James N. Anderson

A debtor to mercy alone. Resolved to spend less time on this website. @ReformTheoSem @RTSCharlotte @LeechBlockNG

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. (Ecclesiastes 5:2)

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

No one is ready for the amount of fraud that is coming.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@kvallier https://t.co/cd0A9lcMw1

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@CalebDixonSmith That's one theory of the nature of rights, and it makes good sense to me. But I still resist the idea that we have a "natural right" to do what is sinful. A "right" is typically understood as an entitlement, and it's plainly false to say I have a God-given entitlement to sin.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

If natural rights are bestowed by God, then there cannot be a natural right to do what is forbidden by God's moral law. God is not at odds with God.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@kvallier https://t.co/pzl0xA1GHJ

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

There is an important difference between

"You have the natural right to do X"

and

"You have the natural right not to be prevented by the government, fellow citizens, etc., from doing X"

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@CalebDixonSmith That's one theory of the nature of rights, and it makes good sense to me. But I still resist the idea that we have a "natural right" to do what is sinful. A "right" is typically understood as an entitlement, and it's plainly false to say I have a God-given entitlement to sin.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

New post: Theology for the Curious: Is God the Author of Evil? https://t.co/NI0tn6yk2e

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@Reformation21 Your website is broken.

[From Heaven He Came @defatonement]

"Chosen Not for Good in Me: Unconditional Election in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective".

27 chapters. 900 pages. 400,000 words. 2,700 footnotes.

Coming as soon as @Crossway can make it come.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

Can confirm.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

There is an important difference between

"You have the natural right to do X"

and

"You have the natural right not to be prevented by the government, fellow citizens, etc., from doing X"

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@IVMiles It's not too late to delete this

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@LifeNewsHQ Nobody should be able to buy children.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@BanjoAtheist I'm very relieved to learn that all those moral judgments in your timeline about Christians, Republicans, carnivores, and other deplorables, are neither true nor false, just "pure expressions of feeling." Phew! 😉

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.

Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.

This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.

For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”

It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.

Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.

Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

This is a nice example of what Charles Murray observes in "Taking Religion Seriously": modern intellectuals typically dismiss Christianity on the basis of overconfident ignorance; they simply haven't done the homework.

Start with Peter J. Williams, "Can We Trust the Gospels?".

[Joe Campbell @PhilosopherJoeC]

The History of Christianity

Jesus is born.
Jesus writes nothing, practicing an oral tradition.
Men speculate about what Christ meant.
They write it down.
A Book is compiled.
The Book is the Word of God!?!

This story has gaps is all I'm just sayin'.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@lsanger I have a tastefully dimpled Corolla due to massive hail damage and I'm open to offers.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

👇 This and the replies 😂😂😂

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[LOST @TheLOSTFans]

21 years ago. Still one of the greatest cliffhangers in TV history.

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@jamesalangibson You're welcome https://t.co/rjuQuqqxxI

[James N. Anderson @proginosko]

@Helopoulos I'm not sure my iPhone has enough memory for all the PCA overtures