14 Black Inventors, and other links

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• 14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About -- “Inventor and engineer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. He collaborated with science greats Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison.”
• A Baptist Contribution to Political Theology -- “...three common points of political theology among early Baptists [are] the affirmation of government as divinely instituted and empowered, the need for government to provide religious liberty for all, and the obligation of Christians to dissent from governmental participation and subjection if and when a particular government acts immorally.”
• An evaluation of Ruckman’s denials of a pre-Christian Septuagint -- “Our main goal is to analyze the arguments Peter Ruckman uses in declaring there never was a Septuagint before the time of Christ, in order to demonstrate whether they are worthy of serious consideration.”
• Believer’s Baptism and Infant Salvation -- “The rejection of infant baptism left the Free Will Baptists with one question that demand solution. What happens to a child that dies in infancy...”
• Biblical Fact-Check: 613 Commandments? -- “No one exactly knows who began this myth: it’s not in the Bible nor is it in the Talmud. Yet you’ll find it trotted out in sermons fairly regularly.”
• Candace Owens Challenges Fact-Checker, And Wins -- “I wanted to show that these fact-checkers just lie, and they usually go unchecked because most people don’t have the money, don’t have the time, and don’t have the platform to go after them — and I have all three.”
• COVID-19: Americans are in “delusional psychosis” and policing each other, psychiatrist warns -- “We don’t need a police force. We don’t need a secret Stasi to go after the neighbor that isn’t wearing his mask on a park bench. We have families who are willing to do that.”
• Greg Koukl and Michael Shermer at the End of the Decade of the New Atheists -- “...atheism is way too austere for me...It commits me to too many counter intuitive things—everything comes from nothing, life comes from non-life, consciousness comes from matter, morality comes from a reorganization of molecules.”
• “Holy” Is Not Related to “Wholly” -- “Calvary Chapel doctrine is easy believism. It is second blessing or Keswick sanctification. It is revivalistic. It is mystical. It is overtly positive to a fault, going out of the way so that people won’t feel guilty.”
• Is speaking or praying in tongues Biblical? -- “The question of speaking in tongues is a hotly-debated issue within the church, one that often elicits strong emotions from both sides of the debate.”
• Justice Gorsuch Savaged Cuomo in SCOTUS Ruling Protecting Churches -- “It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques.”
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Agudath Israel of America, et al. v. Cuomo -- “Justice opinions in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York.”
• Studying Hardshell History -- “Now they began to use the ‘time salvation’ apologetic in which they made conversion to be necessary for being saved in time from false doctrine and the practice of sin, but not necessary for being eternally saved.”
• Supreme Court Sides with Religious Groups Against Andrew Cuomo, 5-4 -- “The Court was responding to a request for an emergency injunction by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and the Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish group, against restrictions limiting services to ten people in some areas and 25 people in others.”
• The Day Free Will Baptists Lost 600 Churches -- “I never found the word merger used in any literature or discussions. The Free Will Baptists and Calvinist Baptists always used the words union or reunion.”
• The (five) Great Commission(s) -- “This is very different from present habitual pursuit of really good attractional church services on Sunday mornings, and well-organized programs, classes, and seminars during the week...”
• Ways Grove Baptist, Jefferson County, org. 1865 -- “We believe this is the original sanctuary of Ways Grove Baptist, one of the very oldest African American Churches in Georgia.”
• Vermont governor announces school leaders will ask students about being in ‘multi-family gatherings’ over Thanksgiving -- “Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said the state’s Agency of Education is directing schools to ask students if they were part of ‘multi-family gatherings’ during the Thanksgiving holiday.”