Jeff Chavez

A Reformed Baptist and Biblical Language Geek Retrieving Classical Theism
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[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

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[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

“In the same way that it makes no sense to ascribe bodily feelings to God, because God is not that sort of being, so, the doctrine of divine impassibility asserts, it makes no sense to ascribe emotional affects to God because he is not that sort of being.”

- Paul Helm

[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

If machines cannot have souls, it should be obvious from what has been said already that plants and non-human animals can and do have them, for they are living things and a soul is just the form of a living thing. (Feser, Aquinas’s Beginner’s Guide)

[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

@SteveMeisterVDM Love this. I am using that material in a teen study. Translating some part of it into Filipino language.

[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

Thomistic Thesis 1: Potency and Act

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[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

MNLGA

“Make Natural Law great again.”

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

The Reformed affirm habitual grace.

Grace elevates nature as such and enables us to perform gracious actions.

“To will is of man, to will well is of God.” (Augustine)

[Tom Hicks @TomHicks2LCF]

It is a good year to confess the Nicene Creed.

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Hebrewverse has now released a new level! https://t.co/QEaBNs22rN

[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

@BerithPress Well said.

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"The splendid theological sayings of the pagans ought to be transferred from they who are unjust possessors of them, into our own use."

Johann Heinrich Alsted

[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

Indeed!

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

When you read older theologians, you are regularly reminded just how incoherent much of modern theology really is.

Modern theologian: “God is Lord of himself.”

Stephen Charnock (1628-80): “Before the world was framed, there was nothing but God himself, and *properly nothing is said to have dominion over itself*. This [dominion, Lordship] is a relative attribute, reflecting on the works of God.

He had a right of dominion in his nature from eternity, but before creation he was actually Lord only of a nullity [nothingness]. Where there is nothing, it can have no relation.

Nothing is not the subject of possession nor of dominion. There could be no exercise of this dominion without creation. What exercise can a sovereign have without subjects?”

[Richard Barcellos @richbarcellos]

The Son did not operate upon himself in order to be or while being incarnate. IOW, whatever emptying is it is not an emptying of some thing in God the Son.

[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

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[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

Thesis 1: Potency and Act divide being in such a way that whatever is, is either pure act, or of necessity it is composed of potency and act as primary and intrinsic principles.

#reformedthomism

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[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

Are you a Christian who constantly struggles with sin?

Then welcome to the club! This is the Christian life. We will never outgrow the daily need for repentance and pardon, and the assurance that comes through the blood of Christ.
#classicalcontemplation

[Richard Barcellos @richbarcellos]

“…the essence of God then, being a most absolute pure simple act or substance…” ~ John Owen, A Display of Arminianism

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[Jeff Chavez @theoglossa]

One of the functions of the law is that it leads us to Christ.

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