@ThaliWreck Shoot-up schools, dismember children and push your ideology without people’s consent. Just to name a few. These responses are light compared to what should be done.
If you are a Christian your confidence today rests on foundations that cannot be shaken. If God is for you, and He has not spared His own Son but delivered Him up for all of you, then He will graciously give you all things with Him. (Rom 8:28–39) And please don’t hear this as a platitudinal X post: it flows from the reality of your election. God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless, predestining you for adoption as His children according to His pleasure and will.
The Puritan theologians are helpful here, and understood something vital about this assurance: election and covenant work together, offering troubled believers a double source of assurance; you can plead the covenant with God, asking Him to fulfill His promises, while simultaneously finding comfort in the sufficiency of His prevenient grace and the immutability of His will in election. Your election is not fragile or conditional on your performance, as I’ve said before, your salvation is received not achieved. God’s immutable decree of election proceeds from His perfect counsel, the basis for maintaining His people in sanctification and imparting to them an inward principle of holiness.
Yet this absolute promise does not leave you passive. God’s love, made known to you, draws you out of yourself toward Him in orderly, faithful obedience. The conditional promises of the covenant are inseparable from your daily renewal of it through prayer, meditation, and worship. Your obedience becomes the very means by which you experience and confirm what God has already secured.
Anchor yourself in the permanence of God’s word. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away. (Matt 24:35) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. (2 Tim 3:16–17) In this word, your election is declared, your redemption is promised, and your perseverance is guaranteed — not by your strength, but by His.
@TPostMillennial@JDVance@joerogan If you don’t agree with the 10 Commandments being displayed in schools, then you don’t agree with teaching the laws of this country in schools.
@BretWeinstein Relationship with Christ is the key to life. Faith in Christ gives meaning, hope, resilience, healthier living, stronger families, deeper community, generosity, and lower rates of depression, suicide, addiction, and premature death. We do not heal ourselves. Christ renews.
@disclosetv The real question is not who is on the left. The real question is what spirit is driving the hatred, deception, lawlessness, and violence on the left. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood. This all boils down to Satan and rebellion against God. Ephesians 6:12.
@redKZMIR@BryanKemper You’re arguing against something I never said. Sex can include pleasure and still be naturally ordered toward reproduction. Deuteronomy 17:17 forbids kings from multiplying wives. Solomon’s sin does not redefine God’s design.
@redKZMIR@BryanKemper If you were to read the Bible, you would understand David and Solomon’s sin doesn’t redefine God’s design. Scripture records their polygamy, it does not endorse it. Solomon’s many wives literally turned his heart away from God. Abuse of God’s design does not erase the design.
@redKZMIR@BryanKemper Sex is naturally ordered toward reproduction. Consent to sex *is* consent to the possibility of a child. You can’t separate the act from its natural purpose.
I confess Jesus Christ of Nazareth as: the only begotten Son of God; the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending; the first begotten of the dead; the Truth, the Way, and the Life; King of Kings, Lord of Lords; Creator of Heaven and Earth; and my Lord and Savior.