I have no idea how scholastics managed to write ten volumes each around 1200 pages. I almost pass out writing one article. I guess I should start recording from now on.
When we were enslaved our quality of life was no better, and we were even more unlearned wrt matters of religion. Enslaving us wasn’t the solution. People, like myself, cannot thrive in slavery or while we are barred from the means necessary to become proper ministers.
@LukasNectarios It’s clear that syncretism creeps into Christian communities under the oppression of Islam. It’s like a cope with the fact that they are second class citizens who would be beheaded for calling out the detestable religion of Islam.
THREAD, Reformed sources condemning those who reject infant baptism 🪡 🧵 :
“From all these things it is clear that the denial of infant baptism is no trifling error, but a grievous heresy, in direct opposition to the word of God, and the comfort of the church. Wherefore this…
@posttenebrasluz@Will_methaphor Is it better (all things considered) for a black lay Christian to attend the average black church in America or attend a white Presbyterian church? What exactly are they supposed to do to get spiritually fed if all the proper ecclesiastical institutions are white only?
@nvaneyk85@IFFFMEISTER No because the “ministers” never received proper training or ordination to start valid churches and ministries. You can’t just up and make your own church without ministerial succession.
@fivepointpippin@IFFFMEISTER Aside from the fact that the black church wasn’t properly ordained or instructed to lead churches. All the institutions that could have been used to equip black people in that way were reserved for white people now the “black church” is steeped in many heresies.
@sincead33 Would you liken the church being a proximate rule of faith to the way in which the senses help familiarize us with being and thereby the LNC?
Redeemed Zoomer in a few years probably: “The PCUSA is right to allow same sex marriage. God calls a man into a marriage with another man when there aren’t qualified women.”
Each and every Protestant institution believed this to be the gravest of sins up until modernity.
“The sin against nature and those horrible crimes expressed by the words ‘sodomy’ [all non vaginal intercourse] and ‘bestiality’…”
- Francis Turretin, IET 11.18.6
@ultrajectensis@JustinusRomanus It’s not just that it doesn’t bar one in this passage but that ethnic origin was never the reason for his choice in bestowing the thing promised which in this passage is the righteousness that comes by faith (Romans 9:30).