😼 Lutheran-Dude

Just asking questions and looking for answers. Confessional Lutheran-Augsburg Catholic. Former Reformed Evangelical. No DM’s please!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@SenSanders You can keep believing the lie of climate change. A guy who flies around in a private jet who’s never held a real job in his life really shouldn’t be making comments. You’re suffering because they’re idiots and they don’t have air-conditioning.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

The Bible says "baptism now saves you." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says that baptism makes us dead to sin and alive to Christ. And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible refers to salvation coming through "the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this watery language does not refer to the watery-thing Jesus instituted in Matthew 28 and said that all Christians were to receive.

The Bible speaks of being born again of "water and the Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this refers not to baptism, where the Holy Spirit works in the water, but to the water of amniotic fluid (that is, the natural birth) and then another birth, the non-watery rebirth of regeneration through faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible speaks quite clearly of infant faith. And sure, you can argue that these passages don't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible thematically links baptism with circumcision, which was performed on Israelite boys when they were 8 days old. And sure, you can argue that this link doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says that baptism "is for you and your children." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says to make disciples through teaching and baptizing "all nations." Children were inarguably included in the Jewish understanding of "nations." And sure, you can argue that a different definition of "nations" is being used when speaking of baptism.

The Bible describes entire households being baptized. "Households" is a term that inarguably included children if they were present. And sure, you can argue that all of the households described as being baptized did not include children and that there was no reason for Luke to note this if we were not supposed to think that we should baptize infants.

But the problem is that, to deny baptismal regeneration and to reject infant baptism, you have to argue ALL of these things. Each and every one of them.

So, what is more likely: that you are forcing false assumptions about baptism onto the Bible or that every single passage describing baptism and infant faith doesn't mean what it says? What's more likely: that you have a flawed hermeneutic or that passage after passage after passage about baptism and infant faith needs a ton of clarification in order to unlock its true meaning?

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.

They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”

Incredible work, really.

Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.

What a beautiful system.

Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”

Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.

A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.

That’s America’s real crisis.

Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.

Consequences.

We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@robbystarbuck RINO’s are the ugliest of swamp creatures; their policies are more supportive of city of London than they are of America!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@countrysayingss @NashvilleXp @OfficialJackson Too bad to have missed it, what a legend!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@JohnKasich Congress should never allow this and shame on the government for allowing it to happen. No American citizen voted for the importation of the Haitians. Send them back I voted for this.

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@BillKristol No such thing they should go live at your house for free at your expense! Over-running communities and destroying local cultures is not OK! Nobody in the United States asked for them to be sent here!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@NaomiSeibt It’s amazing that idiotic things governments will say. Apparently, it’s the hell with the people’s well-being, I’m mean, cutting down on carbon that doesn’t hurt anything is a really good goal, correct?

[The Luther Inn @TheLuthInn]

The Chapel in the Hills in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The Chapel in the Hills is an exact replica of the Borgund stave church in Norway. It was built by Scandinavian-Americans in 1969 with assistance from the Norwegian cultural ministry. It remains a Lutheran church.

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@HansFiene This was one of the last things Charlie Kirk talked about before his death

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@GuntherEagleman Talarico does not have the confession of a legitimate Christian!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@EricLDaugh Nobody should be able to hold any public office in the United States, unless they were born in the United States to parents of green card legal status or US citizens

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

Babylon Bee hit it out of the park with this one!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@RRT5ON1996 @OzLutheranChick It is hard, keep yourself busy and focus on the daily grind it will help a lot

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@atensnut Her and Kamala Harris must have the same bartender!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@JoshuaBarzon Absolutely, this is essential transparency! Remember, the members own everything and pay for everything; there can never be a financial situation where the leaders do not give account to the members.

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@TartanLutheran That is great!

[Potamopotos 🇩🇰 @potamopotos]

Jesus chastised his countrymen for failing to honour father and mother, even when they did so to support the temple

This is an important lesson for us. There's no virtue in failing your family and people, even done under the guise of piety. Duty to father and fatherland is piety

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@EshaAA33 Absolutely not! Rather impeach the judge that keeps getting in his way and throw him out of office he’s corrupt!

[😼 Lutheran-Dude @Von_Adryan]

@TrumpsHurricane Please do not come back to the United States. Stay in your newfound communist country.