Just found out my 4 yr old girl randomly shouted in Target today in the pharmacy section: "So, people that have babies outside of marriage—THAT'S A SIN FROM SATAN"
God's attributes are not identical to God's essence. These energies/ powers are uncreated & Triadic. We experience these energies, by way of analogy, as we do the rays of the sun.
Ehrman tries to be lighthearted about the fact that Dr. Tom Howe revealed the self-destructive nature of Ehrman's entire project by merely asking a simple question.
I've also been pastoring for over 7 years, yet my church recently voted to supply the resources for me to leave my full-time job so that I can devote myself more to pastoring. For over a decade, I've been on staff full-time at a state University. I just put it my notice today.
Twitter made me delete this comment as an act penance in order to get back on here, but I would rather kiss a toilet seat than actually feel sorry for what I said.
@BloodnVinegar
I’m not voting, since I would rather die than convert to either obviously, but from a theological standpoint Islam is closer to Christianity, because it’s at least a monotheistic religion.
@ostrachan
"The Reformers, Puritans, Edwardseans, & Baptists all rejected the syncretistic philosophy of Thomas Aquinas." This is false. Also, every theology utilizes philosophy (i.e., it is "syncretistic" in that sense). Edwards relied on Locke, and your camp relies on Kant.
@JohnCarpenter64
It is inconsistent to say Aquinas is good and Catholicism is bad. If we push a Roman Catholic on students, what should we expect but produce Catholic converts!
Notice this carefully: The temple was covered in precious stones for beauty. There was no pragmatic reason for the precious stones. They had no utilitarian purpose. God simply wanted beauty in the temple. God is interested in beauty.
- Schaeffer, Art and the Bible
You should not tell an unbeliever, "God loves you." The apostles never shared the gospel this way. The Bible says God's wrath is upon unbelievers (John 3:36, Romans 1:18).
Help them see their sin, warn them of the judgment of God, and give them the gospel.
Based on my timelime, here is what people have the most disdain for:
1. Baptists
2. Dispensationalists
3. “White Evangelicals”
4. Thomists
5. “Complementarians”
lol why am I here?
5 things I'm 100% certain about:
1. I exist
2. God exists
3. Jesus Christ is God
4. Jesus Christ rose from the dead
5. Abortion is among the most vile, heinous, sick, demonic acts a human can commit, and it should be illegal, and no rational human being should ever question that
As the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” passes into law, listen to arguments made like this one from Alan Keyes and remember we need more arguments like this one being made at the popular level.
@comfysarah
This isn't about Catholicism/Protestantism. This is just Christianity 101
Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
@philvischer
Are you absolutely certain that you need to distance yourself from these people? Are you absolutely certain that they dry out your soul? Are you absolutely certain that you can't be absolutely certain?
A beloved sister in Christ got admitted to the hospital for severe depression. But during her stay, she shared the gospel with a suicidal woman, and the woman confessed Christ and started reading the word of God. Satan can take an L on this one
@PastorBenMarsh
There's a difference between miraculous multiplication of resources and taking resources from someone else and giving it to others against their will. Nevertheless, no one should want kids to go hungry.
I must admit, you are free, in the Lord, to not celebrate "Christmas" in a sense. But you are not free to lie about Christmas or ruin the coziness of your brothers and sisters.
When bivocational pastors also working a full-time job & another part-time job while raising toddlers and doing doctoral work first hear about the millionaire full-time pastors “not having enough have time” to do their own sermon research so they hire Docent to do it for them lol
Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice! I pray for his precious loved ones! Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time!
@ContraMundum14
In one of Norm Geisler’s (Thomistic dispensational Evangelical) essays on whether Thomistic philosophy leads to Roman Catholicism, he uses Lewis as an example of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater
I lived a mile from here. Lightening struck the building and it was turned to a pile of ash right after many reported they posted a pro "pride" message on Facebook
Ever wonder where Dispensationalism comes from?
The Rothschilds funded the distribution of the Scofield Bible.
The Rothschilds push a narrative that results in Israel benefiting from American Evangelicalism? Shocker. This is my shocked face😐
@JohnCarpenter64
It is inconsistent to say Aquinas is good and Catholicism is bad. If we push a Roman Catholic on students, what should we expect but produce Catholic converts!
QAnon is a satanic cult that can ruin your life.
It is not a “conservative” movement since it is undergirded by a hermeneutics of suspicion/gnostic epistemology which functionaly denies proper classical metaphysics.
Said it before, but it's time to refresh my hottest take 🔥🔥🔥:
Inheritance tax should be 100%.
America's obsession with generational wealth is weird and exacerbates economic inequality.
Your kids should work hard for their money like everybody else.
Re infant sprinkling: I know Reformed Christians are not Roman Catholics *in every way* . . . but Reformed Christians *are* Roman Catholic in this way and this way is important.
I know they’re not Anabaptists *in every way* and that they didn’t descend *organizationally* from the ABs but they *are* AB in this way and this way is important.
Pro-tip for those trying to convince us to convert to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy:
Saying as a Protestant you were confused about how to interpret Scripture & how the canon was formed isn’t a good reason for us to adopt your position.
It just admits you were confused
@Datin_TripleD
More than half of these should definitely be in the top 20, but there are a few who shouldn't be in the top 50.
Example: Nicki Minaj before RAKIM LOL
I think Nas is greater than Jay and Kendrick btw
@masonmennenga
meh. I just have my priorities straight. I'd rather have a gay-affirming but "inclusive orthodox" Episcopal pastor than a Nestorian fundamental Baptist, but both are bad