@AJDelgado13 Unless you’re Catholic marriage isn’t a church administered sacrament. In fact in almost every marriage ceremony the pastor acts as an agent of the state
Help me understand why it's sinful to have a special sense of sacrificial love and affection for your ethnic kinsmen, as Paul did.
"For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.""
"Stop being unfair to White Sexual Degenerates"
Joel Webbon tired of white sexual degenerate men being discriminated against.
#metoo discriminated against White sex pests, and Joel is not going to stand for this injustice any more!
Lost the plot, all while posting bikini pics
@TDH_77@osucowboytc I wonder what you would call a theology that completely subjugates women for the pleasure of men, seeing persons of color as lesser so it’s easier to mistreat them, and making profits supreme so that someone can operate with relative impunity whether it is “allowing sin”
🚨 Trump’s healthcare cuts are now projected to kick 10.1 million Americans off their health insurance.
Experts predict this will lead to thousands of additional deaths each year.
@JosiahHawthorne It only fits if “nature and nature’s god” is translated “subjugation to a sovereign will” not “the free right to rationally choose one’s own governance”.
Ok change hearts and don’t give a damn about political power. If that’s what’s going to ultimately change anything stop trying to legislate your morality and spend all that PAC money on evangelizing
The irony in the “Christian nationalist” scare label is thick.
America was founded on Christian principles. This isn’t even up for debate. People want you to believe those of us who want to go back to those foundational principles are calling for a theocracy, similar to the Islamic nations they curiously have no problem with. They’re lying.
So what would happen if we returned to America’s original principles?
All of the things that socialists are promising to deliver with the government: safer communities, more charity, restoration of justice, more churches, more people caring for the poor.
See, socialists always promise these things. But they deliver 0% of the time.
Why? Because a society like that doesn’t come from legislation or by threat of force, it comes from hearts transformed by Jesus Christ.
So becoming a Christian nation doesn’t happen through a law or mandate. It is the byproduct of revival, which we so desperately need. I pray for it almost every day. I hope you’ll join me.
Do not let secular progressives gaslight you into thinking they are the only ones who are allowed to advocate for their values in the public square. One of the greatest lies of this century.
The most compelling reason to vote for Trump is that whoever is president will oversee the 250th celebration of our founding and the left, if in charge, would do some woke nonsense.
@JenniferEValent Feel a little better that tomorrow they’re going to be dealing with heat rashes and chafing, not to mention dehydration because they’re all a bunch of dumbasses
Doug Wilson, along with Bruce Ware, both hold the mistaken view that Christians should restrict prayer to the Father alone and never pray directly to Jesus. But this position runs into a serious problem, because Jesus Himself said otherwise.
In John 14:13–14, Jesus told His disciples:
13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
Notice that Jesus did not say, "Ask only the Father and I will only relay it." He said ask ME, and I WILL do it. Jesus both receives and answers prayer.
That is not the role of a mere created being or a subordinate intermediary. That is the role of God.
And did the early Christians pray to Jesus? Absolutely!
Stephen, while being martyred, called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” (Acts ), directly addressing Christ in his final moments.
The apostle Paul prayed to Jesus pleading with Him about his “thorn in the flesh” (2 Corinthians 12:8–9)
Paul pleaded with Jesus three times regarding his thorn in the flesh, and Jesus answered him personally (2 Corinthians 12:8–9)
John and the early church lifted up the petition, “Come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation ), a prayer addressed directly to Christ.
Those who say that you are not allowed to pray to Jesus are in the same camp as the Jehovah's Witnesses who also forbid prayers to Jesus.
Doug Wilson and Bruce Ware are wrong. Jesus is fully God and as God He receives and answer prayers.
Years ago I sat through a lecture by Bruce Ware in which he argued that the worship given to Jesus is in some way limited or restricted. It was deeply troubling to hear. I was sitting with an entire row of former Jehovah's Witnesses, and every one of them was equally disturbed. They recognized the argument. They had heard it before, just dressed in different theological clothing.
The idea that Jesus, in His eternal state, is somehow deserving of a lesser degree of worship, or that we cannot address Him directly in prayer, is not a humble, cautious position. It is a deviation from both the testimony of the early Christians and the plain teaching of Scripture.
The first believers called upon the name of Jesus, prayed to Him, worshipped Him without restraint, and were willing to die rather than deny His full deity. They did not worship a subordinate Christ.
When a theological position on the person of Christ makes former Jehovah's Witnesses uncomfortable because it sounds too familiar, that is worth pausing over. It should cause us to ask hard questions about where that road leads and whose company we are keeping doctrinally.
Jesus Christ is not a lesser object of worship. He is not off-limits in prayer. He is fully God, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father, and He is worthy of every prayer, every act of worship, and every confession of faith we can offer.
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