Brian Onstead

@MitchellSheten1 😂. Before you know it, we'll become Papist in our doctrine of justification by purporting things like final justification.

@brianonstead And by association, Benjamin Keach quotes Charnock. I think the whole RB movement is cooked.

I was just reading Charnock's Existence & Attributes of God. He was using Aristotelean categories (substance and accidents) and quoting Aquinas. Does anyone know if he ended up becoming a Papist?

@PatAbendroth @thepactum I wear that shirt often!

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@MateyYanakiev Yes, exactly. Paul did not suffer like this when he was a religious, zealous Pharisee "according to the law found blameless." He did not know Christ when he thought he could contribute his own righteousness. This is a zeal for God but not according to knowledge (Rom. 10:1-5).

@brianonstead So I might share Christ’s sufferings, if somehow I may indeed attain to the resurrection (Phil 3:10–11)?

The gospel is always a gospel issue! Even if you think John Piper an angel from heaven, the gospel should carry more weight for you than the status of any man.

@richbarcellos T

T or F: The Son of God is inferior to the Father as touching his Manhood.

@MateyYanakiev I pray that one day soon you will be humbled and see your righteousness as rubbish so that you may be found in Christ, not having a righteousness of your own on the basis of works and finally come to know Christ and the freedom of the gospel (Phil. 3:8-9).

@brianonstead We wait to be justified based on our works and the motivations of our heart at the Final Judgment (1 Cor 4:4–5). Here we stand; we can do no other.

John Gill, A Body of Divinity, Baptist Standard Bearer, p. 108.

"the crown of life [James 1:12] is not given according to any merit of it arising from enduring temptation or loving the Lord; but in consequence of the promise of God graciously made to such persons for their encouragement thereunto."

It's as if Reformed theology believes that there is nothing more important than God! They might be on to something there...😉

If you observed my posts for the last decade where I wanted to be included in the Calvinist camp, but then constantly posted on why we shouldn't be strict or too strong in those beliefs, would you suspect that I might not be a Calvinist? The same is true w/ confessionalism.

@emorylevine @richbarcellos

@brianonstead @richbarcellos Man’s philosophy or God’s truth. You choose, Brian.

Just arrived in the mail today! Thanks @richbarcellos for the recommendation!

We need a Dolezal book on angelology which retrieves Zanchius and Van Mastricht.

@dgh5391 @richbarcellos Yikes!

@brianonstead @richbarcellos I had to use it for the Dolezal philosophy class this spring. The glue on the spine failed in one spot and I have 6–8 loose pages now 🫠😵. Prolly have to get another copy.

@SteveMeisterVDM @richbarcellos Do I see myself in this photo, drowning in the Tiber? 😆

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@RScottClark @ryanhallyall That is incredible!!!

@ryanhallyall @brianonstead

Wild shot of the tornado near Rochester, MN yesterday from viewer Michael Doubek

@RScottClark @ReedTimmerUSA Wow!

@ReedTimmerUSA @brianonstead

THE MOST INSANE #TORNADO INTERCEPT ever in the Dominator 3 north of Rockford, Illinois #Dominator #stormchasing

So thankful for this!

Sinclair Ferguson, The Whole Christ, p. 80.

"In seeking to bring freedom from legalism, we are engaged in undoing the ancient work of Satan."