There is a reason why sodomites, trannies, and adjacents so frequently disfigure and uglify themselves in progressive stages from clothing, hair cuts/colors, tattoos, piercings, and genital mutilation.
Those in high rebellion against God hate His image so much they disfigure and cover it wherever they can. They would do the same and worse to the divine image in others. This is the same reason ritual disfigurement is a common practice in almost every pagan religion.
We may rightly say as a general principle (though not perhaps as an infallible axiom) that the outside appearance tends to mirror the inside character. Only with great effort can this natural effect be reversed.
Those in high rebellion against God hate His image so much they disfigure and cover it wherever they can. They would do the same and worse to the divine image in others. This is the same reason ritual disfigurement is a common practice in almost every pagan religion.
We may rightly say as a general principle (though not perhaps as an infallible axiom) that the outside appearance tends to mirror the inside character. Only with great effort can this natural effect be reversed.
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"You came of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan, "and that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on Earth."
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The song "Rich Men North of Richmond" rightly observes many of the struggles of the remnant white Christian American population-- namely the increasing economic impossibility of middle class life plus leftist government control.
However, it fails to properly identify the causes-- mass third world immigration and entitlement spending on the first point, and the right's lack of elite representation on the second. The leftists who gained control of America didn't just magically acquire it; rather, decades of discipline and painstaking coordination was the sacrifice required. This is a sacrifice few on the right are willing to make because we just want to be left alone (or, as the song puts it, sit here and drown our troubles away).
However, it fails to properly identify the causes-- mass third world immigration and entitlement spending on the first point, and the right's lack of elite representation on the second. The leftists who gained control of America didn't just magically acquire it; rather, decades of discipline and painstaking coordination was the sacrifice required. This is a sacrifice few on the right are willing to make because we just want to be left alone (or, as the song puts it, sit here and drown our troubles away).
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Those who view the countryside as inherently superior to cities should recall that it is not good for man to be alone. God designed us to live in clans and tribes, and God blesses and establishes cities throughout Scripture. Recall that the very word "pagan" is the Latin word for "rural," since the countryside is where the old practices remained after the Christianization of Rome.
Cities are not better than the country or vice versa, just as summer is neither superior nor inferior to winter. We should aim to take them both since they all belong to Christ.
Cities are not better than the country or vice versa, just as summer is neither superior nor inferior to winter. We should aim to take them both since they all belong to Christ.
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Unpopular opinion: the average medieval peasant had a more sensible, wise, and godly worldview than the average evangelical churchgoer today.
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For all the talk about MacArthur and co not being "truly Reformed" - which, for the record, I agree with - it must be said he's done far more to promote Reformed theology than 99% of its adherents.
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Angels are not designed as creative beings which is why they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Incidentally, this is why Satan as a fallen angel is so unoriginal. Literally every single play he runs on us has been seen hundreds of times before.
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This is your annual reminder that anyone who celebrates Rosh Hashana is anathema, a Christ-denier, and is probably super ugly.
When the enemies of God wallow in their guilt, that is the best time to exult in the forgiveness of our own.
When the enemies of God wallow in their guilt, that is the best time to exult in the forgiveness of our own.
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"Though the witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the table would crack and death itself would start working backward."
-- Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
-- Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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In Phillippians 1, we read that, "Some preach Christ from envy... whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice."
So when people punch right towards people with whom they actually agree on 90% of issues, yet take a much tamer attitude towards those on their left, we can rightly identify such people as cowards, bad actors, etc.
So when people punch right towards people with whom they actually agree on 90% of issues, yet take a much tamer attitude towards those on their left, we can rightly identify such people as cowards, bad actors, etc.
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If someone wants to argue that racism is a sin, they should first define it biblically (spoiler... They can't).
And this problem cannot be skirted by attempting to define racism under the umbrella of a biblical sin. For instance, you can't accuse someone of the "sin of robbing a bank." No, the sin is stealing, the bank has nothing to do with it.
And this problem cannot be skirted by attempting to define racism under the umbrella of a biblical sin. For instance, you can't accuse someone of the "sin of robbing a bank." No, the sin is stealing, the bank has nothing to do with it.
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