David K. Martin

Husband, father, audiobook narrator, sci-fi fan, photographer, lapsed hiker, Simul Justus et Peccator

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@JoshuaBarzon The "Pledge to the Christian Flag"

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

My goodness. One of the best things I’ve ever heard. Bravo.

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@Kirkwoodk137 @SethDillon So, ID is required for free admission.

Thus imposing a racially disparate surcharge on numerous black voters, uh, museum guests whom we've been told don't have any form of ID.

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@JoshuaBarzon A great choice would be Souls: How Jesus Saves Sinners by @matt_everhard

And it's free to read via @MonergismBooks

https://t.co/qZvQfwvXCU

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@RevivedThoughts

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False conceptions of God are not just mistaken or unbiblical, they are impious and unholy.

Modern American Christianity has so focused on practical idolatry (eg., Eph 5:5), that it seems to have forgotten that idolatry can also reside in the mind and the teachings that shape its conceptions of God. Fallen men have turned to idols because they became “futile in their thinking” (Rom 1:21). Idolatry is formed by "the art and imagination of man" (Acts 17:29). So false construals of God should be understood as unholy, as remaining idolatry.

This was understood by prior generations. John of Damascus argued that to forget God’s simplicity and speak of His attributes as “essential differences” is “impious in the extreme” (Orthodox Faith, I.9). John Owen argued that ascribing "the least mutability" to the divine essence is "transcendent atheism, in the highest degree" (Works 10:14). Modern theologians who reject or revise doctrines like divine simplicity and immutability do not merely need to revise or rethink their positions, they need to repent of speaking of God in unholy ways.

The Christian’s need for sanctification is not only moral, it is intellectual and theological. Our thinking and speaking of God also needs to be sanctified by Him til it is worthy of Him (this is especially true for pastors who speak to form others’ conceptions of God).

This isn't turning from genuine Christianity to "intellectualism." It is remembering that we are to love the only God with all that we are (Deut 6:4-5), which certainly includes how we think and speak about Him.

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@AConservativeDa @megbasham @GregAbbott_TX @libsoftiktok You lost me at "you're a little scumbag right there." Within 30 seconds you were verbally abusive.

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@TheBabylonBee He just needs some "living space".

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@libsoftiktok

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@StevenJTrevor @chayesmatthew Apparently bus service exists to provide a set number of overtime hours to bus drivers.

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@wajacobson Why does this sound familiar?

Oh, right.

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@r_sofia57 @ThomasSowell

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@John_R_Shepard @ThomasSowell Socialism—forced redistribution of wealth—is not altruism. There is no charity in having your wealth taken at gunpoint. Altruism, which Jesus taught, is voluntarily giving to those in need. And conservatives give more money to charity than progressives.

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@TheRhetorRick @presbycast If a document in the CREC book of resources taught, say, that homosexual "marriage" is biblical, or perhaps that the Father and Jesus are separate gods, would that be a matter of concern or not?

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@furious4hope @MikeWingerii Let's stop the muss and fuss of changing clocks twice a year since it's only 1 hr.

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@EJHill_PSC @AGHamilton29 Do such partially-written stories typically carry the byline of a specific, real reporter at the organization?

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The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith.
― J. Gresham Machen

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@WJasonBell @DataRepublican @BarbMcQuade Landru, guide us!

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