John F Rissler

''What must we do, that we may work the works of God?'' Jesus answered them, ''This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.''

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

@SacrdCowTipping @khoingo @nabdowney @WesleyLHuff Cloud's argument is interesting in that it reveals how weak this tradition is. If this tradition had a Scriptural base, he wouldn't need to try to invent support that isn't there.

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

@SacrdCowTipping @khoingo @nabdowney @WesleyLHuff Years ago, David Cloud referred to Acts 2:41, and wrote* "How did they know how many were added if they didn't have a membership list?"

Someone pointed out that meant Jesus must have had everybody sign a membership list before he fed the 5,000. 🙂

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

@DefiantBaptist @MendamCaedo These types of things always bring annoying conspiracy theories out of the woodwork.

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

@DefiantBaptist @PhantomWizzo 😂

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

@SacrdCowTipping @khoingo @nabdowney @WesleyLHuff *It has been years since I read this, and memory is far from perfect. Hopefully, if Cloud were to read this he would not feel like I misrepresented him.

[Jason Cooley 🌪️🎺 @JasonCooleyWX]

This was crazy to watch! This amazing supercell spun over the open prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle on June 25th. This 30X time lapse shows the dynamics at work, and how the tornado briefly touched down right as the circulation became loaded with rain/hail.

#stormchaser #oklahoma #weather

[SacredCowTipper. Simple Christian. @SacrdCowTipping]

Matthew 5-7 is about 12 minutes, not to a gathering of christians,

Peter in Acts 2, not to a gathering of Christians

Stephen in Acts 7 to the Sanhedrin, not to Christians, about 8 minutes

All 3 likely had unrecorded dialogue.

Nothing in 1 Timothy 4:13 says anything about lengthy monolgues or sermons. Teaching does not mean sermon. Exhortation does not mean sermon. Reading scripture does not mean sermon.

Nehemiah 8 - again not a gathering of christians - reading the law and explaining to a nation as they didn't have printing presses.

Sermons developed slowly and gradually over the first 3-4 centuries. The exhortation of the time of Justin Martyr were much more keeping within a normative biblical time. They slowly got linger and longer over the centuries, peaking around Augustine, then largely dissapeared for about a millenia.

Sorry, but you could not provide a single example of christians gatherimg to listen to one man deliver a lengthy monologue. You failed spectacularly.

[SacredCowTipper. Simple Christian. @SacrdCowTipping]

NO! Sermons are not in the bible. Christians NEVER gathered to listen to 1 man deliver a lengthy monologue, forget about every week in a "church service" they never did it a SINGLE time anywhere in the new testament. I think if we are going to revolve our entire faith around this weekly ritual we would be at least to find one single example anywhere in the bible.

And theobro keyboard warriors, before you start typing the nonsense thoughless responses I already know you are typing, pause, think about it for a moment - does that word really mean what you are pretending it means? Does that passage really say what you are pretending it says? If you are going to claim sola scriptura, that isn't really meaningful if you just twist scripture post hoc to justify your every man-made tradition.

I am nauseated by the pastor worship. I am nauseated by the belief among protestants that simply takes "priest administering eucharist" and exchanges it for "pastor administering the sermon" as a means of grace. It is all unbiblical nonsense.

The word of GOD is NOT a seminarians weekly monologue-commentary on it. Preaching DOES NOT refer to sermons. Dialogue does not mean sermon. Teach does not mean sermon. Converse does not mean sermon.

Let's stop the nonsense. It is exhausting.

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

Here, the brilliant @Miss_Snuffy from London explains Zoran Mamdani Mania better than anyone in America has so far done so…

This is a great, but terrifying speech…
😱🤦‍♂️🤮🥲

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

We all have a propensity to be our own god, just like Adam and Eve.

We want to decide truth for ourselves. We see ourselves as being proud of what we know. We think we can reason correctly by ourselves and so we have that problem of intellectual pride wanting intellectual respectability.

I believe this is why there is so much compromise in the church when it comes to God’s Word in Genesis. Our heart is such that we would rather trust man’s word than God’s Word, and so we have a problem with intellectual pride, and thus we cave to peer pressure.

We must guard against this.

[Nate @1984_nate]

Notice how Calvinists love to twist God's word? John 6:44 says no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

It doesn't say no man WILL come unless drawn.

[Nate @1984_nate]

Another strawman. In our view God is not trying and failing. He’s not trying to save people against their will. He’s making salvation possible for all and saving those who believe. Zero failure there.

All Connor has is intellectual dishonesty.

[Eric Hovind @erichovind]

The gospel teaches that our deepest problem is sin and our greatest need is reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ.

[Eric Hovind @erichovind]

Frank is right that the Bible’s failure to mention the word “dinosaur” would not prove God doesn’t exist.

But I think many skeptics are asking a different question about dinosaurs.

They’re not usually wondering, “Why doesn’t the Bible mention dinosaurs?”

They’re wondering, “How could dinosaurs fit into the Bible if they lived millions of years before humans?”

That’s a much more intelligent and significant question because it gets to the timeline of Biblical history.

If dinosaurs died millions of years before Adam, then death, disease, suffering, extinction, and bloodshed existed long before sin entered the world. That directly impacts how we understand Genesis, the Fall, and why death exists in the first place.

Ironically, modern discoveries are making the millions-of-years story impossible to defend. Soft tissue, proteins, blood vessel structures, and other original biological materials are constantly reported in dinosaur fossils. These discoveries are impossible to reconcile with the claim that these creatures died tens of millions of years ago.

So instead of dismissing the dinosaur question as irrelevant, I think it’s worth addressing what people are really asking:

If dinosaurs live millions of years before humans, wouldn’t that destroy what the Bible clearly teaches and therefore destroy the infallibility of the word of God?

The reality is, all the skeptics see the fatal flaw in old-earth Creation. The biblical response would be to trust God‘s word.

[SacredCowTipper. Simple Christian. @SacrdCowTipping]

"A fruitless Church is the predictable result of making converts to DOCTRINE rather than DISCIPLES of Christ."

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

@SacrdCowTipping @SuitSheep It indicates they fear the truthfulness of the arguments you post, and are afraid you'll respond to them someday. I think they'd be much less afraid if you'd be posting falsehoods -- they know how to respond to that.

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

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[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

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[𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔 @RisingDisciples]

@bikerbutter I believe ALL sects of what are considered to be true segments of Christendom have serious flaws & issues.

They've all complicated the simplicity that is in Christ by addition and/or subtraction.

[John F Rissler @JohnF_R]

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