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Hey 1689 Twitter, Reformed brothers and sisters, et al.,
Serious question and I sincerely want to know what you think:
A lot of professing Christians are concerned about economic justice and institutionalized racism in our country. I understand that many of you disagree.
Serious question and I sincerely want to know what you think:
A lot of professing Christians are concerned about economic justice and institutionalized racism in our country. I understand that many of you disagree.
What I donβt understand is the severity of your reaction, and the contempt that many of you have shown to fellow Christians who dedicate time to studying these mattersβboth in Scripture and otherwise.
Your contempt for these convictions means that one of two things must be the case:
A) You think that believers who are concerned with correcting material injustice *donβt* hear from God and *donβt* know how to interpret Scripture; or
A) You think that believers who are concerned with correcting material injustice *donβt* hear from God and *donβt* know how to interpret Scripture; or
1 With sights fixed on @BethMooreLPM , in podcast interviews, blog posts, Twitter feeds, live-streamed conferences and genre-bending short films, at least a dozen individuals associated with @FoundersMin have rehearsed the following complementarian line.
2 βIn the book of I Timothy et al., Scripture explicitly forbids women from teaching before an audience that includes men. Therefore, women who teach men and all who allow women to teach men are not only in error, they deny the inerrancy of Scripture.β
3 Let that line of reasoning sink in: Whatever you think you believe about inerrancy, if you donβt agree with the @FoundersMin apostolate in every interpretive detail, then you reject the inerrancy of Scripture. Astonishing, is it not?
Girolamo Zanchi quotes:
"It is not false that Christ died for all men: for the passion of Christ is offered to all in the Gospel. But he died effectually for the elect alone, because indeed they only are made partakers of the efficacy of the passion of Christ."
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"It is not false that Christ died for all men: for the passion of Christ is offered to all in the Gospel. But he died effectually for the elect alone, because indeed they only are made partakers of the efficacy of the passion of Christ."
#Reformed
"It is not impious to paint [an image of] Christ, insofar as he is man, as long as the image is not worshipped."
#Reformed #Anglican #Zanchi
#Reformed #Anglican #Zanchi
"For as the bread is really and truly united unto us eating...so also is the flesh of Christ truly...united unto us who eat the same."
#Reformed #Anglican #Zanchi #Eucharist
#Reformed #Anglican #Zanchi #Eucharist
