Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. -John Wycliffe
@AtheistTakes
@WLCsWifeJan
Imagine not knowing the answers to the most basic questions about Christianity, and then acting like that is somehow an argument against Christianity.
@WASPmexicano
“This was obviously a literary technique from the author to point out the shared kinship between the two nations, while also highlighting their differences. One George represents power and control, while the other George represents freedom and liberty.”
@still2old4that
@DefenceU
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
— Romans 1:22-23
(Also See Verse 25)
@toffee_32
@argonaut19881
He literally has to be told by Virgil that it is not right to question God’s judgement, because he keeps being moved to grief
@AtheistTakes
“Did blind chance know that there was light, and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures in the most curious manner to make use of it?”
—Isaac Newton
@AtheistTakes
@doofgeek4011
Only someone whose culture has been so thoroughly influenced by Christianity as ours can claim that Christian moral teaching is universal or common sense.
@SlowToWrite
For unbelievers this is true.
For believers:
Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
— Hebrews 9:28
@King1611James
@MolderAnna26649
So strong drink and wine are only alcoholic when Proverbs warns against them, but not alcoholic when Scripture says it’s ok to drink them?
@dilexitergosum
@AtheistTakes
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
—Francis Bacon
@Arifalphin
@_matthewpearson
The vast majority of southerners didn’t own slave. The vast majority of southerners fought out of loyalty to their state and not for slavery. Even Lee said he wished he could’ve freed every slave. It was mostly politcians who fought for slavery.
@ThinkingAtheist
“The Bible mentions bad things that happened, therefore the Bible is evil.”
And if it only mentioned good things happening you’d call it unrealistic. Describing something doesn’t equal approval of it.
@weremight
@FamedCelebrity
Is this a joke? You really think castrating yourself and cross-dressing is in any way comparable to the Lord of Glory revealing His glory to His disciples?
@Akemi180
For those wondering, this is a spin on the Romanist argument that praying to the saints is equivalent to asking a friend to pray for you. Marian prayers are almost always plainly idolatrous (as pictured here).
@CeaddaOfMercia
@smashbaals
The logic seems backwards here. How does “We shouldn’t make material images of God because His essence is immaterial and invisible, yet revealed in the humanity of Christ” develop to “there is only material reality”?
@KingOfSalt4
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.
— Proverbs 16:32
Like a city that is broken into and without walls
Is a man who has no control over his spirit.
— Proverbs 25:28
@smashbaals
Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent of Moses because people were burning incense to it (2 Kings 18:4). Micah 5:13 condemns bowing before the work of men’s hands. Isaiah 46:7 highlights the folly of crying out to lifeless items.
@Arifalphin
@_matthewpearson
You are living off of the modern assumption that America is rooted in the federal government. For most of those men, their home and the place that held their loyalty was their state above all. They fought not for slavery, but for their state.
@_matthewpearson
Keep them married obviously. The Mosaic Law had provision for men who had multiple wives (Exodus 21:10). But those men cannot be pastors, per the biblical requirements for a pastor. The marriages are valid, but improper.
@avidtrober
@TaxSlaveDave
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.
— Hebrews 13:17
@redeemed_zoomer
@Autumn_Armyworm
I am once again begging you to learn the difference between baptists and anabaptists before you keep making more statements about denominations.
@AcesHighStudios
@smashbaals
Considering Scripture makes it explicitly clear what ought to be used during the Lord's Supper, using anything else is offering strange fire.
@NoWarChristian
Studying Hebrew has been a massive blessing for me. Not because I’m learning how the text has been secretly mistranslated and finding secret knowledge in there, but because I’ve learned that our English translations are actually really good and reliable.
@RaviRa108
@OrwellNGoode
Why do Indians feel the insufferable need to insert their culture into everything?
And no you didn’t invent religion, you worship demons and pieces of rock.
@TiffShuttleswor
You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
— Deuteronomy 14:26
@johnnyfrederix
@Aaronviland
Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive things. Unborn babies develop touch receptors on their faces around 8 weeks and on their hands around 12 weeks. Since they’re evidently sentient at that age, do you support banning abortion at those ages?
@Catholic_bro
@RCNonsense
Yes Mary is blessed among women, and the bearer of God Himself, but she is neither the spouse of the Holy Spirit of God nor worthy of being placed in a Trinity shield diagram.
@BryanRiggs
@AdamPage85
Scripture teaches we ought to deny ourselves and, in one sense, ought to hate our own life (Luke 14:26). As the original poster said, Scripture assumes we already love ourselves, because we naturally do. You won’t love others better by loving yourself more.
@Vicar0fChrist
@Brian_Sauve
My theory is that it had less to do with feminism and more to do with people losing the understanding of the symbol. In America, head covering became decorative hats. Women viewed them as fashion and gradually dissociated them from head covering and submission.
@Timelord420
So he’s arguing Africans don’t have independent thought, and their theology is based on Western theology, therefore they should get with the program and follow the new-and-improved™️ Western theology. What a racist!
@Forms_Respecter
The dreadful reality is that Adam wasn’t deceived. The woman was deceived and Adam not only watched as she fell, but willingly fell headlong into rebellion with her.
@Pallini1239143
@ConallGulban
@T0ucher0fGrass
God is the highest good and the most glorious. Because of this, it is good and fitting for Him to be chiefly concerned with His own glory. Though He cares when His saints are slandered, it is nonsensical to say that it is worse to slander His saints than it is to slander Him.
@MallardReborn
He might as well say that God shouldn’t have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, because many people built their lives around the immoral lifestyles they practiced in those cities.
@Zed_Berazel
@Presbyterianon
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”
— Galatians 3:8
If Abraham knew the gospel, surely he taught it to his family. It was preserved for us after all.
@Mashavi007
@InspiringPhilos
It doesn’t say they married children though. It could easily be inferred that they raised them as daughters to later marry their sons.
@JoelWBerry
@William_E_Wolfe
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
— John 8:56
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”
— Galatians 3:8
@REMARKSIST
Ah yes the government has more right to raise children than the parents of said children. This has never caused any issues in all of history.
@DavidAFrench
“Countless people have formed families and live their lives in deep reliance on Sodom and Gomorrah being good cities. It would be profoundly disruptive and unjust to destroy them with fire and brimstone.”
@Brian_Sauve
@Eric_Conn
@DanBerkholder
I’m genuinely confused why this is viewed as racist. It doesn’t paint anyone negatively, it is just a pun of a common Chinese surname.
@TheSkepticalHe1
@wendelltalks
This has to be a joke. You could draw these kinds of connections between anything. Boats, water, animals, frightening people, what entirely rare tropes that could never exist in two different stories without plagiarism!
@langluigi_
@Arcnite23
Dude you became Eastern Orthodox like 5 minutes ago. There’s a reason the Apostle forbade new converts from being overseers; see if that principle applies to your case as well.
@hosp_ben
@BethMooreLPM
@adamwm89
God is a righteous judge,
And a God who has indignation every day.
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;
He has bent His bow and made it ready.
He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
— Psalm 7:11-13
@AndyHarrisFan
@smashbaals
“When Satan tempts me to despair and tells me of the guilt within, upward I look and see [Christ] there, who put an end to all my sin.” Stop looking inward and trusting in the quality of your faith. Look upwards to the crucified, risen, interceding Savior.
@bookkeepPLUS
@smashbaals
Sir you claim to be a Christian, why do you pretend to not understand? You should know how to celebrate when God answers prayers, and how to trust Him when He, in His wisdom, does not grant us something. Why do you come in and indirectly speak ill of prayer’s effectiveness?
@GinnaCross
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
— Psalm 1:1-2
@__w3b__
@BenZeisloft
Not this old myth again.
Christians were celebrating on December 25 well before Constantine’s reign and well before any pagan feasts were on that date. Christmas trees are an invention from around the Renaissance. St. Nick was literally a bishop at Nicaea.