Dave Bryars

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@Oliver_S_Curry @freddiesayers @unherd I've wondered why you follow Haidt so closely on this issue. I thought it might be a continuation of your (substantial) critique of his MFT. But is it more a concern of this simple inversion of priorities?

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@lukeburgis Lewis talks about this in his wonderful little book 'The Abolition of Man'.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@FrLillie @PageauJonathan I actually appreciated Ortlund pushing back on this. Of course it's both concern for ourselves AND others. Throughout their online exchange Pageau has referenced several Orthodox praying for the salvation of those outside the Church.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@TwiceBornSpirit No one is "fooled" into thinking he doesn't have a Protestant agenda.

He simply does what is necessary for maintaining dialogue that doesn't descend into attacking character.

If only more people would take his example instead of being distracted by attempts at mind reading.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@annielcrawford @PageauJonathan @OrthodoxEthos @Acts17David @gavinortlund I think you're right about modernist brains. However, in my estimation, the misunderstanding between Pageau & Gavin et al arises from him being too *postmodern* in his thinking. More than his interlocutors, but also more than EO for millennia before him. Just a thought.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@Oliver_S_Curry @pewresearch I'm shocked to see 31% of people don't view abortion as a moral issue at all. Very surprised.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@DrJamesEglinton @DZRishmawy Bless you for all your work in translation

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@ErickYbarra3 Check out the Online Disinhibition Effect for a theory of why people seem less humane online: https://t.co/7bQAqacpAJ

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@Oliver_S_Curry If accurate this is wild. It's a useful factoid to really *feel* the cost of living crisis.

If the average wage in the UK has risen by approx 160% in the same timeframe, why does it feel like a train ticket has gone up 1000000%?!

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@PageauJonathan ...Christ purifies the House by excluding those within who don't have faith, St Paul builds the house by teaching inclusion by faith. Justification is on the outside doormat. It is thus a unique contribution of the apostle and essential to differentiate from sanctification.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@PageauJonathan St Paul introduces new language to a new context brought about by the Spirit and the inclusion of Gentiles. Christ purifies the House by excluding those within who don't have faith, St Paul builds the house by teaching inclusion by faith. Justification is on the outside doormat.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@PageauJonathan This is such low-ball polemics. Read the Reformers instead of bashing the people in the pews.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@PageauJonathan Yes. Where Prots focus on the work of the pill: " already healed from the disease", Ortho focus on the need for discipline. The Reformers knew we needed both senses of Salvation, or else we fall into one of 2 errors: an over scrupulous legalism; or a laissez-faire antinomianism

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@PageauJonathan @gagemurphy777 You simply need to enlarge your catagoroes for Salvation. As do folk Prot.s.

Are you a child of God? Are all people children of God? If the first is 'yes' and the second 'no', then there is an event - not ticket - when something decisive happened, a baptism into the life of God.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@PageauJonathan If you want to improve dialogue, look for Protestant writings that help make your point (for instance, Westminster Conf., XIII). You'll need to look beyond your local baptistic upbringing to the wider, deeper teaching if you're going to help others go beyond folk Protestantism.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@Fair_and_Biased @SwipeWright @JeremyDBoreing Like Boreing here, but victim mentality might be a kind of agency. Lewis wrote that our problem used to be how to conform the soul to reality, but now the problem is how to subdue reality to our wishes. VM is passive, skewed kind of agency opposed to inward cultivation of virtue.

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@NotPsychoPNut @WesleyLHuff Good luck to you!

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@NotPsychoPNut @WesleyLHuff And time and skill and...

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@nguyenhdi John and Charles Wesley

[Dave Bryars @MathetesDave]

@IVMiles One of the problems with this phenomenon (which I recognise to be true), is that the pulpit is not a place for sophistication. Gathering on a Sunday is not an elitist sport. The pulpit needs to communicate simply for the sake of a growing love for Christ.