Brian Lohmeier 🏵️

Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum

[Brian Lohmeier 🏵️ @BrianLohmeier]

@WmWeedon Congratulations. My sainted Grandmother and one of my nephews share this birthday too.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

What did you think was going to happen after we legalized #GayMarriage?

That same-sex couples would finally be able to visit one another in the hospital? Inherit property? Make medical decisions? Many of those legal protections were already available through powers of attorney, contracts, and other legal arrangements.

What #Obergefell enabled was something else.

It accelerated the legal replacement of biological parenthood with intent-based parenthood.

It made it easier to detach children from their mother or father and reattach them to biological strangers so same-sex couples could be "equal" to husband-wife couples.

It conditioned an entire culture to repeat, “Love makes a family,” by threatening them with social isolation if they refused.

It permitted scrubbing “mother” and “father” from parentage laws and replacing them with "gestating" and "non-gestating" parent in the name of non-discrimination.

It made politicians afraid to defend the importance of mothers and fathers because genderless families had been upheld by the country's highest court.

The lasting legacy of #Obergefell has not simply been the redefinition of marriage. It has been the unmaking of the American family by erasing mother and father, both in law and culture.

Children deserve better. @MakeKidsGreater

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@VFshirts The fur's a bit much.

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Affectionately yours, Screwtape.

[Klaus Schwab @ProfKlausSchwab]

After more than 50 years of convening leaders to shape a better future, I am bringing that conversation to Instagram.

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@FreddyLA7 HSV ?? 🤢🤮

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@Schilling1776 Lord have mercy

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@SlowToWrite

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

The Bible says "baptism now saves you." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says that baptism makes us dead to sin and alive to Christ. And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible refers to salvation coming through "the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this watery language does not refer to the watery-thing Jesus instituted in Matthew 28 and said that all Christians were to receive.

The Bible speaks of being born again of "water and the Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this refers not to baptism, where the Holy Spirit works in the water, but to the water of amniotic fluid (that is, the natural birth) and then another birth, the non-watery rebirth of regeneration through faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible speaks quite clearly of infant faith. And sure, you can argue that these passages don't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible thematically links baptism with circumcision, which was performed on Israelite boys when they were 8 days old. And sure, you can argue that this link doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says that baptism "is for you and your children." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says to make disciples through teaching and baptizing "all nations." Children were inarguably included in the Jewish understanding of "nations." And sure, you can argue that a different definition of "nations" is being used when speaking of baptism.

The Bible describes entire households being baptized. "Households" is a term that inarguably included children if they were present. And sure, you can argue that all of the households described as being baptized did not include children and that there was no reason for Luke to note this if we were not supposed to think that we should baptize infants.

But the problem is that, to deny baptismal regeneration and to reject infant baptism, you have to argue ALL of these things. Each and every one of them.

So, what is more likely: that you are forcing false assumptions about baptism onto the Bible or that every single passage describing baptism and infant faith doesn't mean what it says? What's more likely: that you have a flawed hermeneutic or that passage after passage after passage about baptism and infant faith needs a ton of clarification in order to unlock its true meaning?

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@MZHemingway What a disgrace.

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@BlueBoxDave

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My six year old's creation: Pickle-chicken.

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@DavidVStewart No thanks.

[William Weedon @WmWeedon]

Hearing a speaker today had me wondering if Lutherans for Racial Justice get any funds from non Lutheran sources, and if so, which and what strings are attached.

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@jeremylatzke At least they get to celebrate shameful "pride" on behalf of the nation. They've got their Priorities.

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@LutheranAnswers Pandas

[Keith Bowman @PastorBowman]

A sign that sin is slavery is sin defining who you are.

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Pentecost tomorrow!

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@nut_history Zambrano's no-hitter for the Cubs against the Astros in Milwaukee.

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@Metal_Lutheran I'm very sorry.