Luke Hanson

Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | Husband, Father of 3

YouTube channel: Doctrine and Governance

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

Go to church y'all

Our country needs Jesus

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@JasminRappleye I get REALLY concerned by members who casually throw out that they're Heartlanders because that's where the Lord said it was.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

Dan Ellsworth's @DanEllsworthVA new article should be required reading for anyone who has asked why people leave the Church. It's a great response to the garbage (my words, not his) being peddled recently on the topic. Link👇👇

https://t.co/KzJaci2y4V

[Ralph C Hancock @RalphCHancock]

Interpreter https://t.co/MsUZZgPDSM

Jeff Strong's TORN: a final word (from me). I just had the good fortune of coming across Dan Ellsworth's excellent review of Strong's instant hit, in the excellent journal of The Interpreter Foundation. I'm so glad I did, because it's excellent, and I can't improve upon it, so... I won't try! Thanks, Dan, for saving me a couple weeks' work on this important, sometimes insightful and spiritually sensitive, but -- as Dan shows very convincingly, to my lights -- deeply flawed book. Read Dan Ellsworth's review, and you'll never again need me on the subject of TORN! Whew, that's a relief. Now, on to other projects...
PS: the observations on FAITH MATTERS are very important, far beyond the appeal of this particular book. Now that's a subject I may not be able to resist...
@DanEllsworthVA @FaithMatters @InterpreterFnd

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@kylebeshears Kyle, I just messaged you two Mormonism questions I'd love your take on.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@_Davreek_Rahimi That is a great question

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

This guy's calling was PR in the LA area....

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@alanliddell_ @aopaderf @darthcaro Yes, sometimes there's a stake person and then the areas will have one as well.

I'm actually working with one to do a private tour of the San Diego temple and then an interview on temple grounds.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@BowieTheus @j_divis The funny thing is your question is an even wise way to test if people know what the Trinity is. One of the first rules of surveys is to not give the person the answer you want in the question you're asking.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@BereanHouse @redeemed_St K, so what does John 3:8 have to say about the method of regeneration?

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

I'll never take this accusation seriously again. Christians unanimously believed in the "work" of baptismal regeneration for over a thousand years.

In a way Protestants believe in a greater great apostasy than we do.

[Danny @Truth_matters20]

Mormons distort the gospel by claiming that we are saved by God's grace after all we can do (works), and not through faith alone in Christ like the Bible says.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

I didn't say it was hermeneutics, and I didn't say I was interpreting a 2000 year old document through a 200 year old one.

You're the one with the interpretation that came up over 1000 years later by the way, if anyone is guilty of using a newly made up standard to read the text it's you.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@redeemed_St The verse says nothing about how regeneration happens. The question is baptismal regeneration is a question on how regeneration happens.

If this is what Jesus clearly was teaching, how did it go almost completely unnoticed for over 1000 years?

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@BereanHouse @redeemed_St A ton of what Paul and Jesus were doing was telling the Jews they had gone seriously astray in their scriptural interpretation.

So not only is it very Catholic, it's also very Biblical

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@redeemed_St This is not good hermeneutics. There's nothing in the text they necessitates that interpretation

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

Substituting "the 66-book protestant canon" in for every mention of "scriptures" or "the word of God" in the Bible is one of the fundamental interpretation errors Protestants make.

We know for a fact they could not have been referring to that at the time it was written. Please don't twist the scripture.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@itsrosesm I'd probably show him my ID, go and vote, and forget it even happened by the time I walked out.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@The2nd1776 @Pilotaaron1 Do you believe in baptismal regeneration?

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@mfreivald Part of the problem is that usually Christian is understood to be synonymous with "saved person." We don't have that framing.

So it really depends on what understanding you have of the term Christian.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@Lawgiver2023 @mfreivald Thanks man, one day

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@Lawgiver2023 @mfreivald I don't think I represented it that way

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

@beaustin24 @Next50Years Pretty sure they're still supposed to do the lesson if it conflicts with a prescheduled thing

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

I taught the 5th Sunday lesson to the youth today. It was great. I was so happy that sacrament meeting ended 5 minutes early.

We still went 5 minutes over of course because everyone agreed we needed to sing the Star Spangled Banner with the oft-neglected final verse.

I'm so grateful for America 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
How'd it go for everyone else?