Conley Owens 🦡
@SiliconConley
🧔 Father of 9. ⛪ Pastor at Silicon Valley Reformed Baptist Church. 💻 Software Engineer.
We need to recover a biblical view of inheritances. Sons carrying on names is real. The right of the firstborn is real.
One of my controversial takes is that’s you should not spread your inheritance evenly among your children and especially if you are a farmer. This is one of the things that’s ruining family farms.
It’s almost like God is telling us that the “right of the firstborn” is an actual right.
Firstborns aren’t just slightly smarter, they’re more likely to explain, to argue, to abstract. Even in different family sizes they engage in science discourse more often.
Moses said, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” and God assented thereto.—Ginzburg’s summary of Shemot Rabbah, 3.6
It’s not some ancient traditional view; it’s new.
Aaron Renn is very insightful when he’s offering cultural and sociological analysis. However, his most recent essay on complementarianism doesn’t engage either theology or history. In this case, his analysis of complementarianism goes awry because he takes his generalizations…
To my biblical counseling friends out there: How bad would it be if I framed Babylon Bee headlines like this and hung them up in my office?
Thyroid Sick Of Getting Blamed For All Of Woman's Character Flaws buff.ly/4kJMEcr
It’s been over seven weeks since I posted this.
Debate thesis: It is a sin to sell Bible editions (i.e., to license the text in exchange for money). I’ll take the affirmative. If you want to be my opponent, DM me. If you know someone who should be my opponent, tag them. If you want to see this happen, repost.
youtu.be/wA4hHlHM-TU Many ministries are oblivious to licensing issues, especially how they relate to Scripture. This video was created to help them begin to think through everything carefully.
“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden,’”—Jeremiah 23:23 Not sure there’s a better burn in all of Scripture.
Will you be attending DoreanCon.org in October? (Being hosted at Silicon Valley Reformed Baptist Church in California)