The Quote that ended the debate.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Ja9q13GNxeQ?ra=m

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“everyone looks to some thing for their meaning in life and whatever that is becomes their supreme love. They may be living for their career, or a political cause, or a particular circle of friends and colleagues, or their family. And whatever is the object of your meaning and satisfaction ultimately controls you. You are never your own master, never actually free in the contemporary definition. Something else is always mastering you. Modern people are simply in denial about this.

… whatever is the source of your meaning and satisfaction in life is what you are worshipping, though you may not acknowledge it as such. You are not simply pursuing these things if they are what you are living for. If you are living for them, you must have them or you lose your purpose in life. If anything threatens them, you get uncontrollably anxious or angry. If anything takes them away, you can lose the very will to live. If you fail to achieve them you may fall into unending self-hatred. That is why they are “eating you alive.” Put another way, you are enslaved to them. You must give yourself to something, or you have no meaning in life. Even if you try not to be in thrall to anything, you become Eagleton’s dancing dust particle, in bondage to your own autonomy. Wallace, of course, is not writing as a Christian and perhaps not as someone who believed in a personal God. He is merely reporting the facts of human experience, of human nature. And those facts show us that no one is free. Everyone needs love, meaning, and satisfaction in their lives, and so everyone is under the control of something.”

— Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World by Timothy Keller

“If there is no God, you will have to turn some created thing into a god to worship, and whatever that thing is, it will punish you with inner fears, resentment, guilt, and shame if you fail to achieve it. Tony Schwartz, who made a great deal of money early in his life, discovered that setting his heart on career and wealth for his inner satisfaction had made him a kind of addict, and an empty-hearted one at that. “The fact that so much external success didn’t deliver what I had always imagined it would left me feeling empty and bewildered. . . . Any single-minded pursuit, unmoored to a deeper purpose, has the potential to take on the characteristics of an addiction. More and more is required to obtain the same high, and the compulsion of the pursuit prompts a growing sense of the despair . . . it is meant to solve.” 32 Schwartz discovered that to make “external success” into his main source of satisfaction was to turn it into a kind of master that enslaved him. It demanded increasing success and punished him internally if he failed to achieve it. What if, however, there is a true God, and if, as the New Testament declares, he came to earth to die for our sins on the cross? Then there is one Lord who, when we fail him, will not punish us but forgive us. If you serve your career, your career will never die for your sins. If you live for your career and you fail, it will crucify you inside with self-loathing. But Jesus was crucified for you. This doesn’t mean that the Christian God doesn’t put any constraints on us. Everyone lives for something, and in every case our master constrains our behavior, telling us what we can do and what we cannot do. If we are living for Olympic gold, or for a successful career, or for our art or politics, or for a spouse, there are limits on our choices, things we can’t do. So how do we know if we are taking on liberating, right constraints rather than restraints that will crush and abuse us? Christians answer that if we are living for the one who both created us and redeemed us, we are by definition taking on the liberating constraints. First, if there is a God, he created us. This means there is what novelist Marilynne Robinson calls “the givenness of things.” 33 As a Christian, Robinson argues that reality is not infinitely malleable. It imposes itself on us, and freedom comes only by living into that givenness. We were built to know, serve, and love God. If we try to live for anything else, it leads to slavery, but when we begin to live for God and follow his will, we find that we are actually becoming who we were meant to be, realizing our original design. We are a sailboat finally being put out into deep water. Someone may object that freedom should be doing what we really want to do. The Christian offer, however, includes this. It is not merely complying with the proper regulations of our creator; it also consists of a new, growing, inward passion to love and know our redeemer. When you are falling in love, you take the initiative to discover a list of all the things that the loved one loves and hates. Then you go all out to say and do the things that delight him or her. You are “doing their will” rather than your own, but you gladly accept the new limits on your behavior. Why? It is because you have put your joy and happiness into the joy and happiness of the other. You are happy to the degree they are. You have come to discover the pleasure of giving pleasure. You don’t follow their will as a means to get other things you want. Their love and joy are main things you want. They are ends in themselves. This is how Christianity says our ultimate relationship works with God. When a Christian grasps how Jesus saved us at infinite cost to himself, how he emptied himself of his glory and took on a humble form to serve our best interests, it creates a grateful joy that inwardly moves us to want to please, know, and resemble him. Our happiness gets put into his happiness, and serving him becomes our perfect liberation.”

— Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World by Timothy Keller

Dragons in the Bible? Yes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1thcowKXw&pp=ygUYVGhlIEJpYmxlIFByb2plY3QgZHJhZ29u&ra=m

The Problem With the “Different Interpretations” Argument

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-S_gvIi2c&ra=m

Chaos Dragon

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmPd5yRYbTicVViywfB45x7db8-BvNlNP

Archive of Hittite Tablets Discovered

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/archive-of-hittite-tablets-discovered/

Collection of 110 #Apologetics’ Illustrations
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https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/collection-of-110-apologetics-illustrations/

Dictaten Dogmatiek: Lectures on Dogmatics (eBook) by Abraham Kuyper

five-volume series presents Abraham Kuyper’s Dictaten Dogmatiek

Volume 1 – Locus on God

Volume 2 – Locus on Holy Scripture, Creation, Creatures.

VOLUME 3 – LOCUS ON PROVIDENCE, SIN, THE COVENANT, CHRIST

VOLUME 4 – LOCUS ON SALVATION, THE CHURCH, THE SACRAMENTS

VOLUME 5 – LOCUS ON THE MAGISTRATE, THE CONSUMMATION OF THE AGE

https://www.monergism.com/dictaten-dogmatiek-lectures-dogmatics-ebook

Roman Catholic Erick Ybarra gives his thoughts on the Craig Truglia vs. James White

“Icon Veneration AS DEFINED by the Second Nicene Council is Apostolic.”

https://x.com/ErickYbarra3/status/2112017093797326939