The inference of much of practical Protestant reformed evangelicalism entails the creation of a kind of third Adam - he exists between the first Adam and the second, Christ.
I call this third Adam the hybrid hypothetical Adam, he’s not a real historical figure but theoretical. Hybrid hypothetical Adam is fallen like the first Adam but he’s not spiritual dead to God, he has agency like Christ - the second Adam.
Hybrid Hypothetical Adam.
@matissesmith1 No matter what they put out it’s not going to attract a “younger legacy audience”. Only delusional Prince fans and content creators are hoping Prince has a vault full of unreleased Purple Rains.
@iamslickrick01 What’s the fantasy here, that a genius but dead musician is going to capture a whole new generation of fans and fandom with a vault full of unreleased masterpieces?
Wishful thinking but I get it, gotta feed the niche content grind.
If your theological framework demands a style of evangelism that by glittering generalities, ambiguous and conflating language seeks to bypass the cognitive faculties of the hearer while winning them to it, it’s highly likely that your framework is flawed. And you are at best disingenuous and at worst dishonest and deceitful.
The west will never “save”itself til it gets serious about who the REAL enemy is. The one currently leading the POTUS by the nose. The destabilizing power thats the real influence of global mass migration, funding radical, violent racial and economic movements, corrupting Christianity with an idolatrous nationalistic eschatology that priorities one nation above all as salvific, justifying all manner of atrocities.
Get real western man. “Racist” isn’t the charge that has you quaking in your boots. It’s that charge that could cost you everything; your businesses, personal wealth, your social standing, your global mobility, your life. RIP Charlie Kirk. Am I right?
What does it really mean to “embrace historic reformed theology” when it’s not a singular consistent thing? Clearly the 5 points of TULIP as a tool falls within the “camp” of reformed theology.
Usually when reformed Christians problematize TULIP they do so because principally it acts as a limiting influence upon their brand of reformed evangelism. They want hypothetical universalism included for which limited atonement excludes. They want to attribute some level of spiritual agency to the wicked for which total depravity excludes.
The T and L of TULIP is super problematic to popular reformed theology and I wish these Christians had an ounce of honesty and admit that it’s their theological framework they’re defending, not some generalized, idealized “historic reformed theology” and they’re certainly not defending the Scriptures.
@D__Dapaah Gods law is not mans law. Man is under the law of God as His created beings but Gods law (to man) is eternal as is God. As God is eternal so is that which reflects His nature and character. (Ps 111:7,8; 119:152, 119:160, Isa 40:8)
God does not sovereignly and efficaciously act apart from His law. God cannot capriciously make dead sinners alive apart from an applied satisfaction for sin - Christ and His righteousness.
True faith is the proof of new life, justification and righteousness. Not a means or instrument to it.
@D__Dapaah Correct, God and the law of God are synonymous in that the law is a perfect reflection of the nature of God. What Gods law states is never contrary to God Himself and visa versa. (Ps. 19:7-9, 119:142; Rom. 7:12-14)
New life is to faith what oxygen is to breathing. That is, all breathing demands oxygen. The will to breath for ex. under water, is powerless without a means of oxygen.
If someone is breathing they must have access to oxygen. Likewise true faith is synonymous with new life.
Ye must be born again. And if you are born again you will have true faith toward God and in Christ Jesus.
But understand, it’s not faith “taking hold of” Christ that saves or justifies anyone before God. Faith is the byproduct of new life, thus if there is true faith salvation and justification in Christ have already been given both forensically and instrumentally as all new life is in Christ.
True faith, as conviction, accomplishes nothing but is the primary evidence of the finished work of God through and in Christ to all and upon all those that believe.
Faith, even as a conviction, is commanded and is thus a work which all men are commanded to obey. (John 14:1; Heb. 11:6; Mk 1:15; 1 Jh 3:23; Acts 16:31).
Any religious persuasion that denies this basic biblical truth does so purely in service to and glory of a theological framework and not Christ.