SolomonSays

Author of #SolomonSays, an introduction to #Proverbs & life. AMAZON: ATHANASIUS PRESS: #Wisdom

[SolomonSays @SolomonsaysN]

“God helps those who help themselves” is not in the Bible.

But that does not mean it is anti-Biblical.

My latest on Franklin, Proverbs, Pelagianism, and why Christians sometimes overreact to common-sense wisdom:
https://t.co/febvO7GocB

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Romans 1:18-32 is about Israel's history as much as (or even more that) it is about paganism.

https://t.co/JbHetjfRXH

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This very sympathetic account of the Puritans leaves me completely unsympathetic to them.

https://t.co/DkVIyOneOV

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Five stars

[Jeff Winstead @jeffwinstead]

Today is National Boone Day.

There’s been chatter on X about why Hollywood isn't making Daniel Boone movies or shows.

Can't speak for Hollywood, but this is my Boone novel. Based on a true story.

So stories are being told, you just have to dig a little deeper to find them.

[Steve Hayhow @shayhow]

How some of our categories can distract from Scripture’s redemptive historical purpose.
Blinded by the Truth: How Our Theology Obscures Biblical History by Mark Horne
https://t.co/uXD3kV8BiY

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@EraOccidental The Pope excommunicated her and she refused to give in. Deal with it.

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The fact that some Protestants extol Charlemagne and Alfred the Great and don’t realize Elizabeth I was *at least* as much a Christian hero is just blindness.

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@uther_bendragon @charlesmurray The late date is required to accommodate that claim. Equally lacking in evidence.

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@BenSHolman @charlesmurray Mark says that Jesus declared all foods “clean,” an understanding no one had until much later. So there’s no problem making explanatory glosses.

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@si_ad @charlesmurray What’s funny about this is that you don’t even need to believe in prophecy to predict this.

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@charlesmurray Because we are all supposed to assume the events didn’t happen and time was needs for the myths to develop. That’s the only reason. Didn’t bother Robinson, but he was exceptional.

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

Robinson also points out that *no* book in the New Testament mentions the actual destruction of the temple in 70 AD. It was an epic event in Judaism. If Jesus prophesied its destruction, proof that his prophesy had fulfilled should have been in any book that was written after 70. Personally, I find the extremely odd ending of Acts even more persuasive.
But there's a lot more in the three books I listed in another post.

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[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

Regarding the dating of the gospels, I lazily assessed Ehrman's evidence for the dating of the gospels alongside the evidence in John Robinson's Redating the New Testament (1976), John Wenham's Redating Matthew, Mark, and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem (1992), and Jonathan Bernier's Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament: The Evidence for Early Composition (2022). I lazily concluded that Ehrman's evidence was far weaker than the evidence for early composition. What led you to reach your position?

[D. Patrick Ramsey @dprmsy]

"Israel’s history in the Old Testament economy was a history of redemption, and not a history that replays/reiterates the pre-fall history of Adam."

- C. Venema

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Thus far (3-4 hours in) the most positive thing I can say about the Puritans is that they were *moderate* anabaptists. https://t.co/mIn2MV0rX2

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2/2

I don’t think it was true of anyone I knew. But there was another possible reason for the governments’ suspicions.

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🧵 1/2
As a missionary kid, I was told that governments sometimes blocked missionaries on the grounds that they must be CIA. As far as what I remember, everyone assumed this was an excuse to stifle the spread of Christianity or a pathetic paranoia.

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LOTR

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

You can keep only one of these books.

Which are you keeping?

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@wyclif LOTR easy

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@RealCandaceO IMO your 2-year-old is more discerning (on this issue) than you realize. The fact he feels excluded shows he knows it is more than a snack. Discern the body rightly: acknowledge your child is a member of Christ and thus should commune just as much as you should.