Brain activity, and other links

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• Bible Gateway Removes The Passion Translation -- “Bible Gateway’s parent company, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, told CT, ‘We periodically review our content, making changes as necessary, to align with our business goals.’”
• Brain activity shows your life might actually flash before your eyes when you die -- “...groundbreaking new research by a team at the University of Tartu is providing the first ever record of brain activity during death.”
• Caesarean Text of the Gospels -- “This opinion, however, was modified slightly by a joint undertaking entitled ‘The Caesarean Text of the Gospel of Mark’ by Kirsopp Lake, R. P. Blake, and Silva New.”
• Common Mistakes People Make with CBD oil -- “Third-party lab results will verify the CBD content of the product, and also ensure that it is free from impurities and contaminants.”
• Documents that Changed the World: Noah Webster’s dictionary, 1828 -- “Though the first English dictionary dates back to 1604, it was Webster and his 1828 volume that was credited with capturing the language of the new nation.”
• Hackers can see a diary of your life online — but this easy step can stop that -- “Your computer’s search history is like a diary of your life. If you don’t delete it regularly, you might be exposing more sensitive data than you think.”
• Learn Cuneiform to Read the KJV! -- “...once we teach you this dead language you will be able to limp your way through it and pretty much understand it.”
• Museum announces preservation awards -- “Local musicians and artists Sheryl and Steve Hartz were recognized by the Stone Fort Museum for significant contributions to the preservation of East Texas’ musical traditions and the rural mercantile experience.”
• Rob Gagnon’s Response to Jennifer Knust on the Bible and Homosexuality -- “Does the Religious Left (i.e. persons generally dismissive of Scripture) read significant works that disagree with pro-gay interpretations of Scripture and choose to simply ignore them?”
• Study: Humanity Just A Few More Bans Away From Only Having Good Opinions On The Internet -- “As for the people with unpopular views, they’ll be further marginalized and, presumably, react by getting better opinions—though researchers admit it will be hard to know for sure as now no one will ever hear from them again.”
• ‘Tell Me You’re A Liberal Elite Without Telling Me You’re A Liberal Elite’: Cruz Rips Buttigieg Pushing EVs While Gas Prices Soar -- “Vice President Kamala Harris and DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg spent the afternoon promoting electric vehicles and Green New Deal policies. Are you kidding me? The Biden Administration could not be more tone deaf.”
• The Curriculum of Higher Education and Modern Textual Criticism -- “One of the main reasons if not the main reason why the modern evangelical text-critic does not know the historical orthodox position is because they are not taught in school.”
• The Historic Views of the Church concerning Preservation -- “The church has historically held fast to the Word, not only as given by divine inspiration but also as preserved throughout the ages. However, a new view has crept into the Church, which has relegated the authentic text to the autograph originals only.”
• The Penny Hoarder Issues “Urgent” Alert: 6 Companies Are Overcharging You -- “You’ve done what you can to cut back your spending...But no matter how cognizant you are of your spending habits, you’re still stuck with those inescapable monthly bills.”
• The Protestant Dogmaticians and the Late Princeton School on the Status of the Sacred Apographa -- “...the first generation of Lutheran reformers could be called ‘ink theologians,’ to use Eck’s words (Preus:207), because they believed all Christian doctrine should be derived from Scripture alone...”
• Theodore P. Letis Resources -- “This web page has become the most thorough listing of Dr. Letis’ materials on the Internet.”
• Two Democrat Senators Join Republicans In Calling For U.S. To Increase Domestic Oil Production -- “...moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Jon Tester (MT) on Tuesday called for producing more oil domestically instead of importing the natural resource from foreign countries.”
• Updated Bible’s interpretation of sodomy stirs debate -- “Michael L. Brown, who...holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages and literatures from New York University, said...translating arsenokoitai as ‘men who have sex with men’ is accurate while rendering it [as] ‘men who engage in illicit sex’ is meaningless.”
• Washington, Jefferson Were Actually Anti-Slavery Heroes - Don’t Let the Left Smear Their Names -- “As elected leaders of a constitutional republic, the Founders couldn’t simply ban every practice they disliked...What the Founders could do, however, and did — intentionally — was craft the founding documents in a way that would inevitably lead to the end of slavery.”
• Why Are Protestant and Catholic Bibles Different? -- “...their first-tier-canonical books established doctrine for the church, while second-tier-readable books illustrated piety for believers. That is a crucial distinction that is sometimes lost today.”