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[Tyler C @tyler_austin55]

So, religious pluralism is entirely consistent with the Westminster Standards, but views held by the Westminster Divines themselves are "out of accord" with those same Standards?

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

Can we expect to see a Presbyterian study committee to address the ideologies and policies that led to this?

[Jonathan Tomes @postnuance]

The Reformed tradition does indeed have many wonderful resources on its political thought. You should absolutely consider these reformed politics resources. @BerithPress

[Jonathan Tomes @postnuance]

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[Jonathan Tomes @postnuance]

You don’t actually have to reject στοργή to affirm the biblical doctrine of love.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

I’ve been able to look over the latest study report. I agree with some of it and obviously disagree with several things. The authors have, in several places, confounded and confused nature/grace (in ways they wouldn’t allow in their theology seminars, I hope), earth/heaven, and ecclesial/civil; they’ve restricted government action in ways that few would recognize historically; and they have, in violation of Reformed principles, extended spiritual equality from theology and the church into politics and civil society.

The thing is, they must do this to affirm political liberalism—pull from theology to get universalist and egalitarian liberalism. And that’s the worst part of it. It functionally requires PCA ministers to be modern political liberals. Few Presbyterians born before 1965 could be ministers in the PCA. The report baptizes postwar liberalism.

I recommend that people read Reformed Christian Politics to find a better method, consistently applied principles, a close reading of the Standards, and faithfulness to the broad Reformed tradition. The irony is that we leave more room for variations of political arrangements. This recent report insists that the timeless politics of Jesus is modern liberalism.

I’m traveling. So I’ll provide an in-depth response later.

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

Many of us operate under a Hegelian presupposition that the unfolding time brings us closer and closer to truth and goodness through institutions, and religion (of which Christianity is a species) is one of those institutions.

The word "progress" has now acquired to itself both the passing of time, and the virtue of goodness.

When "semper reformanda" is seen through this lens, categories are confused, and the truth is harmed.

It is not that new developments are necessarily always bad. It is just that their newness is not in itself a virtue, and thus by itself, they cannot prove anything.

[Robert Hasler @rdhasler]

Sincere question: Is it fair to say that the report by the PCA’s Ad-Interim Committee on CN articulates the view that the American Presbyterians ***completed*** the Reformation?

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."

Augustine of Hippo

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

"The august person of the prince requires an august body, both to surpass those he rules in all kinds of virtues, both of body and mind, and so that the external appearance of the body may indicate a beautiful and excellent mind." Keckermann

[🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 @MallardReborn]

Romanists: To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant!

Clement, 96 AD: We are justified by faith, not works.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

For decades, conservatives have emphasized "good manners." Good manners, civility, and "dignity" are good, of course. But when put in the service of evil and compromise, they become evil perfected.

Complete evil is doing evil under the cloak of goodness, grace, and poise.

You want good manners? Then do what is good with dignity.

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

King Alfred was a noble English King.

He divided the day and night into three parts, and spent 8 hours in study, 8 hours in prayer, and 8 hours resting and dealing with the affairs of the Kingdom.

He was distinguished as a grammarian, philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and musician.

Having defeated the Danes, he set himself to translate Christian books in libraries that the Danes had burned down.

Alfred translated Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, and Gregory the Great's Pastoral Rule into the native tongue so that his people understood it. He was translating David's Psalms before his death.

He stirred up a love of learning among the English people.

He governed for over 29 years.

John Foxe described him as "a rare and profitable example of other Christen kings and Princes, for them to follow."

May the Lord raise up more King Alfreds in our day.

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

Read Gouge.

[Ligonier Ministries @Ligonier]

Singleness can be a gift that the Lord uses for your good and His glory.

Watch as Rebecca VanDoodewaard encourages single women to be fruitful with the time God has given them.

[Matt Hedges @mattjhedges11]

Modern Papists aren't alone in slandering Calvin's personal character. Bellarmine did the same thing, and argued that Calvin once tried to publicly stage a fake resurrection (De Controversiis: On the Marks of the Church, ch. 14). What his source? Again, it was Jerome Bolsec - a pseudo-historian and malicious liar.

Bellarmine realizes now the seriousness of disobeying the 9th commandment: "Thou shalt not bear false witness."

[Michael J. Lynch @reformedtexan]

"For the Christian religion consists not in the leaves of words, nor in the bark of ecclesiastical ceremonies, but in the root of reason and the kernel of truth and piety handed down in the holy Scriptures..."

Link below.

[Jonathan Tomes @postnuance]

"The laughter of the spiritual man. You made me, wise and mighty Creator, a laughing animal, that by pure laughter I might testify to the pure joy of my heart. But I have often laughed the laughter of this world and mocked my neighbor. This is a grave sin. For the laughter of the world is followed by the weeping of hell. And he who mocks his neighbor mocks God his creator. I acknowledge this my grievous sin. Do you therefore forgive it. Grant me the grace of your Spirit, that I may laugh at my own folly, that I may laugh at the vanity of the world, that inwardly I may laugh in holiness and leap for joy because I shall see you forever." (Johannes Alsted, Natural Theology) @BerithPress

[Pastor Mathis @ShawnMathis1972]

So much goodness in this quote to unpack. Storge coupled with love of the family of God are lessons we need to learn anew.

[Matt Hedges @mattjhedges11]

Apparently, opponents of Calvin accused him during his lifetime of having been charged with sodomy as a youth.

Turns out, it was conflated with a Roman Catholic priest named "Jean Cauvin" who was imprisoned for this crime in 1534 in the city of Noyon. The charge against the Reformed originated from Jerome Bolsec, a notorious opponent of Calvin who wrote a pseudo-historical biography of him that is known to be fraudulent. Even some Eastern Orthodox scholars on Calvin reject the accusation and say that Cardinal Thomas Stapleton was untruthful in this regard. See Gary W. Jenkins, "Calvin's Tormentors: Understanding the Conflicts that Shaped the Reformed" [Baker Academic, 2018], pgs. 123-124.

But again, when you're a Papist in the likes of someone like Taylor Marshall, you can just lie and slander to your heart's content and get away with it (check the number of baboons that liked the post). What a fearful thing it will be for these men to give an account before Christ one day for their wicked slander of godly men.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!

So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

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