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@MikeWingerii @megbasham Nailed it. My first thought as well. Can someone have @albertmohler call the President or Karoline to give some good Biblical, conservative, worldview analysis and advice? It might not be what his 'itching ears' want to hear, but he needs to hear it nonetheless.

@megbasham this is what happens when Paula White is your pastor.

I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy. But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.

@JoshuaBarzon It already did...and they lost it.

Do you believe this will ever happen?

The irony is that every day members of the Guardian staff walk/drive by Westminster Abbey where the confession and catechisms were hammered out: What is God's providence? God's providence is His completely holy, wise, and powerful preserving every creature and every action. What are the works of God's providence? God's works of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures and all their actions. These precious doctrines allow the saint's soul to rest a bit more.

@tlloydcline Calvinistic determinism is an extreme doctrine.

@EddyEkofo Me too. Until I was guided to go back further...to Genesis. You'll be a covenantal presbyterian next. 🍻 to biblical theology.

Amazing how that happened!

Senator Ben Sasse, who has just months to live, "I believe in the resurrection, and I believe in a restoration of this world..."

@dbretts @Protestia Exactly. It's the same pattern that will be perpetuated by Israel...the 'Sons of God' adulterating themselves with the gods of the nations. And still being perpetuated today by liberalism in the church...making a god in our own image and uniting with it.

@Protestia Yet many Christians who are appalled at NT Wright will cling to M Heiser's mythology and mysticism that Sons of God were angels and created hybrid demigod babies with women. Don't insert thoughts into God's Word as an attempt to figure things out.

"There were what we might call hominids- human like creatures- we might even call them proto-humans" Apologist N.T. Wright explains that if Adam and Eve literally existed, they were likely were 'human-like' primates that lived 200,000-5 million years ago.

The Westminster Confession of Faith says it well in Chapter 1, sections 6 & 7: 6. The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word; and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and the government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed. 7. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them. I love Roman Catholics who love our Lord. But the above becomes a good test of both RC doctrine as well as that of modern evangelicalism...which leaves much to be desired.

@michaeljknowles “Trinity” doesn’t appear in Scripture either, but the concept does ;) Paul really can’t get clearer than he does in Ephesians 2:1-10. He repeats himself in at least 6 different ways to ensure everyone understands salvation is a free gift of grace

How many times does the phrase "faith alone" appear in the Bible? And what specifically does the Bible say about "faith alone"?

@sola_chad Even Calvin didn't teach Calvinism. He taught Biblical Theology.

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.” -Jesus Christ

@sola_chad I'd tithe 10%

If you’re a Christian and walked up on this, what’s your next move?

@JulianVsBabylon @5Solas2 Right. It's the 'spirit'. There are many protestants who are 'antichrist' too. Think of all your health, wealth, & prosperity preachers. They are 'antichrist'...and also advisors to President Trump 😖

@JSD_RN @5Solas2 All are. There is no “the antichrist”. The antichrist is spirit among those who are: in place of, or against Christ. The beast(s), and the false prophet are both religiopolitical empires, as is consistent with the statues they reference in Dan 2.

Reformed people, do you still believe the pope and the papacy are antichrist?

Neither is Paula White-Caine. Very concerned about Robert Jeffress too. It's like the 400 prophets telling King Zedekiah whatever his 'itching ears' wanted to hear (1 Kings 22). Until Elijah came. We need Godly and God-fearing men to be like John the Baptist...to confront leaders, call out their sin, plead for repentance, and bring to remembrance the Gospel. Whatever the costs. The Church is to be the conscience of society. Trump, sadly, has surrounded himself with no conscience and no Biblical theology (and we can throw in systematic theology too).

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing. On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies. Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace. Not escalating war that is hurting people. This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most. This is not making America great again, this is evil.

A good exercise is to read Leviticus in one sitting, then go immediately to Hebrews and read in one sitting. Not only can we go directly to Him, but are encouraged to do so often. If we are going to anyone/thing other than Christ, we are otherwise we are 'dull of hearing' and 'immature' (Heb. 5)

Mar Mari: "You can't go directly to God when you sin." Thank God this isn't true. This guy is a heretic. Stop sharing his videos.

@michaeljknowles Everything that the Lord wants us to know about His Christ and who He is, and how to be at peace with Him (justified), is revealed in the Scriptures. Anything added to that is making a god in our own image...like the two above.

“Just a reminder that a first-century Jew was actually Arab six centuries before Arabs conquered the Levant.” Uh…

It wasn't 'all of humanity'. It was for '...all whom that the Father has given me.' It was for '...My sheep hear My voice, and will come...' It was for '...those who live by faith, who are the sons of Abraham.' It was for those in Ephesians 1, Hebrews 2, Galatians 2, and Isaiah 49, and...........

Luke 23:46 On this solemn day, we reflect on the ultimate sacrifice our Savior made for all humanity. Trust in God’s plan.

@mattvanswol Woodfield Mall. Our mall in the 70's. When everything was real...except Santa

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It is very true. That's why Paul warns that God is a 'consuming fire' The first 4 commandments, and the preamble, deal specifically with worship: the Who, what, where, when, why, how He is to be worshipped. We do not create a god in our own image, nor worship according to the dictates of our own hearts. He is Good. He has not left us to ourselves to figure this out.

@5Solas2 A God with unconditional love could never kill over such a thing. If this story is actually true, that was a demon. I'm not sure what God you are worshipping, but one with unconditional love wouldn't act in such a way.

Definitely part of their historical culture, their genetic culture. But the celebration of it has to respect boundaries and all of redemptive history, as Pastor Rich lays out. No need for an empty chair. Elijah, Moses, and Jesus are already seated...and inviting us to join them.

@Vicar1973 I know a couple of Messianic Jews who would beg to disagree.

There's nothing more stupid in the church today than evangelicals doing a play-acting "Seder Supper." First, we don't need to do a fake Passover. The church already has the Lord's Supper which is (among other things) the fulfillment of the old covenant Passover. Jesus gave us a meal. Why do something other than what he commanded? Why do another religious meal when Jesus already gave us one? The reason some evangelicals get interested is the Seder is that, having eviscerated the true sacraments of their meaning and efficacy, they go looking for substitutes. They have emptied the true sacraments (baptism and the Lord's Supper) of mystery, yet, being human, they still yearn for meaningful and mysterious rituals, so they either borrow from Jewish tradition (the Seder as a substitute for the Lord's Supper) or they create their own (such as the altar call). The answer to this longing for meaningful rituals should be satisfied by reclaiming and understanding what Jesus gave us. Doing a Seder is not a way to return to the church's roots; it is the church engaging in idolatrous syncretism, no matter how well intentioned. Second, most of the Seder is not actually rooted in Scripture. It's not the ritual described in Exodus 12 or later OT Scripture. Most of it comes from later extra-biblical traditions; indeed, most of it comes from rabbinic Judaism, and was established long after Christian faith and Judaism were clearly distinct and very different faiths. Even if those rabbinic traditions get infused with Christian symbolism, they are not "our" traditions and symbols. They comes from the Talmud, not the Bible. Christians have no more business doing a Seder than than they do keeping Ramadan or celebrating Kwanza. The church has her own meal, her own traditions, her own calendar, her own story. Why borrow from apostate Judaism? Why syncretize the Christian faith with a rival? I have argued elsewhere that one deep-seated reason dispensational evangelicals are attracted to modern Israel is because they have rejected Christendom but still long to have an earthy, embodied cultural manifestation of the faith. The same thing is happening here - having minimized the power of the Christian sacraments, these same evangelicals look to Judaism to provide what they (wrongly) think their own religion lacks. Third, for Christians to try to perform an old covenant Passover in any way is virtually blasphemous - and it's impossible anyway. Will the Seder meal only be for the circumcised per Exodus 12, and those who keep the cleanness laws of Leviticus? Where are are Levitical priests going to be found to administer the ritual? How does taking this pseudo-Passover meal outside of Jerusalem get justified in light of Deuteronomy 16? How will a lamb be sacrificed at the temple, per the old covenant requirement, since the temple was destroyed in 70AD? Will 2 year olds be welcome to eat the Seder since the Passover meal was for the whole household and obviously included young children? What about the shedding of blood after Jesus' death on the cross - on what basis could any Christian revert to an animal sacrifice when the final sacrifice has been offered? The Passover was part of a system that God ended in 70AD. To turn back to it (especially in rabbinic/Talmudic form) is no better and no different from turning to paganism (cf. Gal. 4:8-11). The whole point of the Last Supper is that Jesus has transformed the old covenant Passover into something better - the new covenant meal of the Lord's Supper. Doing a Seder is participating in a religious system that rejected Jesus as Messiah. There's more that could be said, but these reasons are fully sufficient for Christians to reject the Seder. Do the meal Jesus gave us. Do it every Lord's Day, like the apostles did. Read Calvin on the real (Spiritual) presence and embrace a theology of sacramental efficacy. Use good bread and real wine. We don't need weird non-Christian rituals to give the season meaning.

Powerful and personal reflections from Francis Schaeffer on prayer, suffering, and the sovereignty of God during his battle with cancer in 1981: "God is not a dispensing machine. God is a personal God, and I must allow Him to answer my prayers in the light of His wisdom instead of my limitedness." Franky Schaeffer: "And that's not a cop-out?" Schaeffer: "Not at all. It's rooted in the heart of all things and that is, He's infinite; I'm finite. I'll tell you something, nothing could terrify me more, and I'm being very serious, nothing could terrify me more than that I could ask for anything today and get it, because I don't know enough." Franky: "Including, for your own health?" Schaeffer: "Oh, absolutely. Just as much as for anything." Franky: "Are you willing to say that as a person who, ok, let's face it, has cancer that's serious enough so it could be killing you?" Schaeffer: "Yeah, of course... If I could wave a wand or push a button and get rid of it, in one sense, of course I'd do it. Who wants cancer? Let's not kid ourselves. It's no pleasure to live with this thing on top my head all the time... But on the other hand, more profoundly, I think I can honestly say sitting here that I would rather trust God's wisdom than mine."