David

Psalm 119

[David @EditFunction]

@score38 @Corkyswrath Truth

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

The most profound America 250 commemoration is the arrival of a bunch of Europeans for the World Cup, who enthusiastically and instinctively embrace American culture. https://t.co/6IDDF3GceI

[David @EditFunction]

We nuked them twice, and this is how they repay us.

[FOX 4 NEWS @FOX4]

After cheering their team on to a draw, Japan (@jfa_en) fans clean up the stands at Dallas Stadium.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

You have to see this!!!

America is freaking Awesome!!! 👏

[David @EditFunction]

Seeing the Reformedbros lambast this stuff only heightens my anticipation of doing the same for the LCMS convention next month.

[The Daily Genevan @DailyGenevan]

You cut off truth and life and wonder why the men God is raising up rise up and leave you behind. There’s nothing more predictable.

[David @EditFunction]

The "center of American spirituality" is the reason our most popular Christmas carols are about snow and warm fuzzy feelings toward mankind in general instead of the eternal Godhead of Christ and the unfathomable mystery of the Incarnation.

But I'll stop now.

[David @EditFunction]

And look where that got us.

[David @EditFunction]

@bebookled @archeofuturist I suppose I'm flexible on location too.

[David @EditFunction]

@bebookled @archeofuturist I am 28, a man, and live in Oklahoma. I'm a Lutheran by birth and confession. My favorite summer memories are the family trips we would take every year.

I'm willing to date a non-Lutheran, of any age younger than me.

[VanRaalte, Agro-Nationalist @AgroNationalism]

churches that allow young women to enter adulthood fat and weak are spiritually sick

[David @EditFunction]

@matt_e_cochran Was half-expecting this link to be to 1 Corinthians 14:35.

[Ginger Nationalist @gingerstabs]

Things that have changed since this homily was said in 393 AD

•Women being able to vote, work, be considered equal to a man in the eyes of the law

•Women being able to go to basic and higher education

•Women being able to have bank accounts, credit cards, and be in debt

•Women moving out to live on their own before getting married

•No fault divorce being legal where the vast majority of divorces are initiated by women, and women still receiving alimony despite being favored in being hired for jobs

•Women being able to have “joint custody” where fathers only get to see their kids every other weekend while the mom can just have a new man living with her during this

•Legalization of contraception and abortion up to partial birth in some cases, the sexual revolution making fornication a normal part of the “dating” relationship

But let’s only talk down to men like we’re toddlers that’ll make them want to larp piously sure

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@41KOOR @AvoidPerception They haven't been taught because they refuse to be taught by Luther, and ultimately the Spirit. That is what I meant.

[David @EditFunction]

@41KOOR @AvoidPerception Evidently not.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

Most Lutheran clergy are not catechized well

[David @EditFunction]

>Jesus descends to hell
>leads the saints OUT OF Abraham's bosom INTO heaven

This man hasn't read about the rich man and Lazarus lately, I see.

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

Common Mel W

Jesus, in the Spirit, descended to hades, proclaimed his victory to the demons and reprobates in hell, and led all the saints out of Abraham’s bosom to heaven.

None of this conflicts with Evangelicalism. Evangelicals are unfortunately just ignorant.

[The Protestant Prince 🜋 @TheProtPrince]

I am calling on all Americans to work late, go out to eat, lift weights, turn on every light in your house, do anything and everything but observe this demonic “sabbath”.

[Dusty Deevers @DustyDeevers]

Let me address the common objection: “But, 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust,' the body is going to dirt anyway, it doesn't matter how it gets there, whether cremation or composting."

This is a category error. Genesis 3:19 tells us what happens to the body after death, it breaks down. That statement is about a physical process, not a normative claim about the body’s value. The objection make s category error by collapsing those two.

In the Christian view, the body is not a disposable shell, but part of who we are--an ensouled body, and embodied soul created by God and belonging to Him. Decay/corruption happens because of the Fall, not because the body is meaningless, has lost its dignity, or purpose.

When we treat the body as if it no longer matters once life departs, we are committing the old Gnostic error that the church rejected, claiming that the material body is insignificant compared to the “real” self.

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul teaches that we are resurrected, not replaced. The resurrection is a transformation with continuity, not a replacement of the body.

He compares the body to a seed: what is planted is what grows; it changes, but it is still the same life. When he says “spiritual body,” he does not mean non-physical. He means a body made perfect by God’s Spirit. That's why the Church Fathers, like Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Augustine, all insisted that the same body that dies is the one God raises. If there is no continuity, then it is not resurrection, but replacement, which historic Christianity has always rejected.

This is the key difference: passively/naturally letting the body return to the earth under God's judgment vs. active reduction of the body, treating it as usable material to be processed or commercialized.

Burial accepts that the body will return to dust, but it still treats it with honor because it has derivative dignity as the body of someone created and owned by God and destined for resurrection.

Treating the body as someTHING to be processed and repurposed vs someONE to be honored and buried confuses and devalues human dignity. The objection confuses these ideas. Yes, the body decays, but that does not mean it is ever just “matter.”

The question, again, comes down to, "What is the human body?"

A man-centered, paganized view says the body is ours to define, use, discard, and commercialize once life departs; a God-centered view says the body belongs to its Creator, created by Him, owned by Him, and destined by Him for resurrection, and therefore never merely ours to reduce to material.

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@ReformedResist @ImprecatoryOne https://t.co/XUIX28UdJG