Forwarded from Fundamental Christianity
A group of Christians are tasked with changing a lightbulb.
The Charismatic changes it easily; his hands are already up.
The Roman Catholic refuses; he prefers candles.
The Eastern Orthodox venerates the light bulb.
The Pentecostal changes it while his friends pray against the Lord of Darkness.
The Christian Scientist can't, but he prays for the light to turn back on.
The Calvinist refuses; God has predestined when the light will be on.
The Episcopalian changes the lightbulb while his friends say how much they liked the old one.
The Mormon tries to change it as five wives tell him how to do it right.
The Baptist changes the lightbulb, gets it approved by three committees, and then they all eat some casserole.
The Lutheran refuses: he doesn't believe in change.
The Unitarian chooses not to make a statement either in favor of, or against, the need for a lightbulb. However, if in your own journey you have found that lightbulbs work for you, you are encouraged to create a poem or modern dance about your personal relationship with the lightbulb, and present it next Sunday when we will explore a number of lightbulb traditions including incandescent, fluorescent, halogen, compact fluorescent, low-pressure sodium, and LED, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.
The Charismatic changes it easily; his hands are already up.
The Roman Catholic refuses; he prefers candles.
The Eastern Orthodox venerates the light bulb.
The Pentecostal changes it while his friends pray against the Lord of Darkness.
The Christian Scientist can't, but he prays for the light to turn back on.
The Calvinist refuses; God has predestined when the light will be on.
The Episcopalian changes the lightbulb while his friends say how much they liked the old one.
The Mormon tries to change it as five wives tell him how to do it right.
The Baptist changes the lightbulb, gets it approved by three committees, and then they all eat some casserole.
The Lutheran refuses: he doesn't believe in change.
The Unitarian chooses not to make a statement either in favor of, or against, the need for a lightbulb. However, if in your own journey you have found that lightbulbs work for you, you are encouraged to create a poem or modern dance about your personal relationship with the lightbulb, and present it next Sunday when we will explore a number of lightbulb traditions including incandescent, fluorescent, halogen, compact fluorescent, low-pressure sodium, and LED, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.
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Protestant Post
Lol
In light of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, will you...
Anonymous Poll
22%
Start using Twitter more
27%
Wait to see what happens
4%
Create a new account
57%
Ignore it and stay on Telegram 😎
Forwarded from Franssen
Sexualizing children dehumanizes them. Dehumanizing a whole class of people is essential before using the state to kill them off.
The government indoctrination camps are signaling to you what they're going to do.
The government indoctrination camps are signaling to you what they're going to do.
So based and tradpilled. We stupid Protties just don't get it. lol
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Forwarded from Disclose.tv
JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strike down the Roe vs. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, an initial draft majority opinion by Justice Alito shows.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
How do such drafts of the SCOTUS get leaked to the media before a ruling is announced? This is criminal.
@disclosetv
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
How do such drafts of the SCOTUS get leaked to the media before a ruling is announced? This is criminal.
@disclosetv
POLITICO
Exclusive: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
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Forwarded from Gildas’ Plea
We as Christians have a moral duty to promote Godly order in our lives, as well as for our families and our societies. We can clearly see from the Bible that nations should naturally be tied to blood and soil. We must reject ideologies which reject this Christian notion of nationalism. It is no coincidence that we have rejected the Christian basis for national identity at the same time as we are rejecting the Christian doctrine of marriage, gender roles, and morality. The rejection of nationalism is nothing more than a symptom of the rejection of God’s law in its entirety, sadly even by professed Christians in many cases.
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Be sure to follow Dort Apologetics for some high-quality theological spergery.
Forwarded from Gildas’ Plea
“God wills to manifest his goodness in men, in those whom he predestines in the manner of mercy by sparing them, in those whom HE REPROBATES in the manner of justice by punishing them. This provides a key to the problem why God chooses some and rejects others...Why does he choose some to glory while others he rejects? HIS SO WILLING is the SOLE GROUND”
(Thomas Aquinas, ST, Ia,23.5)
(Thomas Aquinas, ST, Ia,23.5)
Many are familiar with the Heidelberg Catechism written primarily by the 15th century 3rd-generation reformer Zacharias Ursinus. However, fewer are aware that the great catechism was a compilation of the best of two previous catechisms authored by Ursinus, a larger and shorter one. Though the Heidelberg contains the highlihgts, the the first question of the larger catechism should give you a flavor for the depth and excellence of it:
Q1: What firm comfort
do you have in life and in death?
A1: That I was created by God
in his image
for eternal life;
and
after I willfully lost this in Adam,
God, out of infinite and free mercy,
took me into his covenant of grace
that he might give me by faith,
righteousness and eternal life
because of the obedience
and death of his Son
who was sent in the flesh.
And that he sealed his covenant in my heart
by his Spirit,
who renews me in the image of God
and cries out in me, “Abba,” Father,
by his Word
and the visible signs of this covenant.
Q1: What firm comfort
do you have in life and in death?
A1: That I was created by God
in his image
for eternal life;
and
after I willfully lost this in Adam,
God, out of infinite and free mercy,
took me into his covenant of grace
that he might give me by faith,
righteousness and eternal life
because of the obedience
and death of his Son
who was sent in the flesh.
And that he sealed his covenant in my heart
by his Spirit,
who renews me in the image of God
and cries out in me, “Abba,” Father,
by his Word
and the visible signs of this covenant.
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Those who prioritize the conversions of strangers over the salvation of their own households have denied the faith and are worse than unbelievers.
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Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
I call this "Soup Kitchen Christianity," which strains to find one convert on the margins while losing a flock of covenant children. It can be the inner city or foreign missions, but the attitude is the same.
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The idea that gas prices rising is because of Russia and Ukraine is retarded. The U.S. as of 2021 only got about 3% of oil imports from Russia. Furthermore, prices started rising much earlier, noticeably after the Biden regime cancelled the Keystone pipeline and more recently major drilling leases. This a good article going in depth on the causes of inflation: https://mises.org/wire/no-its-not-putin-price-hike-no-matter-what-joe-biden-claims
Mises Institute
No, It's Not the Putin Price Hike, No Matter What Joe Biden Claims
Last year, Joe Biden and his administration claimed that inflation was "transitory." This year, Vladimir Putin gets the blame. Next year, Biden will blame American businesses. And the beat goes on.
Forwarded from Fundamental Christianity
This meme by Calvinbot 3000 is composed in programming language with inconsistent tokens and grammar, blending elements of HTML, Python, and C++ into a freeform language designed to evoke the logic processes of a robot following programming. The code uses standard logical proof of dialectic by contradiction. In this example, Calvinbot 3000 assumes that we DO have free will and that God also has free will. This produces three possible outcomes: (1) our will and God's will coincide, in which there is no problem (this is impossible for the unregenerate.) (2) our will is different from and stronger than God's will, in which we decide and God is powerless to stop us (unbiblical), or (3) God's will is stronger than ours and we cant oppose it. In both Outcome 2 and 3, one party is imposing their free on the other against their wishes, thus negating the second party's claim to free will. The contradiction arises and the premise that both God and man can have autonomous free will is rendered logically inconsistent