And Now For Something Salty

Ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Morons. // Saying the things too many Christians won’t say. // The Salty Protestant (formerly nowthis254)

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In 1517, we protested the institution in favor of the Word of God.

In 2026, it's time to do it again.

Let the Second Reformation commence with those who hide the Word in their hearts and stand firm on the Truth, regardless of culture, power, or the complexes designed to silence.

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@JustinPetersMin @JDShuttlesworth Word of Faith is witchcraft (manifestation) parading in evangelical language.

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@JustinPetersMin @JDShuttlesworth Word of Faith is witchcraft (manifestation) parading in evangelical language.

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@suzycatlamb @JDShuttlesworth She doesn’t know, but she KNOWS, you know?

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@LouSozo @X Right? Turns out civil discourse is possible. You be blessed as well!

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My @X feed is chock-full of debates on Calvinism vs Armenianism. Praise God for these conversations. They're worth having.

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@TheOfficeCalvin

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I do pray about this frequently. I hold no personal grudge as I don’t know the man. But I have no qualms about anger over abuse of children. In fact, such anger is righteous. And I exercise God-given discernment to see that a man who refuses to go to whatever lengths to prove his innocence is a man who should be questioned. Red flags should never be ignored. I do not say he is definitively guilty. I assert, most ardently, that he owes his family — and the world to which he purports Christian faith — every measure of honesty.

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God is just. Justice demands a penalty for wrongdoing. God is also merciful, so he paid that penalty. The only way to explain that “God doesn’t save everyone” is to explain that God gives his creation a choice to believe him or not. And some choose not to. He knows who will believe and who won’t, and so he foreknew who would be his elect. It is a both/and proposition. There’s no getting around it.

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Because an innocent child should be protected. Our highest moral code should be to protect the innocent. Scripture is clear what happens to those who harm children. Crystal clear. American civics do not outweigh what is right and just by the innocent. In her case, we should go to the ends of the earth to find her perpetrator and protect her. Her family members should want that for her too. Instead, they want to victim blame and say that her outcry was part of some vast, and frankly stupid conspiracy on the part of her parents to gain the power they already had. That makes absolutely no sense.

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@RICHARD58849335 @MrTimothyRenfro Amen!!!! You get it.

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I do not accuse him. I ask him to submit to a proper forensic investigation, which he has not. I have no interest in defending pedophiles. I understand the American sentiment of “innocent until proven guilty,” but when it comes to innocent children, my posture will always be to remain skeptical of men who have enlisted an army of online accounts, millions of dollars at their disposal, and a large number of reasons to lie, to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt their innocence. His unwillingness is a huge red flag and the Church would do well to stop ignoring such warning signs in the name of “grace.” That is not grace, that is willful ignorance and perpetuation of harm against innocents.

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I do not disagree with you that a lot of this has gotten out of hand. But I disagree with you that there is no evidence. I have said all along, and will continue to say, that the child had no reason to have an outcry other than if something happened to her. The Daystar-is-innocent camp seems to fall into one of two categories: 1) Josh is innocent therefore it didn’t happen or 2) Josh is innocent; it must have been a kid at school. The kid at school theory was debunked almost immediately. I have never understood why Joni and all of the family didn’t shout from the mountaintops until the perpetrator was brought to justice. Instead the story was turned into, “Jonathan made this up because he wanted to be president.” That theory falls flat on two major points: 1) he was already going to be president 2) he could have read the card about Doug and avoided the phony PIP. The narrative that “two police investigations have proven Josh’s innocence” is also misleading because he wasn’t found guilty — that is true. But he was NOT found innocent and he was NOT exonerated. The moment that child speaks the perpetrator’s name, the case reopens. All I care about is that child’s justice and to rid the Church of abusers in all forms. For that, I will never remain silent.

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@RICHARD58849335 YES. This.

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Any and all who repent will be saved.

And God already knows who those will be.

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@LouSozo @X Division over doctrine is an entirely different thing than division over abuse.

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@LouSozo @X We can do both. 😎

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Extreme Calvinism leads to the abandonment of evangelism and a sense of elitism.

Extreme Arminianism leads to the Charismatic ideas of manifestation and new revelation.

Both are heresy, and both should be rejected.

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Every word of this.

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The hyper-Calvinist and the anti-Calvinist both pit Scripture against Scripture.

The question isn’t, do we believe in predestination or not (literally a biblical word, cf Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:5)? Nor is the question do we believe in the will of man or not (literally a biblical term, cf Rom. 9:16; John 1:13)?

The question is, will we harmonize predestination and human responsibility because “All Scripture is inspired by God” (2 Tim 3:15)?

John MacArthur used to say, the problem with this issue is that people try to say it’s 50 percent God’s sovereignty and 50 percent man’s free will, and this makes half-truths of it all.

Man is 100 percent responsible for his sin before a holy God;

And God is 100 percent sovereign over all that He has made.

Anything less than this is biblical error.

Charles Spurgeon was once asked, “How does one reconcile human will with the doctrine of election” and his response was, “One need not reconcile friends.”

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@LouSozo @X You're right that it shouldn't divide us, but it's most definitely a conversation worth having, because exploring these issues reveals the heart of the Father and that is never a bad thing.

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Calvinism is right to assert that God is sovereign, we are not, and His divine will is carried out whether we understand it or not.

Arminianism is right to assert that, from our perspective, following God is a choice. We can both choose to follow him and know that He already knew what we would do. That's called a paradox and there are MANY within scripture.

To me, it is those very paradoxes that make it plain that there is a God and we are not Him.

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This is truly the root of the conversation, isn't it? And in all honesty, we can't answer why with Calvinism or Arminianism for one simple reason: He is God, and we are not. We must learn to be ok with that because we trust the heart of the Sovereign, not because we impose human morality on an infinite, divine, and perfect being.