Particularly Modern

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“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.” Romans 16:17-18

@_the_pact_ Depends 🤷🏻‍♂️

Is this kind of speech, public or private, becoming of a pastor? Should we be insulting just for the sake of being insulting?

@JoshBxlrb Exactly

@Modern1689 They throw around “effeminate” like libs do “racist” or “sexist.”

@presbycast The boyz on the way to the conference

When we received this earlier today, we thought it was fake, but now we're not so sure.

@brandon_adams @TomHicks2LCF @richbarcellos Pretty much what I had in mind.

@Modern1689 @TomHicks2LCF "Man was created for covenant, but strictly speaking not in the covenant of works." -@richbarcellos RoCH Covenant of Works, p. 40

According to confessional Reformed theology, God first created Adam in a state of nature and then put him into a covenantal relationship. See 2LCF 7.1; WCF 7.1; SD 7.1. The terms of the covenant of works were terms of strict justice, but the covenant itself was graciously (or benevolently, if you prefer) established.

The best way I can think of how to put it is that it’s not about ideals as much as it is stewardship. No one thinks this is done perfectly or even that Scripture indicates that it would be done so perfectly. Is there fundamentally any difference in criteria for why you’d baptize an adult than we would?

Okay, then genuine question, have Baptists failed because there are always apostates, or is this post pointless because obviously the ideal is that the visible church would be pure, but we don't live in a world where that's achievable?

@New_Christendom The War for Normal conference

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@BigWhitts06 @dalepartridge Read the entire book

@Modern1689 @dalepartridge Read the entire chapter

Men, teach your children that women judges are a curse upon America.

@hopefamlybindry Crossway’s ESV with Creed and Confessions is currently my favorite text block. I really wish someone could make the same but with the creeds, Baptist confessions, Keach’s Catehcism, and the Orthodox Catechism at the back. 🥲

What is that? Is that.... No, Couldn't be... Is that a prototype hand bound 1689/Baptist catechism being prepared and tested for production in 2026? I guess yall will just have to wait and see!

@BigWhitts06 @dalepartridge So Josiah (a child king) must be a curse right? Or maybe that’s not the point of that verse

@dalepartridge Isiah 3:12 My people—infants oppress them, women rule over them! My people, your leaders deceive you,g they confuse the paths you should follow.

@dalepartridge Because there are unequivocally no good women judges (easily disproven) or that women cannot naturally be good as judges (untenable)?

@DivotDoctrine There can be much overlap with implications on the primary, but anything really, from aspects of the Sacraments to church polity or liturgy.

@Modern1689 Which secondary matters do you place in that category?

The perspicuity of salvation in Scripture should leave us so certain there is no room for divergence from it. We should hold secondary matters with humility, with a healthy skepticism or even a comfortable uncertainty, testing our views and remaining open to correction from others outside and from within our own traditions. “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 ordinary means, may attain to a sufficient understanding of them.” —2LBCF 1.7

Christian theology can neither be a slave to history nor ignore it, because while every age of the Church has contributed genuine clarifications to doctrine, including our own, no age, or tradition, can ever have the final word. A considerable portion of the New Testament served to correct error and heresy on the heels of Christ’s earthly ministry and while the Apostles yet lived. The patristic era, even being the closest in proximity to the Apostolic deposit, did not agree on or get everything right. The age of Papal supremacy, which occupies a considerable amount of church history, and for all its worldly power and influence, does not stand as a bastion of biblical fidelity nor was it entirely devoid of regeneration or contributions to doctrinal clarity. The Reformation produced a plurality of traditions, each maintaining its distinctions for good reason, yet differing from one another for better and worse. Lutherans had positive influence on the broader Reformed stream, and the Congregationalists and Particular Baptists stood in and strove for genuine continuity with them, differing only on matters they themselves regarded as secondary. It would be shameful to deny God’s providence through the first and second Great Awakenings and into the modern era, as though the Spirit’s work had not yielded noble retrievals amid much regression, but also genuine advances in understanding what Scripture reveals to us. Even though we live in the wake of the enlightenment, rationalism, and post-modernism it does not follow that every theological mind must be seen as second rate to everything that came before the 18th century. Some of the greatest theologians (and some of the worst) in history came after the puritans, not in spite of everything that came before, but because of it. We must guard “the faith once for all delivered to the saints”, but that does not mean that the Holy Spirit stopped guiding us into all truth a few hundred years ago as though the riches of Scripture have been exhausted and are completely catalogued. There is much that has been lost which needs to be rescued or restored to prominence. There is much more to know of Christ yet, “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3) and is that eternal logos revealed to us in Holy Scripture. We must stand firm on what we have received and be humble to see where we have erred in every generation.

"From every text in the Bible there is a road to Jesus Christ. The task of the preacher is to ask, 'How do I get from this text to Christ?’, and then to follow that road all the way to Him...For if you do not find Jesus in the Scriptures, they will be of little use to you." —Charles Spurgeon

@jonnygroves @Protestia Came here to say this

@Protestia Is that little Sebastian?

Even little churches love having real donkeys for Palm Sunday

@HilaireNereus There’s nothing brutal about monotube night vision

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