@MusingsOnChrist Right. But in this case I’m talking about the Reformed scholastics.
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Tom McCall
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Tom McCall
@RealTomMcCall
Came for the football recruiting, stayed for the theology and philosophy, left for the general nonsense, came back to look around, might leave again
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@RealTomMcCall Thank you, Tom. I understand Arminianism and Wesleyan Arminianism are types of Reformed Christianity.
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By Grace Alone
Salvation is wholly the work of God in Christ by his Spirit.
Salvation is never—in any way whatever—the work of the human who is saved.
From eternity, God saves the human being through the grace of faith, into eternity.
Salvation is by his grace, NOT our works.
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@RScottClark raises a critical question about the soteriology of @JohnPiper. The issue may be measured in Piper’s statement: “In final salvation at the last judgment, faith is confirmed by the sanctifying fruit it has borne, and we are saved through that fruit and that faith.”
R. Scott Clark@RScottClark
People are discovering (again) that John Piper teaches "final salvation through works." His language. He's been teaching this for decades. Yes, he makes our good works the instrument of our alleged final salvation. He always has. He has repeated this in sermons, in articles, in the Bethlehem elders doctrinal statement, and DGM has tweeted it. Seeing this for the first time can be a shock. You're not alone. Others have been through the same cycle (shock, denial, acceptance). Start with the sources section and go from there. heidelblog.net/2017/10/resour… @ParamountChurch @Heidelblog01 @heidelcast @HeidelbergRefo1
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@MusingsOnChrist @RScottClark @JohnPiper Many C17 Reformed theologians explicitly affirm that good works are an instrumental cause of salvation (in addition to being ‘fruit and evidence’). ‘Reforned’ theologians criticizing Piper on this point need to attend more closely to their own tradition.
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@RScottClark Yes. Start with the sources. Just don’t neglect all the Reformed scholastic sources that explicitly affirm that good works indeed are an instrumental cause of salvation.
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People are discovering (again) that John Piper teaches "final salvation through works." His language. He's been teaching this for decades.
Yes, he makes our good works the instrument of our alleged final salvation. He always has.
He has repeated this in sermons, in articles, in the Bethlehem elders doctrinal statement, and DGM has tweeted it.
Seeing this for the first time can be a shock. You're not alone. Others have been through the same cycle (shock, denial, acceptance).
Start with the sources section and go from there.
heidelblog.net/2017/10/resour…
@ParamountChurch @Heidelblog01 @heidelcast @HeidelbergRefo1
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Tom McCall retweetledi
I don’t see any way to interpret President Trump's "prediction" that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as other than a threat to order the military to commit crimes against civilians. If he issues such an order, it will be the duty of military leaders to refuse to comply.
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Tom McCall retweetledi
What Kennedy, Cuomo, and many other Catholic Democrats were to abortion, Rubio, Vance, and many other Catholic Republicans now are to violations of just war doctrine. They all sell out innocent life and their Catholic faith for politics. This is a test and they are failing it.
FactPost@factpostnews
Q: Does it constitute a war crime if the U.S. wipes out a civilization? Rubio: *ignores, walks away*
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@ChristopherHale Maybe he has ‘absolutely no control over what the other ministers said.’ But surely he has some control over his ability to applaud while they are spouting nonsense
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Bishop Barron responds to Michael Lofton’s criticism over the bishop’s misrepresentation of Pope Leo XIV’s position on the US-Israel war against Iran.
Reason & Theology Media@ReasonTheology
Bishop Barron Won’t Rebuke Trump—He Rebuked Me Instead
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Tom McCall retweetledi
Enough with false prophets, liars, and sycophants like Graham and White. I earnestly pray that no harm comes to the U.S. and Israel, but to pretend that ours is some righteous cause with the wind of Providence behind its back is delusional and blasphemous. Our nations are absolutely drunk on the deadly sins of pride, lust, greed, wrath, acedia, gluttony, and envy, and on the blood of the unborn to which even much of the Christian right now turns a blind eye out of loyalty to a leader it has transformed into an idol. We do not grieve or repent of these sins but glory in our own military and economic power, and in our fantasized greater virtue relative to other nations. We wage war not reluctantly and in a spirit of humility, but with a libido dominandi and callous indifference to the effects on civilian populations – including the deaths of tens of thousands in Gaza and hundreds of thousands in Iraq, to mention only two especially appalling examples. And then we shrug and move on to the next thing. This is hubris tempting nemesis, pride going before a fall. These idiotic Elmer Gantrys should re-read their bibles, where they’ll find that the history of the people of God is portrayed not as one of virtue rewarded with endless military victories and material blessings, but rather one of continual moral corruption and apostasy on which divine punishment is repeatedly visited.
Daniel Davis Deep Dive@DanielLDavis1
I thought Paula White’s comments were off the rails, but it turns out Pastor Franklin Graham is even worse: he is a fraud posing as a Christian minister, while literally standing for the opposite of what the prince of peace, Jesus Christ, stood for and taught. To compare the biblical story of Esther to current events, is a gross bastardization of scripture, and not related to current events in Iran. Contrary to this despicable prayer, it was the United States and Israel that launched a war of aggression, unprovoked, creating the fiction of an imminent threat, which evidence clearly confirms did not exist, and is now killing Iranian people, in increasingly larger numbers. To then seek the support of the Almighty to continue this ungodly and unholy operation, is a shame and humiliation for genuine Christians in this country, that stand firmly for the truth of the gospel, and the hope for justice and peace in the world. Franklin Graham celebrates unjust war, violence, and death. God will not answer his prayers as he imagines…
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Tom McCall retweetledi
Parts of Gaza, Lebanon and Iran are being flattened. Thousands of innocent children have been killed. Millions of people displaced. And before anyone says “But, Hamas, Hezbollah”…Imagine if Britain had done the same to Ireland after the IRA bombings? You cannot justify this.
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@glennbutner @DrewBMcIntyre William Burt Pope. The Methodist GOAT
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@DrewBMcIntyre Do you have a favorite Wesleyan on grace? I'm teaching a class and using a lot of Lutheran sources and some Wesleyan, but would like to beef up. My favorites are J. Wesley and T. A. Noble. Recommendations welcome. Hope you're well!
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Wesleyans are down with this.
Glenn Butner@glennbutner
Grace is unconditional pardon (justification) & progress (sanctification), i.e. a task. Gilbert Meilaender on reconciling these: “Gift & task must find their unity in God’s will & work. The gift of God’s favor does imply – for Him – the task of bringing the sinner to perfection.
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@RealTomMcCall @RScottClark Either. According to one prof I interacted with a number of times in an integrative seminar, preaching an OT sermon without reference to Christ was a fine thing to do. And I encountered the latter in some who were quick to use the word eisegesis for Christ-centered OT preaching.
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In my first homileltics course at Westminster Seminary California, our prof, Derke Bergsma, quoted R. B. Kuiper to the effect that if a sermon could be preached in a synagogue or a mosque, it is not a Christian sermon.
This highlights one of the fundamental differences between Reformed and Dispensational theology.
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@kennysilva @RScottClark Nothing inherently wrong with not preaching Christ? Or something wrong or at least a little sus about preaching Christ from the OT?
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@RScottClark I experienced similar ideas from OT profs in my PhD at TEDS, that there was nothing inherently wrong in preaching an OT sermon without any reference to Christ. Coming from RTS and studying ST, I was doubly miffed by this.
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Tom McCall retweetledi
Stunned to learn in the #Olympics2026 commentary that the Milan Cathedral was built to show us "everything humanity is capable of." Up until now I had thought it was about God.
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Tom McCall retweetledi
Nope. A judge who was nominated and confirmed according to the constitutional process just issued a ruling interpreting the law, holding that the administration was lawless.
If you disagree with the ruling, you can appeal. That's how the law works.
Stephen Miller@StephenM
An unelected judge has just ruled that elections, laws and borders don’t exist.
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@between2worlds m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFrG3…
Some of us were dealing with this almost a decade earlier.
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If you've ever struggled to figure out what to believe about whether the Father has more authority than the Son in eternity past—the Trinity debate in 2016—this may be the most helpful interview you can watch. Kyle Claunch is a masterful teacher:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJtJw…
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Tom McCall retweetledi
The SEC has not increased its number of ranked teams from the preseason AP Poll to the final AP Poll for 7 straight years now.
2019: 6 to 5
2020: 7 to 4
2021: 5 to 5
2022: 6 to 6
2023: 6 to 6
2024: 9 to 7
2025: 10 to 7
Maybe they should stop ranking more than 6 SEC teams in the preseason.
On3@On3
NEW: Final College Football AP Poll🏈 on3.com/news/college-f…
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