The blue-collar scholar. I'm a Protesting Catholic and a Christocratic Postie. “Gimme a penny for your thoughts; or I’ll give you a dollar to hear me holler."
@_matthewpearson
Here’s the historical underlying cause for “Reformed” Baptist shame:
“My baptism, my choice!” —> “My salvation, my choice!” —> “My body, my choice!” —> “My gender, my choice!”
The Failure of the American Baptist Culture: Christianity and Civilization
@look2Christ
Everyone’s a theonomist. It’s just a question of which God (or god), and which law.
But if “all Scripture” is still useful, as Paul says it is, then every Christian should at least be a theonomist with a little “t.”
@mattxiv
If this were a real attempt at a “woke” color wheel, then there would be no real differences between red and yellow, or between blue and red, etc. There would only be “perceived differences,” or differences due only to “social constructs.” But thank God for REAL color differences
@HwsEleutheroi
I also like that she said being a literary critic by training, how this "forced" her to sit down and read whole books of the Bible at a time. "Proof texting" was not what won her over, but reading through the WHOLE Bible --> Totus Scriptura et Sola Scriptura.
@ChristOverChaos
Paul wasn’t opposed to Christianizing Judaism, which is exactly what he spent his entire ministry doing, but he was opposed to any attempts at Judaizing Christianity.
@PastorDerin
@douglaswils
But of course, their children will end up becoming paedo because postmillennialism goes nowhere without the covenant promises “to you and to your children,” unto the thousandth generation. 😂
@masonmennenga
Luther would've been very proud of these modern day Protesting Catholics. And he would've been like, "Y'all need some more hammers and nails? I got plenty to spare."
@gavinortlund
Appreciate your tone and your willingness to engage with those of us who disagree with you. It can be tough out there, especially when all the various "tribesmen" start to show up, all suited up, with spears in hand, and ready to throw down.
@PerfInjust
Or even of the possibility of "Christian churches." The objectivity of the covenant and the "mixed multitude" of both the elect and the reprobate, in all three of these historical institutions, makes the Baptist position untenable on all three accounts.
@isaiahhess
@HwsEleutheroi
And who are you, again? Are you the official bearer of faithful Nicene orthodoxy? Did Christ appoint you the "Nicene Pope" and I just didn't get the memo? Quit trying to play the "Nicene tough guy," and let's see what an independent Church council says about this. What say you?
@ZacharyGarris
And don’t forget the role that the “lesser magistrates” have to play in all this as well. Calvin was adamant that these lesser magistrates had a very important role to play in maintaining godly, public piety.
@D_B_Harrison
@pb1russell
@crossway
No, I've read them. What is it about these verses that is so "anti-social justice" in your eyes? I think you're overreacting to something that you shouldn't be overreacting to.
@befaithful10
The Church has been the downfall of western Christendom, not the academies, or the civic institutions, etc. The Church has always led the way for better or worse. As the Church goes, so goes the nations. And this is why judgment begins with the household of God.
@Soteriology101
Excellent questions. The "sola" in sola fide is supposed to be emphasizing the fact that our initial and definitive justification from God is by faith, and only by faith. Faith is the only RECEIVING INSTRUMENT of our legal declaration of righteousness before a just God. No future
@halbaldo
@kulphil
@canonpress
@douglaswils
It’s a genius marketing ploy, too. Some unpaid interns at Canon Press are surely behind all this. “Alright guys, we’re gonna use ‘Hating Doug Wilson’ as a marketing tool for ‘Loving Doug Wilson.’ Trust us, this is gonna work!”
@sir_jenky
Regardless of what type of government we’d all “rather live in,” if the Christ is ascended on high and rules over heaven and earth, then we all (Tim Keller included) live in an objective Christocracy. So all earthly democracies will either be Christ-centered democracies, or not.
@BeccaJohnson_97
@UpTambourine
It's even more shocking to me that in our uber-baptistic culture, we have so many people who believe in decisional regeneration.
@TrisagionSeraph
@Doragoon6
@PerfInjust
Hello?? Is this thing even on? Hello?? I think my Twitter account just got hacked by a Twitter hack job who hacks up Twitter accounts as a full time job.
@uribrito
@DrJordanBCooper
And just to give you a practical example of how humble a pastor Doug is, I recently came to him after a sermon a couple of weeks ago, and pointed something out to him about the reiteration of the 5C that Paul gives us in Eph 6:1-3. We went back-and-forth on this over some texts,
@gavinortlund
Typical and phenomenological language is used throughout the Scriptures to describe future eschatological events, right along with "cosmic de-creation language," etc. Just re-read the Olivet Discourse(s), which were about the coming destruction of Jerusalem in AD70.
But these
@5Solas2
All sickness comes from God. He ordains whatsoever comes to pass, including all sickness. He may use Satan to bring about sickness for some, or sin in some cases, or old age, or natural causes, or reasons only known to Him alone -- but all of it comes from God!
At first I thought,”Moscow, ID, doesn’t have any gay bars. And if we did, the local loco-homo extremists here in town would’ve blamed Christ Church for this, and not any Supreme Court rulings.”
Different Moscow, but many of the same problems!
#NewsBreak
@haymes_joshua
@Brian_Sauve
1. The Son of God Goes Forth to War
2. Psalm 2
3. St. Patrick’s Breastplate
4. Good Christian Men Rejoice
5. God Moves in a Mysterious Way
#1
especially was a real hit with my boys growing up. It’s one of their all-time faves.
@TrisagionSeraph
@Doragoon6
@PerfInjust
I was just kidding guys. My Twitter account didn’t really get hacked. It just got high jacked by some crazy, wannabe EO guy, who doesn’t have a clue about theo-political debate, Doug Wilson, or the differences between righteous and wicked demos.
@tom_barmadillo
And the creation of the entire heavens and earth was really just about the creation of Eden and the Garden because that’s all Adam could see.
@uribrito
@DrJordanBCooper
promise of all the other promises attached to the previous four commandments, and specifically the one attached to the 2C, to bless all those who love and keep God's commandments to the "thousandth generation." And Doug brought all this up in his very next sermon. Shows humility.
@William_E_Wolfe
I would say that Thomas Schreiner is one of the best "Reformed" Baptist scholars out there today. Not a Baptist myself, but if I need to read up on a "good" Baptist argument for something, I usually turn to him.
@PerfInjust
That's why it's been said that our nation's Constitution was really meant for Christian men and women who could govern themselves rightly, by God's grace and according to His eternal law. It's not meant for wicked men and women who care not for God's grace and His law.
@JonnyRoot_
Nice, brother. Way to stand up for your soon-to-be wife. Now the question will be: will you have the balls to stand up TO your wife? (Only when necessary, of course!)
@uribrito
@DrJordanBCooper
and I pointed out to him how Paul's elaboration on this commandment (i.e., "this is the first commandment with a promise"), should be translated from the Greek as "this is commandment, first/chief in promise." IOW, Paul tells us that the promise attached to the 5C is the greatest
@mike_so_bostick
@princespurge084
Nope. Not even close, brother. You’re making stuff up now. I would have full-on told you that you need to repent and believe in Christ for your salvation, if that were the case. I would’ve treated you like some poor Mormon kid just stopping by my house.
Presbyterians baptize babies who are already holy in virtue of being born to at least one believing parent (1 Cor 7:14). But their "familial holiness" needs to be affirmed publicly and openly in the greater Church community. Hence, the need for paedobaptism in the Church.
Very first lie that every church planter should notice when talks begin to plant a new church:
1. "Hey, this is gonna be awesome. I mean why wouldn't God bless this? Just think about the fact that God wants us to plant more churches. There's no way God would allow this to fail!"
@masonmennenga
@haymes_joshua
According to the pomo homos, every father on this planet owns a slave or two, just simply by having and raising children.
But seriously, institutional slavery still exists. We just call it certain forms of “employment,” which is basically endentured servanthood. And don’t kid
@ADRoblesMedia
1. God is the ultimate giver of ANY rights, whether universal human rights or civil rights.
2. The State can only issue rights insofar as it can justify these rights according to God's law.
3. See points one and two above.
@dalepartridge
So why didn't God clothe the Ishah immediately upon building her out of Adam's side? Is immodesty only a problem as a result of the fall? And if being naked and unashamed was the original creation order of things (it was a feature, not a bug), then will this be the case again?
Sin isn't just "missing the mark" though. It's also an attempt at creating a whole new "mark" (or target to shoot for) out of thin air. To miss the mark is to simply err. But the human heart is also an "idol factory," constantly pumping out false idols all over the place.
Progressive Christians have no standard.
According to Mason here, sin is defined as missing the mark of loving God and loving neighbor.
Yes and Amen.
If only he had stopped there.
What progressive “Christians” fail to understand is that God is the one who gets to define
We attended Mars' Hill at its inception in the mid-90s. We used to joke that it was the "Hill of the god of war" because of all the heat and shade that was thrown around in that church.
I like MD at times, but I think he's a "mafioso pastor," who should be kept at arm's length.
"For several minutes, Driscoll was nowhere to be seen. Flanked by a security team, he entered the sanctuary through a private door. Rows in the front of the church were blocked off around him, where he sat with family members and a security detail. He generally avoids contact
@leroyb756
Apparently not, because at least pre-Darwin, people knew that boys were boys and girls were girls, and that this was a BIOLOGICAL FACT. Nowadays, anyone can "micro-evolve" into whomever, or whatever they want to.
100 years from now, scientists will be laughing at us.
@TulipPatriot
I agree basically, but I prefer the phrases:
The Church is the fulfillment (or fullness) of Israel.
Or, the Church is old covenant Israel come of age, or all grown up, or transformed from one kind of glory into the next.
And there's equal continuity and discontinuity.
@_matthewpearson
My second boy's middle name is Oecolampadius. Can anyone top that one? I don't think so. We did it on a "pastoral dare" from the pulpit.
@ChristOverChaos
Paul knew that it was NC Christianity that fulfilled OC Judaism, and not the reverse. But now we have modern day Judaizers, like the whole Messianic Judaism movement, that is trying to go back to the "leeks and onions" of the OC. This is "nicht gut."
@pswnsn
But also denying limited atonement, and that the Christ is a “one-woman Man,” will also lead to both polyamory and polygamy, both in the Church and in the world.
If the Christ doesn’t have to be monogamously devoted to His Wife, then why should we?
And our final salvation will be our final, public vindication before the watching world, at the final day of judgment, that will finally show the world that God is BOTH just, and the justifier of all those who believe in Christ.
Who said it?
"The New Testament lays before us a vast array of conditions for final salvation. Not only initial repentance and faith, but perseverance in both, demonstrated in a love toward God and neighbor, are part of that holiness without which no one shall see the Lord."
@5Solas2
Yes, the Divine Logos is the foundation for the Church, but Paul also tells us that the Church is the “pillar and support of the Truth.” The foundation is more basic and necessary, but without pillars and supports, there’d be no final edifice. There’d be no roof and steeples.
Yep. If our thoughts are reducible to mere electro-chemical impulses in the brain, then there's no freedom of thought, no responsibility of thought, and ultimately, no MORAL reason to change one's mind about anything. And so to "change one's mind" is just to change one's brain.
@RandalRauser
If only Jesus had remembered His own absolute and universal standard for all acts of praying when He was on the cross. Why did He have to go and cry out in public to His Father on the cross? What a hypocrite.
@douglaswils
That’s hilarious! My wife and I are members at Doug’s church in Moscow. She recently voted in the mid-terms. Still waiting for the full-on rebuke from Doug or an elder visit, or something to prove what these lying liars and their lying cronies keep saying about Pastor Doug.
@RevKimWChafee
Shouldn’t we be equally concerned with rooting out sexual abuse everywhere we find it? Why would sexual abuse in the Church be more of a problem than sexual abuse anywhere else?
@isaiahhess
@HwsEleutheroi
And you're just another stinkin' Reformed Babdist, with a MATS degree, probably from some backwoods Babdist seminary somewhere, trying to cause more Babdist problems for others. So, what's your point, dude?
To those who believe in an "anthropocentric and local flood theory": If the Great Flood was local, then so is the Gospel in the new covenant a "localized Jewish event." But 1 Peter 3 says otherwise. The extent of the Gospel is as far-reaching as was the extent of the Flood.
Did the flood of Noah cover the entire planet? Here I argue that the biblical story can be responsibly read describing a local event.
My sincere belief is that the church's witness and unity is better served by allowing for that view.
@douglaswils
Never ceases to amaze me how those who are the most anti-postmill in their eschatology are so vehemently postmill in their tirades against postmillennialism. As if they actually believe that ridding the Christian world of anything postmill can actually happen. Go figure.
@BirrelleBee
@kanyewest
That doesn’t look like the middle finger of a carpenter. It’s too big. Middle fingers are usually the first to go when it comes to on-the-job injuries. You got the wrong Jesus, lady.
@DMLJRomans
We should affirm asymmetrical double-predestination. The elect are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, on the basis of Christ's merits alone. But the reprobate are damned by their own merit alone, through unbelief alone, and because they really hate God.
@uribrito
But our postmill hope for the future is also historically grounded in the preterist fulfillment of the same. Even as a preterist type, Christ came at His first advent to accomplish and secure everything we're hoping for at the "consummation of all new covenant things."
@gavinortlund
I hope one of your arguments in the book is that Protestantism, along with the Protesting Catholic-Orthodox Church, goes all the way back to Adam, and the first Church plant in Eden. Even the serpent in the Garden was a kind of "Protestant," which is why the Christ later tells us
@triana160
Thanks, brother, I appreciate you praying for me, and for everyone else who is still alive on this planet, but going through some real Hell on earth. Keep it up.
@MarcusGustavus
The promises were made to the whole Christ, to Christ and His Church (totus Christus). The Church is the “fullness of Him, who fills all in all.”
@haymes_joshua
Paul's direct command to "be angry and not sin," would also fit in this category of those things that Evangelicals end up calling "un-Christlike." Even this is a DIRECT COMMAND from Paul, and not a mere suggestion, or concession, or even a bit of "Pauline sarcasm."
I'll bet their planes aren't "gay" though. The engineers that built these planes better NOT have tried connecting "male bolts" to other "male bolts." And they most definitely should have kept any penetrations that come out of the plane from entering into the rear of the plane.
In case you’re wondering what
@Alaskaair
has been focusing on, it’s diversity & inclusion, making their planes gay, and having drag queen flight attendants.
If you’re on an Alaska plane, just pray their diversity hires don’t screw up and they’re putting this same energy into
So what is your main beef with White's Christology, and/or Trinitarian theology? Do you think he is unbiblically separating the two natures of Christ (or any of the Persons of the Trinity), or confusing the two natures of Christ (or any of the Persons of the Trinity)?
Folks…
@HwsEleutheroi
is talking like the heretics do. 😔 His challenge here is not novel but has been answered many times by many people. The Chalcedonian definition addresses this very issue.
Mark and avoid this man.
@JoshDaws
And why doesn’t “just preach the gospel” mean preach everything from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21? Why does “just preach the gospel” mean to only preach certain reductionistic versions of the gospel out of the Scriptures?
@haymes_joshua
But an even better way to get rid of porn is to live out gloriously sexual lives within the marriage covenant between husbands and wives. This will make porn irrelevant, and seem like child's play compared to the "Real-Deal Holyfield" that God intended for the marriage bed.
We need a “Constantine” to rise from the ash heap of our modern, anti-Christendom culture. It’s funny to me how so many Christians are willing to retain so much from Greco-Roman culture in our culture today, but still manage to despise Constantine himself.
@PresbyXian
is the basic argument from atheism, for the existence of God:
if -G, then -A
A
:. G
God's existence is the necessary precondition EVEN FOR both the intelligibility and practicability of atheism. Without God, not even anti-theism can exist.
@chris_jolliff
“Little children, it will be the last hour, and as you will hear someday that antichrist will come, so in the future many antichrists will come. Therefore you will know that it will be the last hour.” 1 John 2:18 (NDPTB; New Dispensational Pre-Tribulational Bible translation)
I don’t think the typical amillennialist can point to any one sin that the Church is guilty of, to keep her in the wilderness for nearly 2,000 years now.
It’s their entire eschatology that presumes the Church’s “wilderness wonderings” as her antitypical “landscape” on earth.
To say Christians are perpetually "in the wilderness" is strange typology.
Israel wasn't supposed to be in the wilderness for more than a few months. Circling the desert is a judgment.
What sin condemns the church to remain in the wilderness for 2000 years, and counting?
The OG of EO, John of Damascus, wrote:
“For the Son is in the Father and the Spirit, and the Spirit is in the Father and the Son . . . and there is no merging or blending or confusion.”
So, if the Spirit is in the Son, then the Spirit must also proceed from the Son.
@2Philosophical_
Or what about the claim that "nothing is real unless it can be empirically verified." Is this very claim empirically verifiable? How would a scientist even go about empirically testing this truth claim in order to determine if it was in fact empirically verifiable?
@AVLimitanei
Seriously, this just looks like some kind of creepy carnival ride at a podunk county fair in central Idaho. “Sir, can I get my six tickets back, please?”
@WokeBigEva
@MarcusGustavus
happening to this guy "because he was black."
3. I think that the judge (and the rest of this courtroom for that matter) should be doing this to this black guy. But I also think they should do the same to any white guy, or Asian guy, or any other psychopath who tries to He-Man
@IanGehris
It could've been a whole lot worse. I'm just sayin'. He could've completely butchered it by saying, "Let's get ready to fumbllllle!" And then all the CN guys in the audience would've been like:
@mike_so_bostick
@princespurge084
No, I don’t think you’re in a cult. I’ve never argued that Baptists are “cultic.” Mormons and JWs are cultic. But as long as Baptists still affirm the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, etc., then I’ll call a Baptist my brother any day.
This is way too good to pass up. Whoever put this together needs to get a Grammy Award for the "Worst Lip Reading" category. This is gold refined in the furnace, several times over!
@TulipPatriot
@Soteriology101
So I can sympathize with Arminians like LF who keep pointing to all the "apostasy passages" in the Bible, and saying, "See, lookie here! You're totally neglecting or pretending like these don't exist." But I think a much more robust COVENANTAL Calvinism is the way to go.
@FoxNews
Yeah! We’ll take over eastern Oregon first, and then eastern Washington will be next. State secession is not a sin, nor is it a crime. It’s actually constitutional when done properly. People shouldn’t be forced by threat of civil penalties to live anywhere they don’t want to live
@TulipPatriot
@Soteriology101
All the Magisterial Protestants (that I've read and am aware of) held to some form or another of covenantal apostasy. Even Calvin did, as you aptly quoted above. But this was because the OG Calvinists (like Calvin himself) were covenantal Calvinists, not just decretal Calvinists.
@TaylorRMarshall
@HwsEleutheroi
There’s no mention of physical death in the entire context of 1 Cor 3:15. The “salvation by fire” is the purgation by the Spirit that we get in this life, as we’re working and building on the foundation. Unless you also believe that the Spirit is also in post-mortem purgatory.
@masonmennenga
Mason Mennenga: “Every person is equally good, and equally correct.”
Also Mason Mennenga: “Ex-post-Evangelicals have the correct theology, and know better than their Evangelical fathers.”
@haymes_joshua
Slavery didn't begin as an "institution," it began at the fall. Slavery to sin and death is the main form of slavery that ALL men are subject to, even in our so-called age of anti-slavery-as-an-institution "enlightenment." So, slavery as an institution can only exist where men
@M_VanderWal
Yes, it was “polemical in character,” but it was also true in character.
The inherent worth and value of the atonement is all-sufficient, and had God so designed it to apply equally for salvation for all men, then it would’ve saved all men from sin and death.
But He didn’t.
This is only because atheists don't have their own "atheistic muscles" to bear their own "burdens of proof." They have to rely on Christians (and other religions, too) to do all the dirty, hard, spade work for them.
Atheism is literally just a parasite of a world-view.
@NancyJHutchins
Trinity as well. You kinda sound like you're trying to suck and blow at the same time, but unsure as to which one you should stick with.
And I get your illustration, but it's not picturing what I think you want it to picture. A better illustration would be one where the son
@5Solas2
I always pretend to have dyslexia when friends and family say things like, "Santa's the Devil," and I always say in response, "Yes, I agree. Satan is the Devil."