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'Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus' from Hebrews 12:1-3 My latest sermon at my church. Let's lay aside every weight, run with endurance, and fix our gaze on Christ, who endured the cross for the joy set before Him! Watch here: youtube.com/live/I9dMgGrVr… #Hebrews12 #ChristIsKing

@TheSeanEsposito @TheWatchManOfT1 "Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving" If you consider it defiled, then to you it is defiled, but you cannot say that it is defiled in itself, for nothing is in the Lord Jesus.

@LukeBaird2016 @TheWatchManOfT1 Pork isnt food though. Its as much food as a vulture or fido

Jesus never ate pork

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito Why does Mark conclude with ‘thus He declared all foods clean’? Even if the Pharisees didn’t ask about dietary laws, wouldn’t that summary suggest the implication goes beyond their original question? How do you reconcile that broader conclusion with a strictly handwashing-view?

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito I agree the question was about handwashing, that's clear. But if Jesus intended to limit His point to unwashed hands, why would HE expand it in Mark 7 to say that NOTHING entering a person from the outside defiles them? That's broader than bread with dirty hands.

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito That's an appeal to authority, you're treating a "credible commentary" as if it settles the issue instead of actually engaging the text itself. You're also sidestepping the discussion (a form of red herring) by shifting the focus from Mark 7 to simply asserting that you're right.

@LukeBaird2016 @TheSeanEsposito He’s not…dude I gave you a credible commentary that says you are wrong.

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito I'm with you there, but Jesus doesn't limit His answer strictly to the question asked, because He doesn't just say "unwashed hands don't defile", He says NOTHING that enters a person from the outside defiles them, and then Mark concludes "thus He declared all foods clean."

@LukeBaird2016 @TheSeanEsposito Except that its not because he doesn’t mention a dietary law, because the question wasn’t about dietary laws, but about washing ones hands before eating…

@5Solas2 @easttnhokie The Reformation **reformed** the Catholic church according to Scripture, bringing us closer to the ancient apostolic faith... ...which we all know is found in Historic Premillennial Reformed Baptist theology 😁

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He is not right on that one

The view of James, Joseph, Simon, Judas, and His sisters (Matthew 13:55–56; Mark 6:3; Matthew 12:46–50; Acts 1:14). Additionally, Matthew 1:25 states that Joseph "knew her not until she had given birth to a son," and Luke 2:7 calls Jesus her "firstborn," implying "secondborn".

@Truth_matters20 I agree with you, up until you mentioned that angels manifest physically. I actually don't see any reason to think they're being of pure spirit at all. I think they're physical, biological creatures, that's what they are

People say that I am wrong and then go on to provide no biblical evidence of demons manifesting physically. Spiritual entities cannot manifest in the physical realm unless God gives them permission. The ONLY angels to manifest physically in the Bible were God's servants and they appeared human.

@DavidFischer No, I don't hold to a medieval Roman cosmology that was ignorant of the Ancient Near Eastern context for the Bible. Demons are the disembodied spirits of giants, and they cannot manifest in a physical body

Do you agree with Vice President JD Vance regarding his belief that aliens are actually demons?

@DrFrankTurek “But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. “See to it, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come." -Mark 13:32-33

Is Jesus coming soon?

Neither of these Papists get it. They've inherited their theology of demons from medieval scholasticism. Demons are the disembodied spirits of giants, they cannot take a physical form and pilot aerospace vehicles. Whatever the abduction phenomenon is, it's not demons.

@brad_polumbo Christ is not honoured by selective outrage. I don't care if a joke is aimed at "our side" or "theirs", does it reflect the character of Christ, full of truth and mercy? NO, it doesn't! "How blessed will be the one who repays you" -Psalm 137

I've ardently defended Erika Kirk from the ostensibly serious podcasters & media stars defaming her and baselessly implicating her in crimes. But my feelings about the comedian Druski's mockery of Erika Kirk are more complex. For years, I, and many others on the Right, defended edgy and wildly offensive comedy, like mocking trans people and even joking about horrible things like domestic violence, the Holocaust, and AIDS. How can anyone on the Right really argue, in that context, that a comedian mocking a widow is somehow beyond the pale... without being totally hypocritical?

@GeneralMCNews JD would then have a medieval theology of demons that is completely divorced from the historical and cultural background of the biblical text

BREAKING: JD Vance says aliens are just demons in disguise causing mischief around our planet.

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito Jesus clearly says "nothing" entering a person defiles them. If He intended to keep the dietary laws in place, it could have said "except for the things already forbidden." Instead, He makes a blanket statement that shifts the whole focus to the heart.

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito Instead, the words sits there in the masculine, and the only masculine subject around is Jesus. Mark is telling us what Jesus says, and then says "BTW, He was declaring all foods clean."

JUST IN: Demons are the disembodied spirits of giants, not biological, extraterrestrial beings. Demons also cannot assume a physical form.

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito So why wouldn't Jesus just say "unwashed hands don't defile"? Instead, in Mark 7 He says that NOTHING entering a person defiles them, and then the Holy Spirit closes with all food being declared clean.

@LukeBaird2016 @TheSeanEsposito Except this text has nothing to do with dietary restrictions, also this is an added law by the Pharisees (ritual washing before eating) that is what he is rebuking, not a wall between jew and gentile here

@TheWatchManOfT1 @TheSeanEsposito So why does He expand it to anything entering a person, and then the Spirit concludes with "thus He declared all foods clean"? It sounds like the Holy Spirit is drawing out the implication of Jesus' teaching.

@LukeBaird2016 @TheSeanEsposito Except there is ZERO mention of the dietary laws in the text. The context is unwashed hands while eating bread…