🚨#BREAKING: A man in North Carolina has been arrested after he showed up to a small-town church full of worshippers with TWO FLAMETHROWERS, crossbows, 500 rounds of ammo...
...and a notebook listing the addresses of churches and schools
A church member saw him, sitting in his truck in FULL BODY ARMOR and camouflage and called 911.
An OFF-DUTY police officer, working security at that church, walked straight up to that truck and confronted him.
He told officers he was "law enforcement" there to enforce a smoking violation... but he was NOT law enforcement.
Police say what he actually had in that truck was an arsenal: two flamethrowers, two crossbows, a launcher made to look like a handgun, over 500 rounds of ammunition, knives, duct tape, and police scanners.
They disarmed him without a shot fired.
Every single church needs to have SERIOUS SECURITY, this could have been a complete massacre.
I haven't seen this story reported in any mainstream media, but it looks like this man was about to massacre hundreds of Christians in a church in North Carolina.
.@realDonaldTrump brought back "Merry Christmas" in America. Praise God it never left Tennessee.
🎄Merry Christmas from Lazy G Ranch in Cookeville where families are celebrating the birth of Christ in their community.
This is a perfect example of why “no enemies to the right” is deeply flawed.
Anything that’s not perfectly aligned with sound biblical doctrine must be open to criticism and driven out of our circles if necessary.
Any lie is an enemy of the truth and should be treated as such!
@AmbitiousGirlKJ @ChristVictorous@BornAgainBalaky And all that God desires to be saved will be saved. Context: the epistles were and are written to Christians.
@MwmSpectrum@ChristVictorous@BornAgainBalaky Then you simply don’t understand Calvinism.
Show me a Calvinist who believes they deserve salvation. We understand that there was nothing good in us for God to foresee and respond. It was completely by His own will and choice, which humbles us to the ground.
Over the years I have repeatedly pointed out that Leighton Flowers and the "Provisionists" flatten out the biblical revelation concerning God's knowledge and purposes and man's fallen state, sacrificing the full-orbed truth on the altar of a simple, two-dimensional, human-focused tradition. They simply refuse to accept all Scripture teaches, especially when it goes beyond the comprehension of man and requires us to confess God's ultimacy and sovereign freedom.
@Soteriology101 (irony, isn't it: the truths of Scripture on this topic are definitely Soteriology 505, but if you refuse to go beyond the 101 level, you have to sacrifice all the depth that the 505 classes bring you) just posted a comment in response to a woman who said,
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I have a question for you. God saved me, I am born again. I labored for years over a loved one, with the gospel, prayers and many tears. He died without Christ. What is the difference between him and me? Is it God? Or me?
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There is some ambiguity in the question, admittedly, but it is an important reality. In the synergistic world, God did all He could do. Maximum effort, but, there's only so much God can do upon the principles of synergism. So, the reason she is saved, and the other person lost, was all about them. She was more spiritually sensitive, more spiritually understanding than the other, more humble, more pliable, etc.
Soteriology101 commented,
If Calvinism is true, the reason her loved one didn't come to faith is because God didn't love that person as much as she did. God rejected that person before they were created and didn't send Christ for that person on Calvinism. That is far more problematic than simply confessing that the reason your loved one perished is because "they refused to love the truth so as to be saved."
Now, consider the last sentence first. Every Calvinist would say, "Yes, they refused to love the truth so as to be saved." This comment ignores man's deadness in sin because, honestly, the author doesn't believe in it. You see, outside of grace, everyone would likewise refuse to love the truth because they instead love themselves and their sin and their rebellion. Only in the synergistic system do you have people who are able to somehow overcome their slavery to sin, their spiritual deadness, and come to love truth rather than their own sin.
Next is the irony of the alluded to text. Read what Paul actually said:
“...and with all the deception of unrighteousness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. And for this reason God sends upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness. But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first fruits (later manuscripts read "from the beginning) for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-14)
Remember, everyone loves darkness rather than light, and hence, at some point, rejects the truth, and everyone takes pleasure in unrighteousness. And God justly judges those who so do. But, there are those who are "beloved by the Lord" who God has chosen for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. Please note, in opposition to Leighton's constant assertion, for Paul, "faith in the truth" is the result of, not the grounds of, being chosen by God. God chose them for salvation. This is in direct contrast to those who receive God's just judgment upon them. This is not say God chose that those who freely accept salvation will then receive forgiveness or something of the kind. No, God chose those He beloved for salvation, and the means He uses to bring this about is sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth, the very truth those not beloved reject and despise.