Marek Kizer

Today I ministered at the Planned Parenthood in Columbia, South Carolina, with the saints at @OperationSaveAm. In speaking with one of the abortion clinic escorts at the same location over this summer, she revealed that her path toward deconstructing her Christian faith and embracing abortion started when a friend sent her podcast episodes from @philvischer. I was very interested and continued to talk with her, as I have personally dealt with dear friends swept away by his subversion. She said the Holy Post's video on abortion, and their interviews with @DavidAFrench, were integral to her realizing that the Christian message of love requires supporting the right to dismember fatherless children in the womb, and not to "judge" those who do so. She referred to this as being "pro-grace" and encouraged me to research that movement. Phil Vischer and David French are leading souls to Hell and our nation toward judgment. Pray for the repentance of these wicked men or their complete removal from the public square. (Pictured: The clinic escort standing next to her teenage daughter, who dressed up as a Handmaid's Tale character to protest us.)

No one denies marriage was established in creation. But Paul doesn't appeal to marriage here, he appeals to the mode of woman's creation: made FROM man and for man. An unmarried woman is no less made from Adam than a married one. Paul's logic applies to woman as woman, not wife as wife. The ESV collapses the foundation into one application, which is why @tbayly's observation about complimentarianism is dead on. They can just restrict headship to marriage as a 'role' so it need not be confessed anywhere else or come from the creation ordinances

@kizermarek @AKofiCup Which within the order of creation, marriage was established. The two are intertwined not separate of themselves. Hence the affirmation in the command to husband and wife in Genesis 1:28.

I'm not an ESV user but the hate train on the ESV in reformed circles is weird to me.

@self_joseph @AKofiCup Again, yes, context matters Which is precisely why the ESV fails here, because the context is not the household code of Col 3:18 but the order of creation itself.

@kizermarek @AKofiCup It appears he misses the point that even the ESV clarifies the choice of using the English “wife” in this instance is (oh my goodness!) context. Much the same as gyne is translated as “wife “ in Colossians 3:18. Context matters please.

@DarylLicTecOAA @AKofiCup He drops "'every" because the logic shifts from distributive ("each individual man") to categorical ("woman as such"). And yes, ok, aner means "man" or "husband" by context. That's exactly the point... the context is creation order.

@kizermarek @AKofiCup Can’t help but notice that he avoids the Greek wherein “every man” is specifically used initially, then not “every” for the head of a woman. Not to mention that ἀνήρ means “man” or “husband” depending on context. The ESV is correct.

@Ramald636 @AKofiCup The NASB's "a" is just English grammar, not something in the Greek indicating a specific woman, pretty sure.

@kizermarek @AKofiCup I’m just going to make this one comment…not get into a debate. If we’re going to keep it as textual, the verse says: “…Christ is the head of EVERY man, and the man is the head of A woman...” 1 Corinthians 11:3 NASB There’s a specificity of the woman in the verse.

@AndrewIrelandIN Well done, sir.

Grateful to share that I had the second highest rating of any Indiana lawmaker this session from the Christian Employers Alliance. I’m proud of my record defending against government mandates and promoting policies that support religious freedom in the workplace and beyond

His argument isn't "ideological" ... it's textual. Every other major translation, including the egalitarian NIV, renders aner and gyne as "man" and "woman" here. The ESV stands alone. Paul grounds headship in creation order, not marriage. Calling that "ideological" without engaging the Greek is PRECISELY WHY bad translations go unchallenged. One translation departs from all the others to limit male headship to marriage. THAT is the ideological agenda, brother.

@kizermarek This is an example of what I'm talking about. Ideological agendas...

Read a better, biblical perspective from @jaredhmoore: baptistandreflector.org/abolishing-abo…

Wood says abortion was "protected by federal law" for fifty years. It was not. It was imposed by judicial fiat. No legislature voted for it. No democratic process ratified it. Wood uses the repeated "criminalizing women" canard. Herames this as targeting women - it targets murder. Brother, know the difference. "Before we criminalize, we should demagnetize." This is a sentence no one has ever spoken about any other form of homicide. We do not wait for cultural readiness before prosecuting the killing of born persons. “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.” ―Martin Luther King Jr. baptistandreflector.org/the-path-to-en…

@dondank69 @BenZeisloft abortionno.org

@kizermarek @BenZeisloft Abortion is healthcare.

He frames*

Imagine: "I do not disagree, on the surface, with this sentiment. I simply believe we get there eventually — and only when justice is rightly ordered. If slavery remains widely accessible through the domestic slave trade, still defended as economic necessity and still legally protected in many jurisdictions, criminalizing slaveholders while the infrastructure remains intact risks placing the weight of justice on those shaped by a system the state itself constructed. Before we criminalize, we should demagnetize. We do this by curtailing the slave trade, increasing accountability for slave traders and removing the legal and financial incentives that sustain the plantation economy. By doing so, we can collapse the machinery that has normalized slavery for decades. Our goal as Christians has never been merely to change a statute. It has been to see a culture transformed. We long for a day when slavery is not only illegal but unthinkable — a day when no man believes it is his only economic option and no society abdicates its responsibility to the Negro." Yeah... didn't think so.

@AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman This is an invalid syllogism. You can't bring in new terms to your conclusion

An interesting syllogism @RevKevDeYoung just used on stage with @JonathanLeeman at Coram Deo in talking about the role of the church versus the state: “Political orders require virtuous people. Only Christianity can form truly virtuous people. Therefore, the Church of Jesus Christ has the missional task of preaching the Gospel and forming a virtuous people.”

@ADRoblesMedia Ragebaiting the tarot card & palm readers

There was a time when i would call psychics who would leave drop cards around the city and evangelize them. I wonder about that sometimes.

@ReallyOldLife @QuixoteSword Everywhere it reveals God as God.

@QuixoteSword where does natural say "obey the voice of God"?

serious about logic

All the works of unbelievers are sin.

@drantbradley As if this was some strange scandal... Despite who founded it 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭

@drantbradley You cite ACCS supporting Doug Wilson... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Doug Wilson didn’t change. Evangelical culture did. For 30+ years, his views were public, documented, and criticized. Influential evangelical men chose to publish, defend, and amplify him anyway. This is the story of the men and platforms that ushered him into the Pentagon.

@UntoldFortune Interesting. Have you considered

The gulf between Paedobaptists and Credobaptists is unlikely to be resolved any time soon, but I am continually struck by the fact that the worst position of all is this: Affirming Infant Baptism while immediately denying them reception of the Eucharist thereafter.