Shawn C. Madden

Christian, Husband, Father, Grandfather! Student of Scripture, Retired Marine, Pilot.

[Shawn C. Madden @Majormadd]

Any writer, even the apostolic writers, are just commentators, no more inspired of insightful than commentators today. They have their strengths and their weaknesses. Modern commentators have the advantage of having all previous writers at their disposal.
And, this is very often forgotten, they didn’t all address every subject and they did not all agree.
Scripture is the only body of writings that are inspired. None of the church writers are. They may have good (and erroneous) things to say but they all have to be evaluated for veracity or error.

[Shawn C. Madden @Majormadd]

@KhanSaba1278 First name Hi, middle name Ho, last name Silver.

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@sola_chad Calvary is the midpoint of eternity.

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@sola_chad https://t.co/64bjaa3LW5

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@ferrismattic SEBTS did the same. Maintains institutional integrity. At SEBTS there was more eschatatological lattitude. Made for some good banter but never got serious as eschatological disagreement was recognized as a tertiary issue.

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There was unimaginable power in the explosion of that star that left the veil nebula as a remnant but truly, there was infinitely more power in the rending of the Veil in the Temple. In the rending of the star that left the nebula, dust and gases were separated and flung light years apart. But, in the rending of the Temple Veil, the separation between the LORD God and Man was removed even further than the diameter of any nebula or galaxy. God had created man “in his image” and he did so that a creature may have perfect fellowship with him. And yet man sinned and separated himself from the God who created him. And without action on God’s  part that separation would be eternal and irreconcilable and no amount of energy created by any action or effort of man or any astronomical object could restore that fellowship. The only one who could was God. But, his nature is Righteousness and Justice. Sin causes that eternal separation and cannot by God be just dismissed like nothing had happened. But, God’s nature includes Mercy and Love. In John’s Gospel we read, “for God so loved the world (κόσμον)[5] that he gave his onlybegotten Son so that all those who believe in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

The giving of his Son was the greatest and most powerful Merciful act of Love that also and necessarily satisfied entirely his Righteousness and Justice.
https://t.co/KD77CVzWWT

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@gavinortlund https://t.co/64bjaa3LW5

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My biggest question would be, how can you read this -

Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
(Matt. 13:55-56 ESV)

And think, "Well, that can't be right. Who are those people?"

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@UcheMaryOkoli How long does it continue as the "body, blood, soul, and divinity" of Jesus? Is there an expiration time/date?

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@rickbrennanjr @Burgess7281975 Similar experience here. Waste of time.

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@ThyPaddyDaddy https://t.co/yUnpY7Ngj6

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@brycejofficial https://t.co/64bjaa3LW5

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@CatholicCoachP "ancient tradition" No apostle is identified. So, your point is still not made.

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"Infant baptism has been the practice of the church."
No. https://t.co/B6bDU9SiWx

"Magisterial citation? https://t.co/LR7Xjo8tYR"

1252 The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church.
There is explicit testimony to this practice from the
second century on,

and it is

quite possible
that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole "households" received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.53

"second century"
"quite possible"
Not a strong case.

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@CatholicCoachP What ‘unwritten tradition’ of baptism are you talking about?
Do you have any official magisterial citation of it?

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@CatholicCoachP It would be handy if you responded with a counter point rather than ‘lmao.’

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@CatholicCoachP Only Believers are baptized - Credo Baptism vice Pedo Baptism.
Water baptism is not salvific.

[Shawn C. Madden @Majormadd]

Any writer, even the apostolic writers, are just commentators, no more inspired of insightful than commentators today. They have their strengths and their weaknesses. Modern commentators have the advantage of having all previous writers at their disposal. And, this is very often forgotten, they didn’t all address every subject and they did not all agree. Scripture is the only body of writings that are inspired. None of the church writers are. They may have good (and erroneous) things to say but they all have to be evaluated for veracity or error.
Even proximity counts little if their writing does not line up with Scripture. Paul and the other NT writers wrote some serious letters to folks that they had personally taught.

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@adelethelaptop Simply read the Books of Kings. Even the "chosen" people went wildly astray and were sent into exile. 2 Kings 17 is particularly instructive.
https://t.co/vcEcJp7S68

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@Stephen_Yahn @rickbrennanjr