mark maier

Particular Baptist, husband, dad and grandad. #1689

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@SpeedWatkins I think I understand your point and if I do, you have missed the point of the gospel. We DO need righteousness to be saved, perfect righteousness actually. The thing is that righteousness is provided by Christ and accounted to us. No contradiction

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@MJBuffsVoice Crazy

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@MJBuffsVoice Guilty

[CFB_Wyatt @wyattwendry2023]

College Football BOLD prediction: The undefeated Colorado Buffaloes will host College Gameday versus Texas Tech in week 5

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@realJennaEllis @TruthHubOrg The “plain reading” of John 17:2 is enough to establish limited atonement.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@realJennaEllis I will try. How about, the same God who is “infinitely loving” is infinitely just.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@DineshDSouza Stop. You are just making @HwsEleutheroi ‘s point.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Seeing some buzz about the eternal generation of the Son (EGS), for those of you who might not know what all that means here’s an attempt to let you in on the topic. The EGS is a doctrine affirming that the Son possesses his divine nature through being eternally begotten of the Father, thereby holding the same divine essence/nature/being as the Father. This all has stood as foundational to the doctrine of the Trinity and has been affirmed across the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds and by virtually every significant theologian (that I can think of) over the last 1800 years.

The doctrine has several critical dimensions. The Father’s generation of the Son comprises a necessary act of God, not a contingent decision; a distinction crucial because if the Son’s existence depended on the Father’s optional choice, the Son would not possess true deity or equality with the Father. This generation occurs eternally, not as a completed event in the distant past but as a timeless act of perpetual present (simultaneously ongoing and ever finished).

Importantly, the Father generates the Son’s personal subsistence rather than the divine essence itself, while simultaneously communicating the entire divine essence to him. When the Father eternally begets the Son and communicates the divine nature to him, the divine nature remains undivided, accounting for a second divine person without creating a second God.

The doctrine employs “begetting” language deliberately. The idea is this: just as Adam fathered Seth by communicating human nature to him, so the Father has eternally begotten the Son, eternally communicating divine nature to him (though this creaturely analogy must not be used to measure the divine relation itself). While the doctrine transcends our human comprehension, limited as my thinking is by time and my finite reality, it remains a teaching (as systematic theologian Scott Swain words it) “given to us in the gospel” and grasped through faith.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@BrianHowell33 @SkoBuffsNation Sorry for your loss Brian. Just shocking.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@lzmunsterteiger I’m so sorry Liz.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@adamcm777 @DeionSanders Prayers for you Adam!

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@PastorHamilton8 As a Calvinist, I try hard not to be divisive. I encourage you to get to know some Calvinist brothers personally, not on-line, and celebrate your unity in Christ. Not sure where you are located. I’m near Augusta Georgia if you want to meet up sometime.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@jaysonyork You are nailing these!

[Jayson York @jaysonyork]

Unpopular pastoral opinion #12

The modern obsession with “church growth” as evaluated by

numbers of people
numbers of baptisms
numbers of services
numbers of campuses

Is nothing more than pride and Biblical illiteracy masquerading around in Christian language

[Jayson York @jaysonyork]

Unpopular pastoral opinion #5

Most of the music in the church today only serves emotionalism or a dopamine hit, and does nothing to feed your soul

Get rid of the rock bands
Get rid of the performances
Get rid of singing at people

Sing the songs of faith together as saints

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@adamcm777 Optimistic- Coach Merrian.
Pessimistic- the past 20 years.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@Riley_Gaines_ We need to keep him in our prayers.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@BiblicalBeauty @WilliamWolfe I see what you did there. 1 Kings 18:27.

[Luke Hall @OakTreeStatus]

It takes no courage to be a Dodgers fan. It’s like rooting for the sun to come in the morning and then opening champagne when it does.

Being a Rockies fan is different.
I am Brave.
I am Strong.
I am Daring.

I am an idiot.

[mark maier @mmaier26]

@ScottProcter_ See you all there.