Kenton Slaughter

I have been crucified with the Messiah, Jesus the Son of God, and I now live by faith in him, the Lord who loved me and gave himself for me.

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

“The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever… a stone… cut from a mountain by no human hand.” Dan 2:44-45

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

1) Yes, the condemnation of death spreads to all people because all are members of Adam’s household, but the justification of adoption to eternal life extends to all those who receive Jesus as the rightful head of Adam’s household. John 1-3 and Rom 3-4, among other passages, make this irrefutably clear.

2) “an hour is coming when *all* who are in the tombs will hear His voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.” John 5:28-29

3) Under the Sinai covenant, God gave His people Israel the terms by which to enjoy their promised territories: keep the Law. Under the new covenant, God has given both Israel and the Gentiles the terms by which to attain the promises as members of His household: believe and confess Jesus as Messiah the Son of God with repentance in baptism. Those terms of faith apply to everyone, including infants, and the promised possession comes only with the resurrection of life.

4) The crux of the matter is that the New Testament presents baptism as the rite of confessing Jesus as the enthroned Son of God with faith and repentance, by which those who are being baptized are joined to Him specifically in His atoning death, burial, and resurrection. We aren’t joined to Him in His former infancy, but in the maturity of its culmination, with the hope of attaining to the same (Eph 4).

And contrary to the father, his assumption of human nature was not gated by age or life stage. That is irrelevant. What matters: we are joined to Him in the atoning weakness of His former mortality and in the encompassing power of His present immortality, which He bestows on those who receive Him, according to the Father’s will.

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@IFFFMEISTER @NathanBozeman2 That list is a conflation of many things that either didn’t do what you perceive them to do (the old covenant and the first iteration of the Davidic kingdom) or will only reach fulfillment by way of the future resurrection (the prophecies of the kingdom of God).

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@IFFFMEISTER @NathanBozeman2 This line of reasoning misunderstands not only Paul’s typology and use of the term “the last Adam”, but also the nature and revelation of Christ’s “new humanity” and the way in which the church attains that “new humanity.”

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

Rom 12:19-13:4
“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to God’s wrath… Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Do what is good, and you will receive his approval... But if you do wrong… he is God’s… avenger who carries out His wrath on the wrongdoer.”

[Brian Reynolds @wordsofthislife]

Our righteousness is in heaven, glorified at God’s right hand.

[Marvelous Jesus @Marvel0usJesus]

Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@testing521 @Resofthedead the “flood of debauchery” that leads to the coming judgment.

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@PastorRyanA D1) The righteous will not live by the works of the law
D2) The unrighteous will die without faith

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"Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@JosiahForYeshua He means that unbelieving Gentiles and unbelieving Jews are equally estranged: “for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.” Gal 4:25-26

[Martin Skold @MartinSkold2]

“Please describe what makes this inferior” - assuming, arguendo, that it’s somehow not the exact painting…that’s what makes it inferior.

There’s a whole industry devoted to assessing whether art is counterfeit, because when people buy a Monet, or look at one in a museum, they want Monet to have painted it.

The question itself treats art the same way the person asking it presumably treats writing - it’s just stuff on a page; who cares?

Well, people who want to communicate with somebody and know it’s them do, for starters.

[Mike @MikeW4Jesus]

22 Do not say, “I will repay evil”;
wait for the Lord, and He will deliver you.

Proverbs 20

[Christ Above Us @ChristAboveUs]

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Acts 26:8 KJV

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@dprmsy Deuteronomy is precisely where the curses Paul describes as the defining feature of the not-of-faith law of works (Gal 3:11-13) are located… though it testifies to the new covenant, it is not “Gospel.”

[Pamela Anglin @panglin23]

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 3:16

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

The Gospel of John declares the Word of God to be both God and distinct from the one God, whose coming as a man reveals Him as the Son of the one God, His Father. Jesus and His disciples proclaimed him to be the Lord worthy of the sort of praise and devotion reserved for the one God. And they taught that God’s own holy Spirit speaks and acts distinctly as the Lord sent by the Son of God from His Father.

These aren’t mere manifestations. A manifestation of God would not obey, submit to, or pray to Himself. Nor would mere manifestations constitute distinct helpers or intercessors before God. Trinitarian language is the best approximation of what the Scriptures say about the one God.

[Kenton Slaughter @kps2014]

@AJWTheology But YHWH is not a name God the Son inherits from God the Father. He possesses it along with Him.

Hebrews 1 would seem to refer instead to the exaltation of His name Jesus, which He possesses in His humanity and which has become the name to which all creation submits.

[Kenny loves Jesus @mangLovesJesus]

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
✝ 2 Corinthians 12:10 KJV ✝

[Julien @Fitness_Julien]

“For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

—Jeremiah 31:25

[Antony Rūgūi @AntonyRugui]

"For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, 'Fear not, I am the one who helps you.'" - Isaiah 41:13