David Reinker
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@DavidReinker I’ll need an intelligible argument first.
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A few things:
-If you mean water baptism, clarify water baptism.
-In one sense all Christians should agree baptism is necessary, given that it’s by the Spirit we are baptized into Christ (1 Cor. 12:13). You can’t be saved without being baptized by the Spirit into Christ.
-What is the point of saying this if all Christians are commanded to be baptized? There’s no point. If we’re all going to do it anyway, why must you declare it’s not necessary for salvation?
GodlyAction@GodlyAction
Baptism is not required for salvation.
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@xagreat “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting”
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Paul never met Jesus, but he wrote half of the Bible.
Lol
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@TimePreference_ If by inefficient you mean workers who have decent working conditions and good pay, then yes.
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tariffs don't protect domestic industry
they protect inefficient producers at the expense of consumers
every tariff is a tax on your purchasing power to subsidize businesses that can't compete
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@exanxc Jesus is a plant: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener."
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> Prots: "Baptism isn't required for salvation."
Jesus: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
> Prots: "Eucharist is just a symbol."
Jesus: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."
GodlyAction@GodlyAction
Baptism is not required for salvation.
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@BishopJaxi Can you tell me which religious leader will be standing next to me on judgment day? A Pope? Ignatius? Irenaeus? Augustine?
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Sola Scriptura is functionally "Scripture according to my interpretation," backed by whatever men agree with me.
It is the exaltation of private judgment over the Bible, reinforced by other men who share that same judgment.
Every time a Protestant declares something to be "biblical," he is either appealing to his own interpretation of the text or to heretics like John MacArthur to validate that interpretation.
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@KyleKulinski DHS has already been fully-funded until 2029. Democrats want to walk that back and are willing to shut down the government to do it. They're in the minority in both houses and do not hold the Presidency, but they just want what they want.
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The country simply doesn’t function anymore. This is Republican rule, economic crashes, tax cuts for the rich, cuts to services, new wars in the Middle East. Every. Single. Time.
Breaking911@Breaking911
🚨 THIS IS INSANE! TSA security wait time at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reached over 90 minutes Thursday morning.
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@PotluckLauren If the sun, or the greater light, was created on day four, then how do you have a literal morning and evening if there isn't yet a literal sun to define what morning and evening literally are?
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While I appreciate the attempts to find common ground with the old earthers out there, the Bible says it was evening and morning for each day to show us that this is a 24 hour period. Not figurative, but literal. Genesis is a historical narrative.
It’s important that as Christians we choose to believe God’s word.
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@AmericanaMama_ No, the problem is parents who don't teach their kids not to hit other kids.
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Trump tomó a Venezuela y Putin no intervino.
Trump bombardeó y humilló al régimen de los Ayatolás, y Putin no intervino.
Trump acecha a Cuba, y Putin no interviene.
Trump pide ayuda a Europa y se la negaron.
¿Qué creen ustedes que ocurrirá cuando Putin aceche a la débil Europa?
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@HarleyShah What military goal is achieved by Iran closing the strait? None. So Iran is at fault.
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I am losing my mind. Do these people not realise that the Strait of Hormuz was open, to the world, for free, until they decided to bomb Iran unprovoked and kill their leader and kill little schoolgirls?
Eylon Levy@EylonALevy
The Israeli Air Force blew up an IRGC Navy headquarters. Little Israel, fighting to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for the benefit of the whole world.
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@JJJShabadooMAGA @redpillpopper78 @dubque86 @ProjectLiberal So then how do we prevent illegal immigrants from voting?
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@redpillpopper78 @dubque86 @ProjectLiberal What if you don't know where your birth certificate is and you don't have a passport? And, you don't have time or money to go thru the process of getting either? Couldn't this prevent them from voting?
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@heresyfinancial Yet Democrats will demand that the checks go out when the President hesitates to write them.
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The US national debt just hit $39 trillion
Trump has presided over 27% of that
The last 4 presidents alone are responsible for $33 trillion - which is 85% of the debt
But the percentage winners are still FDR and Woodrow Wilson - nobody is coming close to their numbers (hopefully)
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@mattt562 We're 30-some trillion dollars in debt because we don't run agencies like businesses.
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I am tired of people thinking government agencies need to be run like a business. This will also kill many elderly and disabled people bc the USPS can deliver prescriptions to rural areas where delivery companies won’t go
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.
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@DaytimePubSmell @darwintojesus So how does naturalism derive moral "oughts" from natural "is" statements? Whether rape is abhorrent in your mind is not the question. If rape isn't always immoral, or wrong, then it can sometimes be moral and that's a problem.
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Like I said, it can - some people have simply never bothered to even read what the candidate natural explanations are (I recommend this book as an introduction) ⬇️
I cannot think of an instance of rape which I don't find abhorrent. The shorthand for this is 'It is wrong', but I'd be careful to emphasise that this does not indicate that 'wrong' has some Real existence 'out there' like galaxies or nucleotides. It exists solely 'in here' 🤔👈. This is the medieval Realism vs Nominalism debate rehashed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origi…
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If someone asks me why I don’t believe in something, I can give a justification. For example, I don’t believe in subjective morality because I’m aware that thinks like rape are actually, objective wrong. Not just mere opinions.
Why can’t atheists give a justification for why they don’t believe in God?
Lilith@Lilith_Atheist
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@BarbaraRKay If you're fasting for whatever reason, why would you go to the cafeteria just to not eat only then to complain about others who are eating in the one place designated for eating?
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Isn't banning eating in a cafeteria the equivalent of banning peeing in a bathroom? Why don't the fasting students congregate elsewhere during lunch hour? Or is that too rational a solution?
Juno News@junonewscom
A Calgary public school is forcing students who are not fasting for Ramadan to stop eating in the cafeteria, designating the shared space a "No Food Space" to accommodate Muslim students. junonews.com/p/calgary-midd…
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@DaytimePubSmell @darwintojesus Natural explanations can't address morality, thought, beauty, evil, etc. Would it be your opinion that rape isn't always wrong?
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It is your opinion that rape is 'actually' wrong.
I don't believe in a god because I find the natural explanation for any given phenomenon more convincing than the supernatural one. I realise this would not be a convincing justification to one who rejected the natural explanation, and especially to one who had never even heard what it was.
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@amuse It's called battlespace preparation. Anyone who exposes their misdeeds becomes the bad guy.
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