Bill Alexy

Repatriated in NY

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

One of my favorite GKC precepts. A virtues let loose, unrestrained by its neighboring virtues leads to madness.

[Doug Ponder @dougponder]

G. K. Chesterton anticipated the problem of “toxic empathy” more than 100 years ago, explaining both its origin and its destructive potential:

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

@MattWalshBlog Not to mention vets had to walk through beheadings in public squares as if it were a walk in the park. The photos are horrendously vivid and were a common happenstance.

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@bcherny @rahulgs Why verification loops over verification at specific intervals? For example, running a skill just before a commits or with a /goal

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@jpalmiotti @WallStreetApes We loved our tankless in our last house but they’re not known for longevity

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

But can you affirm this:

I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,

he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
and his kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

P1 is the crux of the argument. Deny that premise about the nature of God and counter that Mormonism is the true branch from the lineage of Christ and we land on one fundamental claim, Mormons aren’t also Christian’s. They’re the only Christians.

Your counter argument hinges on how doctrine and truth are revealed and that God’s economy permits special revelation through angels and prophets. But it conflates developing revelation with general revelation.

Your examples showcase revelations to the apostles as if to say that the revelations given to them are in like kind to those espoused by later men.

The nature of prophetic revelation in Christianity is that the one true God reveals supernatural truths. He communicates what exceeds our natural capacity. The essentials of His revelation through Jesus Christ and the apostles is closed. Any know revelation and doctrines must follow in perfect unity.

There is no new revelation that can conflict with what was previously revealed. Galatians 1.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Also read, Hebrews 1:1–2; Jude 1:3; Revelation 22:18–19.

Mormonism’s unique scriptures and priesthood authority come from books and revelations delivered by the angel Moroni (a post-apostolic figure unknown to the New Testament) to Joseph Smith in the 1820s–1830. That new material did not exist in the apostolic era.

Therefore, Mormonism is not Christianity, because even granting (for argument’s sake) that Moroni was somehow an agent of Christ, the mechanism of authority is still post-apostolic angelic new books, which Christianity itself condemns as invalid and non-Christian. Authority cannot bypass the apostles and still claim to be “of Christ” in the biblical sense.

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@RealLaneThorpe @BasedMikeLee And SDA

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Muslims honor Christ and Mary, and they’re a people of the Book. But they aren’t Christians because they don’t acknowledge Christ as the one true God. Neither do Mormons. Like Muslims they treat Jesus as an oracle. Unlike Muslims they say that each one of us is just like Jesus and can attain godhood just like him.

Jesus didn’t attain godhood. He is God. The one true God. Coequal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Three persons. Each God, one triune God.

Even more precisely, there is one God (one divine essence), and three distinct Persons, each of whom is fully and entirely God, sharing the one undivided divine essence.

Mormons cannot, will not affirm that.

[Rep. Mike Kennedy, M.D. @RepMikeKennedy]

I’m a Latter-day Saint, and I am a Christian.

Christ’s name is on our Church for a reason.

This must be corrected.

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@BasedMikeLee Imagine if all Christian denominations called themselves Mormon.

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I wonder how’d they feel if all Christians began calling themselves Mormon.

[Senator John Curtis @SenJohnCurtis]

Latter-day Saints are among the most patriotic, service-oriented individuals in our country. They are also unequivocally Christian—just look at who is in the name of the Church.

It is unacceptable for a government entity to characterize a faith in a manner that contradicts the religion’s own foundational tenets. I am working now to ensure a correction is made.

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

When people on the side of justifying infanticide pretend they’re taking the high road…

“Look, killing a baby is hard. You’d be sad too.”

[Katherine Brodsky @mysteriouskat]

I wasn't going to comment on this but tired of seeing all the self-righteous and cruel replies. Wrong or right, it was clearly a very difficult and painful decision. They were weighing the possibility that the child might experience pain, that his wife might be at risk giving birth, and a potentially extremely difficult road ahead, forever. Yes, sometimes doctors get things wrong. And once you have a child, you love them, you don't want to imagine life without them, even if there are severe issues. You figure out a way to make it work. But not everyone can make the same decision. And for each family that says how happy they are, there are many who struggle, and children who suffer. And it's not up to strangers to decide that path for anyone or spread hate towards people who no doubt are feeling a profound loss.

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@jasonfried @gregisenberg Convert belt software, man nailed it

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@FischerKing64 True but on the plus side I am seeing your posts more often again. So maybe the algorithm is improving.

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

@McJuggerNuggets Time to unborn your X account. You have the power to unborn things. You should keep going. And don’t stop until you’ve unborned your own dead conscience.

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@McJuggerNuggets You turned the miscarriage risk from 50% to 100%

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On some level, all protestants understand sanctification. Even for hose who believe one can never lose their salvation they still believe that there are sins that signify that a person was never "saved."

The dread and fear that besets one when he thinks he is saved, but has committed sins that signify he never was leads to self-condemnation followed by either a shipwrecked faith or a negotiated compromise.

What helped me was being introduced to concepts of enabling grace, my culpability when offending that grace, and mercy through repentance.

[Bill Alexy @wtalexy]

@roosterniels @BishStrick Thanks, Niels. I think a lot of us are weary with this unnecessary infighting.

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@UnknownUserRhys @SkullnaughtS @TheHat2 That moment until they start compelling free speech, and parading naked with children and handing them the tools to mutilate themselves

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@bennyjohnson Definitely on the Huberman protocol