Husband, Father, Reformed Presbyterian Pastor. Lifelong student of Theology and Philosophy. I’m the guy that did the UFO podcast for Cultish (posted 👇)
Hudson Valley, NY
Joined August 2023
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Colin Samul retweeted
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Folks, I have spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email. For the last eight hours, I have been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven't heard a thing.
You would think that, since I'm one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. You'd be wrong.
So, once this gets resolved, hopefully before the next presidential election, I'm dropping them. (I kept them this long out of convenience, but now I have no reason to keep them.)
I'll see you on the radio at 6 p.m., at which time I will address this further.
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So anabaptist even the Amish wouldn’t think of it.
Herein lies @tgc's most recent attempt to use grace to destroy nature.
"And this raises a bigger question; if church is meant to be a gathering of our spiritual family, why are we sitting in our earthly families in the first place?" 🤦♂️
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AW Tozer’s works were the first manuals of Christian piety I read after becoming a Christian.
I still enjoy reading him from time to time. Sometimes he’s really interesting. Sometimes I roll my eyes.
And sometimes he comes out swinging with these absolute banger anecdotes.
“That’s why we love Lincoln, not just because he freed the slaves or saved the Union, but because he had a big heart. But even he had a limit. It is said that somebody once came onto the White House lawn and Lincoln’s wife Mary was running and screaming. The great, tall president was following behind her with a paddle.
“What’s going on here?” the person asked.
He said, “She won’t obey.”
He could get mad, you see. And he could act unkind, but not Jesus. The kindest man ever to draw human breath is Jesus.”
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Colin Samul retweeted
Correct. No ecumenical council ever issued a binding decree locking the canon. It formed by gradual consensus through widespread church usage. Athanasius’s 367 list first matches the full 27 NT books; Hippo and Carthage later affirmed it regionally. Laodicea’s disputed Canon 60 omitted Revelation, showing ongoing Eastern caution. The Nicaea “vote” story is pure myth, popularized by The Da Vinci Code.
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So the moral of the story is that Nicaea did not “decide the Canon of Scripture.”
Laodicea was a regional council lacking ecumenical authority. The list given at Laodicea is just that, a list, and it’s not even the final list that the entire church agreed upon (Revelation was missing from their list).
The canon of Scripture was agreed upon by common consent. There simply was no ecumenical council that said “these are the books of Scripture and these are not, use the correct ones or else!”
Unfortunately the Da Vinci Code one shotted a lot of people on this issue.
One of the most annoying things about the boomers is that they rejected and/or greatly modified the social and political views of their parents and grandparents, even if they never joined in with 60’s radicalism.
And yet when younger generations adopt social and political views that sound just like their parents and grandparents, their instinct is to frame it as some radical, new idealistic outlook that overthrows the well worn wisdom that they invented just a few decades ago.
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RT @Rural_KS_Pastor: About 22 years ago, when I was first finding my way into Reformed theology, I encountered @RScottClark . He was gracio…
Annoying (but well meaning) tropes you hear after a day like yesterday:
“Well, our hope is not in politics”
“Our nation is under judgment”
“We need to remember, real change will only come with revival”
All of those things may be true. But a predictable election cycle also has political causes and there are political solutions moving forward.
While it’s good to always set our minds upon the things above, spiritualizing how we understand political realities can quickly turn the Gospel into a mere instrument for political and social change.
Every single one of the statements above implies that the Gospel is a political solution.
It’s time to ditch the delusion of transformationalism. Now go read William Young’s Essay on Neo-Calvinism.
westminsterconfession.org/re…
This seems like a possible prelude to a presidential resignation down the road, with JD getting ahead of it by distinguishing himself from his predecessor as he retains power for the next 2 years.
I want to not think that he’s the creation of Peter Thiel and big tech/palantir who will continue the same policies with more sophisticated “based” wrapping paper.
All that being said I’ll take it. And I’ll take JD going forward (for now).
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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I listen to a lot of people sporadically in following the news.
If you actually tune in to Fuentes’ program and listen to his monologues the kid is super smart. He has also been right about a lot of things, when everyone else was wrong—especially on how the Trump administration would actually shake out.
The clips you probably know him for are just the draw. He’s a mixture of Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and Jon Stewart, but curtailed to proclivities of younger Millennials and Gen Z rather than Boomers-Millennials.
I’m bullish on his rising influence.
This is not an endorsement, but a statement of fact.
After correctly predicting Democrats would annihilate Republicans in the midterms, Nick Fuentes explains exactly what's going to happen next:
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Colin Samul retweeted
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