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The Insufferable Calvinist

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Mountain Views 🗻👀
Mountain Views 🗻👀@MtnViewsCO·
Coloradans see crime and our cost of living soar. We all drive the same lousy roads. We know gun & parental rights are being stripped. We read about the predators in our schools, all via 20 years of Dem rule. And I’m to believe 55% of you want this dumpster fire to keep raging?
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Mack
Mack@kenzietuff·
Please recommend your favorite books on history, any subject. I want to expand my library with good, not “woke” suggestions.
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Not to by rude, but I think this may expose your ignorance more than anything. There are good reasons for rejecting modern translations according to Greek manuscripts use to undergird such. You may not like those reasons, but there are good, scholarly, and philosophical reasons for believing such.
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🌷 LIZZIE🌷
🌷 LIZZIE🌷@farmingandJesus·
Why did I keep eating it?
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🌷 LIZZIE🌷
🌷 LIZZIE🌷@farmingandJesus·
The 93% cigarette butt dark chocolate got me wired and I can’t sleep. 0-2 on dirt musty cigarette chocolate. Loser candy
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The core problem with your question is that it assumes the opposite of biblical worship. You’re asking for a verse that says, in those exact words, “Only sing Psalms and everything else is idolatry,” as though worship runs on the principle: “We may offer God whatever we like in worship unless He explicitly blacklists each item one by one.” That is false. Biblical worship runs on this principle: God alone appoints His worship, and man may not add to it. Deuteronomy 12:32 says, “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.” That destroys his standard outright. God does not tell men to innovate first and to ask questions later; He tells them not to add. So the burden is not on the exclusive Psalm-singer to prove that every human hymn is separately condemned, rather the burden is on the hymn-singer to prove that God authorized the addition. In Leviticus 10:1-2 Nadab and Abihu offered “strange fire, which he commanded them not.” God’s anger consumed these sons of Aaron in a blaze of fire. Notice the wording. The text does not say, “which he had explicitly, individually, verbally forbidden in those exact terms.” It says, “which he commanded them not.” That is the regulative principle in narrative form. Unauthorized worship is deadly serious because God is holy and jealous of His own ordinances. Which takes us to the next point: God did not leave His church without a songbook. He gave one. The Psalms are not a random collection of ancient religious poetry. They are the inspired songs of the covenant assembly, given by God for His praise. If God furnished His church with a body of inspired praise, what arrogance is it for man to say, “That is not enough. We will improve on it with our own compositions”? What’s more, the singing of praise is a separate category from sermons and prayers where there is commanded liberty—as there is neither sermon book nor prayer book. However, it is a travesty that we are given a song book which is intentionally neglected to singing not that God prefers, but that we prefer. That is exactly what Deuteronomy 12:32 forbids: adding to instituted worship. Inevitably and appropriately you should ask, “What about the ‘psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs’ in Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16?” That phrase does not rescue uninspired hymnody. It actually helps the psalm-singing case. Before we move forward, just ask the question: “Do we impose onto these words definitions as categories that we read into the text?” Yes. Why? Because “psalms,” “hymns,” and “songs” are biblical categories already found in the Psalter itself. The Greek Old Testament uses those terms in the titles of the Psalms. In other words, Paul is not saying, “Sing inspired Psalms plus later uninspired human compositions.” He is using the very vocabulary of the canonical songbook. He is telling the church to sing the Psalms in their full breadth and categories. And “spiritual” does not mean “emotionally moving” or “religious-sounding.” In apostolic language, “spiritual” means that which belongs to the Spirit. The Psalms are Spirit-breathed. Your favorite modern hymn writer is not. So the standard hymn argument collapses in multiple ways: 1.) Deut. 12:32 forbids adding to God’s worship. 2.) Lev. 10:1-2 shows God judges what He has “not commanded.” 3.) God gave the church an inspired songbook. 4.) Eph. 5:19 / Col. 3:16 do not introduce uninspired hymnody, but use the existing categories of the Psalter. 5.) Therefore, the real question is not “Where are uninspired hymns explicitly forbidden by God?” but “Where are uninspired hymns positively instituted by God for public worship?” I’m not going to claim that this is an exhaustive case that answers every objection—there’s many more besides these. My hope in writing this is to persuade you that there is a case at all. If I may share an anecdote, my familiarity with the arguments were not what persuaded me; singing them was.
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Pastor Edgar Ibarra
Pastor Edgar Ibarra@Presbiteriano1·
The singing of man-made hymns in the worship of God, not being authorized by Him, is idolatry.
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telemachus@telemachus1183·
@phrenic @Presbiteriano1 I’d like to assume that the authors of the WCF were not attempting to contradict this verse.
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Pastor Edgar Ibarra
Pastor Edgar Ibarra@Presbiteriano1·
The denial of observing and keeping holy the Christian Sabbath, the Lord's Day may be a sign of an unconverted heart. Pastors who reject the command to keep the Lord's Day holy do NOT belong in the ministry.
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Pastor Edgar Ibarra
Pastor Edgar Ibarra@Presbiteriano1·
The use of musical intruments in public worship have been abrogated by the NT. It's use today is to Judaize & to testify that Christ's sacrifice on the cross is not yet complete. We are not to Judaize & Christ's work IS complete. Therfore, stop using musical instrmnts in worship.
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The Insufferable Calvinist
As one whose wife has been staying at home for 13 years, and on a meager income in the third most expensive state in the union, with 5 kids…. My wife has never had to have a side hustle. Instead, she’s thrifty, frugal, and wise—and that, by itself, absolutely fills what would otherwise be a gap. :)
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❄️ Winter Hail ❄️
❄️ Winter Hail ❄️@Hail_Winter·
Being a homemaker is more than just raising babies and cleaning plus you are relying on someone else financially and this leaves many women vulnerable. It's amazing to have children and have a home, but always contribute financially to your home. Get an education and learn a trade if you're going to stay home....if you gotta do a side hustle like doing hair, nails, baking, cleaning houses , babysitting, bookkeeping, and etc then do it. Always have a connection and a resume updated and ready. Because phases of life are like seasons it can change.
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༈༈@Shirinsmit·
GIRL TO GIRL... be honest.... If you could stay home, raise babies, and run a cozy homemaker life….. would you?
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Order of the Cloistered Hermeneutic
@Presbiteriano1 The "superior" theology of the oh-so-holy Presbyterians might want to distance themselves from their addiction to Replacement Theology. Once they do this, they will be able to understand Scripture a lot easier.
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Fair-Eregion
Fair-Eregion@Eventzon·
@Presbiteriano1 Edgar might try to live in reality. All hymns were written by human beings. Edgar claims of authorization by God is a fantasy where he believes he is God.
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Josh Barzon
Josh Barzon@JoshuaBarzon·
How would you answer this question: “Who are God’s people?”
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@matt_everhard The whole time I've been Reformed, I've been told that to hold any Reformed positions is to be a "truly Reformed jerk." I always feel like there's this weird expectation for us to just feel shame for everything we believe. I truly hate that. Thanks for your more positive take!
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📖Matthew Everhard
📖Matthew Everhard@matt_everhard·
It's possible to be a zealous defender of Reformed orthodoxy, a vigorous apologist, and a stalwart polemicist against error and heresy -- AND have a kind and gracious heart, filled with the love and mercy of Jesus!
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@surskitmaxxing @PetGorilla I do not want a savior who makes salvation merely possible. I want the Christ who actually saves. Your system leaves the sinner looking partly to Jesus and partly to himself. Mine says, “Salvation is of the Lord.”
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PetGorilla
PetGorilla@PetGorilla·
Mormons believe that Jesus is too weak to save anyone. You have to save your self. Literal works-based slop. Mormon God is too small for me.
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Levi Bakerink
Levi Bakerink@LeviBakerink·
Do...not...engage...the...anti-calvinist...bait
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❄️ Winter Hail ❄️
Joseph smith is a pedophile. 😐
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Adam
Adam@Arcnaver·
@CSLewisDaily I’m sorry, was it portrayed as a 100% accurate account? Do they know 100% that a conversation between the two never happened? They need to get over themselves and enjoy it for what it is.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis@CSLewisDaily·
The Chosen' is getting some heat as a teaser for Season 5 shows a conversation between Jesus and Judas Iscariot, which critics are saying is “unbiblical.” beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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