NRS276

Christian. Reformed. Appalachian. Theonomist. Virginian. Secular Conservatism Conserves Nothing. Sanctification still in progress, as is evident here at times.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

@JohnCleese @MatthewBetley Every once in awhile, I see the old John Cleese is still there.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Perhaps it's just one of those everyday beheadings
that the Welsh Methodists are usually involved in

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

"A classical liberal order needs a Christian theological foundation to survive, as this report plainly states."
https://t.co/dD5U2f1Htu

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

Cue the Price Is Right fail horns.

[𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡 @HwsEleutheroi]

Social media is filled with the righteous indignation of the Mormons---who claim to be the only true Church, all other churches are corrupt, their creeds an abomination, their ministers the hirelings of Satan---that they, the Mormons, are not really Christians. It's just a tad ironic, but it does play on the ignorance of most LDS, and non-LDS, about LDS history and teachings.

Their current modus operandi is to use the phrase "creedal Christians" and try to make the issue post-biblical. Here's the problem. The fundamental distinction between Christianity and Mormonism goes back to about 1400 BC, not 400 AD. Here is the foundational contrast:

Before the mountains were born,
Or Your brought forth the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting,
You are God. (Psalm 90:2)

...for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.

Joseph Smith, 1844

Now, two quick things: 1) Psalm 90 is a song of Moses, hence the early date. 2) The King Follett Funeral Discourse is not LDS Scripture. But it is the most often cited sermon of Joseph Smith by the leaders of the LDS Church itself, and is one of two foundational sermons preached within the last months of his life.

Hence, the issue is stark and clear. Monotheism vs. polytheism, one transcendent Creator God vs. an exalted man from another planet. Just a reminder from Brigham Young as to how Smith's words were interpreted by those who heard him initially:

“Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another earth, and were enabled to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and will be to all eternity.”

Brigham Young, JD 7:333, August 28, 1859.

[NRS276 @NRS276]

@satanic_temple_ You tellin' me Nero was light in the loafers?

[Scott Morefield @SKMorefield]

@SteaknShake @SpenceRogers Can you please reopen your store in Bristol?

[Waterboy @GMRench]

Definitions matter. Mormons don’t believe in a triune father, son and Holy Spirit. The Christian church believes in a Trinitarian God. This means we believe in two different, definitely speaking gods. You believe in a non-Trinitarian God, and I believe in a Trinitarian God. Which is why Mormons aren’t Christians, and why Joseph Smith specifically rejected Christians and created the Mormon church.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

@FBI_Response This FBI will never infringe on religious freedom.

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

It is striking that Jesus identified the traitor by giving him a piece of bread, and not by refusing to wash his feet.

[NRS276 @NRS276]

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (John 16:33, KJV) #samepagesummer

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

"Predators." Well that's appropriate.

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

There is no way to banish true religion from the public square without turning the public square into a false religion.

[NRS276 @NRS276]

The Tampa Bay Gay Butt Pirates. The Butt..ckanners if you will.

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

Celebrating Pride with the Krewe 🏳️‍🌈

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

"Christ is an infinite ocean of mercy: no shores, no bottom, no surface."

[NRS276 @NRS276]

Christ is Lord. He reigns over the lesser magistrate. The lm is ordained to promote good, punish evil. God's law is the standard by which good & evil are measured. I love my nation above all other nations, and want my government to operate as God ordained & to seek Gods blessing

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

How do you define "Christian nationalism"?

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

"If you throw a rock into a pack of stray dogs—the one that yelps is the one that got hit."
https://t.co/B24VcAJEyQ

[NRS276 @NRS276]

It's wild to me that people campaigning for election to public office are so comfortable becoming confrontational, aggressive, combative to their would-be electors. They need to view rallies, speeches and appearances as job interviews, not celebrity sightings. They work for us.

[Andy Doane @drewpdoane]

@DonSpivey7 A podium is a purchase I can stand behind.

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

“I long for the day when the precepts of the Christian religion shall be the rule among all classes of men, in all transactions!

I often hear it said, ‘Do not bring religion into politics.’ This is precisely where it ought to be brought, and set there in the face of all men as on a candlestick!

I would have the Cabinet and the members of Parliament do the work of the nation as before the Lord, and I would have the nation, either in making war or peace, consider the matter by the light of righteousness.

We are to deal with other nations about this or that upon the principles of the New Testament. I thank God that I have lived to see the attempt made in one or two instances, and I pray that the principle may become dominant and permanent!

We have had enough of clever men without consciences—let us now see what honest, God-fearing men will do!”

—Charles Spurgeon