Aaron Running

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[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

I had someone tell me the other day that they had a book with a bunch of quotes from the church fathers that prove the rapture...

Guys, I say this with all love to my dispensational brothers: there was no such thing as the rapture before the 19th century.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

What happens to those who have never heard of Jesus?
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[Daniel R. Hyde @DanielRHyde]

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[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

In this life, you are on one of two roads: one that leads to eternal life and one that leads to eternal death. And the road to eternal life can only be accessed through Christ. Are you following Him?

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

@DanielRHyde Regarding writing the letter to the CRC, is there hopes that they'll rejoin NAPARC?

[Romesh "Rom" Prakashpalan @romeshp]

The Creeds and Confessions exist to maintain the honor and glory of God among men, to protect the Church from heresies, and to promote the unity of Christian people. The very reason cultists and heretics despise them.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

Was Sola Fide Taught in the Early Church?
https://t.co/LTPcBoXDmX

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

@Cernovich Hate to be pessimistic about it but it looks like LA, and probably CA as a whole, will never have a fair election again.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

@DrFrankTurek Lol what

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

The Lord's day.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

"For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head."

Obadiah 15

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

Reading through the Old Testament prophets, their primary calling was to preach against the sins of the people and call them to repentance. Looking at many sermons today, there are hardly any sins mentioned and few calls to repentance. God help us.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

"Men can be saved in no other way from the old wound of the serpent than by believing in Him who, in the likeness of sinful flesh, is lifted up from the earth upon the tree of martyrdom, & draws all things to Himself, & vivifies the dead"

Irenaeus of Lyons
Against Heresies 4.2.8

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

So this is aging. I pulled a muscle at the gym and couldn't finish my last set. What's worse is that I didn't pull it while lifting, I pulled it while picking up my water bottle.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

Dispensationalists, how do you get around this? 😁

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

"For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law."

Romans 3:28

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

@irishpresby @ZacharyGarris Ridiculous. Praying for you @ZacharyGarris

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

The New Testament does not use the Greek word ἱερεύς (hiereus = sacrificing priest/temple priest) for ministers of Word and sacrament in the visible church.

Instead, the NT consistently uses terms like:

πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros) = elder
ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos) = overseer/bishop
διάκονος (diakonos) = deacon
ποιμήν (poimēn) = shepherd/pastor

But ἱερεύς is used for:

Old covenant Levitical priests
Pagan priests
Christ as our Great High Priest
The whole church as a royal priesthood (1 Pet. 2:5, 9; Rev. 1:6)

That distinction matters enormously.

The Reformation argument was not that there is no ordained ministry. The Reformers strongly affirmed a distinct, public, ordained ministry. Article XXIII is explicit about lawful calling and public authorization.

The issue was sacerdotalism.

The NT never presents ministers as a new covenant sacrificing priesthood offering propitiatory sacrifices. Christ’s sacrifice is once-for-all (Hebrews 7–10). Therefore, no new covenant minister stands as a mediating sacrificer between God and the people in the old covenant sense.

That is why many Reformers preferred “minister,” “pastor,” “presbyter,” or “elder” rather than “priest,” even though the English word “priest” historically developed from the Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros), which became the Latin presbyter, then the Old English prēost, and finally modern English “priest.”

This is also why the Anglican Formularies are careful:

the minister presides over Word and sacrament,
pronounces absolution ministerially,
administers the sacraments,
shepherds the flock,
but does not offer a repeated propitiatory sacrifice.

Article XXXI is decisive here:

“The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world… and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses… were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.”

The NT reserves ἱερεύς for Christ, old covenant priests, or the whole people of God—not for ordained ministers of the church. Ministers are called presbyters/elders, overseers, pastors, and servants—but never ἱερεῖς in the sacerdotal sense.

[Aaron Running @aaronrunning_]

@dom_lucre We don't worship the same God. Islam and Judaism deny the Trinity.
https://t.co/aeJCXwBGyg