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Either presuppose God or intellectually die. That is the alternative with which the Christian should challenge his fellow man. #Reformed #Apologetics #Presup

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@QBomvu43334 @RomanCabanac You have a pre-modern mindset and clearly have no idea how business and innovation works. Makes sense that what I'm saying is completely foreign to you, you probably have never built anything from scratch yourself. South African regulation kills business. That's all.

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@QBomvu43334 @RomanCabanac Yes cause Africa is supposed to be inferior, right?

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@QBomvu43334 @RomanCabanac Meta Platforms, Stripe, Uber, ByteDance, Xiaomi all after 2004. Anthropic, OpenAI: Few years old. Amazon 1994. Google 1998. Despite all the massive technological advancements that enable new industries, South Africa has produced nothing in the last 30 years.

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Is this deep enough?

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We must go deeper.

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@ShawnMathis1972 This is a ridicilous argument. Christians aren't utilitarians. Moreover, you can make the same argument for any amount of money you spend in your personal capacity.

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@haines52937 Hi Jim! Thanks for the message. Saw it on the AC site as well. Will take a look!

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Understanding Cornelius Van Til might be difficult, but this condensed view might give you the nugget you need to unlock him.

Van Til is probably one of the most important philosophers/theologians we must grapple with to efficiently answer the post-moderns we see today.

#Christianity #VanTil #Postmodernism #Philosophy

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This year extracts a heavy toll.

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Erika Kirk shared a heartbreaking anecdote last night: “[Our daughter] said, 'Where's daddy?' What do you tell a 3 year-old? I said ‘Baby, Daddy loves you so much, he's on a work trip with Jesus.”

This is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. This precious three-year-old girl clearly loved her father, Charlie Kirk, with all her being. She could not make sense of where her father was. Why wasn't Daddy coming home? Where was he? Why wasn't he checking in?

I read this as a father and was hit with an almost physical pain. Many other fathers and mothers likely had a similar reaction. This is the worst part about death for us: leaving our children behind. Asking questions. Growing sad. Not understanding. A spouse, wracked with grief, trying to figure out what to say, and when to share the news that we can scarcely, in our darkest moments, imagine saying to our beloved children.

"Daddy is not coming home, sweetheart."

"Daddy has died."

"Daddy is in heaven."

"Daddy is with Jesus."

"Daddy loved you so much; he loved you more than life itself."

How can you say these words to a three-year-old girl and keep on going? You can do so only by the grace of God. We should pray for Erika Kirk by the hour, asking God to give her supernatural strength. Her little girl wants her Daddy. She wants his strength; his protection; his strong arms; his playfulness; his smile; his hugs. All that has been taken from her, and nothing can undo that.

Moments like this are so staggeringly awful that we struggle to process them. How can a child be left without her father? The reality is this: we know that God does all things well (Mark 7:37). His plan is perfect. Not pretty good; perfect (Psalm 18:30). Everything, the worst thing and the best thing, is woven by the perfect wisdom of God with such skill that it works for our eternal good and God's eternal glory (Romans 8:28).

You can know these things at a high level. But questions may well still hit you, assailing you, even. They may snap you awake at night; they may crash into ordinary moments; they may surge through you when you're having a conversation about something entirely different. Why this path? Why this outcome? Couldn't God get glory through a similar, but less painful, way? Why me? Why us? Why is this happening to my children?

Could there not be another way, Lord?

The truth is this: so often, we will not know in this life why God has cut our path the way he has. We will try to step back and look at God's life-plan for us, and it will look like one of those conspiracy charts. Why that way? Why did things zig there? Why couldn't that part have been a smooth uphill climb? Why that crash all of a sudden? Why all that sunlight, only for the clouds to descend and not leave?

In many cases, we will not have ready-at-hand answers to these kind of questions. God will ask us to continue going on, continue trusting him, continue walking by faith. His Word gives us the broad strokes. It supplies us with all the core truth we need to make it to the finish-line and honor him each day. But it does not give us what our hearts crave: the play-by-play. The deeper plan at work in all the chaos, struggle, pain, hardship, twists, turns, and trials. We're not going to have that here; we never will.

We cannot have that, in truth. It is heavenly wisdom; it belongs to God and God alone. It is too wonderful for unglorified creatures. It is truly the counsel of the divine; it is the mind of God, and we cannot know it, much as we struggle to do so, strain to do so, try to do so. The secret things belong to God, Scripture tells us, which is one of the most important verses in the Bible (Deuteronomy 29:29).

This single verse frees us from the soul-draining trap of straining to understand greater plan. It helps us understand: there are indeed secret things. God does not hide that there is hidden data. We do not have it. We cannot have it. He alone has it; he alone has the right to it as Creator; he alone, importantly, can handle it. This is wonderfully clarifying.

Such knowledge is not arbitrarily kept back from us in this life; such knowledge would be vastly too much for us to handle. It is fit only for God, and it would break us--truly, it would break our mind--if we tried to master it. There is nothing about the Creator and Sovereign of all that we are qualified for; everything about these divine roles is beyond us, too much for us, and would destroy us with but a second's attempt at filling them.

So God nowhere invites us to be him, to sit on the highest throne, to be enthroned in glory above everything. This is his prerogative alone, and it is good that it is so. Yet God does not teach us this truth in a nasty way. He is wonderfully kind to us. He is patient with us. He is tender with us. He cares for us with the strongest care there is--divine care (1 Peter 5:7). He does not give us the script that he is running. What he does give us is his steadfast love, his never-exhausted mercy, his tender compassion, his covenantal commitment that will never fail, his blessing, his peace, his joy.

His Son. God gives us not an it or a thing. God gives us his Son (Romans 8:32), and through the Son, God gives us the Spirit (John 14:26). He could not give us anything more. His Son and Spirit, furthermore, give us the Word, and the Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (119:105). It is a beacon in darkness, the trustworthy map that has never failed to escort God's people as they navigate life under the shadow of the knife all the way to eternal gladness.

God, in sum, has given us all that we need (2 Peter 1:3-4). We lack nothing that we should have. Yet we will battle our creatureliness, and many temptations associated with it, until we ourselves go to glory. There is no way around it. We will hit situations that feel impossible, and in truth, that ARE impossible. We will go way beyond what we can handle; we will travel far beyond what we would ever have asked for. We will go into places that we would never have dared to imagine that God would take us, places that leave us without any resource at all save God himself.

And that is just the point. In the end, God is doing a work in all that darkness, all that mystery, all that chaos. The work is this: he is refining our faith, purifying our walk, and strengthening our confession (1 Peter 1:7; Hebrews 12:3-12). Nothing about this is accidental; nothing about it has swung out of the control of God's sovereignty; nothing about it teaches us that God is actually--quietly--untrustworthy. No, all of it is purposeful. It is all designed to grow us and glorify God.

Knowing these things *still* does not wipe every tear away from our eyes. In the end, that's the role of the crucified and risen Christ alone. He alone can do that, for he alone has died for us, conquering death and Satan and hell and sin through his perfect wrath-bearing sacrifice on our behalf (Hebrews 2:14-18). He alone has the keys. He alone is the Good Shepherd of the sheep. He alone is the healer of our pain. He alone is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. He alone is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He alone is gentle and lowly of heart.

When you know that, in the end, your Savior and Lord will show up for you, and will wipe away all your tears--every last one--on the last day, you have the comfort and hope you need to go on. And this is how you can breath deep, say a brief prayer, lift your eyes to heaven, and walk into the bedroom of a tiny child--a well-loved child who adores her father--and tell her why Daddy is not coming home.

"Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me."

--Psalm 42:7

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Thank you Dr White

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Here is a great example of what happens when non-regeneration based “Christian Nationalism” takes full control of your thought. Webbon posted that America must learn to hate again. Just stop, step back, and think: what percentage of the American populace has a renewed heart? How many are indwelt by the Spirit? So what happens when you tell unregenerate men and women, even with the “correct” political views, that it is good to “hate”?

The citation of Romans 12:9 is just as problematic, since the Spirit is required to know what evil is (how many Americans identify what is good as evil, and vice-versa?) and is likewise necessary for one to abhor WHAT is evil (not “who” is evil) and WHAT is good.

Next, there is no “Church in America.” What church? Which one, teaching what things? There has never been a time when a wider spectrum of beliefs have paraded under the name “Christian” (a true mark of judgment and condemnation).

Finally, “America must learn both, or it will not survive.” Biblically, the people of the nation must have renewed hearts, first and foremost, or they will never actually love the good or abhor the evil. You cannot teach spiritually dead corpses to do spiritually good and proper things. Hatred of evil is based upon a renewed heart, and renewed mind. Trying to tap into the emotions produced by evil actions with a religious veneer is reprehensible and leads to the denigration of the gospel and damage amongst the sheep.

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In his excellent book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, historian Carl Trueman argues that the dominant worldview of the contemporary secular West is what he calls “expressive individualism.” This is the idea that “each of us finds our meaning by giving expression to our own feelings and desires” (46).

The Enlightenment philosopher Rene Descartes is famous for the dictum, “I think, therefore I am.” Expressive individualism is captured by the motto: “I feel, therefore I am.” Or perhaps, “I am what I feel I am.”

“And,” the reasoning goes, “in order for me to be my authentic self, I must give unfettered expression to those feelings. And because I am my feelings, any contradiction of my psychological beliefs about myself—any failure to affirm and validate those feelings—is a hateful threat to my very self. It is violence against my personhood.”

That is western culture over the last 15 years, especially as promoted by the political left. It’s why “speech” is called “violence.” It’s why words are spoken of as being “weaponized.” Everything is a weapon if I am under attack when my feelings aren’t affirmed.

Any lack of wholehearted affirmation and even celebration of my feelings—and certainly the notion that my feelings ought to change in order to be brought in line with objective reality—is virtually the same as wanting me to die.

It’s not difficult to see the implication: I have to kill you before you “kill” me. There is a straight line between the deification of one’s own feelings to the political assassinations (and attempts) that we are now seeing more of.

But the answer is to this is: you are not your feelings. You are what God your Creator says you are: a creature, made in His image, male or female as He has designed you, created to glorify and honor Him. And yet you have fallen into sin and corruption through disobedience to God’s law, and that disobedience earns you the just penalty of eternal punishment for your sins in hell.

But the Father has sent His Son into the world, (1) to live the perfect life of obedience you and I have failed to live, and (2) to die the substitutionary death that you and I were required to die (but couldn’t survive), bearing the penalty of divine wrath that sin deserves, and (3) to rise from the grave in victory over sin and death.

And He promises that if you will turn from your sin and trust Christ alone for your righteousness before God, your sins will be forgiven. If you repudiate yourself and find your identity in Jesus, He will replace the sinking sands of your feelings with the solid rock of truth. And He will be to you all the satisfaction and fulfillment that you could ever wish.

Expressive individualism is willing to take the lives of others in pursuit of self-actualization. The Gospel is: Jesus was willing to surrender His life in pursuit of others’ salvation. We live consistently with that Gospel when we lay down our lives to pursue others’ freedom.

A nation can only survive on one of those worldviews. The answer to our country’s brokenness is the Gospel of Jesus Christ alone.

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There is revival in the Christian church.

Churches are growing.

Young people are flocking to faith in God.

You do not want to live in a non-Christian country. Even the most hardened atheists or agnostics are blessed by the church's influence.