{"id":16675,"date":"2024-08-18T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=16675"},"modified":"2024-08-24T02:11:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T06:11:24","slug":"journal-of-the-week-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=16675","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>8\/24\/2024<\/strong> Jim Grey, a software engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.jimgrey.net\/2024\/07\/03\/lessons-learned-in-35-years-of-making-software\/?utm_source=tldrwebdev\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dev.jimgrey.net\/2024\/07\/03\/lessons-learned-in-35-years-of-making-software\/?utm_source=tldrwebdev\">sharing his tips<\/a> after <strong>working 35 years in the field<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top 100 Gen AI apps<\/strong> thus far: <a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/100-gen-ai-apps-3\/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter\">https:\/\/a16z.com\/100-gen-ai-apps-3\/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top programming languages<\/strong> 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/top-programming-languages-2024?utm_source=tldrnewsletter\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/top-programming-languages-2024?utm_source=tldrnewsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching \u8001\u5c24 Mr. You, <strong>blasting Kamala Harris<\/strong> on Youtube is fun. In her first candidacy speech, \"she did not laugh, that means she was well prepared\" ~You. And it is educational as well, here are some Chinese idioms good for memorizing, Mr. You describing Harris with 16 words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u6e96\u5099\u6709\u9918\uff0c\u65b0\u610f\u4e0d\u8db3\uff0c<br>\u9673\u8a5e\u6feb\u8abf\uff0c\u80f8\u7121\u9ede\u58a8\u3002<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u56c2\u5f35<\/strong>\uff1aexcessively proud or confident. I didn't realize this is hard to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u54c8\u91cc\u65af\u6f14\u8b1b \u9673\u8a5e\u6feb\u8abf \u72c2\u8f5f\u5bf9\u624b \u908a\u5883\u5371\u6a5f\u6b78\u548e\u5ddd\u666e\uff1b\u99ac\u65af\u514bX\u6c11\u8abf\uff1a73\u6bd427\u5ddd\u666e\u9d3b\u6e9d\u5f0f\u9818\u5148\u54c8\u91cc\u65af\uff1b\u5fb7\u5dde\u6aa2\u65b9\u7a81\u67e5\u85cd\u90e1\uff0c\u5c0d\u53ef\u7591\u975e\u6cd5\u9078\u6c11\u767b\u8a18\u5c55\u958b\u8abf\u67e5\uff1b20240823\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WDA890LqgpI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8\/23\/2024<\/strong> To reap what one has not sown: <strong>\u5750\u4eab\u5176\u6210<\/strong>. Stephen Tong on those who misunderstood grace. Unbiblical Grace: Do nothing, just receive. Biblical grace: Receive grace <strong>with responsibility<\/strong>. This is especially weak in American conservative churches. Such as my GCC in Bridgewater. The right doctrine of suffering: Even Christ has to suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff03\u300c\u4e0d\u662f\u5750\u4eab\u5176\u6210\uff0c\u800c\u662f\u7528\u8cac\u4efb\u4f86\u9818\u53d7\u6069\u5178\u3002\u300d\u9019\u539f\u5247\u5982\u4f55\u5728\u57fa\u7763\u3001\u4e9e\u4f2f\u62c9\u7f55\u3001\u7d04\u66f8\u4e9e\u8eab\u4e0a\u770b\u898b\u6211\u5011\u7684\u699c\u6a23\u2753\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c454\u554f\uff09\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPt-g5SPVHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8\/22\/2024<\/strong> 1500+ <strong>free html templates<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/htmlrev.com\/?utm_source=tldrdesign\">https:\/\/htmlrev.com\/?utm_source=tldrdesign<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8\/21\/2024<\/strong> A good site that analyzes and <strong>compares different AI models<\/strong> (chatGPT, Claude, etc.): <a href=\"https:\/\/artificialanalysis.ai\/\">https:\/\/artificialanalysis.ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8\/20\/2024<\/strong> When a church leadership (consider Rev. Lin of CCCNY, and many others) doesn't think of the church as a <strong>family <\/strong>of God, <strong>but a network of philanthropists and who's who<\/strong>, this church will fail soon. The members do not care about any fellowship outside of church service, the pastors will leave (mere hired hands). They will blame everyone else but themselves, the dumber ones will blame the Holy Spirit. The state of this is most transparent in their Prayer Meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8\/19\/2024<\/strong> Stephen Tong on <strong>3 times<\/strong> of <strong>shame <\/strong>mentioned as the antagonist of <strong>glory<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Genesis account of Adam and Eve, not ashamed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hebrews 2:11, Jesus is not ashamed to call them brethren<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Romans 1:16, Paul was not ashamed for the Gospel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff03\u3008\u4f862:11\u3009\u5982\u4f55\u8b1b\u660e\uff0c\u57fa\u7763\u7a31\u6211\u5011\u70ba\u5f1f\u5144\uff0c\u4e5f\u4e0d\u4ee5\u70ba\u6065\u2753\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c452\u554f\uff09\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYArOOiwq94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Redeemer Westside Men Fellowship\/Bible Study<\/strong> (Tuesday Mornings) has devolved. I was last with them during the post-Covid short lived Zoom period. When they decided to move back to church, I just cannot make it that early on Tuesdays at 7am - 8:15am. I am rather convinced that this is only for Andrew Melton's own benefit. Yes, he started this group and it was great. But judging from the means of the group, which apparently is not even called \"fellowship\" anymore, and the departure of some better folks such as Gary Bowler, etc. I don't see Robert May much anymore, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@robertmaymusic\/videos\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@robertmaymusic\/videos\">singer<\/a> whom I knew from helping his move once. Seems like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertmaymusic.com\/about\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.robertmaymusic.com\/about\">May has moved to Nashville<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do wonder if Matt Mundy's still there. He an actor and I'd always enjoyed his Scriptural reading during Sunday Services. His view also seems geared towards reformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melton never seemed interested in forging fellowship in the group. Perhaps this was only motivation for his own Bible study. He always sent out emails with his own study notes. This way, he gets to study it as well as claim that he's running the fellowship. But never bother knowing anyone at the group other than the ones who were already serving in the church as old timers, even that, I don't think they click well with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8\/18\/2024<\/strong> <strong>GCC Sunday School: Christ's Claims of Deity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P: gave new revelation. But quoted verses with \"you have heard that<strong> it was said to those of old<\/strong>\". These examples are more of correction of human sayings rather than \"I gave you new commandment\". The \"old sayings\" references are never the law, not OT. <strong>These are errors devolved from Jewish tradition over time<\/strong>. It is no surprise if this is being treated as \"new revelation\" by the fundamentalists, because all they care about is \"what did God say exactly\" without deeper analysis. So anything else, even if it's actually quoting the old for correction, is taken by these fools as \"new revelation\". And they will never see their own faults when pointed out because they believe they've followed the law to the letters, any deeper variation of the law is taken as twisted by them, instead of deeper creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider Tong on this subject:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff03\u300c\u53ea\u662f\u6211\u544a\u8a34\u4f60\u5011\u300d\u8207\u300c\u53e4\u4eba\u6709\u8a71\u8aaa\u300d\u5982\u4f55\u6210\u70ba\u5c0d\u6bd4\u2753\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c376\u554f\uff09\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RE4BfIWr3hQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis%27s_trilemma\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis%27s_trilemma\">C.S. Lewis' trilemma<\/a> mentioned @22:00. The academia would point out the flaw of <strong>trilemma <\/strong>as not being quadrilemma: Either lunatic, liar, Lord or legend. Lewis' idea was probably from some ancient Latin phrase: &nbsp;<em>aut Deus aut homo malus<\/em> (Either God or a bad man). I would say this is not proof, just affirmation. Because if it's used as proof, then you've thrown away your footstool and wonder if these all just fell into the right space, Jesus claiming who He claimed just at the right time, right moment, \"coincidentally\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@28:06 E's apologetics against the JW is a typical one, it will go round and round in circles with JW, because she focused on arguing against \"Jesus as not the archangel Michael\", which was JW's belief. The JW used the fact that the only two places that archangel was mentioned was 1Th 4:16 and Jude 1:9, to which, based on their wrong presupposition, could easily be interpreted to be Jesus. And they could easily explain E's Hebrews 1:5 in their view as well: That Jesus was not an angel, but the chief, archangel, <a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/d\/r1\/lp-e\/1984927?q=michael&amp;p=par\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/d\/r1\/lp-e\/1984927?q=michael&amp;p=par\">which is the only one in existence<\/a>. This also got me looking into LDS (Mormons). While the <a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/d\/r1\/lp-e\/1964807?q=do+we+worship+jesus&amp;p=par\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/d\/r1\/lp-e\/1964807?q=do+we+worship+jesus&amp;p=par\">JW do not worship Jesus<\/a>, the mormons do worship Jesus, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/latterdaysaints\/comments\/w0l36b\/who_exactly_do_we_worship\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/latterdaysaints\/comments\/w0l36b\/who_exactly_do_we_worship\/\">would not worship their divine<\/a> Heavenly Mother, Holy Ghost, etc. Thus, JW takes monotheism more seriously than the LDS. The best way to deal with JW is just to focus on the requirement of a God-man rather than debating with them on scripture with different presuppositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@34:10 P: \"They don't want accountability, ...to God\" That's is true. But when P elaborated, \"but you want accountability to IRS, etc.\" that becomes bad, because the opposing response would be \"we don't want accountability to fake authority\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P: There's an identity of male &amp; female, because Jesus said in heaven there's no given into marriages. &lt;= error, that it's not an absolute determinant for the future existence of two genders in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@36:25 on Trinitarianism, P: \"That is <strong>not rational, because it must be above us<\/strong>\" This is a bad language, because it <strong>conflates \"not rational\" with \"beyond rational\"<\/strong>. Of course, the only way to define \"not rational\" is irrational, which is different than supra-rational or beyond rational. It's like saying \"that is not beautiful, because it must be beyond beautiful\" as it alludes \"that is ugly, because it must be beyond beautiful\". Though what needs to be conveyed can be understood, but bad language will lead to misunderstanding. It would be better to add \"it's not irrational either\" after saying \"not rational\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@37:20 P went against creative art of God. Matt tried to defend the creative, so P answered \"I'm with you on that until it contradicts Scripture\", which shows that P was not completely fundamentalist-bent. But P: \"When you paint God, you violated the 2nd commandment\" [which P has taken it out of context, for the second half of that commandment calls against worshipping such creation]. <strong>Perhaps next time I'll ask about painting certain manifestation of God, such as the burning bush or the dove<\/strong>. This is obviously a topic debated among the reformed, I'm on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/arguments-for-and-against-images-of-the-incarnate-christ\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/arguments-for-and-against-images-of-the-incarnate-christ\/\">John Frame's side<\/a> (his book \"The Doctrine of the Christian Life\"), I'll post Justin Taylor's article on this at TGC in the comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@39:00 Someone asked if we will see the Father in Heaven. P wasn't wrong to say if you see Christ you see the Father. Thus, real answer is a Yes and No. We cannot see God or the Father as if He's part of creation, but through Christ, we are in union with God. P was wrong in saying \"any visible manifestation of God is the Son\". F alluded to Isaiah 6:1, which Calvin agrees can be seen as the Son, but warns against limiting this to just the Son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@40:00 P: \"<strong>Everywhere there is a theophany, it is a Christophany.\" This is not accurate<\/strong>. All Christophanies are theophanies, but not the other way around. We can say it maybe the Son who walked in the garden with Adam and Eve, but the burning bush would be a question mark. Certainly the Holy Spirit descending as dove during Jesus' baptism was not Christ himself. And more: Gen 15:17, the pillar of cloud and fire, etc. This was well discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Reformed\/comments\/rh689i\/was_the_angel_who_appeared_to_joseph_in_a_dream_a\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Reformed\/comments\/rh689i\/was_the_angel_who_appeared_to_joseph_in_a_dream_a\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@41:50 P quoted Matthew 22:30 \"For in the resurrection they neither <strong>marry, nor are given in marriage<\/strong>, but are as the <strong>angels <\/strong>of God in Heaven\" to be interpreted as \"there is an identity of male and female, but it's not the way we divide it here\", I am not sure what he's trying to say, maybe this goes back to when N asked \"will there be male and female\" and P had felt compelled to answer yes, with the presupposition that God created \"male and female\" before the fall. We don't know this for sure, but the argument for the case is a bad one, even if the answer could be correct. But the alternative could be true: That in glorification, we may have cast off gender identity, just as we will no longer could sin (impeccable). Hence, we don't know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon: Rev. 2:12-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/24\/2024 Jim Grey, a software engineer sharing his tips after working 35 years in the field. 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