Mike Edwards
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Mike Edwards
@sinnersaintmike
In Christ, my failures don’t define me.
Metro Detroit Katılım Nisan 2021
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Who is gonna tell him? 😂
Oliver Burdick@oliverburdick
If Jesus were alive today, he would go to a Catholic Church… With a whip in his hand.
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No the point is that you could find pro LGBTQ priests, pro abort communicants, and all sorts of other nonsense inside the church all claim to follow the Roman Pontiff. People failing to follow the standard isn’t a critique of a standard.
This type of meme apologetics is ridiculously low tier and exposes vast gaps in rational ability to argue.
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The point was not that there are bad Protestants---the point was that all Protestants read the Bible and come up with different doctrines. Then they accuse each other of not following Sola Scriptura, being immoral, being insincere, etc.
It doesn't seem that there's a clear way to arbitrate these disputes.
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Same Bible.
Different doctrines.
Different churches.
Different moral teachings.
Different "gospels."
The fruit of sola Scriptura is chaos, anarchy, and disunity.
The one true Church is not found in Protestantism, because Protestantism is the antithesis of "one."
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The goal of the Christian life isn't God affirming or accepting "who you are," but rather to be conformed to the image of Christ.
The former tries to fit a manufactured version of God into your story. The latter is sacrificial surrender that pulls you out of your story and into His.
"To reach what you know not, you must go by a way you know not. To reach what you possess not, you must go by a way you possess not. To reach what you are not, you must go through what you are not." -St John of the Cross
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“Even if the Pope were the devil incarnate, we should not set our face against him.”
— Saint Catherine of Siena
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People who think “wine” only means alcoholic drinks in the Bible need to learn to do some basic Bible studies.
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@MrCasey62 What Presbyterian is saying it’s “just a meal?”
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I ditched my first Apple Watch and these are my first two analog wrist pieces. Is this just a symptom of being 50?
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@MichaeliArchang Anyone promoting the 40k denominations can’t be taken seriously.
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This is literal Protestant exegesis. Thus I am Catholic.
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Protestantism requires you to believe Christ founded a Church that failed almost immediately, that the gates of hell prevailed against it, and that it remained lost for 1,500 years until private interpretation and thousands of mutually contradictory denominations came along to restore it.
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@SecretFire79 Imagine being less charitable than your opposition. Weird and off putting.
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@shagbark_hick @wolftivy And there are Catholics doing and believing all sorts of things contrary to RC dogma…literally priests in full communion who openly dossgree
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From the Protestant point of view, whose interpretation of Scripture can be considered "final"?
What do we do if any two Christians disagree on the interpretation of Scripture?
I've genuinely never seen any Protestant offer a satisfactory answer to this very basic question.
Jon Harris 🌲@jonharris1989
Almost like it's better to just stick with scripture as the final authority instead of the changing opinions of man.
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@McBrideLawNYC What a weird way to be rude to other Christians 😂 as if celebrating the resurrection can ONLY BE RELEGATED to a specific date. This is why I only check X like every two weeks lol.
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Sola Scriptura Geniuses are celebrating Easter this Sunday.
Easter's date, however, isn’t in the Bible.
The date was set by a Church at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
Easter will be celebrated this Sunday because of Catholic Tradition.
You’re welcome, Protestants.
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When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?
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@LostMyHats @JoelWebbon That’s a lot of words for “we have no idea what was said at this conference so we just speculated and slandered.” 😆
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1. Bob McEwen was at the 2024 Conference and has since been corrected. Mistakes happen, but I left the section in regarding his deep connections to the Israel-First lobby and the rest of the conference speakers, including the groups registered with FARA as paid influencers for Israel.
2. This question confuses me. Did you not read the article? It was very detailed and answered that question in its entirety. When I said "Israeli Influence Operation," I'm referring to the 150 million dollars PER YEAR Israel spends through international pay-throughs from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Special Affairs to influence American evangelicals to convince them that Zionism is somehow a Biblical precept and it's our spiritual obligation to give Israel bombs and tax-dollars.
For example, Mark Driscoll was referenced as an intended asset for the aforementioned Israeli Influence Operation in FARA filings, then shows up at this conference within the very same influence network that listed him in their crosshairs as a potential Israeli-Evangelical influence agent. Meanwhile, the other speakers are either directly within the pay of organizations funded by the Israeli government or Jewish philanthropic dollars or adjacent.
3. The article didn't address the specific lectures given, nor is it pertinent to the article's thesis (although, let's be honest, there was plenty of Dispensational Zionism thrown around, as the audio will show when it's released. Meanwhile, we know the tireless work each man has done to promote Zionist talking points in recent months, including the inexplicable disregard for Doug Wilson toward his own theological convictions and sudden Dispensationalizing of his public stances on Israel, or how Driscoll's public support for Israel came immediately *after* being targeted as a potential influence operative. Or, the many other positions of the other men. As the article asserts in the title, the pay is the platform.
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“Every week in America, pastors stand behind the pulpit and tell their congregation what God requires of them. Some of those pastors are very sincere when they do so, and have been preaching the same message with the same theology, Sunday after Sunday, year after year, for decades. But when it comes to Israel, some have given us a reason to believe that their newfound beliefs are more the product of a foreign influence campaign than sincere conviction. This is the story of one conference, multiple speakers, and the sophisticated influence operation that brought them all together.
Over the weekend, a gathering called the Clear Truth Conference convened at Redemption Church in Monclova, Ohio. The host was Steve Whitlow, lead pastor and founder of Clear Truth Media. The speakers were Doug Wilson, Mark Driscoll, Frank Turek, Rob McCoy, and Bob McEwen. The branding was, in theory, Christian. The framing was discernment. The program looked, from the outside, like your typical evangelical conference, with a lineup designed to signal theological seriousness. Mark Driscoll glowingly tweeted adulations to himself afterward, rubbing it in to his detractors that he’s still being platformed (after many years of not being). Douglas Wilson stood out as though it were a game of “one of these things doesn’t belong,” with a confessional theology that at one time would have felt misplaced, but over the last year, is probably starting to feel at home among those who don’t share one in five of his major theological convictions.
But the conference was not the typical evangelical get-together aiming to brand itself as theologically serious. The Clear Truth Conference was an Israeli influence operation masquerading as a Christian conference. The men gathered on stage have only two things in common: an undying commitment to talk their followers into supporting Israel, and ministries that are uncomfortably close to Israeli government funding.”
*To read the full article, use the link to our website in bio.
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@AIGuide_ @redeemed_zoomer He did a singular clear work prior to death. He didn't have time to do many more. Stop using exceptions as rules ;)
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We are justified before God by faith alone
Works are necessary for salvation
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Sorry @Davidengelhardt.
(Joel didn't get the lineup right, but I'm, like, POSITIVE he is correct about everything else.)
Joel Webbon@JoelWebbon
“Every week in America, pastors stand behind the pulpit and tell their congregation what God requires of them. Some of those pastors are very sincere when they do so, and have been preaching the same message with the same theology, Sunday after Sunday, year after year, for decades. But when it comes to Israel, some have given us a reason to believe that their newfound beliefs are more the product of a foreign influence campaign than sincere conviction. This is the story of one conference, multiple speakers, and the sophisticated influence operation that brought them all together. Over the weekend, a gathering called the Clear Truth Conference convened at Redemption Church in Monclova, Ohio. The host was Steve Whitlow, lead pastor and founder of Clear Truth Media. The speakers were Doug Wilson, Mark Driscoll, Frank Turek, Rob McCoy, and Bob McEwen. The branding was, in theory, Christian. The framing was discernment. The program looked, from the outside, like your typical evangelical conference, with a lineup designed to signal theological seriousness. Mark Driscoll glowingly tweeted adulations to himself afterward, rubbing it in to his detractors that he’s still being platformed (after many years of not being). Douglas Wilson stood out as though it were a game of “one of these things doesn’t belong,” with a confessional theology that at one time would have felt misplaced, but over the last year, is probably starting to feel at home among those who don’t share one in five of his major theological convictions. But the conference was not the typical evangelical get-together aiming to brand itself as theologically serious. The Clear Truth Conference was an Israeli influence operation masquerading as a Christian conference. The men gathered on stage have only two things in common: an undying commitment to talk their followers into supporting Israel, and ministries that are uncomfortably close to Israeli government funding.” *To read the full article, use the link to our website in bio.
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@poperespecter1 Going from Rock that it’s built on to a perpetual office that has infallibility built in and then becomes a central dogmatic claim by which people will be cursed without submitting to is a long, long, LONG, distance.
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Jesus : I am going to build my church on St. Peter.
Protestants: He meant Geneva.
Orthodox: He meant Constantinople.
Meanwhile in Rome:
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