Strictly Miscellaneous

I like to pay attention to the third verse in that passage....

God said, "I have filled him with knowledge and wisdom and....."

It was all about how God gave him the skills he had to do this work...

I find it to be an extremely interesting passage.
There aren't many people gifted in this way by God. (At least as mentioned in scripture)

I find him to be very unique....

Noah got instructions on how to build an ark...anyone else you think of gifted this way?

Ezekiel 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

Clever us. We developed the atomic bomb. Now we got hold of the wolf by its' ears. Now what?

side note. I did some design on fuse network for some nukes.

And so....I just don't understand the "why" at times for why God gives the gifts He gives....in the long run I'm sure it will be revealed but currently I'm still asking that question. It doesn't make sense to me at the moment. It's a very interesting puzzle at the moment..

It's a very interesting puzzle at the moment...

Excerpt of Psalm 73>>>>>NLT
when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness.

4They seem to live such painless lives;

their bodies are so healthy and strong.

5They don’t have troubles like other people;

they’re not plagued with problems like everyone else.

6They wear pride like a jeweled necklace

and clothe themselves with cruelty.

7These fat cats have everything

their hearts could ever wish for!

8They scoff and speak only evil;

in their pride they seek to crush others.

9They boast against the very heavens,

and their words strut throughout the earth.

10And so the people are dismayed and confused,

drinking in all their words.

It was all about how God gave him the skills he had to do this work...

Cripps also admits he’s been tossed out of several bowling alleys for what they perceived as horseplay.

True story; Knew and saw 'pro' bowler 280+ coach someone bowling at 100 and in 2 minutes of 'talking' bowling over 170. Psychological?

The Associated Press
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Census: Christians a minority in England; non-religious grow
Story by By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press • 2h ago
LONDON (AP) — Fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census — the first time the country's official religion has been followed by a minority of the population.

FILE - The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby listens to debate at the General Synod in London, on Feb. 13, 2017. Less than half of people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census – the first time the country's official religion has been followed by a minority of the population. Figures from the 2021 census released Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, by the Office for National Statistics reveal that Britain has become less religious, and less white, in the decade since the last census in 2011. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)© Provided by The Associated Press
Britain has become less religious — and less white — in the decade since the last census, figures from the 2021 census released Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics revealed.
Some 46.2% of the population of England and Wales described themselves as Christian on the day of the 2021 census, down from 59.3% a decade earlier. The Muslim population grew from 4.9% to 6.5% of the population, while 1.7% identified as Hindu, up from 1.5%.
More than 1 in 3 people — 37% — said they had no religion, up from 25% in 2011.

The other parts of the U.K., Scotland and Northern Ireland, report their census results separately.

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Secularism campaigners said the shift should trigger a rethink of the way religion is entrenched in British society. The U.K. has state-funded Church of England schools, Anglican bishops sit in Parliament’s upper chamber, and the monarch is “defender of the faith” and supreme governor of the church.
Andrew Copson, chief executive of the charity Humanists U.K., said “the dramatic growth of the non-religious” had made the U.K. “almost certainly one of the least religious countries on Earth.”
“One of the most striking things about these results is how at odds the population is from the state itself,” he said. “No state in Europe has such a religious set-up as we do in terms of law and public policy, while at the same time having such a non-religious population.”
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, one of the most senior clerics in the Church of England, said the data was “not a great surprise,” but was a challenge to Christians to work harder to promote their faith.
“We have left behind the era when many people almost automatically identified as Christian, but other surveys consistently show how the same people still seek spiritual truth and wisdom and a set of values to live by,” he said.
Almost 82% of people in England and Wales identified as white in the census, down from 86% in 2011. Some 9% said they were Asian, 4% Black and 3% from “mixed or multiple” ethnic backgrounds, while 2% identified with another ethnic group.

Granted Henry was married to

Catherine of Aragon - Wikipedia

Henry acknowledged her only as dowager princess of Wales. After being banished from court by Henry, Catherine lived out the remainder of her life at Kimbolton Castle, dying there in January 1536 of cancer. The English people held Catherine in high esteem, and her death set off tremendous mourning.[4] Her daughter Mary would become the first undisputed English queen regnant in 1553.

It is a long, torturous trail that brought us to the scriptures we have today....Tyndale, Wycliffe, George and etc. Full of blood and pride. I'm not exactly sure it could have been done any other way by God...if there was I'm sure He would have found it.