The UK minted a £10,000 coin once

If it’s 1oz… That’s gold

I hope so… However it would make good lemmy lore if it wasn’t

How heavy was it? Did you get a picture of the other side? Where did you even find that?

Thank you, I set this up and it works 🙂

Because if my router factory resets, the ports are closed

Forced by law? No. If you read my original post I made this clear:

Worth noting anyone stumbling in here whos non-christian: My views on this topic have little to do with my political views. I believe in religious freedom for the secular world, which includes maintaining the legal recognition of same sex marriage as legalised in the United Kingdom in 2020 by a democratically elected government, but obviously want the Church to adhere to Biblical teachings and not kowtow to the secular world.

It’s a primary source for a presidential comment, much better than X, straight from the horses mouth and more aligned with indieweb principles (posting on your own platform, etc)

Nothing of what I said is circular reasoning. Some Buddhists observe some Jesus’ teachings. Generally secular western society observes Jesus’ teachings due to culture. Doesn’t mean everyone who loves their neighbour is a Christian.

In the same logic, I can claim to be a Muslim because Muslim means “one who submits (to God)”. If I were to go into an islamic forum, claim to be a Muslim and then say “I don’t follow the Qur’an” - I wouldn’t have an expectation of them to take me seriously.

Also, Jesus Christ literally built His Church and commanded Sacraments. He also taught about Hell and Judgement. He taught submission to the Scriptures and cited Scriptures Himself.

Jesus commanded this ““sect”” exist and that’s what this Lemmy community is focused on.

I’m not trying to warn you or anything, discussion like this of course is allowed provided it’s respectful and not misleading, you’re being respectful and I very much thank you for that, but just to back up this point about the community and nothing more:

Rule #1.1. The measure for what is considered Christian, as has been the case in the faith since the earliest days, will be the faith proclaimed in the Nicene Creed.

How do you figure? Books have been added and removed for millennia.

That’s just demonstrably false, or a massive misrepresentation at best.

The 27-book canon of the New Testament (and the wider 66 book canon of the Bible) which contain the writings of Saint Paul that I was citing is accepted by every Christian denomination. They have never been under dispute as part of the canon and was solidified, done and dusted by the end of the fourth century (despite us having plenty of evidence of those books being used by the start). While it is true some denominations may have additional books, as well as additional creeds and other important texts, rulings or councils, they all can agree on these 66 books.

Your own sect is not the arbiter of the entirety of the faith. Plenty of sects would disagree with what you’ve written here.

Like what sects? The Nicene Creed (typically this is used as the measuring point between Christianity and heretical spinoff religions) states:

He will return in Glory to judge both the living and the dead, and His Kingdom will have no end.

And even then if you went into the other religions that identify as Christian - such as Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Christadelphians - they all also hold to the doctrine of there being a Judgement. Heck, this doctrine even made it’s way into Islam!

Sure, different denominations and different religions have different views on what exactly will happen on this judgement day or how exactly it’ll play out, but the fact of the matter is, it is a fact of Christianity that there will be a Judgement, and that carrying out Justice is one of God’s characteristics.

Eh, I’ve got problems with Paul.

This community is centred on Christianity, which accepts the Bible as the universally infallible scripture. Paul wrote a good portion of it. So dismissing Paul, who was personally chosen and appointed by Jesus on the road to Damascus, doesn’t work in a Christianity-centred discourse.

The only reason people who may linger within Christian circles do reject the authority of Paul from what I can tell is just because their carnal desires go against what he writes. Such a thing is called eisegesis - only reading the Bible through your cultural lens first and letting your culture hold authority over the Bible. Eisegesis has no place in Christian discourse.

Romans 12:19

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Apart from a slightly shorter lifespan, what fid Hitler get for the millions he killed? What about those in more recent times who murdered innocent protesters in the USA? Will they ever face justice? Deep inside, the majority of people feel a wrath against these people, those who senselessly killed and/or hurt other people. Human society from all across the world has always attempted some form of justice or judgment system. Justice is something that we all feel needs to be quenched somehow. It’s the same as how would you define love- it’s not observable, it’s not provable, it’s not material, but you can still see the effects love has on a society. The Bible speaks about God’s wrath a lot- and His craving for Justice. That He will deliver it. A god without Justice is a pushover and not a perfect God at all. If you saw a society where people were hurting each other, and the King presiding over it refused to punish anyone because “I’m a loving King no good loving King would punish his subjects” would you say that was a good King?

This theory sounds interesting… Any more on this?

Isn’t Justice a good thing?

This is Christian belief commonly found in Protestantism. I think works based salvation is worse for mental health loops- you always feel as if you’re not “doing enough”. Christianity offers comfort in the certainty of your salvation.

had no idea sho Jesus was or Christianity was

Yet you taught them- they found out. If God desires for someone to be saved, they could find out, even from someone like you sparking it. If they are even of the elect, this could have been the first step, and the Holy Spirit could have been working through you.

Chinese rites controversy

Ancestor worship is immoral, it’s contrary to Christian doctrine. However I have no problem with using the term 上帝 to refer to God in Chinese. Turkish Christians generally use Tanrı which has similar parallel origins.

Have you ever considered that God is perfectly Just? That anything less than justice and letting sin go unpunished is incompatible with Him?

By the Grace of God essentially. Someone who has truly received God’s Grace through Faith, will display good works, attend Church, receive the Sacraments, etc. A Christian who truly believes won’t need to worry about if they’re going to heaven or not.

Those who die in ignorance - I don’t really think it is entirely possible in this day and age to die in ignorance and not get the opportunity. Those who seek after God will be led by the spirit to find Him. Some even reckon that ShangDi’ism and Tengri’ism were proto Christians in some sense, who were guided purely by the Holy Spirit to reach the conclusion they could reach within physical means. But now, it is entirely simple for someone to hear about Jesus and become a Christian via the internet - and I’ve observed it happening, even people secretly converting in Muslim households

I’m older than you and your interests sound a lot more exciting than mine, lol. Nothing to be ashamed of. Typically I seem to base my self worth based on how much attention I get on my birthday and from who. This can backfire a lot. I have always done the same thing for my birthday - the main event is going to a very specific buffet for dinner. So last year we went to my little cousin’s birthday party (she was born within a few days of my birthday year before, her birthday party was on my birthday) which was very nice seeing family and feeling happy for her parents and their little one. Then heading out for the dinner after with my parents. Unfortunately it wasn’t going to be a good one anyway as my girlfriend couldn’t be there for legal reasons.

My advice to you would just to not be so hard on yourself if you don’t get everything done- sometimes you could go out of your birthday and relax the next day. I generally observe mine over a period of a few days. It makes things a lot less stressful.

The archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell was aware of the allegations before Perumbalath’s enthronement, and was accused of bullying members of a committee to secure the appointment.

Separately, Cottrell has been criticised for praising David Tudor as a “Rolls Royce priest”, despite knowing about his history of sexual misconduct. Tudor has now received a lifetime ban from ministry for sexually abusing a 15 year old girl.

The archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, was rebuked by a tribunal last month for dismissing complaints against Cottrell relating to Tudor. The tribunal said her decision was “plainly wrong”.

Mullally has recently faced allegations of safeguarding breaches herself, but last month Stephen Cottrell decided she had no case to answer.

These people don’t care about Christ, The Faith, or The Church, but only their power and positions. If they don’t repent, on That Day it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for them.