Colin J. Smothers
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Colin J. Smothers
@colinsmo
Against the world for the world. Pastor, FBC Maize | Executive Director @CBMWorg | Alum @KState & @SBTS
Wichita, KS Katılım Ocak 2010
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One of the hardest parts about being a Presbyterian is having all these correct answers you lovingly offer to the world, that people refuse to accept.
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@MarkHopson You know what else isn't in the Nicene or Apostles Creed? Axe murder. Bestiality. Torture.
But hey -- as long as you affirm the creeds, right? That's all that really matters to being a Christian, right?!
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@colinsmo “ So if we affirm the nicene creed, we can deny everything else and still be cool, right?”
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Here’s the ultimate irony of this unbiblical approach:
They reject the judgments of the first ecumenical decision of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15, which clearly instructs every believer by the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit to abstain from sexual immorality.
Period.
Holy Post Media@HolyPost_Media
The label “heretic” gets thrown around way too easily these days. If you profess the Nicene Creed & the Apostles’ Creed, you count as a legitimate Christian. Period. Christians will always disagree about important political & social issues and matters of doctrine. But at the end of the day, if someone affirms the essential truths outlined in the creeds, they are not heretics or apostates. 🎙️Holy Post 670 with @philvischer, @skyejethani & @kaitlynschiess
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@joe_rigney Yep.
Colin J. Smothers@colinsmo
Here’s the ultimate irony of this unbiblical approach: They reject the judgments of the first ecumenical decision of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15, which clearly instructs every believer by the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit to abstain from sexual immorality. Period.
To reject the Bibles teaching on the sinfulness of sodomy or abortion is to reject his Lordship, and therefore to reject both the Apostles and Nicene Creed.
Holy Post Media@HolyPost_Media
The label “heretic” gets thrown around way too easily these days. If you profess the Nicene Creed & the Apostles’ Creed, you count as a legitimate Christian. Period. Christians will always disagree about important political & social issues and matters of doctrine. But at the end of the day, if someone affirms the essential truths outlined in the creeds, they are not heretics or apostates. 🎙️Holy Post 670 with @philvischer, @skyejethani & @kaitlynschiess
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In truth, historically speaking, it was the Apostles' Creed, the Decalogue, and the Lord's Prayer which provided the essentials. Not just those two creeds. Be better.
Holy Post Media@HolyPost_Media
The label “heretic” gets thrown around way too easily these days. If you profess the Nicene Creed & the Apostles’ Creed, you count as a legitimate Christian. Period. Christians will always disagree about important political & social issues and matters of doctrine. But at the end of the day, if someone affirms the essential truths outlined in the creeds, they are not heretics or apostates. 🎙️Holy Post 670 with @philvischer, @skyejethani & @kaitlynschiess
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@colinsmo I know it’s been 250 years, but think we could get an absentee ballot or something?
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Dear Britons,
It seems to this Yankee that Restore Britain is your last best hope for political and cultural renewal — apart from widespread Christian revival, of course.
Vote RB.
Sincerely,
Your Hopeful American Friend
Restore Britain@RestoreBritain_
Restore Britain would immediately reverse all changes this Labour Government are making to abortion laws.
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Sed contra, the Holy Word of God would beg to differ:
“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Cor. 6:9-10
Holy Post Media@HolyPost_Media
The label “heretic” gets thrown around way too easily these days. If you profess the Nicene Creed & the Apostles’ Creed, you count as a legitimate Christian. Period. Christians will always disagree about important political & social issues and matters of doctrine. But at the end of the day, if someone affirms the essential truths outlined in the creeds, they are not heretics or apostates. 🎙️Holy Post 670 with @philvischer, @skyejethani & @kaitlynschiess
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Didn’t know I was married to one of America’s Most Wanted.
America First Legal@America1stLegal
/1🚨EXPOSED — Biden CIA’s War on Motherhood: Newly released CIA documents reveal the Biden Administration identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).
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No wonder the House of Lords is being dismantled. They have sold their birthright.
SPUC Pro-Life@spucprolife
🚨 BREAKING: The House of Lords has voted to DECRIMINALISE ABORTION AT ANY STAGE OF PREGNANCY by a close margin. Peers are now voting on Baroness Stroud's amendment which would put a halt to the pills-by-post policy.
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@findveritasx @grok @JUDE_HOLYCROSS @Vader0577 @namtrag The “vicar” of Christ has supplanted his “Lord.”
Trust in Christ and in Him alone.
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I just realized Sean is still angsty about his recent conversion. Makes sense now, and my heart grieves for the burdens he has been recently shouldered with.
Again, for the bystander: assurance is possible. Put your faith and hope wholly and fully in the finished work of Christ.
Sean@findveritasx
I can’t say that my first lent has been great so far. I’m mostly keeping to my fasts, but I’ve not been praying or living out love as much as I should. I find myself worried I’m not worthy or ready to be confirmed on Easter; I still struggle with so much serious sin. But I realize the most important and best thing I can do to pursue holiness is to join the Church fully. Seeing my imperfections and sin is all the more reason to run to confirmation, to find the sacraments and graces God has given us. The safest place for a sinner to be is in the Catholic Church.
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If your High Priest in the New Covenant isn’t Jesus, you’re doing it wrong and need to search the Scriptures (Heb. 4:14-16).
Joshua Charles🇻🇦@JoshuaTCharles
The latest in the Eternal Christendom Typology series. This time: the Old and New Covenant Priesthoods!
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@findveritasx @grok @JUDE_HOLYCROSS @Vader0577 @namtrag I will not putting my faith and trust in your High Priest, Chicago native Pope Leo.
Jesus is my High Priest. His sacrifice is final, efficacious, and free to all who come to him, the one mediator.
One day your ill-placed trust will be made visible to all.
I pray for your soul.
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You are Baptist. You don’t believe baptism saves. You don’t bribe the Lord’s supper is his body and blood. You follow your untethered opinions the scriptures. And importantly you have no holy orders or apostolic succession.
Almost nothing about your church is apostolic or older than the last few hundred years. If the apostles or their first successors were here they would condemn you as schismatic heretics and urge you to lay down your pride and submit to the Church Christ founded.
I unfortunately did try your way. I was raised southern Baptist and was for most of my life. I’m very thankful God gave was gracious enough to lead me out of that powerless man made institution and show me the fullness of what it means to follow him and be a Christian.
I pray you follow me one day.
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I'm a married pastor/elder/overseer, guy. We observe the Lord's Supper every Lord'sDay after the faithful exposition of Scriptures. We baptize believers in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Everything we do is rooted in the faith and practice of the Apostles.
You should try it sometime.
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I’ve told you where your scriptures don’t contradict the Catholic Church, with interpretations in line with the majority of biblical scholars.
I’ve explained to you in scripture where practices can be identified.
Ive dealt with every one of your objections, even when they were silly and you should know better.
The truth is you aren’t prioritizing scripture, you are prioritizing your very modern theology. I believe scripture is the perfect word of God and must be followed, and I think you don’t follow it. So don’t say the issue is scripture when it’s interpretation.
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You refuse to engage my questions.
I am committed to the Scriptures, you are committed to the Tradition™ — even when it contradicts the Scriptures. This is obvious in our debate. It's an impasse that is not new with us, but consummate with why the Reformation happened to begin with.
Rome promotes unbiblical accretions out of step with the faith and practice of the early church — and even out of step with their own magisterial teaching at times. I've already demonstrated several in this thread. It's hypocritical, and the beef with the East and Protestants stems from unwarranted claims of papal supremacy and these very issues.
My conscience is clear. You came and found my thread, obviously trying to justify what you think is right because you need affirmation. You are a hard-headed man burdened by the yoke of dogma and discipline and perhaps looking to tick down your years in purgatory. It's so obviously out of step with the faith of the apostles and we have covered no new ground — it's all been rehashed over and over through the years of Protestant and Counter-reformation polemics.
I'm not trying to prove anything. This is fruitless. Go and be free. I truly wish you the best.
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Again, biblical illiteracy. This verse is talking about a general prohibition on marriage as bad and impure. This is an antithesis to what the Catholic Church teaches.
Time and time again you abuse scripture to make arguments scripture doesn’t say. Will you pull out the “call no man father” one next?
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@findveritasx @grok @JUDE_HOLYCROSS @Vader0577 @namtrag If not (I know that’s the answer), who is forbidding him from getting married?
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"Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer."
1 Timothy 4:1-5
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Sometimes I feel bad for my aggressive position and rhetoric with you and then I see you say the most asinine and ignorant statements like this, and I feel better.
I’m not sure how to get this through to you, but in the Latin right it is judged by the church to be a prudent discipline not a requirement. This you would be able to see very if you were competent enough to look of the practice in the eastern catholic right, where there are married priests. And or perhaps you could look into the Anglican ordinate, which again has married priests.
As for Pope Gregory VII, a disciple can be apostolic. Would you like me to explain the difference between disciple and dogma to you?
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