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The Gospel of Cain

The gospel of Cain is a gospel of religious works and pretended declarations of spiritual superiority. The false teachers say that one must keep a law or set of rules to be saved and accepted by God.

And we know that Cain was a murderer and hated righteous Abel. So we should examine the difference between the sacrifices of Cain and Abel to understand how Cain perverts the gospel.

https://blog.nightbulb.net/the-gospel-of-cain/


โ€In a technological society [..], we have made a cult out of the belief that each new incremental innovation should mark a turning point in history, or at least that it should be significant. In this way, when we make or even simply adopt some new gizmo or app, we are encouraged to feel that we are part of the answer to what comes next.โ€

โ€Tech Agnosticโ€ by Greg Epstein
https://a.co/0PFInPN

๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„: "๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ" ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ป ๐— ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป -

Both spectacular reads after we get past Milton's narratological problem; and my take: Regained is the stronger work!

https://buff.ly/4i82hW2

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œโ€™๐—บ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: "๐—๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ" ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—”๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ -

A passage from this magnificent novel.

https://buff.ly/4eF04PT

in 1736.

Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.

Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth from its Original to the Consummation of All Things (1696) was an articulation of creationism and flood geology. It held that the global flood of Noah had been caused by a comet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whiston#Scientific_lecturer_and_popular_author

Books by William Whiston at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1051

A portrait of William Whiston with a diagram demonstrating his theories of cometary catastrophism, described in A New Theory of the Earth Unidentified painter - The original uploader was Tuckerresearch at English Wikipedia. The diagram he holds demonstrates his theories on cometary catastrophism. A painting almost 300 years old, found on the covers of many books about Whiston.