Taylor Thornton

Christian, husband, father of four, carpenter, and aspiring entrepreneur. Simul justus et peccator.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

As a man of modest intellectual powers, I approve this message.

[Highest IQ Man @yhbryankimiq]

As the world’s highest IQ record holder, I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life.

[JPA @2Philosophical_]

“The moral order...is just as much part of the fundamental nature of the universe (and...of any possible universe in which there are moral agents at all) as is the spatial or numerical structure expressed in the axioms of geometry or arithmetic.”

—W.D. Ross

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@2Philosophical_ Indeed.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@LennoxKal Amen, brother!

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

America was built by Calvinists:

“Calvinism has been the chief source of republican government.” — Lorraine Boettner

“In Calvinism lies the origin and guarantee of our constitutional liberties.” — Goren van Prinsterer

“He who will not honor the memory and respect the influence of Calvin knows but little of the origin of American liberty…[Calvin is] the father of America…The Revolution of 1776, so far as it was affected by religion, was a Presbyterian measure. It was the natural outgrowth of the principles which the Presbyterianism of the Old World planted in her sons, the English Puritans, the Scotch Covenanters, the French Huguenots, the Dutch Calvinists, and the Presbyterians of Ulster.” — George Bancroft

“John Calvin was the virtual founder of America.” — Leopold von Ranke

“[Patrick Henry’s] mother drilled him in Presbyterian or Calvinistic theology, which provided the backbone for the American resistance to British tyranny. As one author has noted, Calvinism ‘has been able to inspire and sustain the bravest efforts ever made by man to break the yoke of unjust authority…’ It has ‘borne ever an inflexible front to illusion and mendacity, and has preferred rather to be ground to powder, like flint, than to bend before violence, or melt under enervating temptation.’ By the time of the American Revolution, approximately two-thirds of the colonial population had been ‘trained in the school of Calvin.’ Henry, through his mother, was a spiritual descendant of Calvin and represented the liberating element of a Reformed theology and world-view.” — Isaac Backus

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@sarahsalviander Looking forward to it!

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@worldviewdesign I’m signed up and eager to begin. As an aside, and despite my status as a latecomer, I would also appreciate that bonus lesson. Cheers!

[Tom Ascol @tomascol @tomascol]

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, & humbly to implore His protection and favor.”

—President George Washington, 1789

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@AuthorGFAllen Reading has improved my writing more than any other factor, and it’s not particularly close.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@AStrasser116 This has been my experience as well, though I would quibble with the idea that I sought out the God who eventually found me (Rom. 3:11). Also, the film sounds interesting, is it worth a watch?

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

This is what forgetting Christianity does to a civilization:

“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself.

Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”

— Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@crwiley1962 Indeed

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@dr_owenanderson Does he agree with Scripture (Isaiah 8:20)? Does he profess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (1 John 4:1-3)? Does he preach the biblical gospel? No? Then let him be anathema (Galatians 1:8). If only Muhammad and Joseph Smith would have applied such a standard.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@billroach_ Nice. I appreciate the recommendation

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@PabloxHerrera @JoshuaBarzon Perhaps after subtracting a couple (though I confess I think I read the entire list as a young believer). Lisle’s Ultimate Proof of Creation is also an excellent intro to presup.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@dr_owenanderson

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@dr_owenanderson @BasedMikeLee I stress the importance of definitions in an article I wrote on this topic. Mormons speak evangelical quite well, they just empty the language of anything even approximating biblical orthodoxy: https://t.co/yM7s7QVbun

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@MallardReborn Precisely.

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@Victori77417378 @RepMikeKennedy I wrote a short article on the topic: https://t.co/eym6RduQuW

[Taylor Thornton @ReformedGadfly]

@Manhattva https://t.co/eym6RduQuW