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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.” (Exod 23:5) “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” (Matt 5:46)

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Theology 101: Love without truth is fruitless; truth without love is heartless.

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Imperfect Cognitions @imperfectcognitions.com · 01/10/2026

What happens if two psychiatrists assess the same patient? On today's post, Mateo Boberg, Julie Nordgaard and Mads Gram Henriksen explore how reliable psychiatric diagnoses are in the 21st century. imperfectcognitions.... #newresearch #phisky #philpsy

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The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis

A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Theology 101: As you share the truth, keep in mind the “buoy effect.” The unregenerate heart and mind will buoy above an ocean of evidence and flood of facts regardless of how persuasively or passionately you present them. If people don’t want to believe the truth, they won’t.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Theology 101: No Trinity-denying religion, sect, or cult worships the same God as Christians.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Theology 101: Sarcasm and ridicule are not sustainable objections to arguments for the existence of God.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Theology 101: “Lack of education exposes men to a strong inclination to dishonesty.” (Clement of Alexandria) Agree or disagree?

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Aurora @hykyuatsumum1006.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Treat yourself as the primary person responsible for your life. Financial independence is the bottom line. Spiritual independence is the armor. You can be soft, but never weak. #Motivation #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #SelfResponsibility #Independence

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Theology 101: As I read many of the earliest church fathers, I begin to suspect they would have regarded most modern American Christians—include me—as double-minded, half-hearted, worldly frauds. And we would have regarded them as extremist, cultish, radical fanatics.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Theology 101: The coolest theology at the moment isn’t necessarily the right theology. Sometimes you need to be a theological outcast for Christ.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Theology 101: The obscure theology isn’t necessarily the right theology of the “remnant.” Quite often you need to keep the classic status quo for Christ.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Theology 101: Revelation 21–22 is not a depiction of heaven, but a depiction of “heaven on earth” after God makes his dwelling with us forever.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Theology 101: My great fear is not that heresy will be preached from our pulpits, but that nobody in the church will notice.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Theology 101: “There is but one method of healing appointed after we have gone wrong—the powerful application of the Word.” (Chrysostom)

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Theology 101: Years ago, a lady in our Sunday school class with a brain tumor was instantly healed the night before her surgery when we gathered to pray for her. Not once have I tried to argue that this miracle meant our nondenominational church is actually the one true church.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Theology 101: Christians are called to be ambassadors of hope to a land of despair, beacons of light in a world of darkness, promoters of peace in a culture of calamities.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Theology 101: If you don’t feel “fed” at church, it could be that your pulpit is serving up tasteless morsels of low-cal cliches. But it could also be that you’re a picky eater who’s been spoiled with junk food and lost a taste for real spiritual meat.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Theology 101: More Christian leaders (myself included) must embrace the virtue of “I don’t know” and learn the humility of seeing through a glass dimly.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Theology 101: Beware of cases when ministry leaders cast their own existential fight to maintain their power and prestige as an existential fight to save the church or the gospel. (Hint: the church and gospel don’t need crooked, conniving, and conceited leaders to protect it.)

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Theology 101 ESSAY QUESTION: What secular film do you believe has the most implicit Christian message, however you want to define that (redemption, atonement, forgiveness, etc.)? Explain the reason for your choice:

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Theology 101: Just because your church’s confession or doctrinal statement says it, that doesn’t mean your church members believe it.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Theology 101: Theology 101: Though Jesus’s message had acute social and political implications, Jesus was not a politician. He was not on the right, not on the left, and not in the middle. His kingdom was not of this world.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Theology 101: Trashing the theological tradition of a brother in Christ on social media isn’t like making fun of a man’s haircut or wardrobe. It’s like making fun of his family. In public. It’s nasty, and it tells me all I need to know about your own smallness and bad nature.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Theology 101: Churches have almost totally failed to teach their people how to think carefully and critically about sources, authorities, and discernment of logical and rhetorical fallacies. In this way, they have failed to love the Lord their God with their whole their minds.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Theology 101: I could never muster enough skepticism to believe that a world with the coffee bean, the cocoa bean, and the vanilla bean could have come about by anything other than a good, wise, and powerful being worthy of my worship and obedience.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The dramatic rise in antisemitism, anti-Judaism, and anti-Israel hatred defies natural explanation. It’s literally diabolical, and many are falling under its spell. You can disagree with a religion’s tenets and with a nation’s policies and practices without spewing devilish hate.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Theology 101: If you have to resort to lies and deception to support your doctrine, your doctrine may be of the devil, the father of lies and the deceiver extraordinaire.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

bluesky is never beating the nerd allegations i fear. no other place you could find this many people who feel nostalgia for compactus shelving

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Theology 101: The Holy Spirit indwells both individual believers and the corporate body of Christ made up of those believers (1 Cor 3:16; 6:19; 12:13). The Holy Spirit doesn’t indwell a 501(c)(3), an academic institution, a parachurch organization, or a denominational convention.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Theology 101: Strive to tell the truth with both clarity AND charity. Because if you’re misunderstood, at least they will find you approachable enough to ask for clarification.

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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

if youre a trinitarian 'older than christ' should not be a phrase in your lexicon (i am simply being annoying for fun please pay me no mind)

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Theology 101: I have nothing against study Bibles per se, but remember: Everything above that thick horizontal line in your study Bible is true; but not everything below that line.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Theology 101: In the first two centuries, the church grew from a single room in Jerusalem to countless congregations in Africa, Europe, and Asia without government support or acts of violence, but by teaching truth and loving well. That’s the Christianity I want to retrieve.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Theology 101: “I don’t need seminary training in Hebrew, Greek, Bible, Theology, and Homiletics! I rely on the Holy Spirit!!!” says self-ordained pastor who plagiarizes Matthew Henry, writes his sermons with ChatGPT, and mimics mega-church preachers at the pulpit.

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Dave Nelson @davicthegrey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am just a boy. With a Classics and Comparative Theology degree. With an autistic hyperfocus on mythology. On the eve of the Odyssey being released in theaters. Send help.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Theology 101: Congregational, ecclesiastical, or denominational exclusivism of orders and ordinances is the epitome of schism.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Theology 101: On social media, belligerence is the last recourse of the ignorant.

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Michael J. Svigel @svigel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Theology 101: Full preterists are the flat-earthers of eschatology.

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Saava Brian @saavabrian.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Bible study doesn't mean bible reading Bible study involves Lexicography= word study Semantics= word meaning Grammar= word relations Syntax= sentence study Genre= what the book is about Background= Worldview of the audience Hermeneutics= scripture interpretation thru original texts #Theosky

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Ethereal Mind @etherealmindorg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A wonderful prooftext for Sola Scriptura! The earliest Christians, under the guidance of the apostles, devoted themselves to the consistent, public reading of Scripture. "Read" [aloud] in 2 Corinthians 1:13 is present tense and active! #christianity #solascriptura #bible

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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

THOMAS AQUINAS 1607 SUMMA TOTIUS THEOLOGICA Latin THEOLOGY PHILOSOPHY Binding #books #antiquarian #ThomasAquinas #17thcentury #theology #Latin #philosophy #religion #Christian #bookauction ohixkp.s.gy/66VJ7C

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"The first duty of love is to listen." ~ Paul Tillich

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HermesRevisited @hermesrevisited.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Why did #Plato and the #Egyptians believe an invisible sun hides in an #alternatereality but gave birth to the sun of our #universe? A new Apeiron Journal @degruyterbrill.bsky.social study has astonishing answers: bit.ly/4agN2ba #Philosophy #Cosmology #Physics #Astronomy #History #Classics #PhilSky

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Jason Chen @chenphilosophy.com · 28/06/2026

The newest philosophy podcast episodes! Treatise of human nature, a new rival to panpsychism, a new argument for atheism, the moral marketplace, an introduction to Sartre, and more. #philosophydiscussion philosophypodcasthub.substack.com/p/new-episod...

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New Episodes 6/21/26 - 6/27/26

Treatise of human nature, a new rival to panpsychism, a new argument for atheism, the moral marketplace, an introduction to Sartre, and more.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Richard Dawkins lacks the ability to critically reflect on his own ideas, in contrast to the freedom with which he criticises ideas he doesn't like. I discuss the Selfish Gene at 50 in a full-length podcast episode: youtu.be/BsWgY5Ej4SM #science #philsky #atheism youtu.be/ZbFe5bWKFPY?...

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Richard Dawkins: AI, Memes, And Why I’m Angry About The Gender Debate

YouTube video by Times News

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matt | infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Goff vs Kershnar: Does God Exist? (ft. Dan Linford and Ryan Mullins) | #philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs3a...

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Goff vs Kershnar: Does God Exist? (ft. Dan Linford and Ryan Mullins)

YouTube video by The Repugnant Conclusion

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