@IndianaBrunner 'mary is no more or less blessed than any other christian' defys scripture.
I understand we disagree, the scripture you use to say Mary is not honored, is the same verse the church uses to honor her. It's a matter of interpretation, which were not going to solve today
@bannedpastor I want to commend you for reading this with the hope of seeking to truly underetand. I'm a nobody on X that my opinion should matter, but huge props...this probably takes more couragethan most realize.
Remember that time when Georgia voted on stopping daylights savings time a few years ago and it passed...and we still change our clocks back every year.
That was awesome.
@Younos2025@IndianaBrunner I agree but view this understanding as partial. The broad understanding through history has been:
1. Destruction of sin, death and the devil(s)
2. Preservation of the church from heresy
3. Preservation of the visible church from ceasing to exist.
I think we mostly agree
@Younos2025@IndianaBrunner I'd be willing to dialogue on the first point, your ending statement is meant to be inflammatory, I suppose.
If Christ founded the church and said the gates of hell wouldn't prevail against it, what did he mean? 1700 yrs of wandering only to have it recovered in the last 300?
@solamediaorg@WesleyLHuff@AdrielTweets@MichaelHorton_ The very first writings of the men discipled by the apostles: "where the bishop is, there is the church"
Wes huff: "baptists have apostolic succession too guys!"
@WesleyLHuff I don't know how, with a straight face, you can look at the effects of the reformation 500 years later and say it "didn't form a new church".
Only a slim few of the core beliefs have carried over, and the reformed churches don't agree on the essentials.
To those of us in Leadership positions:
Respect is earned, not demanded.
If you have to demand it, you don't deserve it.
But thanks for proving you shouldn't be leading!
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@elonmusk@battleangelviv This is a fairly reckless opinion without data/plan to back this up. I get the models, but when have we ever seen superabundance controlled at the top (consolidation of wealth to the few frontier labs and gov's) ever trickle down to the citizen? Still sounds like a pipe dream.
@residentreformr Really interesting...I wonder what happened historically after this encounter between the Bereans and Paul?
It'd be crazy if they did something like join the early Christian Community and become the Orthodox Church in Greece...