Raymond Lopez

Reformed (URCNA) Husband Raising four covenant children

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@TheGuardDawg @RScottClark A couple members being in sin isn’t the same thing as trans ministers

[El @luizeto_7]

وحده من افضل النهايات على الاطلاق

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@Sean_Davi Mid range game

[Jeff Taylor @JeffTaylorLR]

Look to the enthroned Christ, not to the symbols. Bread and wine point beyond themselves to the risen Second Adam, and the Spirit uses those signs to minister the gospel to believers. The power is not in the elements but in the Christ they signify and the Spirit who makes Him present to faith.

#ReformedTheology #SecondAdam #SpiritualRealPresence #MeansOfGrace #OrdinaryMeans #GospelSigns #UnionWithChrist #ReformedWorship #TheologyMatters

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@cousinplas @olympicbean Jordan would have joined the Lakers in 99 before they won their first title I think that’s what this post means

[Jeff Taylor @JeffTaylorLR]

Hebrews 4 destroys Dispensationalism by showing that the Canaan land was never the final land promise. The land was a typological intrusion of the Genesis 2 Sabbath‑rest, and the true land is the eschatological new creation.

Hebrews grounds the land promise in God’s own Sabbath‑rest in Genesis 2. That rest is the archetype: cosmic, eschatological, and creation‑teleological. The land promise does not originate in Abraham; it originates in Eden.

Hebrews identifies Canaan as a historical type of that rest. Joshua’s conquest did not deliver the promised rest. Hebrews states this directly: if Joshua had given rest, no further day would be spoken of. The land was never the telos. It was the shadow.

Psalm 95 reopens the promise centuries after Israel is already settled in the land. David’s “Today” shows that the promise remained open because Canaan was not the eschatological destination. Hebrews uses Israel’s history as a covenantal pattern to show the continuity of the promise across redemptive history. The church stands inside that same storyline because the promise itself is singular and eschatological.

Hebrews 4:9 identifies the remaining rest as the Sabbath‑rest, the consummated new‑creation land. The archetype (Genesis 2), the type (Canaan), and the antitype (new creation) form one eschatological line. The land promise is structurally subordinated to the Sabbath promise and reaches fulfillment only in Christ.

Dispensationalism requires the land to be non‑typological, final, and restricted to ethnic Israel. Hebrews 4 requires the land to be typological, incomplete, and fulfilled in Christ for the one people of God. The two systems cannot coexist. Hebrews 4 shows that the land promise was never about a geopolitical territory. It was always about entering God’s own Sabbath‑rest—the new creation.
#Genesis2
#SabbathRest
#CreationArchetype
#CanaanTypology
#JoshuaNotFinal
#Psalm95Continuity
#EschatologicalLand
#NewCreation
#TypologicalStructure
#CovenantalUnity
#OnePeopleOfGod
#FulfillmentInChrist
#DispensationalismFails
#Hebrews4
#LandPromiseReframed
#SabbathTelos
#EdenToNewCreation
#RedemptiveArchitecture
#TypologyNotTerritory
#SabbathIsTheLand

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@Exodus15_11 lol are you saying for 1800 years until dispensationalism was invented the church was wrong on Israel?!

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@AnthonyIrwinLA LeBron is 42 and your comparing him to prime Kobe come on.

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@AnthonyIrwinLA As a Kobe guy I always enjoyed watching LeBron play for the Lakers. I just think the fit isn’t gonna work with Austin and Luka. If Austin and Luka were two way players I would love LeBron back but it’s just not gonna work if your three best players all can’t defend

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@KingJ1723 @OVOLakeShow Yeah I get it but if the Lakers chose to build around Luka and Reaves then LeBron had to go.

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@TheB0ssDon @OVOLakeShow They could’ve had Peyton Watson and Walker Kessler next to LeBron and they still ain’t making the finals. LeBron was a bad fit and that’s not a knock on him it’s actually more of a knock on Reaves and Luka because they aren’t good defenders.

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@C_A_R_L_A_M_A_R People don’t understand that it was either take a half step back and became a contender in 1-2 years or just run it back and stay the same without any chance of getting better.

[Jon Bowlin @_jonbowlin]

Whenever the NT authors talk about Christ dying for the world/dying for all, they are referring to Jew and Gentiles. Not each and every person ever. The Jews believed the kingdom of God to be exclusive to them and not extended to Gentiles. But Christ and the apostles turn that narrative around. We see this especially in the book of Acts. This is what the OT always taught as well but tradition had gotten in the way for the Jews.

One of the clearest proof texts of particular redemption is found in John 11. Caiaphas the high priest prophesied that Christ was not only going to die for the nation Israel, but in order to bring into one, the children of God who are scattered abroad. Particular redemption is the teaching of the NT

[Jason Dixon @kinisman]

If Jay Dyer couldn’t strawman Protestant theology, I doubt that he would have an audience. Absolutely no Calvinist believes in justification by assent to legal doctrines. The righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. This is monergistic, not synergistic, and it is the only way that we can stand before God.

All Christians believe in sanctification, which is the Holy Spirit training us to hate our sinful desires and live in holiness. But the RC and EO blur justification and sanctification, leading them to believe that justification can be lost. When this happens, they need the made-up sacrament of penance to restore it. True repentance is not a ritual act to “satisfy” for sin. Penance is congruous merit, a parody of true repentance. Then purgatory had to be made up as a system to “pay off” temporal guilt. This leaves them bouncing between despair over obviously insufficient works and a false security through rituals.

This all stems from the denial of justification by faith alone. If faith is insufficient, the merit of works is required. If the merit of works is required, justification can be lost. If justification can be lost, there is no assurance of salvation.

Protestant doctrine is justification apart from the MERIT of works, not the existence of works. When we are justified by God, all of our sins, past present and future, are forgiven. Abraham was justified by being counted (imputed) righteous while still ungodly (Romans 4), not through progressive deification through works.

In 2 Peter 1:4, “partakers of the divine nature” is better understood through union with Christ and the indwelling Spirit, not ontological deification. We are conformed to the likeness of Christ (Rom. 8:29), but we do not become like God by nature. If we participated in God’s essence or immanent being (ousia), the distinction between God and man would be abolished.

A lot of this sacerdotalist confusion comes from the Latin Vulgate. The Latin word for justification is iustificare. This comes from the noun iustus, meaning justice or righteousness, and the verb facare, meaning to make. The Latin fathers understood this to mean that God MAKES unrighteous people righteous.

One of Luther’s great insights from the Septuagint is that the Greek word dikaiosune doesn’t mean to make righteous, but rather to regard as righteous, to count as righteous, to declare as righteous. God is in this sense granting righteousness to those who don’t innately deserve it. This means that the righteousness by which we are saved is iustitia alienum, an alien righteousness; a righteousness that belongs properly to someone else. It’s a righteousness that is extra nos, outside of us.

Luther said, “When I discovered that, I was born again of the Holy Ghost. And the doors of paradise swung open, and I walked through.”

Iustificare (to justify) and iustitia (righteousness/justice) are the best Latin equivalents for dikaiosune, but they don’t adequately capture the full meaning. As Luther realized, dikaiosune righteousness is imputed (forensic, being declared righteous before God), whereas iustitia righteousness is imparted (making the ungodly righteous internally).

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@Rome_Beast @LAbound2 But why do we care as fans that basketball players are making 25 million instead of 30 million lol as long as it’s easier to build a better team

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@AnthonyIrwinLA He’s making like 5 more million a year than Reaves yikes

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@deadboylyfee PJ

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@Exodus15_11 @brandondcrowe @Christian_Focus And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
— Galatians 3:29

[Raymond Lopez @Raywestcoast_]

@Emulsiion @TKUchiha_ Nobody forced him to gain weight tho. He’s 6’11.