Nathan

US Navy veteran and unashamed follower of Christ. I cherish the Bible, the Constitution and the family values that built this country. ✝️🇺🇲

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@dfziklag I'm not saying progressivism can't be right wing. Just look at Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes. Both are apologists for Islam and authoritarianism. I'm saying it is predominantly left wing. Think Mariann Budde or Megan Rohrer. Those are the "pastors" we SHOULD be excommunicating.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@pastorscottc What DOES give someone grounds for boasting though is the Calvinist/Reformed system which insists that God chose you for Heaven and "effectually caused you" to have faith, either randomly, or simply because God loves YOU, but He doesn't love Billy Bob the Atheist down the street.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@pastorscottc Also, this question assumes that exercising faith gives us grounds for boasting. But let's be honest, no true Christian is walking around with their nose in the air because they believe in Jesus & somebody the know doesn't. That just isn't happening, and is a ridiculous rhetoric.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@pastorscottc Faith is not the gift. It's eternal life made possible by the grace of God and the blood of Christ that is the gift. And we receive it through faith.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@pastorscottc Faith, just like sex drive, isn't something effectually gifted to you by the Holy Spirit. It is something God gave us all the capacity to exercise. Just as we can put our faith in false gods or temporal things, we can use our sex drives to commit adultery or view pornography.

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

EXPLOSIVE. Case Closed.

[Alexander Duncan @AlexDuncanTX]

Again, this is all political theater. Sharia is already banned in the United States as you cannot operate a parallel legal system here. “Banning Sharia” is the same thing as telling a criminal he can’t carry a gun, it’s still going to happen. The only way to truly address this issue is to go after the root cause which is Islam and ban it in its entirety.

[Dr. Michael L. Brown @DrMichaelLBrown]

If you believe that “the Church is Israel,” then what about ethnic Israel—the Jewish people? Is ethnic Israel still Israel?

If you say, “No. The Church is now the new Israel,” then that is replacement theology in the clearest sense: the Church has taken Israel’s place.

If you say, “Ethnic Israel is still Israel, but the Church is spiritual Israel,” then a second question follows: What happens to the promises God specifically made to ethnic/national Israel—such as the Land promises of the Abrahamic covenant?

If those promises have now been transferred to the Church, so that ethnic Israel is no longer the intended recipient of promises originally made to Israel as Israel, then whatever terminology you prefer—“fulfillment,” “expansion,” “transference,” or “supersession”—the Church has functionally replaced ethnic Israel as the recipient of those promises. That, too, is a form of replacement theology.

To be sure, salvation is only through Jesus, and NO ONE can be saved, Jew or Gentile, apart from Him. But the question here is whether God keeps His promises to ethnic Israel (such as His promise to preserve them as a people, no matter what, in Jer 31:35–37)—promises grounded in His faithfulness, not Israel’s faithfulness—or whether those promises no longer apply to ethnic Israel, have been transferred to the Church, or have now been made conditional on Israel’s faithfulness in a way they were not when originally given.

If you believe that the Church is Israel based on your understanding of Scripture, we can discuss that as fellow followers of Jesus. But let’s be clear about what is being claimed: if promises made specifically to ethnic Israel no longer belong to ethnic Israel as such but have been transferred to the Church, that is, at the very least, a form of supersessionism—and what has traditionally been called replacement theology

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@covenantrc @realJennaEllis And Jesus also expressly says He will draw all people to Himself. Your faith isn't special, and neither are you a special person elect by God randomly or because of something desirable about you. All people have the same capacity to have faith, believe and be saved just like you.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@libsoftiktok If I were a Calvinist, I'd tell you this happened because of God's "sovereign decree". But I'm not, so I can safely say this is because of spineless leaders who are disobeying God's decree and command to purge the evil from our midst. Instead, we've welcomed it with open arms.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@Exodus15_11 Yeah well, that IS the fruit of consistent Calvinist/Reformed theology for you. No rapture, Jews are bad, Israel = the Church, oh & by the way, that horrible child r*pe & torture you heard on the news the other day? Don't worry, God predetermined & ordained that. He's in control.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@YoungRightUS I'm on it! Don't worry I got your back, man. 🤜🤛

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@realJennaEllis 🎯

[David L. Allen @DrDavidLAllen]

Liberalism: God is love therefore he does not require a propitiation for sin.

Bible: God is love therefore HE provides a propitiation for sin.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@dfziklag Oh, and secondly, Calvinism and progressivism are not tied. In fact, Calvinism has been closely tied with conservatism in the fight against progressivism for the last few centuries against the woke garbage and the soft, lukewarm and false preaching within the Church. Ironically.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@dfziklag I actually think the system itself and the doctrines within it, however sincere or devoted to upholding biblical truth those who hold to it are, IS evil. A system which claims that God is the cause and predeterminer of all actions, including rape and murder, is, in fact—evil.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@1984_nate He really should, because it's a blasphemous thing to claim—and my biggest contention with Reforned theology. To claim that God predetermined all evil to happen from eternity past is to claim a just and holy God is the cause of it, which is a COLOSSAL blashemy of His character.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@5Solas Obviously not. But that's not the issue at hand. The issue, as I understand, is the Reformed/Calvinist claim that God Himself decreed and predetermined the very sins which you claim He would be just in leaving us all in, which is a blatant blasphemy against the character of God.

[Nathan @nathan052496]

@CherylSchatz Exactly. Wrath and anger are righteous responses to sin and evil that flow out of God's love, which is His essential attribute, as John says in his first epistle. Where there is no sin and evil, there is no wrath. Therefore wrath is not an essential divine attribute of God.