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Andrew Smyth

@ref_andrew

Jesus is Lord. OPC Minister, Hamill, SD, https://t.co/JKH9ZlLD3h. Husband, @heidias86. Dad. Retired podcaster.

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It's entirely reasonable to expect Israel to act in ways consistent with U.S. interests if we fund/defend/support them. And if they don't want to act accordingly, we can no longer fund/defend/support them. The rest of this post sounds slightly insane.
Steve Deace@SteveDeaceShow

Guys, this is so simple. How do you not obviously see we should absolutely tell Israel what to do while also detaching from Israel and ceasing to give Israel foreign aid? Which many in Israel are also for but if we stop funding Israel we can’t dictate to it as we’re detaching from it. Then if we detach from Israel they’ll just do what they want, but we have to be America First by focusing on ourselves and our own problems as we’re also making sure we control the Jews half a planet away who aren’t even real Jews. As if that all isn’t obvious enough, it’s quite clear Iran wasn’t a threat despite killing/kidnapping hundreds of Americans the last 47 years. And there’s absolutely no evidence Iran ever wanted a nuclear weapon except all the covert weapons programs going back to its war with Iraq in the 1980s, when Iraq bombed a nuclear reactor inside Iran. And of course it is not antisemitism to be anti-Zionist, you just don’t want 8 million Jews currently in Israel to have a home so you can focus on America. But if there’s no Israel, that would then make America the most Jewish nation on earth and nothing makes you want to shout “Christ is King” more than that apparently. Again, what kind of retard do you have to be not to be able to make sense of all this? But sadly many cannot see the truth, since they are controlled by Jews who at the same time cannot stop all the algorithms from all the technology they command from promoting skepticism and hatred of Jews and Israel. WAKE UP PEOPLE

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Or as it says, "I’m thrilled to announce that we are entering an era of unprecedented, disruptive innovation where we’ll witness human-centric, engineered solutions that truly challenge our existing paradigms and push the boundaries of what we thought was possible. #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Disruption #GrowthMindset"
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@dugganap68 Like, God is Spirit, yet presents Himself as male. Is that somehow analogous to us? Maybe, IDK.
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@dugganap68 That's a complicated question. The essential character of persons is to be body and soul. Clearly in body we are distinguished by sex. Does that apply to the soul also? I don't know, that's a bit above my pay grade.
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If men and women are fully and ontologically equal, on what basis can transgenderism be opposed?
Pastor Mathis@ShawnMathis1972

@BurkhardtLance "Look, sex differences are meaningless in the Gospel"--how do confessional churches handle this?

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@dugganap68 Ontology is not my preferred terminology (I prefer to discuss the differences between men and women in nature/grace terms) but it's being forced on us at every turn (including a certain recently-deleted article). Ideas have consequences.
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Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan@dugganap68·
@ref_andrew Hmm -- ontologically equals? That is the question! The ramifications of the answer to that question (regardless of how you answer it) will take you to places you really don't want to go.
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@natepaschall I don't believe in republication, but some views of it are more tolerable than others. That quote above is from the OPC's study report on the subject, which found that some "senses" were not in accord with our standards.
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Nate Paschall@natepaschall·
@ref_andrew I’m confused. Do you believe that there is “no sense” the CoW was republished or “some sense” (which may differ from TLNF)?
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Nate Paschall@natepaschall·
As regards Republication, the authors then go to show that "Republication" has been variously formulated (p.11), and in Ch. 3 Brenton Ferry's gives a taxonomy of the different senses.
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Nate Paschall
Nate Paschall@natepaschall·
@ref_andrew And this is precisely why getting lost on "in some sense" is misguided. The issue is (as it has been for some time), can we speak of the Mosaic Covenant as being a Repub of CoW? If you say "no", then "in some sense" becomes irrelevant. x.com/natepaschall/s…
Nate Paschall@natepaschall

It would be analogous to saying the Sabbath is still, in some sense, in force today. We must delineate carefully what we mean by it being still in force. To those who reject Sabbath being still in force altogether, the phrase "in some sense" will seem deficient.

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Nate Paschall
Nate Paschall@natepaschall·
@ref_andrew The question then is, "in what sense" is the CoW republished, not *whether* there is a republished CoW
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It's in Estelle, Fesko, and VanDrunen's introduction to The Law is Not of Faith. The kind of guys who grade said papers.
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Jonathan J. McKenzie@JonMcK1647·
@ref_andrew Don’t know who wrote this, but I am pretty sure I’d get docked for that sentence if it was in a systematics paper I turned in for class.
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@Neofightus More practical than aesthetic (high winds ruined both the roof and the doors). South Dakota problems...
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Scruple Scooper
Scruple Scooper@Neofightus·
@ref_andrew Feel no shame, brother. The fact that an OPC minster didn’t immediately think to update the internet image of the church after an aesthetic update is one of the great strengths of our beloved denomination. Keep your attentions where they should be, brother. Well done.
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Also, someone making a N.I.C.E. account is peak.
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