CarsonBaura

A Christian, A Father of three, A Churchman, Confessional Reformed Presbyterian, and A Fire Protection Engineer

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

Philippians 2:2-5

[2] complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. [3] Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. [4] Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [5] Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@realmattcarr @CousinDupr6ofz Canons of Dort say otherwise.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@realmattcarr @CousinDupr6ofz So @realmattcarr, on a separate but related subject. Are you willing to call those who argue for modern day Arminian theology “heretics” as you have done with Doug Wilson?

[Ligonier Ministries @Ligonier]

If you don’t have justification by faith alone, you don’t have the gospel.

Watch as @RCSproul looks at the article on which the church stands or falls.

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[Benjamin L. Gladd @DrGladd]

I've been listening to some dispensational podcasts as of late, and I keep bumping up against a problem. 🚦

According to a lot of dispensationalists, an interpreter holds to dispensationalism or "replacement theology."

I'm a covenant theologian but I don't hold to replacement theology. The church doesn't replace Israel.

The church is the CONTINUATION of true Israel in Christ. NT believers are joined to OT believers as the covenant community. That's not replacement.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@KJBrigg @dalepartridge Exactly! Thank you @KJBrigg

[Kevin Briggins @KJBrigg]

The issue is viewing nationalism strictly through a racial lens. The issue is being a Christian and determining that your neighbor who share your skin color and ethnic heritage is more important than your neighbor who doesn't. It is turning "race" and heritage into an idol and then building a theology around the idol to justify it.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

Do you want to help your children understand the overarching redemptive historical narrative of the Bible? Do you want them to see Christ in all of the Scriptures? Then teach them Covenant Theology.
What’s the best way to do that? Catechize them with the Young Children’s Catechism and the Westminster Shorter Catechism which are fully Covenantal! The catechism is the grammar of the Christian Faith and it will give them a framework for properly understanding the Gospel in the Scriptures.

https://t.co/S9Fp2wnpeP

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

On 2 Samuel 6:6-7… “this passage has powerful implications for New Testament worship. God’s wrath against Uzzah warns us against irreverence in our approach to the heavenly throne of God. If his anger burned against Uzzah for mishandling the Old Testament ark, how much more will His wrath be kindled against those who defile the heavenly mercy seat through insincerity and irreverence in worship?”
- Richard L. Pratt, Jr., He Gave Us Stories

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@Ramen274565 @Nicholas_Bow Watch this clip and let me know what you think!

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[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

If by “free will” you mean complete autonomy and independence from our creator God, then NO. We don’t have that kind of freedom. We depend on God sustaining us and giving us life and breath. We are creatures, God is the creator. He is completely sovereign and in control of all things. There’s nothing outside of His control. Scripture is clear on that.

Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 9 — on Free Will, is worth reading.
Section 1: God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil.

Section 2: Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God, but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.

Section 3: Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.

Section 4: When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he frees him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he does not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.

Section 5- The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

“To succeed in application we must not only exegete the text; we must also exegete our world. Unfortunately this is precisely where many church leaders fall short. Pastors and church leaders often know a lot about Scripture but very little about the currents of contemporary life. Locked away in their studies, they live in relative isolation, largely unacquainted with the lives of people to whom they minister. Consequently, pastors and teachers often pursue relatively unimportant issues as they apply Scripture.”
- Richard Pratt Jr, He Gave Us Stories

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@Heidelblog01 @RScottClark @heidelcast @HeidelbergRefo1 Or more specifically, the relationship between ordination and the mission of the Church.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@Heidelblog01 @RScottClark @heidelcast @HeidelbergRefo1 @RScottClark you have anything on the Doctrine of Ordination?

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

Yes, he only wanted some people. If he wanted to save everyone, he would have.

Romans 9:14-16

[14] What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! [15] For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” [16] So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

Intracanonical self-attestation illustrated. The NT attests to the inspiration of the OT in its extensive use of it. The OT attests to the inspiration of the NT insofar as the NT completes and fulfills the OT. The Bible is a tightly integrated canonical 'package'.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

If Jesus died “on the cross for everyone, so that everyone can be saved” then everyone would be saved. But we know that’s not true. Christian’s don’t believe in universal atonement, or that everyone is saved. Rather, he died on the cross for the Elect. For those whom God the Father gave to Christ (John 6:37). This is all over the pages of Scripture. It’s called Particular Redemption or Limited Atonement.

God’s salvation is efficacious. God accomplishes what he intended to - salvation of a particular people (the elect) for himself for his own glory. If Jesus dies on the cross just to make salvation “possible” and then leaves the rest of it up to us to decide whether or not we accept it, we certainly would never accept God on our own free will. We would be hopeless. Because our wills are bent toward evil and hatred of God. It’s only once the Spirit regenerates us and causes us to be born again (See John 1:12-13 and John 3) that we turn to God and “choose” to follow him. This makes much of God and gives him all the credit for our Salvation. It is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the Glory of God alone.

Matthew 1:21
[21] She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save HIS PEOPLE from their sins.”

Mark 10:45
[45] For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for MANY.” (It doesn’t say ALL)

John 10:11
[11] I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the SHEEP.

John 6:37
[37] All that the Father gives me WILL COME TO ME, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

John 6:44
[44] No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Acts 13:48
[48] And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were APPOINTED to eternal life believed.

Ephesians 1:4-5
[4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love [5] he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

2 Peter 1:10
[10] Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and ELECTION, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

John 15:16
[16] You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@FedoraJames10 Just go take a tour of @RTSCharlotte. Ask to go to lunch with Dr. Cara.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

God doesn’t leave those he intends to save dead in their sins, waiting for them to alive themselves (so that then they will choose him). No he regenerates them by the power of the Holy Spirit so that they will then receive him. His grace is effective at overcoming the resistance of our human wills.

Ephesians 2:4-5

[4] But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, [5] even when we were dead in our trespasses, MADE US ALIVE together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

Whether we like or not, for good or for worse, AI is already beginning to have a profound impact on Biblical Hermeneutics. Can you imagine what is to come!?

[Ligon Duncan @LigonDuncan]

Here’s the latest version (3.0) of a chart by @DrGladd of @TGC plotting 3,000 Old Testament allusions and 350 quotations in the NT.

🔸= quotations
🔹= allusions