Kyle Alexander

@farmingandJesus @St__Athanasius @BreeSolstad @LizzieMarbach Couldn’t anyone take that verse to mean God affirms their theology?

@St__Athanasius @BreeSolstad @LizzieMarbach Hi there. Please read 1 John 2:27 and God bless!!

I repent of my errors. I have been worshipping Mary, a piece of bread & some wine. This is all Pagan. I was wrong. I’m reaching out to @farmingandJesus and @LizzieMarbach tonight to ask them how to convert to Biblical Christianity. I have much to learn. Please pray for me.🙏

@RooktoRep How’s the call stats?

Month of March Cold Email Stats: Total emails sent = 739 Email reply rate = 12.9% Email replies = 95 Bounced deliveries = 3.1% Of those 95 replies: 19 people wanted to meet 30 people were interested / more info

@wil_da_beast630 What’s interesting is the church didn’t take the verses to mean biological brothers from Mary. St Jerome refutes the view in the 300s and doesn’t pop back up until the 1600s. Also Jesus giving Mary to John at the cross is another indication she only had one son.

The Bible specifically and repeatedly refers to 4-5 "brothers" of Jesus, using that term. Apologist responses here have always struck me, personally, as variants on "wine means grape juice."

@michaeljknowles Trick question!

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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?

@5Solas2 Do you think they can at least inform some of our beliefs? Like if the early church universally held a certain belief, is it fair to say that that interpretation of scripture might be more reasonable or carry more weight?

The church father's writings are NOT inspired.

@kangminlee I thought you were a Catholic?

I am now seriously inquiring Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or High-Church Protestantism after this whole fiasco. Modern evangelicalism is compromised & detached from apostolic faith, swapped for subjective feel-good fluff instead of Scripture-rooted truth & historic Church tradition.

@calvinrobinson @tcb001 Calvin, serious question. Why is it that the Catholics families I grew up with did not seem to know the faith and often their children have not continued in the faith. But the evangelicals have thriving, godly families, and their children seem to really know Christ.

@tcb001 Do it. 👍

Daily Wire finds a troubling pattern in Catholicism. The problem is, Catholics cannot be manipulated in the same way as evangelicals. Catholics are not Zionists. It is in Israel’s interests to have Christians believe they must be “committed Zionists to receive God’s blessing.”

@calvinrobinson Calvin, serious question. Why is it that the Catholics families I grew up with did not seem to know the faith and often their children have not continued in the faith. But the evangelicals have thriving, godly families, and their children seem to really know Christ.

Get married young; Have as many children as God will bless you with; Raise them Catholic.

@jamesonhaslam Lol they’re not Mormon

(If they seem Mormon, yes)

file this under things that make sense in a SoCal beach city

@kangminlee Welcome to the OC!

California I am in you

@redeemed_zoomer Why?

@saintathanasia Interesting subject I believe there was a debate in the early church about whether or not the personal holiness of the priest invalidates the mass or sacraments.

What happens if a priest is in a state of mortal sin right before mass? How can he still offer the mass?

@rickbrennanjr Do you find it compelling St. Jerome argues for the perpetual virginity of Mary in the 300s, and explicitly says that this view that Mary had other children, besides our Lord, is a new doctrine that has never been heard of before?

The difficulty with this argument is that the New Testament never actually calls these men “cousins” of Jesus. The Gospels consistently use the ordinary Greek word ἀδελφοί (adelphoi), which in normal usage means brothers. If the authors intended “cousins,” Greek had a specific word for that (ἀνεψιός, used in Col 4:10), yet the evangelists never use it for the relatives of Jesus. Appealing to John 19:25 also does not resolve the issue. That passage simply lists several women present at the cross, including “Mary the wife of Clopas.” It never states that the sons of that Mary are the same individuals called the “brothers of Jesus.” That identification is a later inference, not something the text itself makes explicit. The proposal that Clopas and Alphaeus are the same name likewise remains a hypothesis. The New Testament never says they are the same person. Thus hypothesis was developed later in church history as part of a harmonization that was created to reconcile the perpetual-virginity tradition with passages like Matt 13:55–56 and Mark 6:3, where the brothers and sisters of Jesus are clearly mentioned. The case becomes even clearer with James the Just. Paul writes in Gal 1:19 that he met “James, the Lord’s brother” (ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Κυρίου). Paul uses the same word used in the Gospels. If “brother” meant “cousin,” the identification would be strangely indirect, since Greek had a precise word for cousin and Paul could easily have used it. None of this diminishes Mary’s honor or the uniqueness of Christ’s birth. The question is simply what the text itself affirms. On that point, the most natural reading of the Gospel accounts is that the “brothers” of Jesus were his actual siblings within the household of Joseph and Mary.

@Finance_Weights We had our first when I was 26, I realized how awesome and full life is with a kid. I have my whole life to make more money, but the window for kids is shorter. There’s no better investment

One of my biggest regret was delaying first kid for financial reasons until when i was 39 (wife was 35) and not going for a second kid soon after. Such a stupid mistake. My house would have been complete with 2 kids bouncing around the house

@redeemed_zoomer @FreedmOffensive Why traveling?

@FreedmOffensive I go to mass regularly when visiting my mom or traveling If someone took a pic of me there and then I died the entire internet would say I became Catholic

You know a Protestant was a great man when Catholics say “he was Catholic”

@GovMikeHuckabee Honest question, who is saying that God has broken the covenant with the Jewish people? Jesus came first to them to welcome them into new covenant made in his blood. There is one people of God, and we implore the Jewish people to receive Christ

In response to the statement of non-evangelical churches in Israel, I issued the following. I hope you will read prayerfully. I love my brothers and sisters in Christ from traditional, liturgical churches and respect their views, but I do not feel any sect of the Christian faith should claim exclusivity in speaking for Christians worldwide or assume there is only one viewpoint regarding faith in the Holy Land.  Personally I’m part of a global and growing evangelical tradition that believes the authority of Scripture and the faithfulness of God in keeping His covenants.  That includes His covenant with Abraham and the Jewish people.  My Christian faith is built on the foundation of Judaism and without it, Christianity would not exist.  Without the Judeo-Christian worldview, there would be no Western Civilization, and without Western Civilization, there would be no America.  The thought that God is even capable of breaking a covenant is anathema to those of us who embrace Holy Scripture as the authority of the church.  If God can or would break His covenant with the Jews, then what hope would Christians have that He would keep His covenant with us? Labels such as “Christian Zionism” are too often used in a pejorative manner to disparage free-church believers, of which there are millions across the planet.  Christians are followers of Christ and a Zionist simply accepts that the Jewish people have a right to live in their ancient, indigenous, and Biblical homeland.  It’s hard for me to understand why every one who takes on the moniker “Christian” would not also be a Zionist.  It’s not a commitment to a particular government or government policy, but to the Biblical revelation as given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  In my faith, there is certainly room for those who “butter their bread” differently than me, and I would hope that there would be room in the hearts of other church bodies for me.  We need to unite in those truths that should be agreed upon, such as the sanctity of life, the sacred act of marriage, the autonomy of the individual, the desire to lift up every human and alleviate human suffering, and the belief that grace is God’s gift to us all. Please share with others and "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!"

@DrFrankTurek I don’t think the post reformation Church carries the authority it once did in the life of a believer to dictate such things. After all, what do most churches believe about divorce and remarriage? You’ll get many different answers

Why has divorce become socially acceptable in the Church?

@ImAntCalabrese 🤙🏻🤙🏻

happy friday . we’re not slowing up today . just another day to us . let’s get it . 🐉

@farmingandJesus Do you think the eucharist being truly the flesh of Christ is an ancient practice?

No, this is not accurate at all. We focus on Christ , we aren’t called to know Mary, we’re called to know Christ. We aren’t called to pray to Mary, we’re called to pray to the father in the name of Christ. We are not called to worship Mary we are called to worship Christ. We are the ones who practice ancient Christianity AKA, we do what the Bible says.

@LizzieMarbach Do you find it interesting that the early church unanimously agreed Mary had no other children other than Jesus? And the entire church agreed on this until after the reformation? Speaking as a Protestant btw

The Bible: “Jesus had siblings.”