Joshua Pearsall

Did you know #RomanCatholics & #EasternOrthodox are not only losing more people then they gain (despite the constant narrative they run online), and are on average less pious then many other Christian groups? See below

Today is the Lord's day. The day where we celebrate #ChristIsKing reining at the right hand of the Father, who died for our sins, saving us for eternal life and life now! That we have been saved from Hell, and saved for life in union with Christ, praise be to the God most high!

@myredfox @Degenwillape @GeoffKlein3 @LutheranAnswers So did the Corinthians.

@Degenwillape @GeoffKlein3 @LutheranAnswers I did not make the graphic. But the early church was Orthodox. EO has Apostolic succession.

Wrong again. Womp womp

"Which Methodism?: How Will the GMC Self-Identify in Its First 25 Years?" by Peter J. Bellini firebrandmag.com/articles/which… firebrandmag.com/articles/which…

@ViaMediaVoice @AngAesthetics youtu.be/881Sypkpcv4?is… Here's a video you can watch to help you work through it ;)

@AngAesthetics Give me like 8 months to read all that and I'll get back to you 😂.

People really need a better argument for a 66 book Canon than this.

Working on an article that is a long time off, but something interesting about the epistle of James is he basically follows Leviticus 19, but isn't citing from it. This shows an interesting use of Scripture by James, the same way he is using the oral teachings of Jesus.

The Passion Translation is currently in the middle of a cover-up project dripping with deceit, broken promises, money grubbing, and the hiding of Brian Simmons’ abuse of Scripture. If you aren’t well informed about this you may think I am overreacting. If you are well informed, you know I’m not. Simmons, Broadstreet Publishing, Bethel, Hillsong, and many others are helping to perpetrate a fraudulent replacement of God’s Word by aiding Simmons in his coverup. It is infuriating how little these people care about Scripture while they prance around acting like they love it. I predict that if the tide goes against them so hard that they finally have to abandon this disgraceful butchering of the Bible they will come out telling you all they had no idea. They were just being nice and hopeful. They are only guilty of trying too hard to see the move of the Spirit. They’ll pretend ignorance about the countless people who have come to them with evidence, scholarly testimony, and clear proofs that Brian is a fraud. A fraud! Don’t believe them. And not just for some sense of vengeance or grudge. No. Let’s not allow their evil to overcome us and bring us into the place where only God stands. Rather, we need to learn that these guys don’t have discernment and not only aren’t safe leaders, they feed their flocks to the wolves and will do it again. Run from them. Ignore them. Forget them.

@ComeHometoRome @WesleyLHuff In honor of your name a.co/d/07XE9tp7

@WesleyLHuff 7th time asking: name one Christian from the first millennium who agrees with your views on schism and rejection of the Eucharist?

If you are a Christian your confidence today rests on foundations that cannot be shaken. If God is for you, and He has not spared His own Son but delivered Him up for all of you, then He will graciously give you all things with Him. (Rom 8:28–39) And please don’t hear this as a platitudinal X post: it flows from the reality of your election. God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless, predestining you for adoption as His children according to His pleasure and will. The Puritan theologians are helpful here, and understood something vital about this assurance: election and covenant work together, offering troubled believers a double source of assurance; you can plead the covenant with God, asking Him to fulfill His promises, while simultaneously finding comfort in the sufficiency of His prevenient grace and the immutability of His will in election. Your election is not fragile or conditional on your performance, as I’ve said before, your salvation is received not achieved. God’s immutable decree of election proceeds from His perfect counsel, the basis for maintaining His people in sanctification and imparting to them an inward principle of holiness. Yet this absolute promise does not leave you passive. God’s love, made known to you, draws you out of yourself toward Him in orderly, faithful obedience. The conditional promises of the covenant are inseparable from your daily renewal of it through prayer, meditation, and worship. Your obedience becomes the very means by which you experience and confirm what God has already secured. Anchor yourself in the permanence of God’s word. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away. (Matt 24:35) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. (2 Tim 3:16–17) In this word, your election is declared, your redemption is promised, and your perseverance is guaranteed — not by your strength, but by His.

@sincead33 Me when it is a good argument 😔✊

The best and brightest Protestant divines sat down, used the argument from the Bereans in Acts 17 as a proof against the Catholic rule of faith, and said “yes this is a good argument. I’m going to publish this.” The St. Robert Bellarmine hate is like throwing stones in a glass house.

Justification and sanctification are logically distinct but not chronologically separate. The moment you’re justified, you’re also regenerated, sanctification begins. There’s no gap where a person is justified but spiritually inert. 1/x

I have come to a conclusion about Hebrew... I could not have been a scribe in Ancient Israel because of my dyslexia and eyesight, I would've been the worst scribe that ever lived 😂 (and I'm working with substantially bigger text then they had)

Even in this "set its doors" could be more literally rendered "caused to stand."

Examples of the complexity of translating Hebrew, if you go literally you might translate Nehemiah 3.13 as "Hanun strengthened the gate of the valley" instead of one geared toward meaning as, "Hanun rebuilt the valley gate." Let alone phrases like, "he was long of nose."

@mugjudge If you do anything, you're wrong, if you do nothing, you're wrong. Heads I win, tails you lose.

@garrettham_esq Whitaker has a good section on the canons which I have a shortened version of in my videos abridging his work youtu.be/FhKUUKySQD8?is…

The same councils you're ignoring listed your 27-book New Testament alongside the deuterocanon: Hippo (393), Carthage (397), Florence (1442). If dogmatic definition is the standard, Trent added your whole Bible. If lack of dissent is, drop 2 Peter, 2 & 3 John, and Revelation.

And I'm still waiting for engagement with the article @redeemed_zoomer or any other Reconquista who hold to the false idea people like me are the ones guilty of schism.

In addition to my schism article addressing the Reconquista, I also did a video with Daniel Hixon discussing more specifics within the Methodist world that still matter for addressing the errors of the Reconquista movement on it's largest front. youtube.com/watch?v=SSmj7P…

@OpinionatorCB I just disagree, that's not all how I and many people I talk to percieve it.

@PracticalCL But subconsciously that’s just what’s happening. There’s no real reason to say it while debating besides an attempt to tell your interlocutor you’re still “brothers” & pretend to take some moral high ground. Which is why I don’t do it. I think it’s good to say in other contexts.

If someone says “brother” to you in a debate, it’s code for “I’m better than you & I’m pretending to have the moral high ground by trying to tell you something ‘lovingly’.” It’s obnoxiously condescending.

@OpinionatorCB rebuttal's like that, so I see little reason that would have any impact here. Nor would it automatically assume motive behind the use of the term, nor restrict it's use.

@OpinionatorCB Just taking Heb 2.11-12, we're family in Christ, the Church has long spoken of each other as brothers and sisters. It's all over Paul's writings the language of families, it's why the Romans accused Christians of incest. But the Bible also records very little mid dialogue

@LowStudies @johncdirks Then why won't he stop teaching 😭

This needs to happen!