L3:13	Tyler Rogers	John Brebbia	Taylor Rogers^L3:12, Scott Alexander^L3:2, Ryan Walker^L3:13, Luke Jackson^L3:19, Jakob Junis^L3:45, Tristan Beck	Sean Manaea
STL	@TEX	Matthew Liberatore*	Ryan Helsley^L3:13, Giovanny Gallegos	Jordan Hicks^L3:29	Andre Pallante^L3:19	~~Génesis Cabrera^L3:31~~, Drew VerHagen^L3:1, Chris Stratton^L3:13	Steven Matz^L3:23
TBR	MIN	Zach Eflin	Jason Adam^L3:26, Colin Poche^L3:41, Kevin Kelly^L3:4, Jalen Beeks^L3:37			Robert Stephenson^L3:30, Jake Diekman^L3:8, Shawn Armstrong^L3:27	Calvin Faucher^L3:34
TEX	STL	Dane Dunning*	Will Smith^L3:19	Grant Anderson^L3:17	Brock Burke^L3:19	José Leclerc^L3:35, Josh Sborz^L3:21, Cole Ragans^L3:14, John King^L3:37	Spencer Howard
TOR	HOU	Kevin Gausman	Jordan Romano^L3:6	Erik Swanson^L3:24	Nate Pearson^L3:31	Tim Mayza^L3:27, Trevor Richards^L3:41, ~~Adam Cimber^L3:33~~, Yimi García^L3:16, Anthony Bass^L3:28	Jay Jackson^L3:39
WSN	ARI	Jake Irvin	Kyle Finnegan, Hunter Harvey		Carl Edwards Jr.	Andrés Machado^L3:36, Mason Thompson^L3:26, Chad Kuhl^L3:24, Erasmo Ramírez^L3:18	Thaddeus Ward^L3:26

TRANSACTIONS

Date	Team	Player	Category	Description
6/5	TEX	Spencer Howard	INJURIES	Activated from 60-Day IL

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2023.06.06 07:10 Curious-Turn-5198 Jeffrey Dahmer and his glasses

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2023.06.05 22:55 ArchaicChaos Pneumatology 3, Blasphemy of the Spirit, the unforgivable sin.

Introduction
Because of this I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men; but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And if anyone speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but if anyone speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming one. (Matthew 12:31-32)
I have seen, read, heard, or been asked personally, "What is the unforgivable sin?", or, "What is blasphemy of the Spirit?" Many people read this passage and it seems that all they understand is that there is some innocuous thing called blaspheming the Holy Spirit that is unforgivable, and they fear that they may have accidentally committed it without knowing what it is. Reading articles or systematic theologies regarding this is even less helpful because many of them disagree with each other on what this sin is. While the answer to this question is very simple and straightforward, there is much to be discussed considering this passage, what is stated, and the implications of it.
What is this sin?
Then was brought to Him one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, and He healed him in order for the mute man to speak and to see. And all the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “Could this be the Son of David?” And the Pharisees having heard, said, “This man casts out the demons only by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.” And having known their thoughts, He said to them, “Every kingdom having been divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house having been divided against itself will not stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? On account of this, they will be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how is anyone able to enter into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, unless first he binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. The one not being with Me is against Me, and the one not gathering with Me scatters. Because of this I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men; but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And if anyone speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but if anyone speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming one. Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad. For the tree is known by the fruit. Offspring of vipers, how are you able to speak good things, being evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure puts forth good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure puts forth evil things. And I say to you that every careless word that they will speak, men will give an account of it in day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:22-37)
Very plainly, blasphemy of the Spirit is to speak a word against the Spirit of God. What is "blasphemy?" Is this not injurious speech against something? When we are commanded not to blaspheme God in the 10 commandments, do we know what that means? So why would it mean anything different here?
The Pharisees are seeing Jesus cast out demons. The crowds say that he must he the son of David, or the Messiah, and the Pharisees charge Jesus with using Satanic power, the ruler of the demons to cast out demons. It is this statement, this claim that the Pharisees make that Jesus is speaking against. Is this statement blasphemy against the Spirit? Certainly. This passage does not say "Holy Spirit" in any (important) manuscripts. This Spirit is defined as "the Spirit of God." We know this to be synonymous with the Holy Spirit, but think of what the Pharisees are actually saying here. "The Spirit of God is actually the Spirit of demons." They are speaking directly against God by calling his Spirit, his very own nature, to be that of demons. They are, in effect, calling God evil. They are speaking against the power and nature of God and giving God's power as credit to the demons. Listen to what Jesus says: "If I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? On account of this, they will be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you." The question is, "by what power do these demons become cast out by?" If it is the power of God, and they say it is the power of demons, then they are giving God's glory to that which is evil. Recall Moses, who took the credit away from God and gave it to himself for cracking open the rock and giving Israel water to drink. This sin was so terrible that Moses, as holy as he was, reflecting the glory of God from his face and being the mediator of a covenant of angels to men, Moses was not allowed to enter the promised land that he had been leading the Israelites to for over 40 years. Moses was to die before entering into this land. Moses took the power of God and gave it to himself. Moses was a righteous man and unparalleled in the scriptures in many ways (until Jesus, of course), and even taking the credit of God away and giving it to himself was such an atrocity that it cost him his reward in the promised land. The kingdom of God is our promised land today, and we are wandering in the wilderness, waiting for the approved time to be let inside. Think again to what Jesus says here: "If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.... If anyone speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming one.... I say to you that every careless word that they will speak, men will give an account of it in day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Judgement, condemnation by what we speak, the kingdom of God, the age to come.
What is more, the Pharisee seem to have had some power themselves to cast out demons. "If I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out?" Their "sons" are a reference to their students, or those who are trained among the Pharisees. We know that the apostles testified to a man casting out demons who was not an apostle of Jesus (Luke 9:49). In that passage, the man is casting them out "in Jesus' name," and he was not a Pharisee. However, given what Jesus says here, it seems likely that they had at least some limited ability to be able to do so. It would not be fair to say that only Jesus could cast out demons during his ministry. If the Pharisees had the power to cast out demons, and this can only be done by the Spirit of God, then the Pharisees know the power of God's Spirit and yet they denied it openly. These were not simply mistaken Pharisees who were in shock because they had never seen a demonic exorcism before, these were men who knowingly denied the very Spirit by which they had tasted (compare Hebrews 6:4-6). This is a very intentional act. Jesus makes it very clear that there is no other power by which this can occur. "Every kingdom having been divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house having been divided against itself will not stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?" Jesus' point being that no one can cast out demons but the Spirit of God. So if they are casting out demons, they know exactly by what power Jesus does so as well. These men are not committing an accidental and honest mistake. This is very intentional. We should have no doubt as to why Jesus said this. In Mark 3:30, it says: "For they were saying, 'He has an unclean spirit.'" For they were saying. For the reason of having said this, Jesus speaks on blasphemy of the Spirit.
Why is it that when people speak about blasphemy of the Spirit, there is such a tendency to say things such as: "It is to go against the calling of God's Spirit in your life." Or, "It is to not have the works of the Spirit." Are either of these "blasphemy?"
Grieve the Spirit
Hebrews 10:26-30: For if we sin willingly after we are to receive the knowledge of the truth, no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment and fury of fire being about to devour the adversaries. Anyone having set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercies on the basis of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment do you think will he deserve, the one having trampled upon the Son of God, and having esteemed ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?
Once we have received forgiveness of sins, we can not keep continuing to sin. "Having esteemed ordinary the of the covenant by which he was sanctified and having insulted the Spirit of grace." God's grace is how we receive forgiveness through the blood of Christ. To "esteem this as ordinary," probably in the context of the letter to the Hebrews being a reference to Jesus' sacrifice only being as important as the blood of the old covenant sacrifices, is an insult to the Spirit of grace. In this passage, the author is warning his audience of insulting or grieving the Holy Spirit. It does not seem that they have committed this sin. Otherwise, if they were deemed unforgivable, this letter would be pointless. The purpose of this letter was to encourage this Hebrew Christian congregation who had already received the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 6:4) and, having suffered for Christ, were turning back to the old covenant. The author is encouraging them not to do so by various arguments to show the superiority of the covenant of Christ to the old covenant. These people could be redeemed. Therefore, they had not yet committed this sin. With that being said, he's warning them for coming near to this sin. How did they do so? By their actions to grieve the Spirit. Note that these people had already been sanctified or made Holy. These people had already been forgiven for their sins in Christ. This shows a certain knowledge and awareness of what is being done to grieve the Holy Spirit. This is not an act done by someone before becoming a Christ or with no knowledge of the Spirit.
Trinitarian Problem
"And if anyone speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him." Jesus is the Son of Man. If anyone speaks a word against him, they will be forgiven. Why would it be that you can blaspheme Jesus and be forgiven, but not blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Many Trinitarians appeal to this passage to prove that the Holy Spirit is God because there is something special about the Spirit if he can not be blasphemed against and receive forgiveness. However, the justification for why that is why this makes him God or why this makes him a distinct 3rd person of the Trinity are always lacking. Can we be forgiven if we blaspheme the 1st person of the Trinity? Trinitarians seem to not be sure if we can or not. This passage, in their eyes, says nothing about the Father. Only about the Spirit, who is "someone else" to them. Can we blaspheme the 2nd person of the Trinity and be forgiven? Assuming Jesus is the 2nd person of the Trinity, the passage plainly says, "Yes." Anything said against Jesus is forgiven. Why can we blaspheme two persons of God but not the third?
Some Trinitarians argue that the phrase "son of man" here is a reference to Jesus' humanity only. They argue that you can speak against the human Jesus and be forgiven, but not the divine Jesus. However, if you ask them about passages such as Matthew 9:6, Mark 2:10, 14:62, John 3:13, 6:38, 6:62, Acts 7:56, they will say that all of these passages are about the divine Jesus, even though he identifies himself as "son of man," or in the case of Stephen, Stephen identified him as "son of man." Would it make any sense to say that the human Jesus and the divine Jesus are one and the same person, and Jesus was telling his audience that you could speak against one of his two natures and be forgiven, but he was not speaking about speaking against the one person? Were the people speaking against the person here? Or the nature? If "the Son of Man" is God, then how can you speak against the Son of Man and not speak against God? This objection is incredibly wanting.
The Holy Spirit is the presence of the Father. To speak against the Father in Jesus performing these works is to blaspheme God. You can speak a word against the Son of man because he is not God, and this is showing us plainly. Jesus is declaring that he isn't God. You can't blaspheme God, but you can blaspheme a man.
Video 1
In the interest of understanding where the rather strange ideas Christians receive their understanding (or, rather, misunderstandings) of this verse, I looked at the most common place the average Christian goes for research. No, not the scholarly work presented on these issues, not systematic theology books, not study Bibles, not on academia, but on YouTube, of course. I typed in "Blasphemy of the Spirit" on YouTube and looked at two of the top videos to see what they said. The first is a short 5 minute video from "Got questions ministries," link here. In this video, they correctly look at the context of the passage and recognize that it does indeed have something to do with the speaking out against the Holy Spirit when Jesus is casting out demons. But it falls into problems towards the end of the video. It says:
"Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit can not be repeated today. 1. Jesus Christ is not on earth. 2. He is at the right hand of God. 3. No one can personally witness Jesus performing a miracle and attribute that power to Satan instead of the Holy Spirit."
Jesus abides in us. "I will not leave you as orphans... the Father and I will make our home in him." Jesus is not on earth in flesh, but he is in Spirit. Did the miracles stop when Jesus ascended to heaven and received glory? No. To assume no one can commit blasphemy against the Spirit because Jesus is no longer in flesh among us does not follow. Jesus is now in Spirit among us. Blasphemy can still be performed against the Spirit, and this syllogism does not reach the preferred conclusion. The video goes on to say:
"The unpardonable sin today is to resist the state of continued unbelief.The Spirit currently convicts the unsaved world of sin, righteousness, and judgement (John 16:8). The resist that conviction and willfully remain unrepentant is to 'blaspheme' the Holy Spirit. There is no pardon in this age or the age to come."
What? Why such a radical turn from what Jesus said blasphemy of the Spirit is, to this? Notice that in this definition, there is no "blasphemy" at all. They even put the word "blasphemy" in quotations for some reason. To resist the call of the Spirit is not to say anything against the Spirit at all. So, how can this be blasphemy? This leaves the idea of the calling of the Holy Spirit intentionally vague and undefined so as to make a blanket statement about it. A "continued state of unbelief," would imply that this person was not a believer at all. Why, then, would there be a second resurrection to judgement if all who have not accepted the Holy Spirit are already judged as "unforgiven in this age and the age to come?" Clearly, this is not a good definition of blasphemy against the Spirit.
Video 2
The second video I watched must be one of the worst sermons I've watched in a very long time. It was by the famous pastor John MacArthur. link to video It seems to me that he has no idea what blasphemy of the Spirit is, but he is arguing to vilify himself from the charges people have placed against him on blaspheming the Spirit when he calls others as demon possessed when they claim their healings and tongues come from the power of the Spirit. After most of the video is an onslaught of inaccurate statements, side points, and bibliolatry, he finally comes to his explanation of what he thinks this blasphemy of the Spirit is. (Timestamp, 35:20)
"The eternal sin for them was this: they said Jesus was demonic. They went to hell for that. You say, 'Wait a minute, what if I said that? Would I go to hell for that?' Not necessarily. If you said that without full information, that's a blasphemy that's forgivable. But if that's your response after full revelation of the gospel, the full revelation of Christ contained on the pages of scripture, if that is your final conclusion, then you could never be forgiven. Because you've had full revelation... It is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. It is not denying tongues or denying a healing or denying some supposed power display of the Holy Spirit. It is blaspheming the Holy Spirit by saying Jesus is demonic. How does that blaspheme the Holy Spirit?"
Paraphrasing what he goes on to say, he says that Jesus in the Incarnation laid aside his prerogatives, and all the works he did in his ministry are the results of the Holy Spirit in him. It is true that Jesus did everything he did by the Spirit in him. However, saying this not only contradicts what MacArthur says elsewhere in many of his other sermons and writings, even earlier in this very video. He argues that blasphemy of the Spirit today is when you have the full revelation of who Jesus is (which he thinks means that Jesus is God) and after receiving Christ and the Spirit you ultimately conclude that it's all a deception and you say Jesus is demonic.
There are many problems in this narrative. First, the passage says that anything said against Jesus is forgivable, and MacArthur's entire premise is that the unforgivable sin is about what you know about Christ and say about him. Second, MacArthur is under the impression that in times past, in the time of Jesus' ministry, people could know Jesus on a greater scale than we can now. They saw him and had full revelation. Today, we only know Jesus by what we read in the Bible. This is not true. We receive revelation of Christ today by the Spirit. We are not dependent upon a book. We are not lacking anything today that we could have gained in the time of Jesus' ministry. "Happy are they who have not seen and yet believe" (John 20:29). MacArthur seems to not even believe in the revelation of the Spirit today or doesn't believe that we can actually know Jesus in this way. We are solely reliant upon a book. He repeatedly describes the revelation of the gospel as "what we read in scripture." Third, he defines "blasphemy that's forgivable" as blasphemy without full knowledge. Yet, that's not what Jesus defines as forgivable and unforgivable. He defines it as words spoken against the Son of man or the Spirit.
Yes, revelation of the Spirit does matter in these discussions, as previously explained. But to conclude it is about what you say of Jesus after having the Spirit does not do any justice to the text. It works backward from what the assumption is.
In the first video, we have blasphemy of the Spirit today is to resist the Spirit's calling and to stay a sinner until death. In the second video, we have the claim that blasphemy of the Spirit is to have full revelation that Jesus is God and be a Christian and understand the gospel, but still call Jesus a demon. Two wildly different answers. No wonder people are confused.
Blasphemy of the Spirit Today
So what am I saying blasphemy of the Spirit is today? It is the same as it was in Jesus' day. It is to call God evil. It is to give the power of God over to the credit of demons. It is to speak against someone who is Spirit filled and attribute that Spirit to a demonic spirit. It is to do this while having enough exposure to the Spirit that this is no mistake. This is not something that someone can accidentally do. This is not something that is just a slip of the tongue. This isn't about a disposition, but about what is stated. Calling God a liar. Calling God the ruler of demons. To witness the power of the Spirit, know it is God's Spirit, and yet deny it. Someone may ask, "Why would anyone do that?" Why did the Pharisees do so? Because they wanted glory for themselves. They did not want Jesus or even God having glory for what was done, so they sought to discredit them. If you saw a Christian walking down the street today, and he believed differently than you, and he performed a miracle, what would you say? Would you say that he's got a demon? Would you say that since he's a Trinitarian, or a modalist, or a catholic, or some other kind of Protestant than you, or because you saw him sin in some way that he can't have God's Spirit so he must be acting by demons? Would you play the judge over him? Would you be jealous that he committed some miracle you could not do?
This is my encouragement to Christians. Do not judge others. I personally have never spoken in tongues at all. But I have seen a man who I know is filled with the Spirit with a true love of God do so. Do I dare accuse him of mockery or demons? Do I call him a false Christian? Be careful in who you judge. Yes, we are to test the Spirits. We don't just believe everything that's claimed to be of the Spirit with blindness. But we should be very, very careful in how we respond to these things. There's no reason to assume blasphemy of the Spirit has changed today.

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2023.06.05 18:44 wdmcarth Daily Bullpen Usage: 06/05/23

Last updated: 06/05/23 12:43:42 EST

LEGEND

Note	Description
Italics	Pitched previous day or twice in last 3 days.
~~Strikethrough~~	Pitched back to back days.
Bold	Recent transaction.
^L3:##	Number of pitches thrown in last 3 days.
***	SP first start.
**	SP yet to reach 5.0 innings in a game.
*	SP yet to surpass 6.0 innings in a game.

BULLPEN USAGE

Team	Opp	SP	CL	SU8	SU7	MID	LR
ARI			Miguel Castro^L3:34, Andrew Chafin^L3:26		Scott McGough^L3:13	Austin Adams^L3:23, Kyle Nelson, José Ruiz, Kevin Ginkel^L3:11	Drey Jameson^L3:45
ATL			~~Raisel Iglesias^L3:21~~	Nick Anderson^L3:11	Collin McHugh^L3:34	A.J. Minter^L3:10, Jesse Chavez^L3:24, Joe Jiménez, Kirby Yates	AJ Smith-Shawver^L3:39
BAL			Félix Bautista^L3:16	Yennier Cano^L3:28	Bryan Baker^L3:15	Mike Baumann^L3:28, Cionel Pérez^L3:11, Keegan Akin^L3:24, Austin Voth^L3:13	Bruce Zimmermann^L3:28
BOS	TBR	Brayan Bello	Kenley Jansen^L3:43	Chris Martin^L3:13	Josh Winckowski^L3:16	Kutter Crawford^L3:40, Justin Garza^L3:26, Brennan Bernardino^L3:36, Kaleb Ort^L3:22, ~~Corey Kluber^L3:40~~	Nick Pivetta
CHC	@SDP	Kyle Hendricks*	Mark Leiter Jr.^L3:13, Adbert Alzolay^L3:6	~~Michael Fulmer^L3:39~~	Brandon Hughes^L3:26	Jeremiah Estrada^L3:25, Julian Merryweather^L3:34, Javier Assad	Hayden Wesneski
CHW			Kendall Graveman^L3:21	Joe Kelly^L3:41	Reynaldo López^L3:32	~~Liam Hendriks^L3:32~~, Keynan Middleton^L3:17, Aaron Bummer, Gregory Santos^L3:12	Garrett Crochet
CIN	MIL	Andrew Abbott***	Alexis Díaz^L3:13	Buck Farmer^L3:6	Ian Gibaut^L3:13	Lucas Sims^L3:14, Alex Young^L3:16, Fernando Cruz^L3:40	Eduardo Salazar^L3:39
CLE			~~Emmanuel Clase^L3:34~~	~~James Karinchak^L3:30~~	Trevor Stephan^L3:8	Eli Morgan, ~~Enyel De Los Santos^L3:24~~, Sam Hentges^L3:12, Nick Sandlin^L3:27	Xzavion Curry
COL			Justin Lawrence^L3:20	Pierce Johnson	Jake Bird^L3:24	Brent Suter^L3:36, Daniel Bard^L3:25, Brad Hand^L3:26, Matt Carasiti^L3:33	Peter Lambert
DET	@PHI	Joey Wentz*	~~Alex Lange^L3:38~~	~~Jason Foley^L3:32~~	Will Vest^L3:34	José Cisnero^L3:16, Chasen Shreve^L3:13, Tyler Holton^L3:19, Mason Englert^L3:21, Tyler Alexander	Garrett Hill
HOU	@TOR	Brandon Bielak	Ryan Pressly^L3:19	Bryan Abreu^L3:35	Hector Neris^L3:22	Rafael Montero^L3:13, Phil Maton^L3:42, Ryne Stanek^L3:27	Seth Martinez
KCR	@MIA	Carlos Hernández**	~~Scott Barlow^L3:31~~	Aroldis Chapman^L3:10	Taylor Clarke^L3:38	Josh Staumont^L3:26, Jose Cuas^L3:18, Nick Wittgren^L3:30, Jackson Kowar^L3:23	Mike Mayers
LAA			Carlos Estévez^L3:11	Chris Devenski^L3:28	Jacob Webb^L3:12	Ben Joyce^L3:31, Aaron Loup, Sam Bachman^L3:38, José Soriano^L3:12	Tucker Davidson
LAD			Evan Phillips^L3:20, Brusdar Graterol^L3:16, Caleb Ferguson^L3:23			Yency Almonte^L3:14, Shelby Miller^L3:11, Victor González^L3:5, Alex Vesia^L3:8	Tayler Scott^L3:32
MIA	KCR	Braxton Garrett	Dylan Floro^L3:14	Tanner Scott^L3:33	Huascar Brazoban	Steven Okert^L3:13, JT Chargois^L3:18, Andrew Nardi^L3:13, George Soriano^L3:61	Bryan Hoeing
MIL	@CIN	Julio Teheran*	Devin Williams^L3:40	Peter Strzelecki^L3:25	Joel Payamps^L3:18	Hoby Milner, Elvis Peguero^L3:30, Trevor Megill^L3:35, Bennett Sousa, Jake Cousins	Bryse Wilson^L3:41
MIN			Jhoan Duran^L3:26	Brock Stewart^L3:15	Jorge López^L3:31	Caleb Thielbar^L3:10, Emilio Pagán^L3:4, Jovani Moran^L3:32, Griffin Jax^L3:11	José De León^L3:12
NYM			David Robertson^L3:28, Adam Ottavino^L3:17		Brooks Raley^L3:13	Drew Smith^L3:25, Jeff Brigham^L3:26, Dominic Leone^L3:27, Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek^L3:47	Josh Walker
NYY			~~Clay Holmes^L3:33~~, Michael King^L3:33, ~~Wandy Peralta^L3:27~~			Ron Marinaccio, Albert Abreu^L3:17, Tommy Kahnle^L3:29, Jimmy Cordero	Nick Ramirez
OAK	@PIT	JP Sears*	Trevor May^L3:8	Shintaro Fujinami^L3:19	Sam Moll^L3:15	Richard Lovelady^L3:20, Lucas Erceg^L3:47, Austin Pruitt^L3:40, Sam Long^L3:39	Ken Waldichuk^L3:34
PHI	DET	Aaron Nola	Craig Kimbrel^L3:11	Seranthony Domínguez^L3:10	Matt Strahm^L3:22	Gregory Soto^L3:14, Connor Brogdon^L3:45, Jeff Hoffman^L3:36, Andrew Vasquez^L3:42, Yunior Marte^L3:27	Dylan Covey^L3:27
PIT	OAK	Johan Oviedo	~~David Bednar^L3:42~~	Colin Holderman^L3:45	~~Dauri Moreta^L3:25~~	Jose Hernandez^L3:15, ~~Yohan Ramirez^L3:23~~, Angel Perdomo^L3:33, Chase De Jong	Rob Zastryzny^L3:22
SDP	CHC	Blake Snell*	Josh Hader	Nick Martinez^L3:14	Steven Wilson^L3:26	Tim Hill^L3:14, Tom Cosgrove^L3:32, Brent Honeywell^L3:15, Domingo Tapia^L3:37	Drew Carlton^L3:56
SEA			Paul Sewald	Justin Topa^L3:22	Trevor Gott^L3:27	Matt Brash^L3:34, Gabe Speier^L3:26, Tayler Saucedo^L3:39, ~~Matt Festa^L3:47~~	Chris Flexen^L3:51
SFG			Camilo Doval^L3:13	Tyler Rogers^L3:9	John Brebbia^L3:11	Taylor Rogers^L3:12, Scott Alexander^L3:2, Ryan Walker^L3:13, Luke Jackson^L3:19, Jakob Junis^L3:45, Tristan Beck	Sean Manaea
STL	@TEX	Adam Wainwright*	Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos^L3:20	~~Jordan Hicks^L3:29~~	Andre Pallante^L3:17	Génesis Cabrera^L3:33, Drew VerHagen, Chris Stratton^L3:13	Steven Matz^L3:23
TBR	@BOS	Shane McClanahan	Jason Adam^L3:14, Colin Poche^L3:25, Kevin Kelly^L3:4, Jalen Beeks^L3:37			~~Robert Stephenson^L3:30~~, Jake Diekman^L3:8, Shawn Armstrong^L3:27	Calvin Faucher^L3:15
TEX	STL	Martín Pérez	Will Smith^L3:7	Grant Anderson^L3:14	Brock Burke^L3:19	José Leclerc^L3:35, Jonathan Hernández^L3:26, Josh Sborz^L3:21, Cole Ragans^L3:14	~~John King^L3:37~~
TOR	HOU	Alek Manoah	Jordan Romano^L3:16	~~Erik Swanson^L3:24~~	~~Nate Pearson^L3:31~~	Tim Mayza^L3:6, Trevor Richards^L3:16, Adam Cimber^L3:11, Yimi García, Anthony Bass	Jay Jackson
WSN			Kyle Finnegan^L3:34, Hunter Harvey^L3:16		Carl Edwards Jr.^L3:20	Andrés Machado^L3:36, Mason Thompson^L3:37, Chad Kuhl^L3:24, Erasmo Ramírez^L3:18	Thaddeus Ward^L3:26

TRANSACTIONS

Date	Team	Player	Category	Description
6/4	BOS	Brennan Bernardino	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/4	BOS	Kaleb Ort	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/4	DET	Garrett Hill	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/4	MIN	Caleb Thielbar	INJURIES	Activated from 15-Day IL
6/4	MIL	Bennett Sousa	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/4	PIT	Chase De Jong	PROMOTION	Contract selected from minors
6/4	SFG	Tristan Beck	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors

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2023.06.05 02:02 acoffeequeen Back of the hand fan

I’ve seen someone else post the hand fan from last night’s ATX TV Festival Season 3 premiere but no one has posted the back! I thought it was hilarious, so I’m sharing it. Enjoy!
First photo Description: a hand fan from the premiere/talk back with the cast and creative. It is a program for the show with the following written on the back: the top center says “Gemstone Salvation Center, June 3rd 2023. The left side says Prelude, Opening Hymn, Welcome and First Reading: Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland, co-founders of ATX TV, Sermon: Episode 1, titled “For I know the plans I have for you” and Episode 2, titled “But Esau ran to meet him”. The right side says Second Reading: Danny McBride (ActoDirector), John Goodman (actor), Adam Devine (Actor), Edi Patterson (Actor), Cassidy Freeman (Actor), David Gordon Green (Director / EP), Jody Hill (Director / EP). Benediction: Ben Travers from Indiewire. ATXTV Festival and Max logos are listed, and a QR code to sign up for ATXTV’s email list.
Second photo description: furniture set up for talk back for the actors and a screen featuring John Goodman as Eli Gemstone
💎 praise be to be

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2023.06.04 23:41 InternetTraumatized Today's sermon, from an Orthodox church

Every Sunday, or whenever it is possible, I give a recap of the sermon I heard at church today. I often alternate between Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches.
Today's readings:
Numbers 11:16-17,24-29

The Lord said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.” So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again. But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!” Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”

Joel 2:23-32

Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you—the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame. And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the remnant whom the Lord calls.”

John 20:19-31

The same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

Acts 2:1-11

When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.”

John 7:37-52; 8:12

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” So there was a division among the people because of Him. Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him. Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?” The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them, “Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?” They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Today is the feast of Pentecost, and the end of the Paschal season which covers Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost. It is the culmination of the event of the resurrection.
In an earlier sermon we discussed why we say specifically “Christ is risen,” and not “Jesus is risen.” We said that it is unremarkable for a man named Jesus, or for instance Lazarus, to be resurrected; as we saw with the latter, this was only a resuscitation to life which still ended up again in death. It is a resurrection to earthly life. But to say Christ is risen has another implication altogether: resurrection to heavenly life.
By His resurrection Jesus teaches us three lessons. Let's review them.
First: Jesus rose from the dead with our very flesh. By His rising from the dead, which is our rising from the dead, Jesus demonstrates the inherent dignity of the human being, which not even death can keep confined. He demonstrates this further by His apparition to Thomas, displaying His very human wounds in His risen body, and by His glorious ascension to the right hand of God by which man is given his place right at the side of God. By His resurrection, Jesus displays the design of God for mankind: to elevate us above everything else.
Second: Jesus puts our humanity above the angels. Indeed, the angels were made to serve not only God but also man. See how the angels advised Abraham (in Genesis 18), saved Lot from Sodom (in Genesis 19), and guided Tobias (in Tobit). As stated in Hebrews 2:5-18, the world was not made to be ruled by angels, but to be ruled by human beings, which Jesus Christ fulfilled in His person. However, Lucifer, the devil, did not accept this, and inflamed himself with pride and revolted because he refused to serve man.
Third: “Christ” means the Messiah, the One sent by God Whom the Jews expected, and today still expect; our belief that the Christ has come as Jesus may be the only thing differenciating us from them, they who are our elder brothers in the faith. To say the One sent by God is risen is to say that God's promise, incarnated and recapitulated in this person, never dies; it remains with us forever, nothing can keep it away from us. This is why, during the Divine Liturgy, we answer to each other “Christ is in our midst—He is and ever shall be.” The Ascension does not contradict this: it is not the farewell of Jesus, but on the contrary the pledge of His everlasting presence. It is the fulfillment of His words in His last discourse (John 16:7): “If I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.”
The Gospel of John often speaks of the Paraclete, which is translated as the Helper but also means the Advocate, Defender, Intercessor. Jesus calls Him the Spirit of Truth. He is the mean by which His words after His resurrection will come true (Matthew 28:20): “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” The coming of the Holy Spirit is the permanent presence of Jesus with us. As He also told the Apostles (John 14:16-17): “I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”
Therefore the Lord sends us His Holy Spirit and remains with us forever, not in His physical presence but in His spiritual presence. Led and empowered and accompanied by Him, nothing is required of us, except for one thing: to know the Spirit. St. Seraphim of Sarov taught plainly that the aim of the Christian life is nothing else but the acquisition and intimate knowledge of the Holy Spirit. To this end, let us at least pray daily, morning and evening, from Pentecost to Easter, this prayer which during that time opens all our prayers: “Heavenly King, Comforter, the Spirit of truth, everywhere present and filling all things, Treasury of blessings and Giver of Life, come and dwell in us; cleanse us of every stain and save our souls, gracious One.” Let us also always keep everyday in ourselves the promise of Jesus' enduring and permanent presence in and with us, which becomes a fountain of joy and vivifying comfort and consolation for our troubles. Amen.

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2023.06.04 23:41 InternetTraumatized Today's sermon, from an Orthodox church

The Lord said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.” So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again. But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!” Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”

Joel 2:23-32

Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you—the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame. And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the remnant whom the Lord calls.”

John 20:19-31

The same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

Acts 2:1-11

When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.”

John 7:37-52; 8:12

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” So there was a division among the people because of Him. Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him. Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?” The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them, “Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?” They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

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2023.06.04 15:56 wdmcarth Daily Bullpen Usage: 06/04/23

Last updated: 06/04/23 09:56:33 EST

LEGEND

Note	Description
Italics	Pitched previous day or twice in last 3 days.
~~Strikethrough~~	Pitched back to back days.
Bold	Recent transaction.
^L3:##	Number of pitches thrown in last 3 days.
***	SP first start.
**	SP yet to reach 5.0 innings in a game.
*	SP yet to surpass 6.0 innings in a game.

BULLPEN USAGE

Team	Opp	SP	CL	SU8	SU7	MID	LR
ARI	ATL	Zac Gallen	Miguel Castro^L3:15, Andrew Chafin		Scott McGough	Austin Adams^L3:15, Kyle Nelson^L3:19, José Ruiz^L3:12, Kevin Ginkel^L3:23	Drey Jameson^L3:45
ATL	@ARI	Michael Soroka*	Raisel Iglesias^L3:11	Nick Anderson^L3:11	Collin McHugh^L3:7	A.J. Minter, Jesse Chavez^L3:24, Joe Jiménez, Kirby Yates	AJ Smith-Shawver
BAL	@SFG	Tyler Wells	Félix Bautista^L3:16	Yennier Cano^L3:19	Bryan Baker^L3:15	Mike Baumann, Cionel Pérez^L3:11, Keegan Akin^L3:24, Austin Voth	Bruce Zimmermann^L3:28
BOS	TBR	Tanner Houck	Kenley Jansen^L3:56	Chris Martin^L3:30	Josh Winckowski^L3:32	Kutter Crawford^L3:40, Joely Rodríguez, Justin Garza^L3:45, Ryan Sherriff^L3:43, Brennan Bernardino^L3:36	Nick Pivetta^L3:15
CHC	@SDP	Marcus Stroman	Mark Leiter Jr.^L3:13, Adbert Alzolay^L3:6	Michael Fulmer^L3:24	Brandon Hughes^L3:13	Jeremiah Estrada^L3:25, Julian Merryweather^L3:16, Javier Assad	Hayden Wesneski
CHW	DET	Michael Kopech	~~Kendall Graveman^L3:21~~	Joe Kelly^L3:24	~~Reynaldo López^L3:32~~	~~Keynan Middleton^L3:17~~, Liam Hendriks^L3:17, Aaron Bummer, Gregory Santos^L3:12	Garrett Crochet
CIN	MIL	Ben Lively*	Alexis Díaz^L3:13	Buck Farmer^L3:6	Ian Gibaut^L3:8	Lucas Sims^L3:14, Alex Young^L3:16, Fernando Cruz^L3:23, Eduardo Salazar^L3:39	Kevin Herget^L3:56
CLE	@MIN	Triston McKenzie***	Emmanuel Clase^L3:15	James Karinchak^L3:21	Trevor Stephan^L3:17	Eli Morgan^L3:15, Enyel De Los Santos^L3:14, Sam Hentges^L3:12, Nick Sandlin^L3:41, Michael Kelly	Xzavion Curry
COL	@KCR	Kyle Freeland	~~Justin Lawrence^L3:31~~	Pierce Johnson^L3:21	Jake Bird^L3:49	Brent Suter^L3:25, Daniel Bard^L3:25, Brad Hand^L3:47, Matt Carasiti^L3:33	Peter Lambert
DET	@CHW	Matthew Boyd*	Alex Lange^L3:15	Jason Foley^L3:15	Will Vest^L3:13	José Cisnero^L3:16, Chasen Shreve^L3:13, Tyler Holton, Mason Englert^L3:21	Tyler Alexander
HOU	LAA	J.P. France	Ryan Pressly^L3:32	Bryan Abreu^L3:36	Hector Neris^L3:37	Rafael Montero^L3:31, Phil Maton^L3:25, Ryne Stanek^L3:27	Seth Martinez
KCR	COL	Brady Singer*	Scott Barlow^L3:14	Aroldis Chapman	Taylor Clarke^L3:18	Josh Staumont^L3:26, Carlos Hernández^L3:28, Jose Cuas^L3:18, Nick Wittgren^L3:30, Jackson Kowar^L3:23	Mike Mayers
LAA	@HOU	Griffin Canning	Carlos Estévez	Chris Devenski	Jacob Webb^L3:26	Ben Joyce^L3:41, Aaron Loup^L3:22, Sam Bachman^L3:38, José Soriano^L3:12	Tucker Davidson
LAD	NYY	Bobby Miller*	Evan Phillips, Brusdar Graterol, Caleb Ferguson			Yency Almonte^L3:14, Shelby Miller^L3:11, Victor González^L3:5, Alex Vesia^L3:8	Tayler Scott^L3:32
MIA	OAK	Sandy Alcantara	Dylan Floro	Tanner Scott^L3:19	Huascar Brazoban	Steven Okert^L3:13, JT Chargois^L3:18, Andrew Nardi^L3:13, George Soriano^L3:61	Bryan Hoeing^L3:34
MIL	@CIN	Adrian Houser*	~~Devin Williams^L3:40~~	Peter Strzelecki^L3:14	Joel Payamps^L3:18	Hoby Milner, Elvis Peguero^L3:39, Trevor Megill^L3:48, Jake Cousins^L3:11, Jake Cousins^L3:11	~~Bryse Wilson^L3:41~~
MIN	CLE	Joe Ryan	Jhoan Duran^L3:26	Brock Stewart^L3:15	Jorge López^L3:31	Emilio Pagán^L3:37, ~~Jovani Moran^L3:32~~, Griffin Jax^L3:12, Cole Sands	José De León
NYM	TOR	Kodai Senga	David Robertson^L3:28, Adam Ottavino^L3:17		Brooks Raley^L3:29	Drew Smith^L3:8, Jeff Brigham^L3:30, Dominic Leone^L3:9, Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek	Josh Walker
NYY	@LAD	Domingo Germán	Clay Holmes^L3:16, Michael King^L3:33, Wandy Peralta^L3:9			Ron Marinaccio, Albert Abreu^L3:17, Tommy Kahnle^L3:29, Jimmy Cordero	Nick Ramirez
OAK	@MIA	Paul Blackburn**	Trevor May^L3:8	Shintaro Fujinami^L3:19	Sam Moll^L3:5	Richard Lovelady^L3:20, Lucas Erceg^L3:47, Austin Pruitt^L3:23, Sam Long^L3:39	Ken Waldichuk
PHI	@WSN	Ranger Suárez	Craig Kimbrel^L3:23	Seranthony Domínguez^L3:10	Matt Strahm^L3:63	Gregory Soto^L3:29, Connor Brogdon^L3:19, Jeff Hoffman^L3:23, ~~Andrew Vasquez^L3:42~~, ~~Yunior Marte^L3:27~~	Dylan Covey^L3:27
PIT	STL	Rich Hill	~~David Bednar^L3:31~~	~~Colin Holderman^L3:45~~	Dauri Moreta^L3:20	Jose Hernandez^L3:15, ~~Yohan Ramirez^L3:11~~, Yerry De Los Santos^L3:16, Angel Perdomo^L3:33	Rob Zastryzny^L3:22
SDP	CHC	Ryan Weathers*	Josh Hader	Nick Martinez^L3:14	Steven Wilson^L3:26	Tim Hill^L3:14, Tom Cosgrove^L3:33, Brent Honeywell^L3:15, Domingo Tapia	Drew Carlton^L3:23
SEA	@TEX	Bryce Miller	Paul Sewald	Justin Topa	Trevor Gott	Matt Brash^L3:15, Gabe Speier^L3:9, Tayler Saucedo^L3:39, Matt Festa^L3:23	Chris Flexen^L3:51
SFG	BAL	Anthony DeSclafani	Camilo Doval^L3:13	Tyler Rogers^L3:9	John Brebbia^L3:11	Taylor Rogers, Scott Alexander^L3:2, Ryan Walker, Luke Jackson, Jakob Junis	Sean Manaea
STL	@PIT	Miles Mikolas	Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos^L3:20	Jordan Hicks^L3:9	Andre Pallante^L3:17	Génesis Cabrera^L3:17, Drew VerHagen, Chris Stratton^L3:13	Steven Matz^L3:23
TBR	@BOS	Taj Bradley*	Jason Adam^L3:14, Colin Poche^L3:25, Kevin Kelly^L3:4, Jalen Beeks^L3:37			Robert Stephenson^L3:7, Jake Diekman, Shawn Armstrong, Calvin Faucher^L3:15	Cooper Criswell^L3:28
TEX	SEA	Nathan Eovaldi	Will Smith^L3:7	Grant Anderson^L3:14	Brock Burke	José Leclerc^L3:35, Jonathan Hernández, Josh Sborz^L3:21, Cole Ragans^L3:14	John King^L3:30
TOR	@NYM	Yusei Kikuchi	Jordan Romano^L3:22	Erik Swanson^L3:34	Nate Pearson^L3:16	Tim Mayza^L3:6, Trevor Richards^L3:16, Adam Cimber, Yimi García, Anthony Bass	Jay Jackson
WSN	PHI	Trevor Williams*	Kyle Finnegan^L3:34, Hunter Harvey^L3:16		Carl Edwards Jr.^L3:20	Andrés Machado, Mason Thompson^L3:11, Chad Kuhl^L3:24, Erasmo Ramírez^L3:18	Thaddeus Ward

TRANSACTIONS

Date	Team	Player	Category	Description
6/3	LAA	José Soriano	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/3	BOS	Brennan Bernardino	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors (27th man)
6/3	BOS	Brennan Bernardino	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors (27th man)
6/3	NYY	Nick Ramirez	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/3	TBR	Shawn Armstrong	INJURIES	Activated from 60-Day IL
6/3	TBR	Cooper Criswell	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors (27th man)
6/3	TOR	Jay Jackson	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/3	LAD	Tayler Scott	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/3	PIT	Yerry De Los Santos	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/3	PIT	Angel Perdomo	PROMOTION	Contract selected from minors

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2023.06.04 06:48 NoMobile7426 The Messiah must be from the Tribe of Judah and a Descendant of King David AND King Solomon, not Jeconiah, through his human biological father Genesis 49:10, 2 Samuel 7:12-14; 1 Chronicles 17:11-14, 22:9-10, 28:4-6; Jeremiah 23:5, 33:17; Jeremiah 22:30, 36:30, Psalm 89:35-37.

Genealogy in the Bible is only passed down from father to son Numbers 1:1-18. Jesus did not have this genealogy, he didn't have a birth father from the Tribe of Judah, in the line from King David and Solomon, not Jeconiah. He had a virgin birth according to Matthew and Luke. And even if he didn't have virgin birth neither genealogy in Matthew 1 or Luke 3 can produce a King to be the Messiah. In Luke 3 the genealogy doesn't go through Solomon as required and in Matthew 1 the genealogy is rejected because it goes though Jeconiah.

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2023.06.04 05:02 UnDead_Ted Standing Strong Through the Storm Day 71

06/03/2023

BE NOT AFRAID

I sought the Lord and he answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4
The one positive fear that the Bible endorses is the fear of God. Wise Solomon said fearing God is the beginning of wisdom. It was Oswald Chambers who added, “The remarkable thing about fearing God is that, when you fear God, you fear nothing else; whereas, if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”
In Eritrea, Helen Berhane was frequently tortured during her almost three years in the shipping container prison. In spite of that she had no fear. Once when interrogated for teaching the Bible to the guards outside her cell, she replied:
“I am always looking for opportunities to talk about my faith and to spread the news about Jesus. I am not ashamed of the gospel and I will talk to anyone and to everyone. Jesus does not just want me to tell the prisoners about him, he wants me to tell the guards too. Even if the president were to visit the prison, I would tell him about the gospel.
“I am not afraid of you. You can do what you want to me, but ultimately all you can do is kill my body, you cannot touch my soul. You cannot even kill me unless it is God’s will that I should die.”
Her persecutors had no answer and returned her to her shipping container.
David Aikman writes in his book Great Souls about the personal life of Pope John Paul II—especially his personal prayer life. When he became pope in 1978, the result of all that personal prayer was evident in his inaugural sermon. “Be not afraid!” he said.
He recognized that fear is a sin because it denies the sovereignty of God. And he recognized that as a leader of a large Church, and unwaveringly opposed to the powerful communist empire, he had to give people the courage to resist evil.
And courageous he was. When he saw Russian tanks poised to invade Poland, the Pope announced he would go and stand with his people if the Soviets crossed the border. The Soviet tanks did not move.
The Pope knew he might face assassination—and indeed, someone did try to assassinate him—yet he continued to tell the world, “Be not afraid.”
RESPONSE: Today I will live in the fear of God so that I will not fear anything or anyone else.
PRAYER: Pray that all Christians in fearful situations today will have the attitude of trust in the Lord and not fear for their lives.

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2023.06.03 21:58 clarence_the_cat Blood Meridian / For Reverend Green

Asking this question for the small subset of Animal Collective fans who are also into Cormac McCarthy…. does the song “For Reverend Green” have anything to do with the character Reverend Green in Blood Meridian (i.e. the preacher who is delivering a sermon that’s interrupted by The Judge in the first chapter or two of the book)?
Honestly not sure what the connection would be — as the lyrics in For Reverend Green seem kinda nonsensical — but I don’t know of any other noteworthy Reverend Greens, and it seems plausible enough (I think?) that David Portner would’ve read Blood Meridian. Thoughts?

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2023.06.03 21:17 nuggetsofchicken TLC contracts with Mad Studios from SHP Documentary

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2023.06.03 15:48 wdmcarth Daily Bullpen Usage: 06/03/23

Last updated: 06/03/23 09:48:13 EST

LEGEND

Note	Description
Italics	Pitched previous day or twice in last 3 days.
~~Strikethrough~~	Pitched back to back days.
Bold	Recent transaction.
^L3:##	Number of pitches thrown in last 3 days.
***	SP first start.
**	SP yet to reach 5.0 innings in a game.
*	SP yet to surpass 6.0 innings in a game.

BULLPEN USAGE

Team	Opp	SP	CL	SU8	SU7	MID	LR
ARI	ATL	Ryne Nelson*	Miguel Castro^L3:15, Andrew Chafin		Scott McGough	Austin Adams^L3:35, Kyle Nelson^L3:19, José Ruiz^L3:23, Kevin Ginkel^L3:12	Drey Jameson
ATL	@ARI	Spencer Strider	Raisel Iglesias^L3:6	Nick Anderson^L3:12	Collin McHugh^L3:7	A.J. Minter^L3:13, Jesse Chavez^L3:3, Joe Jiménez, Kirby Yates	AJ Smith-Shawver
BAL	@SFG	Kyle Bradish	Félix Bautista^L3:16	Yennier Cano^L3:19	Bryan Baker^L3:25	Mike Baumann^L3:32, Danny Coulombe^L3:27, Cionel Pérez^L3:23, Keegan Akin^L3:25, Austin Voth^L3:58	Bruce Zimmermann
BOS	TBR (2)	Garrett Whitlock, Kutter Crawford	Kenley Jansen^L3:13	Chris Martin^L3:31	Josh Winckowski^L3:40	Kutter Crawford^L3:24, Joely Rodríguez, Justin Garza^L3:19, Ryan Sherriff	Nick Pivetta^L3:28
CHC	@SDP	Drew Smyly	Mark Leiter Jr.^L3:27, Adbert Alzolay^L3:21	Michael Fulmer^L3:4	Brandon Hughes^L3:13	Jeremiah Estrada, Julian Merryweather^L3:39, Javier Assad	Hayden Wesneski^L3:59
CHW	DET	Dylan Cease	Kendall Graveman^L3:15	Joe Kelly^L3:24	Reynaldo López^L3:18	Keynan Middleton^L3:9, Aaron Bummer, Liam Hendriks, Gregory Santos	Garrett Crochet^L3:27
CIN	MIL	Graham Ashcraft	Alexis Díaz^L3:13	Buck Farmer^L3:22	Ian Gibaut^L3:18	Lucas Sims^L3:42, Alex Young^L3:34, Fernando Cruz^L3:23, Eduardo Salazar	Kevin Herget^L3:29
CLE	@MIN	Logan Allen	Emmanuel Clase^L3:9	James Karinchak^L3:7	Trevor Stephan^L3:37	Eli Morgan^L3:15, Enyel De Los Santos^L3:13, Sam Hentges^L3:33, ~~Nick Sandlin^L3:41~~, Hunter Gaddis^L3:14	Xzavion Curry^L3:21
COL	@KCR	Austin Gomber	Pierce Johnson^L3:21	~~Justin Lawrence^L3:16~~	Jake Bird^L3:37	Brent Suter^L3:44, Daniel Bard^L3:25, Brad Hand^L3:21, Matt Carasiti	Peter Lambert^L3:59
DET	@CHW	Michael Lorenzen	Alex Lange^L3:21	Jason Foley^L3:22	Will Vest^L3:32	José Cisnero, Chasen Shreve^L3:33, Tyler Holton, Mason Englert^L3:21	Tyler Alexander
HOU	LAA	Cristian Javier	Ryan Pressly^L3:13	~~Bryan Abreu^L3:36~~	Hector Neris^L3:15	Ryne Stanek^L3:10, Phil Maton^L3:25, Rafael Montero^L3:18	Seth Martinez^L3:43
KCR	COL	Daniel Lynch*	Scott Barlow	Aroldis Chapman	Taylor Clarke^L3:18	Josh Staumont, Carlos Hernández^L3:28, Jose Cuas^L3:18, Nick Wittgren^L3:30, Jackson Kowar	Mike Mayers
LAA	@HOU	Patrick Sandoval	Carlos Estévez	Chris Devenski	Jacob Webb^L3:30	Ben Joyce^L3:10, Aaron Loup^L3:22, Chase Silseth^L3:39, Sam Bachman	Tucker Davidson^L3:54
LAD	NYY	Michael Grove*	Evan Phillips, Brusdar Graterol^L3:16, Caleb Ferguson^L3:14			Yency Almonte^L3:14, Shelby Miller, Victor González, Alex Vesia^L3:13, Justin Bruihl	Phil Bickford^L3:37
MIA	OAK	Eury Pérez*	Dylan Floro	Tanner Scott^L3:19	Huascar Brazoban^L3:25	Steven Okert^L3:20, JT Chargois^L3:18, Andrew Nardi^L3:13, George Soriano	Bryan Hoeing^L3:34
MIL	@CIN	Colin Rea*	Devin Williams^L3:29	Peter Strzelecki^L3:25	Joel Payamps^L3:39	Hoby Milner, ~~Elvis Peguero^L3:39~~, Trevor Megill^L3:13, Jake Cousins, Jake Cousins	Bryse Wilson^L3:17
MIN	CLE	Sonny Gray	Jhoan Duran^L3:26	Brock Stewart^L3:28	Jorge López^L3:16	Emilio Pagán^L3:33, Jovani Moran^L3:13, Griffin Jax^L3:12, Cole Sands	José De León^L3:16
NYM	TOR	Tylor Megill*	David Robertson^L3:22, Adam Ottavino^L3:6		Brooks Raley^L3:39	~~Drew Smith^L3:8~~, ~~Jeff Brigham^L3:30~~, Dominic Leone^L3:9, Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek	Josh Walker
NYY	@LAD	Gerrit Cole	Michael King, Clay Holmes^L3:19, Wandy Peralta^L3:22			Ron Marinaccio^L3:5, Albert Abreu^L3:17, Tommy Kahnle^L3:29, Jimmy Cordero	Ryan Weber^L3:29
OAK	@MIA	Luis Medina*	Trevor May	Shintaro Fujinami^L3:19	Sam Moll^L3:5	Richard Lovelady^L3:14, Lucas Erceg, Austin Pruitt^L3:23, Sam Long^L3:26	Ken Waldichuk^L3:23
PHI	@WSN	Matt Strahm*	Craig Kimbrel^L3:12	Seranthony Domínguez^L3:16	Matt Strahm^L3:41	Gregory Soto^L3:15, Connor Brogdon^L3:19, Jeff Hoffman^L3:23, Andrew Vasquez^L3:31, Yunior Marte^L3:14	Dylan Covey
PIT	STL	Luis L. Ortiz	David Bednar^L3:17	Colin Holderman^L3:18	Dauri Moreta^L3:3	Jose Hernandez, Rob Zastryzny^L3:32, Yohan Ramirez^L3:20	Cody Bolton^L3:46
SDP	CHC	Yu Darvish	Josh Hader^L3:18	Nick Martinez^L3:15	Steven Wilson^L3:39	Tim Hill^L3:14, ~~Tom Cosgrove^L3:33~~, Brent Honeywell, Domingo Tapia	Drew Carlton^L3:23
SEA	@TEX	Bryan Woo***	Paul Sewald^L3:11	Justin Topa^L3:19	Trevor Gott	Matt Brash^L3:15, Gabe Speier^L3:9, Tayler Saucedo, Matt Festa	Chris Flexen
SFG	BAL	Anthony DeSclafani	Camilo Doval^L3:19	Tyler Rogers^L3:22	John Brebbia^L3:11	Taylor Rogers, Scott Alexander, Ryan Walker^L3:17, Luke Jackson^L3:11, Jakob Junis	Sean Manaea
STL	@PIT	Jordan Montgomery	Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos^L3:20	Jordan Hicks	Andre Pallante^L3:17	Génesis Cabrera^L3:17, Drew VerHagen, Chris Stratton	Steven Matz
TBR	@BOS (2)	Trevor Kelley, Tyler Glasnow	Jason Adam^L3:24, Colin Poche^L3:12, Kevin Kelly^L3:16, Jalen Beeks^L3:13			Jake Diekman, Calvin Faucher, Trevor Kelley	Joe La Sorsa
TEX	SEA	Andrew Heaney	Will Smith^L3:7	Grant Anderson^L3:14	Brock Burke^L3:33	José Leclerc^L3:11, Jonathan Hernández^L3:6, Josh Sborz, Cole Ragans	John King
TOR	@NYM	José Berríos	~~Jordan Romano^L3:22~~	Erik Swanson^L3:18	Nate Pearson	Tim Mayza^L3:25, Trevor Richards^L3:25, Adam Cimber^L3:19, Yimi García	Anthony Bass^L3:18
WSN	PHI	MacKenzie Gore	Kyle Finnegan^L3:58, Hunter Harvey^L3:50		Carl Edwards Jr.^L3:42	Andrés Machado, Mason Thompson^L3:11, Chad Kuhl, Erasmo Ramírez	Thaddeus Ward

TRANSACTIONS

Date	Team	Player	Category	Description
6/2	BAL	Bruce Zimmermann	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/2	KCR	Jackson Kowar	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors
6/2	MIA	George Soriano	PROMOTION	Recalled from minors

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2023.06.03 14:09 DishevelledDeccas The Poverty of Christian Voluntarism

(Pun intended)
*** Effort Post ***
Whenever the topic of socialism or welfare comes up in Christian circles, the notion of Christian voluntarism is quick to follow. What is this Christian voluntarism? It is the idea that national welfare should be based on voluntary charity by the church, not the state. This idea seems to have influence in George Bush’s Compassionate Conservatism, and also to a lesser degree in David Cameron’s Big Society.
Two defenses of the concept are in “The Tragedy of American Compassion” by Marvin Olasky, and “Christian Charity vs Government Welfare” by Thomas Johnson[1]. In truth, elements of the idea itself has subtlety become accepted by a very many Christians, and is present in general Christian apologetics on economics (see bibliography). It must be noted that the proponents of the idea rarely embrace the term Christian Voluntarism[2], which seems to be rather a function of how generally accepted and non-sequitur the idea seems to be.
The theology behind Christian Voluntarism
Sadly, many of the texts linked do not have a strong theological basis; they are largely historical defenses for the idea (See Olasky 2008 and Johnson 1970). Thus, a strongman of their theology must rely on those aforementioned Christian apologetic sources rather substantially (see bibliography). Also, thanks to u/Laojac who provided a strongman here.
Christian voluntarism is fundamentally reliant on the charity practiced by the early Christian Church. We know that people in the church shared their property with each other and cared for each other; Acts 2:44-45, Acts 4:32-37. We know they were commanded to care for their families, alongside the poor, and that there were fundraising efforts to send money over to people in need in the church (1 Tim 5:3,8, Galatians 2:10, Hebrews 13:2-3, 2 Corinthians 8-9). Christian Voluntarism takes this model for charity and attempts to nationalize it is a welfare system, for charity. It uses a few methods to support this.
First, it argues that bible tells us that giving should be voluntary. 2 Corinthians 8-9, and especially 2 Corinthians 9:7, exhort voluntary charity, not done under compulsion. Ergo, the state should not require taxation to fund welfare. Whilst the online tracts do not go much further than this, there is an interesting way that this can be extrapolated further. The particular significance of this verse, interestingly enough, is it is one of the key verses to refute the requirement of tithing. Tithing existed under the wholistic economic system of the old testament that did have many rather radical economic policies; the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee, etc. So to call in this verse against the requirement of taxation does provide a rather big challenge; this new idea of caring in the new testament is not a system of governance, like in the old testament, with taxes and regulations. It is a system guided by the holy spirit, whereby people voluntarily care for those around them. The requirement for people to care for families in 1 timothy 5 would definitely fall into this.
Second, it fundamentally ties welfare to work. To quote 2 Thessalonians 3:10 - “those who do not work shall not eat”. This can be taken in the more obvious sense of “there is no such thing as a free lunch” – people need to work to provide for a living, but for the Christian voluntarists, it is taken as a command of a mutual obligation – those who do not try to work shall not get welfare. (Olasky 2008, p 9-10). Unsurprisingly, this is where ideas of “deserving” and “undeserving poor” come from worthy (Olasky 2008, p 11-12). This also forms what welfare should look like – Welfare has a purpose to help people make a living for themselves (Olasky 2008, p 25, 29). But specifically, in practice it also means that those who don’t want to work should be excluded from welfare (Olasky 2008, p 12, 29, 228). Christian voluntarist tracts argue further that welfare itself is corrupting in that it enables backwardness and degeneracy to exist, encouraging laziness and the breakdown of families (for example, Olasky 2008, p xi -xvii, 222).
Third, supporting this is the argument that Biblical notions of property are explicitly in favor of Liberal private property. This is the belief that the owner of property, can do whatever they want with their property. This starts with an appeal to Exodus 20:15,17 as examples of OT Justifications for private property. It points to the various points in the bible that recognize private ownership. To reference a few; Genesis 4:4, Micah 4:4, Acts 5:4. A very notable verse is Mathew 20:15; “Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?” – taking this statement at face value would suggest Jesus is very much in favour of liberal private property rights. The whole conclusion of this that people have the right to do with their property what they want. The most immediate implication is the government cannot seize property - This is used against the threat of state socialism.
The Problems with this theology
Of course, we need to recognize that the Bible doesn’t tell Christians to take over the state and implement a welfare state. The fact is that the bible doesn’t prescribe a structure for economic justice in the broader national community. But similarly, this means the bible doesn’t prescribe the Church as being the welfare system of the broader national community. There is a legitimate question about how to pursuing economic justice in light of biblical commands and examples, and the description of the New Testament church (Acts 2:42-47, Acts 4:34-35) exists to show us what economic justice should look like in Christian communities specifically. However, it is a significant stretch to argue that this decentralised system of churches providing welfare is what the bible prescribes as the only legitimate national welfare system.
NT Christian communities were not set up to be a welfare system for the Roman state. They were examples of model Christian communities that we can look to guide us in holy living. They did exist as an alternate perception of economic justice to Old Testament Israel’s state-embedded system, certainly. However, this alternative state was for a few reasons; First Old Testament Israel was a sacrificial system, one that was no longer needed after Christ’s death and resurrection (Heb 10:1-18). Second, Old Testament Israel was a theocratic state, that would make a people for God who would be outwardly different from all around them (Deut 28:9-10). However, Christ did not come to establish a kingdom of this world (John 18:36), instead a people who would follow him due to their changed heart (John 18:36, John 3:5-8). The nullification of the theocratic state of Israel was not a rejection of the state’s interference in economic policy. Rather, it was a recognition that the theocratic state had fulfilled its soteriological and eschatological purpose.
With this context out of the way, we can refute the specific justifications of the voluntarists; The first, 2 Corinthians 9:7, which tells us that giving should be voluntary, not under compulsion, was in a specific letter given to a specific community responding to a crisis at the time. To transform it into a condemnation of state taxation for welfare is a substantial stretch. Paul made clear that it was also a test; he would not command this church to give charity but wanted to know the sincerity of their love, by comparing how much they gave compared to other churches (2 Corinthians 8:8-9).
He was not laying down a law about the state. Nothing in the passage suggests that the state cannot provide welfare. Nothing in the passage suggests that the state cannot demand taxation. Indeed, bible does not reject compulsion in terms of taxation as Christians are exhorted to pay their taxes (Mark 12:13-17; Rom 13:6-7). Contextually, the Christian Voluntarist must also grapple with the absence of a condemnation of the grain dole of Rome, both within this passage and within the broader New Testament. Now, one could argue that if the state gets involved in welfare then the sincerity of Christian love has failed – but that is a very different argument, an argument that needs to grapple with both the fallen nature of humanity, and the social implications of democracy. Nevertheless, the passage at hand does not refute state taxation or state provision of welfare.
Moving to the second justification – that, welfare should be tied to work. This specific passage, 2 Thessalonians 3:10, occurs within a context where there are believers who are “idle and disruptive” (v 6, 11) and who are “not busy; they are busybodies”. They are commanded to settle down and eat (v 12). To use this passage to encourage Christians to work is good. It is not the purpose of the passage to be used for a model of how a welfare state works. Unlike 2 Cor 9:7, which is deliberately misused by Christians to deny welfare to others – this passage can be used to form a welfare state system. Like Acts 4:32 for the Socialists, and 1 Corinthians 14:12-26 for the Corporatists, 2 Thessalonians 3:10 seems quite able to be derived to justify a political policy. However, to declare that 2 Thessalonians 3:10 necessitates a policy program on welfare is misguided – it was a teaching for a particular church at a particular time. The practical considerations of this particular section will get further treatment further on.
The final argument that the bible prescribes liberal private property. This argument has lies that it conceals in truths. Fundamentally, the bible does recognize property rights. It recognizes that we can own property and have liberty in using that property. However, the bible also recognizes two other things; First, that we are not the absolute owners of that property. God is the absolute owner of everything, not humanity (1 Cor 10:26; Psalm 24:1; Deut 10:14). The second is that any property we have, we steward for God; we are not allowed to use property for whatever purpose we deem fit. The OT system has a variety of restrictions on how we can use property, much of which existed for economic justice. There were prohibitions on taking interest (Leviticus 26:36-37); Gleaning laws that mean restricted the amount of produce farmers could get from their own harvest, requiring they leave some to the poor (Lev 19:9-10; Deut 24:19-21). Furthermore, there are the radical redistribution policies with the Sabbatical year and year of jubilee (Leviticus 25:1-7, 8-55). The commandment to not steal was situated within these verses about responsibilities, something noted by Both Catholics and Reformed Christians (See the Catholic Catechism, Westminster Larger Catechism and Heidelberg Catechism). The New Testament similar has a variety of commands about how to use property; (Luke 6:30, 1 John 3:17, 1 Tim 5:8, 6:17-18).
There is one verse that falls outside of the above explanation; Mathew 20:15 – “Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?”. The context of the verse is that Jesus is teaching a parable. In the parable, the vineyard owner pays all his workers the same amount, no matter what they work. Parables have single purposes – the purpose of this parable is that it doesn’t matter however late you sign up to the gospel, you will still be saved. It is not a parable with prescriptions on wage payments. It is not a parable with prescriptions on private property.
Fundamentally, there is no biblical prescription against the state establishment of a welfare state. This, in itself, does not disqualify Christian voluntarism as an idea; rather it means that advocating Christian voluntarism requires making a different argument – that the Christian voluntarist form of welfare is the best form of welfare.
The Economics of a Christian Voluntarist welfare state
Gøsta Esping-Andersen’s seminal work “The Three Worlds of welfare Capitalism”, divides welfare states into three ideal types; “Liberal”, “Conservative” and “Social Democratic”. Of these, Christian Voluntarism is closest to the “Liberal” ideal type which is found in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. A liberal welfare state is one that aims to encourage the pursuit of employment, and so the state will provide as little as possible (Esping-Andersen 1990, p. 42). Means testing and mutual obligation is often used to minimize the states ways to welfare provision. Those who cannot rely on government support must rely on charity (Esping-Andersen 1990, p. 26-27).
Christian Voluntarism is essentially a Christian defense for the “Liberal” welfare state. However it does far more, because in practice it would mean the undermining of the liberal welfare state. The Christian voluntarist would tear down the last vestiges of a state led system so that people instead rely on Charity. They would attempt to further liberalize an already liberal system. The practical implications of this are that even a state led system that incorporates the principles of the “deserving and undeserving” poor, alongside the mutual obligations of “those who don’t work don’t eat”, are too much for the Christian Voluntarist.
This system fails both quantitatively and qualitatively. It fails quantitatively because a welfare state based on charity cannot support the entire population. Welfare encompasses old age, unemployment, workplace injuries, permanent disabilities and more. The amount of money needed to organise such a welfare system is unachievable by charities (Green 2017). Reviews of “The Tragedy of American compassion” point out that the historical charitable system championed did not provide welfare for all – it was very geographically dependent (Hammack, 1996, p 261-262).
This system also fails qualitatively. One would think that a Christian voluntarist would see that charity and welfare are symptoms of economic greater problems, and addressing those greater problems would reduce the burdens on charity.[3] But Christian Voluntarists don’t address the issues which lead people to need charity. Unaffordable healthcare and involuntary unemployment are two clear examples of structural economic problems; the former due to the various oligopolies that exist throughout the healthcare system, which is unsurprising given it is a market with high start-up costs, and the latter often due a deficiency in demand. The solutions to these factors require substantial economic reform by means of regulation and government spending, which is antithetical to the Christian Voluntarist ideal. Christian voluntarists are not advocating for these solutions to reduce the burden on charities.
Two further addendums need to be added to this analysis. The first is that there are flaws with regards to the policy derivatives of 2 Thessalonians 3:10. The idea of an undeserving poor has lead to many problems – for example this group has historically included beggars and criminals (Schmalz 2017). The definition of who is undeserving will inevitably both include and exclude people who may need help. Olasky, for example, includes Alcoholics and Drug Addicts as part of his ‘undeserving poor’ (p. 227-228), when, in truth, these groups could quite easily be seen as the most needing of support – albeit in a more compressive form then mere cash handout. The principle of mutual obligations behind this need to be thought through. Interestingly enough, the gleaning system in the OT seems to be a system that follows this idea; welfare is there, but people have to work to get it. This principles behind this are also evident in a full employment policy in the modern era. However, today’s governments generally prefer of “mutual obligations” for welfare, or forms of workfare instead. In the context where workers outnumber jobs these programs essentially act as punitive “full employment policy”.
The second is the Christian voluntarist claim that any welfare system should be orientated towards public morality alongside economic justice. This is a fair claim, and frankly welfare systems must be cautiously constructed with consideration of economic justice, and also the moral fabric of society. Here the example of the ideal type of the Conservative welfare state (historically found in found in Germany, Belgium and Austria), can be drawn upon. This welfare state, for example, is constructed with the family in mind (Esping-Andersen 1990, p. 27). It also relies largely on decentralised system of welfare provision that incorporate religious providers (Esping-Andersen 1990, p. 27). Even with the focus on the moral fabric of society, other factors must also come into play; The conservative welfare state benefits married couples over singles; what does this mean for the economic situation of single mothers? Such a welfare system needs to counterbalance the social fabric of society with it’s economic needs.
To Conclude
Theologically, the claims of Christian Voluntarism do not stand up; there is not set biblical principle about the state’s involvement in welfare provision. Economically, the Christian Voluntarists fail to appreciate the quantitative size of charitable provision needed to match the welfare state, nor do they deal with the structural issues facing the economy.
Fundamentally, I am not a Christian Socialist. I do not believe that the descriptions of Christian communities in Acts can be described as socialist – I may write another piece like this later on. I’m not coming from a liberal, modernist or progressive Christian perspective. Rather I’m annoyed that Conservative Christians have accepted the claims of liberal economies and tried to make a more liberalized welfare system based on a misguided claim about following the Bible.
[1] The specific defense provided by Johnson is explicitly voluntarist, in that it draws on voluntarism as a philosophy. It is also Pelagian and so should be rejected; “Any Christian who does not openly and vehemently denounce all forms of government welfare, cannot, in truth, call himself a Christian, for government welfare is the antithesis of Christian charity.” - this is clearly heresy.
[2] Indeed, the term only seems to appear in online Christian Forums. However, Academics do describe this idea as voluntarist, and it is a Christian defense of Voluntarism, so terming the idea “Christian Voluntarism” is apt.
[3] This was the approach of the founder of the St Vincent De Paul society, Frederic Ozanam. He was an economics lecturer and argued that charity was insufficient to change the situation – what was needed was a change to the relationship between workers and capital (Moody 1953, p 129).
Bibliography
General:
Green, E., 2017. The Voluntarism Fantasy, Democracy A Journal of Ideas, viewed 22 October 2022, https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/32/the-voluntarism-fantasy/
Konczal, M., 2014. Can Religious Charities Take the Place of the Welfare State?, The Atlantic, viewed 22 October 2022, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/budget-religion/520605/
Schmalz, M., 2017. Taxing the rich to help the poor? Here’s what the Bible says, The conversation, viewed 3 June 3, 2023 https://theconversation.com/taxing-the-rich-to-help-the-poor-heres-what-the-bible-says-88627
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Christian Voluntarism & Compassionate Conservatism:
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2023.06.03 12:00 milb_bot 06/02/2023 Daily Minor League Hitter Standouts

Yesterday's Standout Hitters

^stats ^for ^games ^since ^04/24/2023

AAA Standouts

Masyn Winn 2/6 2B K SB -- [SS, 21, INT - STL] - [F] [T] .282 BA .358 OBP .141 ISO 142 AB 5 HR 4 SB 9 BB% 14 K%
Luis Matos 2/5 2B -- [LF, 21, PCL - SF] - [F] [T] .377 BA .419 OBP .145 ISO 69 AB 1 HR 4 SB 6 BB% 6 K%
🔥 Elly De La Cruz 2/4 HR BB -- [SS, 21, INT - CIN] - [F] [T] .319 BA .421 OBP .370 ISO 138 AB 12 HR 11 SB 14 BB% 25 K%
Brayan Rocchio 1/5 BB 2 SB -- [SS, 22, INT - CLE] - [F] [T] .310 BA .386 OBP .159 ISO 113 AB 1 HR 5 SB 11 BB% 13 K%
Vaughn Grissom 4/6 2B K -- [2B, 22, INT - ATL] - [F] [T] .303 BA .386 OBP .135 ISO 89 AB 1 HR 3 SB 9 BB% 14 K%
Osleivis Basabe 2/4 2B 3B -- [2B, 22, INT - TB] - [F] [T] .323 BA .407 OBP .111 ISO 99 AB 1 HR 6 SB 11 BB% 17 K%
Jordan Diaz 2/4 HR BB -- [DH, 22, PCL - OAK] - [F] [T] .375 BA .444 OBP .312 ISO 32 AB 3 HR 11 BB% 11 K%
Raynel Delgado 2/3 2BB -- [3B, 23, INT - CLE] - [F] [T] .259 BA .351 OBP .099 ISO 81 AB 1 HR 2 SB 12 BB% 23 K%
Bo Naylor 1/3 HR 3BB -- [C, 23, INT - CLE] - [F] [T] .259 BA .400 OBP .250 ISO 108 AB 6 HR 19 BB% 15 K%
Michael Siani 2/3 HR BB K -- [CF, 23, INT - CIN] - [F] [T] .220 BA .320 OBP .150 ISO 127 AB 5 HR 8 SB 12 BB% 27 K%
Canaan Smith-Njigba 2/5 2B HR K -- [DH, 24, INT - PIT] - [F] [T] .250 BA .333 OBP .326 ISO 92 AB 7 HR 3 SB 10 BB% 31 K%
Miguel Amaya 2/3 3BB -- [C, 24, INT - CHC] - [F] [T] .312 BA .450 OBP .167 ISO 48 AB 1 HR 18 BB% 23 K%
Yonathan Perlaza 3/6 3 2B 2K SB -- [LF, 24, INT - CHC] - [F] [T] .323 BA .427 OBP .253 ISO 99 AB 3 HR 5 SB 14 BB% 23 K%
Dermis Garcia 3/3 HR BB -- [1B, 25, PCL - OAK] - [F] [T] .296 BA .370 OBP .296 ISO 81 AB 7 HR 3 SB 9 BB% 27 K%
Spencer Horwitz 3/4 2 2B BB -- [LF, 25, INT - TOR] - [F] [T] .360 BA .461 OBP .105 ISO 114 AB 1 HR 1 SB 15 BB% 17 K%
Jerar Encarnacion 1/3 HR BB K SB -- [DH, 25, INT - MIA] - [F] [T] .214 BA .335 OBP .229 ISO 131 AB 8 HR 1 SB 15 BB% 34 K%
Daniel Schneemann 1/3 HR 3BB -- [SS, 26, INT - CLE] - [F] [T] .296 BA .407 OBP .211 ISO 71 AB 3 HR 4 SB 16 BB% 19 K%

AA Standouts

🔥 Jackson Chourio 2/4 BB SB -- [CF, 19, SOU - MIL] - [F] [T] .254 BA .314 OBP .139 ISO 122 AB 4 HR 10 SB 7 BB% 21 K%
Hector Nieves 1/3 2B -- [2B, 19, TEX - HOU] - [F] [T] .150 BA .174 OBP .050 ISO 20 AB 4 BB% 39 K%
Junior Caminero 2/4 K -- [SS, 19, SOU - TB] - [F] [T] .222 BA .222 OBP .056 ISO 18 AB 0 BB% 22 K%
Jeferson Quero 2/4 2B BB K -- [C, 20, SOU - MIL] - [F] [T] .282 BA .322 OBP .300 ISO 110 AB 9 HR 1 SB 5 BB% 21 K%
David Calabrese 1/4 HR BB 2K -- [LF, 20, SOU - LAA] - [F] [T] .226 BA .321 OBP .217 ISO 115 AB 5 HR 4 SB 11 BB% 32 K%
James Wood 1/4 2B BB 2K -- [RF, 20, EAS - WSH] - [F] [T] .190 BA .261 OBP .190 ISO 21 AB 1 HR 8 BB% 39 K%
Thomas Saggese 1/5 HR 2K -- [3B, 21, TEX - TEX] - [F] [T] .328 BA .387 OBP .164 ISO 134 AB 4 HR 5 SB 7 BB% 22 K%
Pete Crow-Armstrong 0/2 3BB 2K SB -- [DH, 21, SOU - CHC] - [F] [T] .248 BA .325 OBP .171 ISO 105 AB 4 HR 6 SB 8 BB% 22 K%
Coby Mayo 1/2 2B 2BB -- [3B, 21, EAS - BAL] - [F] [T] .301 BA .420 OBP .248 ISO 113 AB 4 HR 15 BB% 26 K%
Kyren Paris 1/3 2B 2BB SB -- [2B, 21, SOU - LAA] - [F] [T] .250 BA .387 OBP .190 ISO 116 AB 6 HR 13 SB 16 BB% 33 K%
Colt Keith 1/3 HR BB K -- [3B, 21, EAS - DET] - [F] [T] .309 BA .386 OBP .260 ISO 123 AB 7 HR 1 SB 10 BB% 22 K%
Robert Hassell III 2/4 BB K SB -- [CF, 21, EAS - WSH] - [F] [T] .272 BA .377 OBP .078 ISO 103 AB 2 SB 14 BB% 28 K%
Jorbit Vivas 2/4 2B BB -- [2B, 22, TEX - LAD] - [F] [T] .231 BA .349 OBP .058 ISO 121 AB 1 HR 7 SB 6 BB% 7 K%
Jose Ramos 2/4 BB 2 SB -- [CF, 22, TEX - LAD] - [F] [T] .244 BA .364 OBP .227 ISO 119 AB 8 HR 5 SB 13 BB% 27 K%
Ceddanne Rafaela 3/4 HR K SB -- [CF, 22, EAS - BOS] - [F] [T] .276 BA .319 OBP .163 ISO 123 AB 4 HR 16 SB 5 BB% 16 K%
Zach Dezenzo 2/4 HR K 2 SB -- [3B, 23, TEX - HOU] - [F] [T] .333 BA .448 OBP .208 ISO 24 AB 1 HR 5 SB 10 BB% 20 K%
Jeremiah Jackson 2/5 3 SB -- [SS, 23, SOU - LAA] - [F] [T] .304 BA .364 OBP .112 ISO 125 AB 3 HR 13 SB 9 BB% 23 K%
Caleb Durbin 2/4 HR SB -- [2B, 23, EAS - NYY] - [F] [T] .269 BA .355 OBP .119 ISO 67 AB 1 HR 11 SB 9 BB% 2 K%
Damiano Palmegiani 2/3 HR BB -- [3B, 23, EAS - TOR] - [F] [T] .288 BA .365 OBP .261 ISO 111 AB 7 HR 2 SB 10 BB% 20 K%
Korey Holland 1/2 3BB SB -- [CF, 23, EAS - CLE] - [F] [T] .340 BA .468 OBP .200 ISO 50 AB 2 HR 2 SB 17 BB% 27 K%
Wes Clarke 1/2 HR 2BB -- [1B, 23, SOU - MIL] - [F] [T] .230 BA .370 OBP .230 ISO 87 AB 4 HR 1 SB 15 BB% 30 K%
Yoyner Fajardo 2/4 BB 2 SB -- [RF, 24, TEX - MIN] - [F] [T] .336 BA .390 OBP .112 ISO 125 AB 1 HR 11 SB 7 BB% 12 K%
Braxton Fulford 2/3 HR BB SB -- [C, 24, EAS - COL] - [F] [T] .286 BA .375 OBP .429 ISO 7 AB 1 HR 1 SB 12 BB% 37 K%
Brandon McIlwain 3/4 2B HR -- [LF, 25, EAS - NYM] - [F] [T] .274 BA .369 OBP .113 ISO 106 AB 2 HR 4 SB 11 BB% 18 K%
Daniel Johnson 3/3 2BB 3 SB -- [CF, 27, TEX - SD] - [F] [T] .294 BA .350 OBP .101 ISO 109 AB 2 HR 7 SB 8 BB% 15 K%

A+ Standouts

Jackson Holliday 1/5 2B K SB -- [SS, 19, SAL - BAL] - [F] [T] .352 BA .478 OBP .250 ISO 108 AB 4 HR 10 SB 18 BB% 20 K%
🔥 Edwin Arroyo 3/4 2B SB -- [SS, 19, MID - CIN] - [F] [T] .217 BA .261 OBP .132 ISO 129 AB 3 HR 6 SB 5 BB% 18 K%
T.J. White 1/3 2BB K -- [1B, 19, SAL - WSH] - [F] [T] .171 BA .281 OBP .171 ISO 82 AB 4 HR 13 BB% 33 K%
🔥🔥 Ryan Clifford 3/5 2 HR BB 2K -- [LF, 19, SAL - HOU] - [F] [T] .208 BA .275 OBP .236 ISO 72 AB 5 HR 1 SB 7 BB% 31 K%
Carter Jensen 2/4 2B 2BB 2K -- [DH, 19, MID - KC] - [F] [T] .198 BA .397 OBP .160 ISO 106 AB 3 HR 5 SB 24 BB% 20 K%
Carson Williams 1/3 3B BB K -- [SS, 19, SAL - TB] - [F] [T] .270 BA .387 OBP .258 ISO 89 AB 4 HR 5 SB 11 BB% 27 K%
Jackson Merrill 3/4 2B SB -- [SS, 20, MID - SD] - [F] [T] .296 BA .328 OBP .130 ISO 115 AB 2 HR 4 SB 4 BB% 15 K%
🔥🔥 Blaze Jordan 3/4 2B HR BB -- [DH, 20, SAL - BOS] - [F] [T] .346 BA .381 OBP .228 ISO 127 AB 6 HR 1 SB 6 BB% 11 K%
Wilfred Veras 4/5 SB -- [RF, 20, SAL - CWS] - [F] [T] .318 BA .343 OBP .129 ISO 132 AB 1 HR 11 SB 3 BB% 25 K%
🔥 Arol Vera 2/4 2B HR BB -- [SS, 20, NWL - LAA] - [F] [T] .262 BA .324 OBP .111 ISO 126 AB 3 HR 3 SB 6 BB% 26 K%
Kala'i Rosario 2/4 HR K -- [RF, 20, MID - MIN] - [F] [T] .322 BA .437 OBP .263 ISO 118 AB 7 HR 1 SB 14 BB% 26 K%
Dayan Frias 2/2 HR -- [SS, 20, MID - CLE] - [F] [T] .304 BA .407 OBP .145 ISO 69 AB 2 HR 3 SB 15 BB% 15 K%
Eduardo Lopez 4/5 2 2B -- [CF, 21, SAL - BOS] - [F] [T] .329 BA .383 OBP .153 ISO 85 AB 2 HR 7 SB 8 BB% 18 K%
Miguel Palma 3/5 HR -- [C, 21, SAL - HOU] - [F] [T] .309 BA .361 OBP .191 ISO 94 AB 5 HR 1 SB 8 BB% 19 K%
Jorge Burgos 2/3 HR BB -- [RF, 21, MID - CLE] - [F] [T] .240 BA .363 OBP .163 ISO 104 AB 3 HR 14 BB% 20 K%
Loidel Chapelli 2/4 BB SB -- [2B, 21, SAL - CWS] - [F] [T] .220 BA .351 OBP .138 ISO 109 AB 2 HR 7 SB 14 BB% 21 K%
Austin Callahan 2/4 2B 3B K -- [3B, 21, MID - CIN] - [F] [T] .256 BA .323 OBP .182 ISO 121 AB 1 HR 2 SB 8 BB% 24 K%
Brock Jones 2/3 2B HR -- [CF, 22, SAL - TB] - [F] [T] .239 BA .265 OBP .109 ISO 46 AB 1 HR 1 SB 2 BB% 34 K%
D'Shawn Knowles 3/3 2B 2BB SB -- [CF, 22, NWL - LAA] - [F] [T] .186 BA .270 OBP .071 ISO 113 AB 5 SB 10 BB% 30 K%
Viandel Pena 2/5 3B SB -- [2B, 22, SAL - WSH] - [F] [T] .276 BA .427 OBP .103 ISO 87 AB 7 SB 19 BB% 24 K%
Jace Jung 2/3 HR BB -- [2B, 22, MID - DET] - [F] [T] .248 BA .362 OBP .220 ISO 109 AB 6 HR 13 BB% 24 K%
Javier Vaz 2/4 3B 2BB -- [LF, 22, MID - KC] - [F] [T] .323 BA .387 OBP .228 ISO 127 AB 4 HR 9 SB 9 BB% 7 K%
Mateo Gil 2/5 HR -- [2B, 22, SAL - NYM] - [F] [T] .182 BA .267 OBP .273 ISO 77 AB 5 HR 9 BB% 20 K%
Joe Gray Jr. 2/4 HR BB K SB -- [CF, 23, MID - MIL] - [F] [T] .200 BA .253 OBP .200 ISO 75 AB 4 HR 3 SB 4 BB% 26 K%
Ryan Wrobleski 2/4 HR BB K SB -- [RF, 23, SAL - HOU] - [F] [T] .323 BA .377 OBP .290 ISO 62 AB 3 HR 4 SB 7 BB% 28 K%
Ismael Alcantara 2/3 3B HR BB SB -- [RF, 24, MID - LAD] - [F] [T] .227 BA .314 OBP .147 ISO 75 AB 2 HR 8 SB 10 BB% 24 K%

A Standouts

Ethan Salas 0/3 2BB 2K -- [DH, 17, CAL - SD] - [F] [T] .364 BA .588 OBP .091 ISO 11 AB 35 BB% 29 K%
Nelson Rada 0/2 BB -- [CF, 17, CAL - LAA] - [F] [T] .269 BA .406 OBP .028 ISO 108 AB 16 SB 15 BB% 17 K%
Luis Lara 1/3 BB -- [CF, 18, CAR - MIL] - [F] [T] .280 BA .397 OBP .050 ISO 100 AB 1 HR 7 SB 14 BB% 9 K%
Samuel Basallo 2/5 HR 2K -- [C, 18, CAR - BAL] - [F] [T] .275 BA .328 OBP .138 ISO 109 AB 2 HR 1 SB 6 BB% 20 K%
Gleider Figuereo 1/3 2B BB K -- [3B, 18, CAR - TEX] - [F] [T] .228 BA .311 OBP .098 ISO 92 AB 2 HR 2 SB 11 BB% 27 K%
Tommy Specht 1/2 2BB SB -- [DH, 18, CAR - TEX] - [F] [T] .417 BA .533 OBP .167 ISO 12 AB 1 SB 20 BB% 13 K%
Manuel Beltre 1/2 2BB -- [2B, 18, FSL - TOR] - [F] [T] .223 BA .318 OBP .074 ISO 94 AB 1 HR 1 SB 11 BB% 17 K%
Termarr Johnson 1/5 HR 2K -- [2B, 18, FSL - PIT] - [F] [T] .258 BA .405 OBP .124 ISO 89 AB 2 HR 2 SB 18 BB% 35 K%
Gregory Barrios 1/4 3B -- [DH, 19, CAR - MIL] - [F] [T] .252 BA .322 OBP .039 ISO 103 AB 6 SB 8 BB% 10 K%
Shalin Polanco 2/3 HR BB K -- [LF, 19, FSL - PIT] - [F] [T] .228 BA .288 OBP .237 ISO 114 AB 7 HR 4 SB 7 BB% 31 K%
Bryan Rincon 1/2 2B BB SB -- [SS, 19, FSL - PHI] - [F] [T] .270 BA .402 OBP .236 ISO 89 AB 4 HR 4 SB 16 BB% 25 K%
Armando Cruz 0/2 2BB SB -- [SS, 19, CAR - WSH] - [F] [T] .172 BA .287 OBP .046 ISO 87 AB 3 SB 13 BB% 18 K%
Xavier Isaac 1/4 HR 2K -- [1B, 19, CAR - TB] - [F] [T] .237 BA .420 OBP .254 ISO 59 AB 4 HR 1 SB 20 BB% 17 K%
Jesus Galiz 1/2 2B BB -- [C, 19, CAL - LAD] - [F] [T] .255 BA .324 OBP .106 ISO 94 AB 1 HR 2 SB 8 BB% 24 K%
Yeison Morrobel 3/4 2 SB -- [CF, 19, CAR - TEX] - [F] [T] .351 BA .429 OBP .054 ISO 74 AB 1 HR 8 SB 11 BB% 21 K%
Sal Stewart 3/3 BB -- [DH, 19, FSL - CIN] - [F] [T] .227 BA .367 OBP .031 ISO 97 AB 3 SB 17 BB% 15 K%
Kevin Villavicencio 3/3 2B -- [2B, 19, FSL - NYM] - [F] [T] .268 BA .321 OBP .052 ISO 97 AB 5 SB 7 BB% 21 K%
Carlos Colmenarez 2/4 2B HR BB 2K -- [2B, 19, CAR - TB] - [F] [T] .281 BA .397 OBP .140 ISO 57 AB 2 HR 2 SB 14 BB% 32 K%
Rafael Cruz 1/2 3B 2BB -- [SS, 19, FSL - MIN] - [F] [T] .172 BA .246 OBP .224 ISO 58 AB 2 HR 1 SB 6 BB% 35 K%
Jett Williams 2/3 HR BB -- [DH, 19, FSL - NYM] - [F] [T] .205 BA .371 OBP .096 ISO 73 AB 1 HR 11 SB 16 BB% 24 K%
Diego Velasquez 1/1 2BB -- [2B, 19, CAL - SF] - [F] [T] .353 BA .454 OBP .086 ISO 116 AB 1 HR 6 SB 10 BB% 12 K%
Rayne Doncon 3/4 2B K -- [SS, 19, CAL - LAD] - [F] [T] .254 BA .327 OBP .217 ISO 138 AB 7 HR 1 SB 7 BB% 21 K%
Won-Bin Cho 2/3 BB -- [RF, 19, FSL - STL] - [F] [T] .309 BA .412 OBP .072 ISO 97 AB 1 HR 8 SB 14 BB% 21 K%
Johnny Ascanio 2/4 2B -- [2B, 19, FSL - CIN] - [F] [T] .400 BA .400 OBP .150 ISO 20 AB 0 BB% 10 K%
🔥🔥 Gavin Conticello 3/4 HR BB SB -- [1B, 19, CAL - ARI] - [F] [T] .175 BA .274 OBP .107 ISO 103 AB 2 HR 3 SB 10 BB% 23 K%
Cameron Cauley 2/4 HR 2K -- [SS, 20, CAR - TEX] - [F] [T] .310 BA .369 OBP .180 ISO 100 AB 3 HR 11 SB 9 BB% 32 K%
Sandro Gaston 2/4 2B K SB -- [C, 20, CAR - HOU] - [F] [T] .153 BA .217 OBP .102 ISO 98 AB 1 HR 3 SB 7 BB% 28 K%
Enmanuel Terrero 4/5 2B K -- [RF, 20, FSL - PIT] - [F] [T] .287 BA .389 OBP .074 ISO 108 AB 1 HR 7 SB 13 BB% 24 K%
Junior Tilien 1/3 HR BB K -- [2B, 20, FSL - NYM] - [F] [T] .209 BA .290 OBP .118 ISO 110 AB 2 HR 10 BB% 20 K%
Jared Serna 3/3 2BB -- [SS, 21, FSL - NYY] - [F] [T] .341 BA .394 OBP .240 ISO 129 AB 8 HR 8 SB 8 BB% 16 K%
Jesus Rodriguez 3/4 3B -- [1B, 21, FSL - NYY] - [F] [T] .289 BA .359 OBP .120 ISO 83 AB 1 HR 4 SB 9 BB% 16 K%
Gabe Moncada 1/2 2B 3BB -- [1B, 21, CAL - SEA] - [F] [T] .224 BA .311 OBP .147 ISO 116 AB 4 HR 11 BB% 29 K%
Isaac Bellony 4/5 3B K -- [CF, 21, CAR - BAL] - [F] [T] .500 BA .550 OBP .333 ISO 18 AB 10 BB% 20 K%
Ethan Workinger 3/4 HR -- [CF, 21, CAR - ATL] - [F] [T] .286 BA .362 OBP .246 ISO 126 AB 7 HR 3 SB 9 BB% 18 K%
Kyle Nevin 2/4 2B HR K -- [3B, 21, CAL - LAD] - [F] [T] .265 BA .321 OBP .245 ISO 49 AB 2 HR 7 BB% 22 K%

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2023.06.03 06:09 serioustransition10 The identity of the male staffer

In Shiny Happy People, one of the survivors talked about an incident where Gothard took her into an office to assault her behind closed doors. However the attempt was aborted because they walked in on a male staffer who Gothard did not expect to be present.
Did anyone else get the impression that the identity of that male staffer was David Waller? The story is consistent with the allegation that came out last year from another IBLP survivor, who called out David for standing by while Gothard assaulted his victims the next room over.
I’m surprised that the documentary did not mention that Pest’s brother-in-law was also the director of ATI….he is directly responsible for the homeschooling curriculum that was discussed in the documentary. I hope that if there’s a sequel, David role’s as ATI director and his personal relationships are investigated more thoroughly. I think there are a ton of skeletons yet to be discovered, unfortunately.
As an aside - as the documentary talked about the role of a fundie wife and a bit about the Pest-Anna marriage, David’s marriage to Priscilla (Anna’s sister) also skeeves me out. A man who literally wrote the book on victim blaming (in his capacity as director of ATI) and with a history of defending high profile sexual predators (both Gothard and Pest) isn’t good for anyone, but he especially shouldn’t be with a woman who self reports cognitive disabilities. People with disabilities are at higher risk of sexual violence than people without. Here is a recent sermon where he uses the r-slur to describe cognitively disabled people and how he likes them because they’re unquestioningly joyful…..yikes.

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2023.06.03 04:03 Historical_Gear_7295 Dealing With Depression Dr. David Jeremiah Job 3:1-26

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2023.06.02 21:49 No_Personality_361 The Meta Problem of Consciousness (New Argument)

I have a brand new argument for God. I think this may be one of the strongest arguments I have seen yet. It's not directly about consciousness itself but specifically about David Chalmer's "Meta problem" of consciousness. (I wrote this out for an acquaintance, thought I would adapt it for reddit and get your guys opinions, apologies if its argumentative).
I would like to start off by saying that I think it’s completely possible there is an atheist/materialist answer for consciousness. This argument does not require me to say otherwise.
Before I say my argument let’s first establish consciousness. Im using the philosophical definition of consciousness. Consciousness is your qualia/experience. It's sometimes referred to as “the hard problem of consciousness”, the problem is why do we experience qualia?
My favorite example of qualia, is that we can see and visualize the color red. But red does not exist. How do you build something that experiences and visualizes red?
I can build a machine that outputs photons of that wavelength. I can even build something that inputs and labels photons of that wavelength.
But we do not know how to build something that visualizes red. Yet I do, I can double check this by staring at red.
Regardless of what your explanation for this phenomenon is, we can agree that there is indeed a question of how do we recreate my ability to experience and visualize red. That question is the hard problem of consciousness.
A second way to explain consciousness, is Thomas Nagel’s question “What is it like to be a bat?”. The question I like to ask is “What is it like to be an iphone?” I can program (happiness == 20) into an iphone. So why to the average person, does Thomas’s question make sense but my question seems silly?
Thats because people believe bats experience qualia while iphones do not. What does an iPhone need so that it is indeed “like” something to be an iPhone. Why is it “like” something to be a bat but not an iphone? That is the hard problem of consciousness.
The third way to perhaps explain it is, imagine a sleepwalking human. Some people are such good sleepwalkers that you can’t even tell they’re sleep walking. You can even hold conversations with them. But they aren’t experiencing that conversation. What if I revealed to you I’ve been sleepwalking my entire life, but function the exact same an normal human being. The only difference would then be consciousness.
The main question is why doesn’t everything just happen in the dark?
I also don’t think it’s sufficient to just say consciousness is an illusion. An illusion requires a perception to begin with. And the fact that we have a perception at all is the hard problem here.
Consciousness is the actually the only thing I can truly be sure exists
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Now that we have established consciousness exists let's establish an important characteristic of consciousness. (The argument is after this section, this just sets it up).
We can observe the brain. Everything going on within a brain follows physics.
There is no unexplainable force observed in the brain. And if you look for one, you likely won’t find it.
The brain doesn’t require such a thing to function.
I like to use the analogy of dominos to represent your brain. Theoretically it would be possible to build a mechanical supercomputer out of dominos, then “upload” your brain to this structure. Whether its technically possible isnt important. Its just an analogy to remind everyone that brains are really just complex chain reactions that follow physics.
Atheists will tell you that qualia/consciousness is an emergent property. That your qualia/experience of red emerges from the domino set and its chain reactions processes. I’m not going to disagree with that.
But it must be acknowledged, that whether or not consciousness emerges from my domino structure.
Those dominos are going to fall the exact same way, because like your brain, these dominos follow our current understanding of physics.
This means that consciousness has no physical impact, that it is a detached byproduct. Consciousness cannot change the physics of dominos or your brain.
The domino structures that cause consciousness may be important. But if consciousness/qualia itself did not exist, everything would still function fine. All the dominos would still fall the exact same way. Everything in a brain would still follow physics.
If the brain truly did have an unexplainable force affecting it, religious people would never stop bringing it up in debate: “we’ve discovered the soul”. I thinks it’s safe to say we have discovered no such thing.
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Now for the actual argument: Even if we say that there are atheist answers for consciousness/qualia, there’s still a massive issue.
What did my domino setup/brain just do for you? My body was physically setup to rant about how it’s experiencing this consciousness/qualia phenomenon. Then it also turns out that I actually am experiencing a consciousness/qualia phenomenon.
That is a coincidence that cannot be reconciled by atheists.
Consciousness/qualia can’t have physical impact and can’t rewire your bodies beliefs. There are a lot of possible random beliefs I could have happen to had, but for some reason the obscure belief I come built-in with, just happens to be correct.
There are three possible answers to this:

it really is just a massive coincidence
Consciousness only comes to those physically setup with the obscure belief that they are experiencing a consciousness phenomenon

3. Intentional design (The one that I think is the most likely)
If you really meditate on the first 2 options you figure out that they are really bad answers. They have really bad implications and mechanics.
Addressing option 1: Even if we give atheists the absolute best case scenario: “Oh maybe everything in the universe is conscious” and “perhaps there is evolutionary incentive to have this random belief”. (people will somehow justify anything as evolutionarily advantageous)
You still at the end of the day believe that it’s just one massive coincidence that the “evolutionarily advantageous” belief just so happens to be true.
Because in an alternate universe where consciousness/qualia doesn’t exist, my dominos would fall the exact same way and would still store this specific random belief of qualia. Its crazy that there just so happens to be this “magic-like” qualia phenomenon to actually match it, and make my otherwise wrong belief, true. (And this is assuming that it indeed is evolutionarily advantageous)
At some point when you see dream luck, you point out that it’s not luck.
Addressing option 2: The second atheist option is just as bad. You believe that if a human didn't have the obscure underlying belief of qualia that they wouldn't actually experience qualia like pain or red, that they are “forever a sleepwalking robot”. In addition to this the consciousness phenomenon would somehow need a mechanism to "tell" whether or not a domino structure is setup with the underlying qualia belief.
At some point I must acknowledge that intentional design is the most likely answer here. That God intentionally gave the belief of consciousness/qualia to match the provided consciousness/soul.
Read some of the gospel. I think it’s safe to say that I’m dying a Christian. I recommend giving a church sermon a try.

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2023.06.02 15:20 wdmcarth Daily Bullpen Usage: 06/02/23

Last updated: 06/02/23 09:06:59 EST

LEGEND

Note	Description
Italics	Pitched previous day or twice in last 3 days.
~~Strikethrough~~	Pitched back to back days.
Bold	Recent transaction.
^L3:##	Number of pitches thrown in last 3 days.
***	SP first start.
**	SP yet to reach 5.0 innings in a game.
*	SP yet to surpass 6.0 innings in a game.

BULLPEN USAGE

Team	Opp	SP	CL	SU8	SU7	MID	LR
ARI	ATL	Merrill Kelly	Miguel Castro, Andrew Chafin		Scott McGough^L3:40	Austin Adams^L3:20, Kyle Nelson^L3:19, ~~José Ruiz^L3:23~~, Kevin Ginkel^L3:35	Drey Jameson
ATL	@ARI	Charlie Morton	Raisel Iglesias^L3:27	Nick Anderson^L3:12	Collin McHugh	A.J. Minter^L3:17, Jesse Chavez^L3:3, Joe Jiménez, Kirby Yates	AJ Smith-Shawver
BAL	@SFG	Dean Kremer	Félix Bautista^L3:14	Yennier Cano^L3:17	Bryan Baker^L3:39	Mike Baumann^L3:32, Danny Coulombe^L3:32, Mychal Givens^L3:15, Cionel Pérez^L3:23, Keegan Akin^L3:25	Austin Voth^L3:58
BOS	TBR	Garrett Whitlock	Kenley Jansen^L3:13	~~Chris Martin^L3:31~~	~~Josh Winckowski^L3:40~~	Kutter Crawford^L3:24, Joely Rodríguez^L3:36, Justin Garza^L3:60, Ryan Sherriff^L3:31	~~Nick Pivetta^L3:28~~
CHC	@SDP	Jameson Taillon*	Mark Leiter Jr.^L3:27, Adbert Alzolay^L3:35	Michael Fulmer^L3:4	Brandon Hughes	Jeremiah Estrada, Julian Merryweather^L3:37, Javier Assad	Hayden Wesneski^L3:59
CHW	DET	Mike Clevinger*	Liam Hendriks, Kendall Graveman^L3:26	Joe Kelly	Reynaldo López^L3:33	Keynan Middleton, Aaron Bummer^L3:14, Gregory Santos, Garrett Crochet^L3:27	Jesse Scholtens^L3:65
CIN	MIL	Brandon Williamson*	Alexis Díaz^L3:12	Buck Farmer^L3:28	~~Ian Gibaut^L3:18~~	Lucas Sims^L3:28, Alex Young^L3:22, Fernando Cruz^L3:17, Eduardo Salazar^L3:26	Kevin Herget^L3:29
CLE	@MIN	Aaron Civale	Emmanuel Clase^L3:21	James Karinchak^L3:18	~~Trevor Stephan^L3:37~~	Eli Morgan^L3:25, Enyel De Los Santos^L3:13, Sam Hentges^L3:39, Nick Sandlin^L3:14, Hunter Gaddis	Xzavion Curry^L3:21
COL	@KCR	Chase Anderson*	Pierce Johnson^L3:21	Justin Lawrence^L3:11	~~Jake Bird^L3:37~~	Brent Suter^L3:19, Daniel Bard^L3:18, Brad Hand^L3:21, Matt Carasiti	Peter Lambert^L3:59
DET	@CHW	Reese Olson***	Alex Lange^L3:21	Jason Foley^L3:22	Will Vest^L3:19	José Cisnero^L3:13, Chasen Shreve^L3:20, Tyler Holton^L3:38, Mason Englert	Tyler Alexander
HOU	LAA	Framber Valdez	Ryan Pressly^L3:13	Bryan Abreu^L3:15	Hector Neris^L3:15	Ryne Stanek^L3:27, Phil Maton^L3:30, Rafael Montero^L3:33	Seth Martinez^L3:43
KCR	COL	Jordan Lyles	Scott Barlow	Aroldis Chapman^L3:22	Taylor Clarke	Josh Staumont, Amir Garrett, Carlos Hernández^L3:21, Jose Cuas^L3:7, Nick Wittgren^L3:4	Mike Mayers
LAA	@HOU	Shohei Ohtani	Carlos Estévez	Chris Devenski	~~Jacob Webb^L3:30~~	Ben Joyce^L3:10, Aaron Loup^L3:36, Chase Silseth^L3:36, Sam Bachman^L3:11	Tucker Davidson^L3:54
LAD	NYY	Clayton Kershaw	Evan Phillips^L3:14, Brusdar Graterol^L3:16, Caleb Ferguson^L3:14			Yency Almonte, Shelby Miller, Victor González, Alex Vesia^L3:32, Justin Bruihl^L3:15	Phil Bickford^L3:11
MIA	OAK	Edward Cabrera*	Dylan Floro^L3:17	Tanner Scott^L3:21	Huascar Brazoban^L3:25	Steven Okert^L3:20, JT Chargois^L3:14, Andrew Nardi^L3:4, Matt Barnes^L3:27	Bryan Hoeing^L3:48
MIL	@CIN	Corbin Burnes	Devin Williams^L3:15	Peter Strzelecki^L3:11	Joel Payamps^L3:21	Hoby Milner^L3:13, Elvis Peguero^L3:23, Trevor Megill^L3:13, Jake Cousins^L3:16, Jake Cousins^L3:16	Bryse Wilson^L3:15
MIN	CLE	Bailey Ober	Jhoan Duran	Brock Stewart^L3:13	Jorge López^L3:16	Emilio Pagán^L3:33, Jovani Moran^L3:1, Griffin Jax^L3:20, Cole Sands^L3:48	José De León^L3:16
NYM	TOR	Justin Verlander	David Robertson^L3:38, Adam Ottavino^L3:18		~~Brooks Raley^L3:39~~	Drew Smith^L3:1, Jeff Brigham^L3:15, Dominic Leone, Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek	Josh Walker
NYY	@LAD	Luis Severino	Michael King^L3:36, Clay Holmes^L3:19, Wandy Peralta^L3:22			Ron Marinaccio^L3:5, Albert Abreu, Tommy Kahnle, Jimmy Cordero	Ryan Weber^L3:16
OAK	@MIA	Shintaro Fujinami*	Trevor May	Shintaro Fujinami^L3:4	Sam Moll^L3:11	Richard Lovelady^L3:14, Lucas Erceg, Austin Pruitt^L3:20, Sam Long^L3:26	Ken Waldichuk^L3:23
PHI	@WSN	Zack Wheeler	Craig Kimbrel^L3:12	Seranthony Domínguez^L3:16	Matt Strahm^L3:41	Gregory Soto^L3:15, Connor Brogdon^L3:6, Jeff Hoffman, Andrew Vasquez^L3:9, Yunior Marte^L3:19	Dylan Covey
PIT	STL	Roansy Contreras	David Bednar^L3:15	Colin Holderman^L3:16	Dauri Moreta^L3:24	Robert Stephenson^L3:15, Jose Hernandez^L3:9, Rob Zastryzny^L3:10, Yohan Ramirez^L3:17	Cody Bolton
SDP	CHC	Michael Wacha	Josh Hader^L3:18	Nick Martinez^L3:28	Steven Wilson^L3:34	Tim Hill^L3:17, Tom Cosgrove^L3:16, Brent Honeywell^L3:14, Domingo Tapia^L3:25	Drew Carlton^L3:23
SEA	@TEX	Luis Castillo	Paul Sewald^L3:11	Justin Topa^L3:19	Trevor Gott^L3:10	Matt Brash, Gabe Speier, Tayler Saucedo^L3:12, Matt Festa	Chris Flexen
SFG	BAL	Logan Webb	Camilo Doval^L3:19	Tyler Rogers^L3:13	John Brebbia^L3:15	Taylor Rogers^L3:15, Scott Alexander^L3:16, Ryan Walker^L3:29, Luke Jackson^L3:11, Jakob Junis^L3:28	Sean Manaea^L3:53
STL	@PIT	Jack Flaherty	Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos^L3:17	Jordan Hicks	Andre Pallante	Génesis Cabrera, Drew VerHagen, Chris Stratton	Steven Matz
TBR	@BOS	Tyler Glasnow**	Jason Adam^L3:24, Colin Poche^L3:12, Kevin Kelly^L3:16, Jalen Beeks^L3:13			Jake Diekman^L3:12, Calvin Faucher^L3:16, Trevor Kelley^L3:11	Joe La Sorsa
TEX	SEA	Jon Gray	Will Smith^L3:8	Brock Burke^L3:33	José Leclerc^L3:11	Jonathan Hernández^L3:6, Josh Sborz, Cole Ragans^L3:10, Grant Anderson^L3:46	John King
TOR	@NYM	Chris Bassitt	Jordan Romano^L3:12	Erik Swanson^L3:18	Nate Pearson^L3:25	Tim Mayza^L3:21, Trevor Richards^L3:25, Adam Cimber^L3:35, Yimi García^L3:8	Anthony Bass^L3:18
WSN	PHI	Josiah Gray	Kyle Finnegan^L3:24, Hunter Harvey^L3:34		Carl Edwards Jr.^L3:22	Andrés Machado^L3:23, Mason Thompson^L3:14, Chad Kuhl, Erasmo Ramírez	Thaddeus Ward

TRANSACTIONS

Date	Team	Player	Category	Description
6/1	NYY	Tommy Kahnle	INJURIES	Activated from 60-Day IL

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2023.06.02 10:34 Cautious-Radio7870 Why I, as a Christian Biblically Support Israel

As a Christian I believe the Jewish people are still the people he chose to bless the world through. Jewish people are temporarily blind to the gospel but they will come to believe. The scripture is clear on this

"The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, 24 “Have you noticed what people are saying?—‘The Lord chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them!’ They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a nation. 25 But this is what the Lord says: I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that govern night and day, earth and sky. 26 I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant, or change the plan that David’s descendants will rule the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore them to their land and have mercy on them.” " - Jeremiah 33:23-26 NLT

As the scripture says above, as long as the laws that allow day and night to exist are there he will never eternally cast off Israel.
Paul the Apostle speaks extensively on Israel's redemption in Romans 11.

"I ask, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of Israel? Of course not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin." - Romans 11:1 NLT

Paul further goes on to say

"Did God’s people stumble and fall beyond recovery? Of course not! They were disobedient, so God made salvation available to the Gentiles. But he wanted his own people to become jealous and claim it for themselves. 12 Now if the Gentiles were enriched because the people of Israel turned down God’s offer of salvation, think how much greater a blessing the world will share when they finally accept it. 13 I am saying all this especially for you Gentiles. God has appointed me as the apostle to the Gentiles. I stress this, 14 for I want somehow to make the people of Israel jealous of what you Gentiles have, so I might save some of them. 15 For since their rejection meant that God offered salvation to the rest of the world, their acceptance will be even more wonderful. It will be life for those who were dead!" - Romans 11:11-15

You might say "but Israel has been broken off and now we replace Israel". I disagree. Paul goes on to explain that we must not brag about that

"But some of these branches from Abraham’s tree—some of the people of Israel—have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now you also receive the blessing God has promised Abraham and his children, sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God’s special olive tree. 18 But you must not brag about being grafted in to replace the branches that were broken off. You are just a branch, not the root.” - Romans 11:17-18 NLT

God loves Israel and is eager to graft them back into the Olive Tree

"Notice how God is both kind and severe. He is severe toward those who disobeyed, but kind to you if you continue to trust in his kindness. But if you stop trusting, you also will be cut off. 23 And if the people of Israel turn from their unbelief, they will be grafted in again, for God has the power to graft them back into the tree. 24 You, by nature, were a branch cut from a wild olive tree. So if God was willing to do something contrary to nature by grafting you into his cultivated tree, he will be far more eager to graft the original branches back into the tree where they belong." - Romans 11:22-24 NLT

God even says in the old testament that he is bringing them back to the Land of Israel not because they earned it, but because he loves them and wanting to protect his Holy Name.

"21Then I was concerned for my holy name, on which my people brought shame among the nations. 22“Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am bringing you back, but not because you deserve it. I am doing it to protect my holy name, on which you brought shame while you were scattered among the nations. 23I will show how holy my great name is—the name on which you brought shame among the nations. And when I reveal my holiness through you before their very eyes, says the Sovereign LORD, then the nations will know that I am the LORD. 24For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land." - Ezekiel 36:21-24 NLT

Therefore pointing to Israel's flaws does not invalidate the fact that God brought them back. Someday Israel will accept their Messiah. Looking at this scripture the Jewish people need their land of Israel for the fulfillment of this prophecy

"“The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, before Jerusalem, so that the people of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah. 8 On that day the Lord will defend the people of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will be as mighty as King David! And the royal descendants will be like God, like the angel of the Lord who goes before them! 9 For on that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died. 11 The sorrow and mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be like the great mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo." - Zechariah 12:7-11 NLT

To conclude, Paul affirms that Israel will accept Jesus their Messiah

"I want you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud about yourselves. Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ. 26 And so all Israel will be saved. As the Scriptures say,
“The one who rescues will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel away from ungodliness. 27 And this is my covenant with them, that I will take away their sins.”
28 Many of the people of Israel are now enemies of the Good News, and this benefits you Gentiles. Yet they are still the people he loves because he chose their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 29 For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn." - Romans 11:25-29 NLT

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