TheArcaneAxiom

@theducktator @whalekeeper

Yes, the youth pastor is the pastor overseeing the youth. My church is larger, so we do have a youth group (the middle-school age students meet Monday nights; the high school students meet Wednesday nights). The purpose is to give the youth a space to not only have community of their own age, but also to give teaching…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

The Church of Latter Day Saints is the official name for Mormons, right?

We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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@thearcaneaxiom

I’d also like to ask, can you give me your own summary of what you believe, belonging to the Latter-Day Saints? I have a limited knowledge of what y’all believe, and I would like to hear it from your point of view.

@thearcaneaxiom

So why is there so much open endedness, and contradiction though? Even if you could explain away every contradiction, like the one about the staffs, isn’t the mere fact that we need to in the first place a bit odd for something that is meant to be perfect and God breathed in every word? Could you show me that the Bible also e…

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@whalekeeper

I’m a Youth Pastor’s kid😂

@thearcaneaxiom

…Why not though? If an ancient prophet gave an opinion about something, and that’s recorded, does that invalidate the entirety of scripture? We know that prophets and apostles were imperfect men, take Peter, who straight up denied Christ 3 times! I just don’t see why it’s so all or noth…

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@trailblazer @thearcaneaxiom @whalekeeper @freed_and_redeemed

I had to google a definition of infallible for this, so hopefully I understand what you are talking about. I think that all of the stories and ideas in the Bible are true, but that there is room for error in things like spelling, and errors in translation. For example, Nebuchadnezzar…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

So here’s my question though, how do you know that scripture is infallible?

We can’t know if it is or not, besides through the faith of the Spirit. But what is the most logical option?

If you take Biblical philosophy and try to find a verse that directly contradicts it, you aren’t going to find anything more than vaguer verses t…[Read more]

@trailblazer @thearcaneaxiom @whalekeeper

I definitely agree with Whaley on this one. If you believe scripture is God breathed…if you believe that God is truth, then you either believe that it is ALL truth and not just the parts you want to believe or you deny it entirely.

We can’t just say that the Bible is full of flaws and yet still…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom @whalekeeper

I think I agree more with Whaley- I’m not questioning that what is in the Bible isn’t true or wasn’t inspired by God. Where I’ve been pondering things recently has less to do with the validity of the Scriptures themselves and more with the translation and the selection of the Scriptures. I’m just curious what caused…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

I personally don’t think there’s much to argue over it.

If you believe it, you believe in a so far consistent, well-logicked (lol, is that a word?) philosophy.

If you don’t believe in infallibility, then you’re taking what pieces you want as truth, and essentially creating your own philosophy. After all, there’s no reason to…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

I’m not sure I really have a solid opinion on this, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about the past couple days, so I’d be interested in hearing your opinion.

@highscribeofaetherium @thearcaneaxiom @anyone-else

There’s a magic system (the one above actually) that’s been giving me a lot of trouble. This is an outgrowth of Metal Bonding, which is now going to be just a part of it. I have a basic grasp of what I want, but the details are really frustrating me. For one thing, I don’t know what I want each…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom Makes sense!! (Ha, yeah if he stole their souls that’s be really creepy. It makes more sense that he “copies” their minds instead. And it makes sense you could make a kind of AI out of it, too.)

I don’t really consider the roleplays canon either, unless it genuinely fits the story, in which case I’ll make a similar occurrence…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom Effectively, mental state is a solid form in this universe. Interesting. So a random chunk of mahn could theoretically have a consciousness stored inside of it?

Hey, I’m game for letting him have a few personalities. My characters don’t get much of a say in it lol. You could actually use some of them in your actual series if…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom not a problem!

oh and it’s funny that your character copies the personalities of people he meets by hitting them over the head with rocks. If that’s what he does. It wasn’t super clear to me, but that’s what I got out of it.

I want him to whack all of my characters now and see what he thinks of their personalities lol

@thearcaneaxiom

It’s fine, I haven’t posted in quite a while either.

Speaking of which…

@jonas

We should probably get our four moving along.

(btw thy post hath been consumed by the terrible jaws of Wyoh)

@beth-torres @rae @highscribeofaetherium @thearcaneaxiom @jonas @princesachronicle22 lol everybody else is like “NOPE I’M OUTTA HERE!” meanwhile Snake is like “yeah, I’m in the same situation here lady, so I might as well take this as practice.”

@rae @highscribeofaetherium  @thearcaneaxiom @jonas @princesachronicle22

Carrie

“Your people-picking thing must be broken.” Carrie remarked, “And I’d rather destroy your castle myself than fight a war for you!”

She could have stayed, but she wanted to know that going back to her world without having to fight was at least an option, though she…[Read more]