Fat Joe

1/2 “We accept that there is a level of risk that society will & should tolerate - people die. But this is a political decision, a societal one [not a scientific one]... Zero risk is not something that is a realistic possibility.” ~ Chris Witty Finally some sense.

My dear American friends, We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address. In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard: - Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith - Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home - Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers - Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family - Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked - Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost - Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent - More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count - And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross. All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world. You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world. Never stop fighting for it.

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“Scripture has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter.” ~ John Locke

“Where it differs [from being drawn to post negativity online] is Christians. Which is interesting. A lot of low wattage Christians are still super nice. They will just praise Jesus and look for forgiveness. Which is great and something we should all aspire to.” ~ J Rogan

“And t pope joineth t spiritual doctrine of Christ and t fleshy doctrine of philosophers together; things so contrary they cannot agree no more than t Spirit and t flesh do in a Christian… [he] consent unto heathen doctrine [and] corrupt t scripture to stablish it.” ~ Tyndale

“Anselm + Aquinas typify t main current of Western thought in t official medieval church. It was a theology cast in t mold of philosophy; tradition rather than exegesis filled in its details. As time passed, t tradition hardened & t distance from scripture increased.” ~ E Fudge

“Elections allow the populists to circumvent the consensus of institutions.” ~ Mike Benz open.spotify.com/episode/7uBY7T…

@bigdogbk @DanNeidle “Canceller of the exchequer” 🤣🤣

The BBC has reported on a ludicrous attempt to avoid business rates using snails. This is, however, just one of many stupid schemes to avoid business rates. And the bizarre thing is that historically they have mostly worked. Here's why - and how the Government should step in.

@HelenSteelITV Hi Helen. This was from Three years ago

West #Sheffield right now. #storm #lightning

No better way to prove that you don’t have a left-wing bias than half of your sports staff going on strike in support of the view that the Tories are comparable to the Nazis. #BBC #Lineker

“Knowledge is the rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man’s estate.” ~ Francis Bacon

“Although doing right is better than knowledge, knowledge comes before doing.” ~ Charlemagne

“Social reforms, so necessary, so indispensable, require just as much of God’s grace as a change of heart.” ~ Lord Shaftesbury

“What is morally right can never be politically wrong, and what is morally wrong can never be politically right.” ~ Lord Shaftesbury

“The doctrine of unconditional reprobation combined w the category of temporary faith undermines assurance & leads to despair. Since humans cannot peer into the secret will & decrees of God, its impossible to know for sure that we’re elect & not self-deceived by temporary faith.”

… To many to whom the gospel is announced, by the absolute decree of reprobation… they are commanded to believe a lie [that the gospel is for them] & coz they do not believe the lie they are more heavily punished; which be it far from us to attribute to a good God.” ~ Arminius

1/2 “[According to Supralapsarianism, God] deals with some of his creatures [reprobates] by hypocrisy & by fraud, & with wonderful art leading them into sin, in order that the poor wretches might seem to perish by their own fault…

“[Supralapsarianism] imputes hypocrisy to God, as if, in his own exhortation to faith addressed to [the reprobate], he requires them to believe in Christ, whom, however, he has not set forth as a saviour to them.”~ Arminius

“Divine knowledge does not bring necessity to the thing known. As omniscient, God knows necessary things as necessary, and he knows contingent things as contingent. “For as he knows the thing itself and it’s mode, if the mode of the thing is contingent, he must know it as such.””

“A thing does not happen because it has been foreknown or predicted, but it is foreknown or predicted because it is about to be.” ~ Arminius (that foreknowledge of freely chose creaturely acts does not imply necessarily)