Thomas Kirkpatrick

Man is not by nature a sauce-consumer, but a bread-eater. - Clement of Alexandria

[Thomas Kirkpatrick @jtkiv]

Drawing circles won't make you a millionaire, but you'll at least make ends meet.

[Thomas Kirkpatrick @jtkiv]

@kommarajuAnish @Snaggle97776422 @aaron_renn @redeemed_zoomer Yeah, read how Jesus reformed it.

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But there may be unity among these separate denominations, even where there cannot be a consolidated ecclesiastical government; just as our division into families, districts, and states, does not prevent our national union as a republic.

—Smyth, Ecclesiastical Republicanism

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Christian unity, therefore, is to be found not in any uniformity of outward order, or subjection to any external authority, but in the participation of 'the one spirit,' of 'the one baptism,' by which all are initiated into it, and of 'the one faith.'

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There must, of necessity, be local and national divisions, and parties. While the family of man is locally divided, there must be 'different provincial and local churches.' There cannot, therefore, be visible union.

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Q. 244. Who are required explicitly to adopt and promise obedience to the standards of the church?

A. Bishops, licentiates, elders, and deacons.

—Thomas Smyth

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@bluegrasspresby @IanBurkePerry @redeemed_zoomer @james_d_baird You're suggesting no one, until the first great awakening, thought that doctrine mattered in determining if a church was a true church? Church fathers, Reformers, Westminster divines, etc. would disagree.

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@eperry2011 @james_d_baird

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@bluegrasspresby @IanBurkePerry @redeemed_zoomer @james_d_baird Doctrine has always been a judge of a true church claim. An ecclesiology reduced to institutional continuity is not Reformed.

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@jamesfcubie @james_d_baird Respectable and better argument. But, as you imply, won't suffice for the consciences of all.

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@bluegrasspresby @IanBurkePerry @redeemed_zoomer @james_d_baird Your ecclesiology is fables and endless institutional genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.

[James Baird @james_d_baird]

this would make Francis Makemie a schismatic

the father of the PCUSA b/c founder of its first presbytery in 1706

hence, if it’s illicit to erect new jurisdictions where one already exists, then the PCUSA itself is schismatic

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@PresbyInn Be Sheddified.

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@BBJames_ @JkrGuidoSSO27 @PresbyInn Eternal conscious torment.

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@GospelGramPod @Nick_Batzig @db_cummings @jvfesko Another great episode, despite the traducianism shade!

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@CalRumRedivivus I would also point to 2:15 where the mandate is given. It is given to Adam. Even if someone wants to see Eve as a war-ally, an ally aids in the original mission. In other words, the ally is ordered toward the primary party.

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@CalRumRedivivus @LordTemplar1 @swimflythrive Yes. Otherwise these acts would change God's name. Cf. Jacob -> Israel, where God doesn't add a title, He renames.

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@Modern1689 Weak

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@ehenes @Cripletriple3 @jamesfcubie TIL the validity of PCUSA sacraments rests on the invitation of an Episcopalian. And you said their ecclesiology was underdeveloped!

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@derekradney What do you mean by "His concern for His own glory is not selfish"?