Wes Phillips

Husband. Father. Christian. Author. Still asking questions, still learning, still being sanctified. Author of “Beginning Faith”

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“Take what you want and leave the rest” may work for her personal preferences, but it is a disastrous theology. Matthew and Luke explicitly proclaim the virgin conception of Christ.

And “I don’t want to offend my common sense” is an equally troubling standard. Christianity is filled with truths that exceed ordinary human experience: creation, miracles, the incarnation, the virgin birth, the resurrection and eternal life.

If “common sense” gets to decide which parts of Scripture are acceptable, where does that stop? The resurrection? Christ’s divinity? Salvation itself?

Once we reject Scripture whenever it conflicts with what we personally find believable, we’re no longer allowing Scripture to correct us, we’re correcting Scripture.

That isn’t thinking for yourself. It’s making yourself the final authority over what God is permitted to do. If we only accept what fits our understanding, we haven’t surrendered to God, we’ve made God answer to us.

And there’s another biblical issue here: Scripture restricts the pastoral/elder teaching office in the gathered church to qualified men (1 Timothy 2:12–3:7; Titus 1:5–9). So before dismissing the virgin birth as “archaic,” we already have to ask whether Scripture is being treated as authoritative in the first place.

You cannot claim biblical authority while simultaneously reserving the right to discard the parts of the Bible you don’t like.

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@disntr This is false teaching not Christian theology. God is spirit not a human being with chromosomes or a gender identity. Calling God trans imposes a modern human category onto the Creator.A pastor’s responsibility is to faithfully teach who God reveals Himself to be not reinvent Him

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@DrFrankTurek Watching! 👀

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@danielcberk Yup 👍

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@bennyjohnson Mission completed 👍

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Good morning ☀️

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Do I have to go to church?

Nobody can make you. But a Christian who skips it goes hungry in ways they can't name.

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What is sin, actually?

Not a list of bad habits. A diagnosis: choosing yourself over God. The Bible's word for it means "missing the mark."

Nobody names the problem unless there's a cure. Chapter Four of “Beginning Faith” names both.

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@DrFrankTurek @PhoenixHayes_ @Harvest_House As an Atheist if we are clay pots holding a symposium on why the Potter doesn’t exist…

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@DrFrankTurek @PhoenixHayes_ @Harvest_House God-breathed dirt bags

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@REVWUTRUTH Go back to the original Greek in 1 Corinthians 6:9. Paul uses arsenokoitai—arsēn (“male”) + koitē (“bed/sexual relations”). Literally, men sexually bedding men.

There really isn’t ambiguity here. Paul lists this and others as a sin. End of story. Page 257 in “Beginning Faith”

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Was the Bible really written by God, or just by men?

Both. 66 books. 40 authors. 1,500 years. One story. That doesn't happen by accident.

The evidence is in Chapter Two of “Beginning Faith.”

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Is God actually there?
You don't have to be afraid to examine that question.
Good and Evil. Origin. Design.
G.O.D.
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@30MinMinistries Spot on.

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@astor_charlie Amazing.

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@anchoredsoul0 Well said. Christianity doesn’t ask us to fear scrutiny. Examine the manuscripts. Check the history. Study the claims. Faith doesn’t require us to stop asking questions. A God who is true has nothing to fear from investigation.

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“A faith that can’t survive being examined wasn’t worth much to begin with, and the God we’re talking about is not nervous about your questions.”

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@WesleyLHuff Interesting, Acts 8 proves an African official from the kingdom of Kush/Meroe became a Christian. It does not prove an established church existed in modern Ethiopia, or that the later Ethiopian biblical canon existed in the first century. Might be two very different claims?