Seventh

Theonomist, Presuppositionalist. There but for the grace of God go I

[Bryan of Alexandria ✠🕊️ @DBryanRhodes]

I hate abuse.
I also hate abuse of the word "abuse."
Trauma is terrible.
But not everything bad that happened to you is trauma.

We have--in many places--discovered a way to excuse ourselves from Jesus's commands about forgiveness. It's brilliant, really. Diabolically brilliant.

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@troywojick @aDutchCalvinist Doesn't sound like you're actually "humbly" asking questions or searching Scripture tbh

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Christians often believe that they must earn the right to preach the gospel to a particular individual. They think that they need to make repeated relational deposits before they can make any withdrawals. Clearly, this isn’t the practice of Jesus and the Apostles.

God has not only given us permission but also commanded us to proclaim His truth to everyone. This doesn’t mean that we throw relationships out the window. It just means that we needn’t feel guilty about cutting to the chase evangelistically.

You don’t need to earn permission. You’ve been given a mandate.

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@dalepartridge @MikeWingerii Your point 1 is a nothingburger. Who cares if he didn't actually say it verbatim? Why would that have any relevance if you already agree that "nobody is arguing that Jesus isn't Jewish"?

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never asked who built the golden calf. I just knew it was a sin in the desert.

Then I read both accounts and one detail stopped me cold.

In the Bible, the man who builds the golden calf is AARON. Moses’ own brother. The first high priest. Exodus 32:4.

He gathers the gold, melts it, shapes the idol. And when Moses confronts him, he gives the weakest excuse in scripture: “I threw the gold in the fire and out came this calf.” As if it made itself.

Bro. The Bible just put the worst sin in the camp in the hands of the holiest man in the camp.

You would NEVER write that if you were protecting your prophets.

Now read the Quran. Surah 20. Aaron is cleared. Innocent. He tried to stop it. The blame goes to a mystery man called “al-Samiri.” The Samaritan. Surah 20:85.

You know what shook me? The Bible incriminates its own high priest.

The Quran writes him an alibi and invents a villain.

One reads like an honest record. The other like damage control.

And there’s a second problem with that villain. “The Samaritan.” But Samaritans didn’t exist in Moses’ time.

The city of Samaria wasn’t founded until about 500 years later, under King Omri. 1 Kings 16:24.

It’s like putting a Texan at the Last Supper.

Now, some Muslim scholars push back — they say “Samiri” means something else. I’ll be fair, that argument exists. But their own classical commentators read it as “the Samaritan” for centuries.

The defense only works by re-translating away from how the tradition always understood it.

I used to say the Bible was corrupted. But the Bible is honest enough to say the high priest built the idol.

Only a book honest about how bad we are could point me to a Savior real enough to fix it.

The Bible never flattered Aaron. It didn’t flatter me either. It just told me the truth, and handed me Jesus.

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@rachallison1 Appeal to Authority. Gets used all the time, especially when doing apologetics

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

You know what's entirely unacceptable about modern society.

It's the sheer panic of bagging your own groceries while the cashier stares into your soul.

I'm just trying to organize my produce so my tomatoes aren't crushed by a rogue can of beans.

They're standing there judging my lack of spatial awareness.

I've never felt more inadequate than when I'm fumbling with a flimsy plastic bag that won't open.

You'd think I'd learn to bring reusable totes by now.

I always forget them in the trunk.

It's a vicious cycle of shame and environmentally unfriendly choices.

The guy behind me's tapping his foot like he's got somewhere to be.

We're all trapped in this linoleum purgatory together.

Let's just collectively agree to slow down.

Maybe then I won't accidentally buy five jars of pickles in a panic.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Boys represents everything alluring and ultimately unfulfilling about postmodern ideology.

It tells you that “good and evil” is a lie by the powerful.

The powerful are always “oppressors” and the ultimate goal is to expose them and take their power.

But there’s a major problem…

What do you do after exposing Homelander?

Who fills the vacuum? If power is inherently oppressive, you’ll be rebelling and deconstructing again.

And again…and again…

David Foster Wallace called it living as “third world rebels.” You get stuck in permanent revolution mode. Always cynical. Always living in chaos.

Never building something better. Never aspiring to be Superman, because Superman can’t be trusted.

It’s an ultimately hopeless and nihilistic ideology that ruins lives.

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@HauntedCosmos_ Only psychopaths like cold showers. Congrats you pass the test 😂

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@m_anthonyharris Woah settle down. You're being far too reasonable here.

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@DPGBehler They're not sending their best.

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@DPGBehler @JustinPetersMin It's only included because Reformed twitter decided they hated Heiser 12 seconds ago. So dumb

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@DBryanRhodes I actually just started reading/watching Heiser. Some interesting and some weird takes, but yeah people can't seem to critically think about anything lol

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@CalebMPowers If there was ever a poll that never needed to be made, this was it lol

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

After Pentecost, the Spirit-filled church did not become a collection of private mystics running around with disconnected experiences & theologies. They continued “steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:42).

[Seventh @jmarkus84]

@Theonomoney But clearly these guys are believers!

[Biblical and Reformed @reformedhg]

Christ is my righteousness. I am neither less righteous for my ill deservings nor more righteous for my good deservings, for Christ is my righteousness, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

John Bunyan

[John White @befaithful10]

Our society needs hard, masculine Christianity not bogged down in a thousand feminine objections on behalf of the evildoer. It requires:

1) Seeing black and white instead of gray;

2) Confidence in the total authority of Christianity; and,

3) Lack of concern about fairness to evildoers who claim to live in a gray world.

These points are illustrated in Luke 10 when the lawyer comes to Jesus asking how to be saved. The man is sly. He wants to justify himself. He is an evildoer.

In response, Jesus held up the law and said to the man, “Do this and live.” He trusted the law to do its work. He didn’t even mention repentance or faith or grace or any of the other worthy gambits we modern evangelicals would likely have mentioned. Jesus pointed him to the law with total confidence, and without apology or further comment.

Jesus took the manly stance in the face of this man’s evil intent. There was no feminine concern for all the particulars of the man’s history and situation, no concern that he might lack information or that he might miss the grace of God.

Instead, Jesus believed in God’s covenant with all men. By that I mean that Jesus understood Romans 1. In Jesus’ mind, there was nowhere for this guy to hide. Jesus knew that this guy knew he could and should repent, and that he was just playing duck and cover and suppressing the truth that God “makes clear” to every man (Ro 1:18-32). The Christianity of Jesus in Luke 10 has no epistemological loopholes, no room for the evildoer to play cat and mouse about what he knows or doesn’t know.

Christian men today need to assert the authority of Christianity without apology or doubt. To do so, they need the same confidence in the law of God that Jesus had. To have that confidence, they must be sure that all men know who Yahweh is, with no sliver of a chance of being wrong. They must have the confidence of Jesus that all men know God's law and that they can cry out to God for mercy and walk in His justice.

Romans 1 knowledge of God is the reason that all men are accountable not just at the final judgment but in society today. And it is the critical foundation of the confident, black and white, masculine prophetic stance of Jesus toward unbelief. We need the deep footers of that stance in the body of Christ today.

But it is inescapable that the prophetic message we preach to our culture will invariably reflect our Christian apologetic. If our apologetic gives quarter to unbelief, if it has uncertainty on any of the three points I named above, the church will not hold the line against unbelief at the points where the battle rages hottest.

[King’s Cross Church @KingsCross_Kirk]

Forgiveness begins by looking in the mirror. Because God has forgiven us much in Christ, we have no right to withhold forgiveness from those who seek it from us.