Ian Kitchen

@catvon0 @IndianaBrunner I've read the whole book. Enlighten me, if you are so sure I have misunderstood it. Rebuke me with the Apostles' words.

@IanDaKitchen @IndianaBrunner Did you read the entire New Testament or just the parts that make you feel good?

I’ve just rewatched this video for a second time now 18 weeks later… This is unbelievably sad. In no way, shape, or form did this Orthodox gentleman explain the gospel of Jesus Christ. “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me HAS eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” (John 5:24) Jesus cleanses us of all our sins and brings us from death into eternal life through his death and resurrection, not because we deserve it, but because of the great love with which he loved us. For some, this is hard to understand. “Jesus answered him, ‘What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.’ Peter said to him, ‘You shall never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered him, ‘If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.’” (John 13:7-8) Accept the gift of grace that God has given you in Christ Jesus through his death and resurrection, and you will be cleansed. You can have assurance. He’s offering it to you. ACCEPT IT! BELIEVE! The Christian life is not a selfish pursuit, constantly trying to save yourself or maintain your salvation. The Christian life is a life of assurance, constantly pursuing the salvation of the world. “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.” (John 13:14-15) Jesus lived a perfect life, not to save himself, but to serve and save those who would believe in him. We are now called to follow him in this way of living: a life of sacrificial love, NOT for our own sake, but for the sake of those who are weary and heavy laden. The gospel gives us the CONFIDENCE to do this! I know I am saved. I want you to know that you too can be saved if you believe.

@_matthewpearson @PatriotsTLH @tyler_austin55 Ahh man @PatriotsTLH blocked me after trying to insult me. He didn't even let me respond! Sad day.

@_matthewpearson @PatriotsTLH @tyler_austin55 Lol'd. Followed.

There are really good answers to the questions presented in this book.

@OddlyGeometric @LizzieMarbach @Moderatemuch @patristicpill Well, first of all...the fact that the fathers were interpreting Scripture in a way much more consistent with the Reformers than with the medieval RC and EO churches was a clue that they were on to something.

@IanDaKitchen @LizzieMarbach @Moderatemuch @patristicpill Yet that's not represented at any of these reformed churches? So, it's completely irrelevant to even suggest that the reformers went back to the church fathers and scripture. How did they know what proper scripture interpretation was? Its not self interpretative.

If the visible Church fell into corruption immediately after the apostles, then Christ failed to preserve His Church If He preserved it, Protestantism is unnecessary …that is the dilemma

@catvon0 @IndianaBrunner You when you read the Apostle John: "Bro this doesn't align with the theosis idea that my apostolic succession concocted" ---- John: "I write these things in order that you may KNOW that you HAVE eternal life." (1 Jn 5:13)

@IndianaBrunner “Bro this doesn’t align with the Gospel idea I concocted in my head”

@ScottC1517 @MichaelCarlino

@IanDaKitchen @MichaelCarlino

“Therefore, no one is rightly admitted into the church except on confession of faith and a promise of obedience.” —William Ames, “The Marrow of Theology”

@CovenantReform2 @MichaelCarlino Definitely. And congregationalism consistently applied leads to credobaptism.

@MichaelCarlino That's congregationalism. It was committed to regenerate church membership.

@MichaelCarlino I can't tell you how many times in recent months this "laughs in Baptist" meme has run through my head while reading Presbys, Anglicans, and Congregationalists. Also, this one.

@ScottC1517 @MichaelCarlino

@MichaelCarlino Welcome to the infant baptism side lol

@LizzieMarbach @Moderatemuch @patristicpill Exactly. Protestantism does not assert that there was immediate falling away / total corruption. The drift was gradual and the apostasy had "points of no return" at Nicea 2, Trent (RC), and Dositheus (EO). Reformers were going back to the Scriptures and the early fathers.

@Moderatemuch @patristicpill No, I am not asserting that and no reformers were asserting that.

@Sacramentshow If the magisterium is the final authority, why do sincere Catholics reach opposite conclusions from the same magisterial pronouncements while all claiming the Holy Spirit guided them?

And when the pressure came He watched them bow Bobby stood there all alone. He said, Not gonna bow to your idols. Not gonna bow, oh no (no!) Not gonna bow to your idols I won’t bow down no more. ~Russ Taff. Still a banger.

AND criminalize the use of the abortion pill by anyone, mother or father. If a father can be prosecuted "slipping" the abortion pill, a mother should be prosecuted for willfully downing it. Same result: the child dies. Same crime: murder. Don't you agree, @LilaGraceRose ?

La chiarezza di un acquedotto romano di 2000 anni fa che ancora scorre oggi

A 3D reconstruction of a pregnant woman at 32 weeks gestation. Evidence. Babies in the womb aren’t body parts. They are living, unique, dependent, and developing human beings, intrinsically valuable and worthy of life.

The cost of having children is worth the presence of children. Full stop. I am dumbstruck at how our society thinks of children as a costly, time-consuming drag. What an impoverished way to think. No vacation will hold your hand in the hospital. No amount of mimosas at brunch can walk with you through grief. Double incomes cannot replace empty seats around the dinner table.

Protestants: Let's go to the Bible and see what God says Roman Catholics and Orthodox: Let's go to various men who gave their opinions about what God says, interpret it to fit the traditions we've made, claim that it's binding for salvation but when someone asks about it tell them, "that's up to God" but when they quote what God says, tell them that's "sola scriptura" invented by Luther, Calvin and Zwingli so they need a church to read it and interpret it for them because they don't have the fullness of the faith until they submit to our church where there's a possibility of salvation outside it, although our churches have taught historically there's no salvation outside of it and we also gave them the Bible itself because without us, they wouldn't know who wrote Matthew.

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ThE PrOtEsTanTs haVE 3 mIllIoN DeNOminAtIoNs is begging the question. The issue is whether inclusion in the body of Christ is determined on theological or ecclesiastical grounds. Jesus said it was those who hear the word of God and do it.