(POSSIBLE) Gencraft (which will only let you sign up via facebook or google) alternatives: You will need to check them out when you have the time! ArtBot. Customizable, efficient image creation for artists (nope) Peacasso. Art-generated experimentation with diffusion models (nope) Ebank. Generated artistic creations (ebank.nz/aiartgenerator - costs five bucks a month before you can even try it out) Ideogram (nope - you can only sign up via google) Ipic.ai Image Generator AI (very, very slow - I didn't even wait around to see the image) Socialbook Photostudio (don't see a way to register at this site) ProAI (costs five bucks a month before you can even try it out) (When I went back to ipic.ai, I discovered that it gave me a realistic looking photo when I asked for a 2D cartoon - making it a "no go.")
How to Use Kaedim: Click on Create (Modifying the Poly will give you more or less quality and increase or decrease the rendering time) Drag in your reference image Select the height you want Click the "Undo Remove Background" button Click on the "Generate" button Wait for five minutes to an hour depending on whether you select high detail or leave it off Find the coloring section and choose what colors you want for the different elements Find the "Text to Modifications" tool if you want to make adjustments Export it if desired Next, write directions on how to use monstermash.zone.
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How Do We Square the American Revolution with Christianity? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing Okay, next I'm going to take a question from John. And John writes in about the American Revolution. And in this case he's saying, "I'm just concerned with how a Christian should think through these issues. One, was the American Revolution morally right? If so, on what grounds? Two, what conditions would need to be met for Christians in the USA to support a similar revolution in modern day? And three, in your opinion, would our founding fathers be supporting revolution today if they saw the state of our nation?" Now you are actually asking a series of questions, John, but the heart of it is one big question about the legitimacy of the American Revolution, and that is a matter that I find of great interest as well. And by the way, I also found it interesting that every year in the fall I began to get questions when I did a national live radio program. And on Wednesday we took questions. I was always amazed that there seemed to be a lot of say 13, 14, 15 year old boys who were asking me this question in the fall. It turned out it was a part of a homeschool curriculum where the boys were assigned one particular question. The girls were assigned a different question. So it was not an accident that every fall I was getting an amazing number of 8th grade questions about the legitimacy by the Christian worldview of the American Revolution. So John, let me just step back and say that the Scripture offers us some very general principles, first of all, about the sovereignty of God and then God's purpose in creating government as one of God's gifts to us, and in particular after the Fall, for the preservation of the things that are good and for the punishing of the things that are wrong. And so you look at government, it has a rightful responsibility. The Bible is also very clear about Christian citizenship in such a way that for example, it is not an open invitation to insurrection. There's just no reading of the Scripture that offers an open invitation to insurrection against a lawful government. At the same time, the believer is not told in every situation to be obedient to the dictates of a government. Consider Daniel who refused, of course, to bend the knee to an idol, or consider those early Christians during the time of the Roman Empire who refused to confess Caesar is Lord. And so the government has a rightful responsibility, Paul in Romans chapter 13 is very clear about that. But this has led to some very deep Christian thinking. So you're onto something here throughout most of the history of the Christian Church, and as we're thinking about its expansion from the Roman Empire and in particular from Europe, Europe to the United States and beyond, for most of that history, this has not been a live question. The legitimacy of the state was at least established through what was understood to be the divine right of kings. The very contemplation of an alternative basically took the late medieval period, the early modern period to take shape. But by the time you get to the American colonies, and the stress points, that's a mild way of putting it, with the British crown, something to keep in mind is this, those early colonists, many of them were devout Christians and they did not want to act unbiblically in terms of a revolution that could not be theologically and biblically justified. That's one of the reasons why if you actually look at, and there are volumes of these, one of them published by the Liberty Fund, it's Political Sermons of the Founding Era, so you can go back and actually read the sermons preached in colonial pulpits at the time, it reveals the fact that those early American Christians struggling with this issue had to come to ask the question, "Who actually is ruling over us?" One of the reasons why there were so many twists and turns in the relationship between the colonists and the British crown, one of the things that it's very important to recognize is that the colonists at first did not seek any break with the British crown at all. As a matter of fact, they issued remonstrances or a plea for relief to the British crown against what they saw were the offenses of parliament. So the original outreach from the colonists towards the British government was not to reject the king, but rather to turn to the king and say, "You are our sovereign, so rescue us as your citizens from parliament." The problem was that the British crown did not respond to those citizens as citizens. The relief that those citizens were demanding was not forthcoming from the British crown. And thus you had the theological argument that was made by so many of these early colonists who were Christians that King George III is actually not king over us because he does not recognize us as his subjects. If we are not his subjects, then ipso facto, he is not our king. Now, there were colonists who were far more secular. There were those who were making merely economic, financial, or political arguments, but it is very, very telling that the Christians at that time were deeply concerned with what faithfulness to Christ and obedience to scripture would mean. And they only came to the conclusion of revolution being justified when they came to the conclusion that the king himself had made the point that the colonists were not his citizens, only his subjects. There were also some very mechanical or practical issues involved in this, and one of the issues was simply the implausibility of government across an Atlantic Ocean that took months in order for routine communications to be taken from one side to the other. You simply can't run a government that way. And it was very clear that the colonies were growing fast, and even King George recognized this by the way. Even in his own court discourse, you can understand he knew that America, as it would come to be known, was rising as a power. It's one of the reasons why there was very little motivation in Britain to give the American colonists the full rights of citizenship because they quickly understood that the colonists might be reproducing and the population might be growing too fast that it would dilute the power of the established political class in Britain, which by the way, it would have done. But frankly, John, in a pesky sort of way, I say it tongue in cheek, you do press the question as to how Christians should think about these matters. Now, I think what we have to understand is that what the early colonial Christians in the United States, or what would become the United States, what they came to understand is that they had no rightful authority to overthrow a rightful government. So there had to be the declaration that the regime or the government power was illegitimate. It lacked all legitimacy. That's a problem. That's a challenge for conservative Christians in the United States because in order to support or to contend for some kind of insurrection against the United States of America, there would have to be the formal declaration and the taking of responsibility to say that this is a regime that is totally without legitimacy. Which is to say you can't continue to operate as a citizen of what is a regime or a government such as the United States right now. You can't continue voting. You can't continue to be a part of the culture. You can't continue to own real estate. You can't continue to function in the economy if you're going to declare the entire thing to be illegitimate. Now, that doesn't mean that Christians should support tyranny. It doesn't mean that at all. It does mean that there has to be a very clear declaration that this is not a rightful government. How exactly Christians would come to that determination is uncharted territory. I'm not saying it's impossible or implausible that Christians would have to think very seriously about these issues looking to the future. We'd also better take these issues as seriously as did so many of the Christians in colonial America in the late 18th century. They said at least a good example for how we should start to think about these things.
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Well, we're into the middle of phase one, with the working copy/rough cut of my first animated video scheduled to be completed within a week or two. What follows is an excerpt from the recording in its present state. (I opted not to record the sound, and I've excluded the beginning and the end of the video so no information will appear that might possibly be interpreted as me trying to use this website to self-promote one of my publications.) Chenyi Zhu, an animator residing in China, is the artist who is doing the work based on my designs.