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kingdom evangelist and sparkling water enthusiast. ask me about the bronze snake-on-a-pole

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twitter is the areopagus and the colosseum

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no soccer guys ever get hurt when they bang into each other celebrating a goal huh

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christians love israel

[Björn Sjöberg @BjornSjoberg_]

Christians love Israel.

[Björn Sjöberg @BjornSjoberg_]

Christians love Israel.

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@BasedTorba @Eric_Conn ah yes the obvious love of the tax collectors one for another

i wonder if there’s a higher standard

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@Eric_Conn yeah you and elon have def been up to the same stuff…

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https://t.co/2u2HnBPsDd one of the very best albums ever @stlucia

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as if the sin of pride wasn’t bad enough

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meanwhile, here’s paul:

Romans 9:1-5

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

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@PerfInjust @lukestamps the love expressed by ‘even the tax collectors’ is hardly the standard you think it is

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meanwhile, here’s god’s standard:

Matthew 5:43-48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

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in which aquinas brilliantly lays out the low low bar of the love between tax collectors

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

"It is not necessary that we love all equally, because since the intensity of an act results from the principle of the action, and the principle of the action is union and similarity, we ought to love in a higher degree and more intensely those who are more like us and more closely united to us." Thomas Aquinas

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welp maybe aquinas isn’t our standard (crazy that it has to be said)

Matthew 5:43-48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

>>>For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have?<<<

Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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@IAmSteveHarvey biblical illiteracy

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@EndWokeness imagine being a christian and saying this

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@valorthodoxia ok go

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@Dennis_W_Wise @ReReadingWolfe you’ll get more in your second readthru

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@polen_ball how many people does bernie provide for

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@StephanSturges the pattern is the software

just like dna - the molecule is still hardware; it’s the pattern contained in the material - the pure information - that is the software

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@plasmarob might as well put islam in there too

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@HQNewsNow hbd mr president!