Colvinism

"Intellectuals are naturally seduced by the idea of a planned society, because they think they will be in charge of it." --Philosopher Roger Scruton

@33_34Guy @AJWTheology And since all of Greek metaphysics was originally devised by observation of, and analogy with created reality that the Greeks could see, it is *a fortiori* even more inappropriate to take its verdicts as legislative for the being of God, which no one has seen.

@MattColvin47 @AJWTheology >it doesn't fit created reality

Some theologians: “Nicene Christology reflects the triumph of Greek philosophical categories over Jewish biblical ones.” Richard Bauckham: “Bunk.”

@33_34Guy @AJWTheology Because Greek metaphysics is a bed of Procrustes. It doesn’t fit created reality, let alone God.

@MattColvin47 @AJWTheology And why it is distorting?

@jonthecatholic @AJWTheology Jesus and the God of Israel.

@MattColvin47 @AJWTheology What book is this btw

@33_34Guy @AJWTheology That although the creeds were indeed the Fathers’ attempt to affirm the worship of Jesus as God (motivated by the Bible, not Gk philosophy), the effect of Greek philosophy on Christian theology remains a distorting and unfortunate one.

@MattColvin47 @AJWTheology And what are the implications?

I was cursed to watch naive Millennials fall for Justin Trudeau, only for them to be slowly, systematically shown the error of their ways. And now I'm forced to watch the same process play out with Boomers and Carney.

ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH CLIP... Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer on USMCA "They can have a weak economy that is underperforming and not doing well, and Carney can feel superior." "Or they can have an economy that participates with as a partner of the U.S. economy." "And Carney can do what a grownup should do, which is figure out." "...It's my job as a person who's supposed to protect Canadian jobs and Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy to not let my ego and my feelings dictate what's best for my own economy." Q "Do you think this will have implications for the USMCA?" Switzer "Yeah, of course it is..." "Look, was Ambassador Greer in Canada? Did he meet with Carney? No." "...The grownups are in the room talking because there's a grown up in the presidency in leadership there, and I would argue there's not a grown up in Canada in charge there." "You don't go out of your way to antagonize the leader of the country that you are absolutely existentially tied to." "It's just political malpractice." @markjcarney

@KnightLegg Here is what will happen. When he gets a deal, it will be one that is almost 100% dictated by the Americans. Then he will do 👇...and the elbows up old hippies will buy it.

@KnightLegg I continue to say it: one of the greatest threats to Canadians' prosperity is unhinged, irrational anti-U.S. derangement.

I have to say, Mark Carney's address to Canadians is unbecoming, despicable fear mongering, and full of lies. It is pure anti-America propaganda to stoke more TDS and bs for the uninformed to cover up for the fact that over the past year he has failed to deliver all but record deficits and MOUs. Let's remember, Mark Carney: > went to school in the US > his kid/s went/go to school and live in the US > his wife lives in the US > moved Brookfield's HQ to the US > majority of his investments are in the US The US is good for him and his family but not for your's. Mark Carney is another Liberal boomer that came back to Canada, after making all his money from the US, to tell us how bad America is and how wonderful Canada is which he will leave the first opportunity he has.

It's pretty obvious at this point that the Carney plan is to try to keep this country in a perpetual state of hate and fear towards the US and use this to keep himself popular. His video today, with its long and gratuitous evocation of the 1812 war, makes this clearer than ever.

Some leftist just tried to do a Jussie Smollett on ICE, and even CNN is covering it: cnn.com/2026/04/18/us/…

Infuriating.

For seven years I was College Chaplain and Worcester College, Oxford. Each year I used to see the first year undergraduates individually for a few minutes, to welcome them to the college and make a first acquaintance. Most were happy to meet me; but many commented, often with slight embarrassment, “You won’t be seeing much of me; you see, I don’t believe in god.” I developed stock response: “Oh, that’s interesting; which god is it you don’t believe in?” This used to surprise them; they mostly regarded the word “God” as a univocal, always meaning the same thing. So they would stumble out a few phrases about the god they said they did not believe in: a being who lived up the in the sky, looking down disapprovingly at the world, occasionally “intervening” to do miracles, sending bad people to hell while allowing good people to share his heaven. Again, I had a stock response for this very common statement of “spy-in-the-sky” theology: “Well, I’m not surprised you don’t believe in that god. I don’t believe in that god either.” ntwrightpage.com/2016/07/12/jes…

Rosaria Butterfield boldly sharing truth at the Answers for Women conference this weekend, apparently after eating a breakfast of Grape-Nuts sprinkled with gunpowder: "...It's a sin to tell a lie, but it's also a sin to believe a lie. And so, there is no such thing as a gay man or a lesbian woman or a transgender woman (and then you can fill in all of the different categories that come under the umbrella, LGBTQ). And the reason is because, in Genesis where we have to start, we are given our identity. Our identity is in the image of God, bearing it as a man or as a woman. There are two kinds of people in the world—a man or a woman. A man who says he's a gay man is a man with a sin pattern that Jesus came to help set him free from if he will mortify it, repent, believe, go to war. It's very hard to do that. I'm not suggesting it's easy, but that is our job, and you know what? It's not just somebody whose indwelling sin is homosexuality who happens to have that call. It's everyone, because we are all born in the sin of Adam. And it is because of the sin of Adam that we have sin in our nature. And that quite frankly means that every person in this room needs to wake up every morning, drive a thousand fresh nails into your choice sin and do that before breakfast and then do the same thing before lunch. And if you do that, Satan's gonna get a little tired of you. But here's the problem, homosexuality is the only sin pattern with a civil rights group behind it. And therefore, people who are deceived, as I was and Christopher [Yuan], by the lusts of our flesh have a cheering community behind you, and this is where you get the rub. You see, it used to be that the church was clear and the world was the world, but because we have wolves in shepherds' clothing, we have way too many young people who are leaving the true church and claiming, 'Well, my same-sex attracted pastor told me it's not a sin to be gay.' And you know, we are to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. I want to be gentle with the people who are trapped in the lie of LGBTQ, but I am not gentle with the wolves...I quite frankly think they need to get a job selling insurance until they repent..." [Apologies for my shoddy video skills, but sadly, a big monitor was placed on the stage, blocking my view of the speakers for the Q&A.]

@guyatthediner Very hard to read Acts 2 as anything other than an obvious “YHWH filling the tabernacle/temple” typescene. In which case, the Spirit is YHWH.

@guyatthediner I'm seeing this talk about “holy pneuma” (a mass noun) also in Novenson and Thiessen. Seems reslly dumb and bad to me. And I say that as one who did a dissertation partly on Stoicism.

Troels Engberg-Pederson’s “material pneuma” is a serious misreading of the NT texts about the Holy Spirit, and it is deplorable that it seems to be the view of a significant plurality of prominent NT scholars, especially those working on Paul.

@guyatthediner Thanks. And I misspelled Pedersen.