Will Calvin

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@RyanElward @Jackie_Elward Are you going to enlist this terrorist organization you may have joined to help campaign?

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@StateDept @Jackie_Elward @RyanElward @NorthBayNews @marinij @RohnertPkPatch @nbaybohemian @nhanson_reports @ericlucan @Skinny_Post For reference:

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@StateDept Attn: @Jackie_Elward when will you publicly disavow your husband @RyanElward connections to this terrorist organization? Attn: @NorthBayNews @marinij @RohnertPkPatch @nbaybohemian @nhanson_reports @ericlucan @Skinny_Post

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@juansondeluxe @j3lqingt0n 🤫

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@ilike_mike With every post you beclown yourself

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@DonShift3 And the phones/internet doesn’t work so we don’t know the scale

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Most atheists would probably prefer a God who explained quantum mechanics to them over a God who told them to love their enemies.

If Jesus had arrived explaining astrophysics instead of commanding repentance, forgiveness, and holiness, the modern world would have found Him far more compelling.

We do not seem to want a God who is holier than us. We want a God who is just smarter than us.

A God who is merely smarter is safe. He stays in the comfortable category of an intellectual superior. We could admire His mind, take His laboratory notes, and use His data to master the universe on our own terms.

A God of pure information gives us power without ever touching our pride.

The absence of a scientific manual in Scripture is not an oversight. It is an act of design.

In Genesis, God does not hand Adam a completed catalogue of creation. He brings the animals to him and lets him name them. God builds an intelligible world, gives humanity minds capable of interrogating it, and then leaves room for discovery.

The skeptic looks at that silence and calls it a deficiency. He demands that God should have handed us the finished physics.

But if God owes us the completed mechanics of the universe, why stop at science?

Why didn’t the Mona Lisa descend from heaven fully painted? Why didn’t Beethoven’s Ninth arrive fully scored? Why did God not pre-design the airplane, pre-discover penicillin, pre-build civilization and hand it to us at Eden?

He could have. The demand has no principled stopping point.

What you are actually asking for, worked out to its conclusion, is a world where humanity arrived to find everything already done. No discovery to make. No art to create. No problem left to solve. God would have been comprehensively generous. Humans would have been comprehensively useless.

The blank canvas is not God withholding. It is God protecting the only conditions under which making something actually means anything.

So why is Scripture so much more explicit about how we should live than about how God built the universe?

Look at the asymmetry of consequence.

Ignorance of astrophysics and the exact mechanics of creation is remarkably survivable. A civilization can flourish for centuries without knowing how the cosmos was physically assembled.

Moral disorder is different.

An abusive father does not need a better cosmology before his family suffers. A corrupt ruler does not need to understand thermodynamics before he destroys a nation. Societies can survive enormous intellectual ignorance. They cannot indefinitely survive the corruption of trust, justice, love, and leadership.

We treat technical mastery as if it were the summit of human purpose.

But knowledge is merely instrumental. It decorates our world, extends our reach and amplifies our power, yet it leaves the human soul entirely untouched.

We split the atom and did not become more virtuous. We simply acquired the capacity to industrialize our vices.
Science can tell us what we can do. It cannot tell us what we ought to do.
God never came primarily as our lab instructor.

He came as a Father to heal a terminal heart.

He gave us the cosmos to discover, our neighbour to love, and Himself to know.

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@ilike_mike Only old white people allowed to attend?

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@Mauty480 lol

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@APKramar @captive_dreamer I voted for this

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It's not very often I see a tweet this fantastically wrong on this many levels, on matters of this extreme importance. But it needs to be corrected, because the Gospel is at the heart of it. Now tell me if you've heard a better Gospel than this today:

With perfect obedience, Jesus flawlessly obeyed all of God's Laws (1 Peter 2:22; 2 Corinthians 5:21). This was the means by which, through His passive and active obedience, Jesus earned for us perfect righteousness (Romans 5:19), the very righteousness which is then imputed to us by faith in Jesus death, burial, and resurrection (Romans 4:22-25; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

The definition of sin is the violation of God's Moral Law (1 John 3:4). Had Jesus defied or disobeyed that Law, He would not have had the righteousness to impute to us by faith, and we would all be going to hell in a handbasket.

Jesus DID abrogate and set aside the Ceremonial Law, those dealing with the observance, rites, and rituals of the Old Covenant, now fulfilled by Him (Colossians 2:16-17; Ephesians 2:15; Hebrews 10:1). But the Moral Law remains the Moral Law, because the Moral Law reflects God's own immutable nature, and because God does not change, cosmic right and wrong does not change (Malachi 3:6; Matthew 5:17-18).

The Law of Love, aka Law of Christ, is a summarization of God's Moral Law. This is proven by the fact that, when being asked for the greatest commandment, Jesus provides two: to love God with all of our heart and soul, and to love others as much as ourselves. These are a summary of the Moral Law (the 1st and 2nd Table, respectively), not brand new laws. Loving God and Loving Neighbor are Old Testament commands (Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 22:37-40).

This is Jesus' way of saying, "Keep it simple, stupid."

The means by which "his burden is light" (Matthew 11:30) is not because the demands of morality or obedience are less under Christ. It is because, with our natures born-again and hearts regenerate, now in Christ, obeying the Law of God is joyful and delightful (Psalm 119:97; 1 John 5:3) and less a burden. This is God changing our desires to conform to His own (Ezekiel 36:26-27; Philippians 2:13).

No, the new wine skins are not American governance. There is nothing light about that burden. You can't even hunt with a drone, for crying out loud, and they can arrest you for jaywalking. The new wine skin is the New Covenant, by the gospel, in Christ's own blood (Luke 22:20; Jeremiah 31:31; Hebrews 8:8-13). Which, I assure you, is under far less control of AIPAC than the Federal Government.

In fact, you'll not find any AIPAC reps anywhere near it.

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@ilike_mike Congrats on getting a picture with the only person there under 72

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@NorthBayNews Ok, you hacks

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@thevallejosun @nhanson_reports Are they also over represented in the demographics of homicide arrests? How about victims of violent crime?

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@WomanDefiner And none of them had an issue with filming their PSA in a graveyard

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@DrcharlieWardQ Very cool to film this in a graveyard