PhD Student @MBTS - Researching Scholasticism & John Gill - https://teapawt.net/t.co/C1ufRi3dHE - opinions are my own
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Somewhere along the way we went from “safe, legal, and rare” to a celebratory “Abortion is back, baby!” You can’t convince me this isn’t a religion.
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Thanks, @LondonLyceum! Glad to contribute a great topic!
Continuing our Baptist Sacramentalism series, here is a great piece from Andrew Cole on viewing the present union with Christ in the Supper.
thelondonlyceum.com/present-…
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It is clear that there is a growing divide within biblical counseling. As @jared_poulton shows in his new book some are moving deeper into a fundamentalist, biblicist, militant posture that finds it roots in Jay Adams. Others are pursuing a historic Reformed approach. These are not merely differences in counseling methods, but competing instincts about authority, tradition, the use of common grace, and how theological disagreements should be handled.
The divide is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. It also explains much of today's polemics and why the two sides so often seem to be talking past one another.
Order your copy of Jared's new book at @HanoverPressLL hanoverpress.com/product/van…
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Or, LLMs, partly developed through University research, stole content often produced at universities to give back to students in a manner devoid of wisdom, beauty, or moral guidance but in a mode very able to atrophy the brain. (But yes, $300k is high)
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Here’s a new response to my dyothelite objection to EFS/ERAS. It uses Leftow’s Latin trinitarianism model to say ERAS does not require multiple wills…
philpapers.org/archive/SMITN…
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If we allow the New Covenant to (re)define the "promised land" of Gen 17, then we must also allow it to (re)define the "offspring" of Gen 17 (Gal 3:7, 29).
land of Canaan
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heaven
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Abraham's earthly offspring
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Abraham's spiritual offspring
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Because it is better to give than to receive honor (see Jesus, Aristotle), God, the supremely honorable one, will forever outdo us in giving honor. Every return of honor we make to God, will be outdone by further divine benefactions, including the benefits of showing God honor.
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What is most attractive about Reformed theology is its exegesis. In the Reformed tradition, there's an intelligent, and often creative, appropriation of the best of Christian philosophy. But, at the end of the day, a tradition stands or falls on its exegesis of Holy Scripture.
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“Had he died in a more merciful, less deliberately dehumanising way, it would not be possible to see in his death the sum of all horrors.”
@flemingrut on the theological implications of the fact that Jesus was not just executed, but crucified.
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New books coming this year. 💯
More to come. 🚀
Pre-orders available in due course. ✅
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Was Adam made with supernatural graces? (Yes)
Here I address a few questions about merit and grace, the relationship between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, and more.
open.substack.com/pub/jonath…
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On campus this week @MBTS for a seminar on philosophical theology and here is what I am seeing:
*Happy students - I am blown away by how happy the students seem to be here. They are engaged and energized.
*Accessible faculty - I ran into multiple professors today just being with students. Talking with them, sitting with them.
*Hospitality - @drandrewmking invited me to come train jiu jitsu with him this week, @KodyGibby ran into me and suggested lunch. This seems normal here.
*Professors are interested in ideas - This might sound obvious, but I've been in three different seminaries and let me tell you: It's not. The professors at MBTS are interested in serious engagement with ideas. They are neither dismissive nor disinterested.
If you are looking to jump into seminary education, take it from someone who has degrees from three other strong seminaries: Nobody is doing what MBTS is doing like they are doing it. They are operating at a different level right now.
Dive in.
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Where have we seen this before?
Pre-Christian Rome.
You have no idea how much Christianity did for children.
In Pakistan, girls are considered a family burden, so Muslim fathers often discard newborn babies by throwing them into garbage piles. Headlines periodically emerge about this horrific practice after local residents hear cries and pull out the babies. Indeed, Pakistani Muslim fathers don’t even bother killing the infants before throwing them away. Almost all the dead babies suffered until their last breath, either from suffocation, being crushed under garbage, or dying of thirst.
In Islam, women and girls are treated worse than animals.
Not all cultures are equal!
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Can’t think of a more important cultural talking point for Christians than the *joy* of parenthood, and the acceptance of children in society. It confronts:
- The sexualization of society
- The destruction of the family
- The rudderlessness of young men
- Hyper-individualism
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If the culture wars come down to Bad Bunny vs. Kid Rock, then it's already over, because there is no culture worth the name. The biggest mistake the conservative movement ever made was letting pop culture become the only culture.
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A move away from utter barbarism.
🚨BREAKING: The American Society of Plastic Surgeons come out against "gender-affirming" surgeries for anyone under 19 years old, making them the first major US-based medical association to officially narrow their guidance.
Former ASPS president Scot Bradley Glasberg acknowledged this adolescent population as "vulnerable" due to the irreversible nature of these surgeries and noted the "insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents."
Given their position as surgeons, the ASPS offer no official guidance on puberty blockers, but noted the "substantial uncertainty" regarding their long-term benefits and potential harms.
This is HUGE news, and I hope other medical organizations take note and follow the evidence.
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How did the 17th and/or 18th century Baptists understand the early church? Is their methodology consistent with contemporary retrieval theology?
Make your case in an essay and send our way!
thelondonlyceum.com/call-for…