Lilith Avner

Inquisitive

[Adam Stager @adamstager]

Great to see leaders like @nayibbukele focused on building a better future for everyone through innovation.

At @tricrobotics we are bringing technologies like UV light and bug vacuums to farms so farmers have more effective tools to grow our food.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@frfrankpavone This is mostly true but sadly I am encountering more and more women who are calloused and don't care.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@elonmusk No the west is not like the shire, because we are decaying from within. Purple haired hippy offspring, godless intellectuals, power hungry beaurecrats. Open boarders/ voter fraud, tools in their arsenal.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@DrFrankTurek I have two theories, 1) Eschatology, if you beleive you will be raptured away then to engage culture politically is low level priority. 2) If you only focus on "His Kingdom is not of this world" then also political involvment will be low.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@JoelWBerry Yes. Governemnt is to be limited and impartial. The church and your neighbor and family are to support you should you need some temporary assistance. Aside from that we are to be self motivated and strive for desired outcomes.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@Rachelchan222 Rachel what are your views on corpral punishemnt? If you saw a parent spanking a child with a belt and or fists would you be offended enough to do or say something or would you conclude it's thier choice how severly they decide to dicipline?

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Claiming that scripture requires you not to speak sharply to people who film unboxing videos of their child’s down syndrome test, who then proudly announce that they have now murdered that child because of said disability (and all of this monetized) is some kind of demented, unbiblical version of Christianity I don’t even have words.

Should we not speak sharply to the rapist then? How about the pedophile? Is it fair to sharply condemn their acts to them?

Yes, I want all of those people to come to Christ. But do you think that happens by letting them think that what they did wasn’t all that bad?

Is this how you witness to other people? Tell them that they’re pretty good, but a little Jesus will make them even better?

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

Gay marriage did this.

And it actually happened in 2021. In the name of gay rights, New York passed the “Child-Parent Security Act,” which legalized commercial surrogacy, created pathways for unrelated adults to acquire children without background checks, and sanctioned payment to genetic mothers and fathers, and birth mothers to relinquish their parental rights. (Aka: buying babies.)

Why? According to supporters, post-Obergefell, the state needed a way to recognize the parent-child relationships created within same-sex marriages.

Sen. Sepúlveda’s bill just cleanses the rest of the statutory code so the language matches that new gay marriage reality, removing sex-specific references to mothers and fathers and replacing them with gender-neutral parentage terminology. Because if you can't name it, you can't legally defend it.

When we say that redefining marriage redefined parenthood, this is what we mean.

When we say that gay marriage leads to child commodification, just look at New York.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@Katy_Faust @albertmohler Excellent!

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

I’m not a Southern Baptist. I’m a conservative Baptist, which is virtually indistinguishable doctrinally. But if I were SBC, I would 100% be on Team @albertmohler

Male-only pastors all the way.

While it may not be culturally palatable, male-only elders is biblically faithful and socially beneficial. No surprise: what is spiritually true often has earthly benefit. Here are some observations and reflections from 30+ years of ministry, in kind-of order:

- God ordains male headship in exactly two institutions- the home and the church. Why? They, not banks, senates, or industry, are both tasked with human formation: making and raising new life (biological and spiritual).

- Proper human development (not banking, government, or textiles) requires both men and women because without both we are mal-formed.

- Literal and spiritual children benefit from enduring male and female involvement.

- Distinction in roles and equality of persons is no contradiction. See Trinity.

- Most opportunities and offices can easily be filled by women who have historically out-attended men in church.

- Men are more likely than women to disengage from family and church life unless institutions clearly call them into responsibility- roles that women can’t volunteer into.

- Men are at their best when shouldering a heavy load on behalf of others. That’s exactly what headship requires.

- Men rise to higher standards when institutions expect sacrifice, leadership, and accountability from them.

- God specifically carved out a role that mandates men step up and mature. Women can grow organically; men often have to be pulled into growth.

- Boys learn genuine masculinity not primarily through teaching, but through embodied male example. Women speaking truth alone cannot make boys into good men.

- Modern culture has increasingly treated men as optional within family life, to the great suffering of children, especially boys. Most mainline denominations also treat men as optional in church life. They are declining for a reason.

- When society tells men they are unnecessary, they believe us. And they leave.

- Churches that minimize or eliminate male leadership often experience lower male participation overall.

- Wives want men who lead (not dominate, not boss, not demean). Women whose husbands outpace them in scriptural knowledge and who protect and provide for them are secure, productive and often… radiant.

- Congregants flourish when qualified men rise to the office of elder to teach, protect, and provide. They receive encouragement, their gifts are utilized, they find accountability, and they teach their neighbors.

- Congregations with female elders or pastors often lose biblical sharpness, compromise on sex and gender, and become increasingly female in the pews. It seems to be a gateway to decline.

- Churches that maintain male headship cherish and celebrate the women in their body and are grateful for the many ways they serve.

- Strong men ≠ weak women; in fact, strong male leadership often creates an environment where women become more confident, productive, and joyful.

- When boys who have been made intentionally fatherless via the sexual revolution and the redefinition of family darken the church door, they should be able to find the masculine love they have been lacking-not yet more women.

Women in Scripture defeat God’s enemies, make peace deals, teach and counsel outside the gathered church, engage in commerce, rescue the vulnerable, evangelize, and much more. The God of the Bible uses women mightily in a variety of ways.

When it comes to the home and the church, however, headship is fixed. It is for men only. The home, the church, and the world are better for it.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@johnarnold Well as an American I prefer to give my money to whomever I please and not have it taxed, again, upon death. The death tax here in America basically says the government is entitled to your earned money when you die. They rob us in our graves!

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@lebanesesami What then is Isaiah 11:1 predicting if not Christianity from ancient Old Testament Judaism? Jesus was a Jew, salvation is from the Jews (John 4:22). The fact that Jews have rejected the Messiah in no way negates its origin hence the term Judeo-Christian.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@BrysonGray People can become apostate (see Judas and King Saul). One should read the letters in Revelation and while one may not understand apocolyptic visions we can understand falling away. We must read our Bibles, books and letters at one time not just isolated verses and devotionals.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@SonofLiberty357 @EndWokeness @chronicparent and actually... gay men renting out wombs (serrogacy) is more in line with the Handmaid's Tale

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@EndWokeness The cogative dissonance is because we have educated ourselves into self hatred. She is a Communist Ideologue therefor Christianity is actually the object of her disdain and anything that flourished because of it, in her worldview, must be erradicated.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@jk_rowling The sobering conclusion is that people need God and the framwork for human flourishing laid out in the Bible. Without being anchored in the Truth we have decended into madness. "Doctors" should have thier licenses revoked and sued into oblivian.

[John Mauldin @JohnFMauldin]

Aristotle being politically incorrect.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@nxrstudios @kangminlee the melting pot actually melts away diversity into a sloppy goo, having distinct nations and cultures is how you preserve diversity

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@bungarsargon My hunch is that Jews and Catholics by and large are on the left because they have elevated corporal works of mercy over the commandments. The Bible is clear that man is flawed, sin infects us and no amount of good works will rectify this. The Law is to restrain and protect.

[Lilith Avner @lilavner]

@KristanHawkins The Matrix... (double entendra applicable)