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Just as I Am: The Aftermath of Charles Finney’s Conversion Theology
by David C. Hacker
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David Hacker, Sufficientist retweeted
If the literal sense is too thin to carry Christ, how did the apostles draw 3,350 lines from it? Gladd's graphic is a gift to anyone who confesses "not manifold, but one" (WCF/2LBCF 1.9), and an embarrassment to anyone who needs a thin letter to justify supplemental spiritual senses.
Every line runs from words to words: an apostle quoting or echoing what was written, and arguing from it to hearers who had no new revelation. "Have you not read…?" Paul "reasoned with them from the Scriptures." The Bereans checked him.
So, a dilemma for the quadriga. Either its spiritual sense can be traced along lines like these, or it can't. If it can, it's the literal sense read canonically; by the retrieval's own rule it "simply becomes the literal sense." If it can't, the apostles never did it.
And the web itself presupposes one sense. A quotation binds only if what's quoted means one thing. Give each text several senses, and every line splits into many; the web would be noise. It isn't. "The consent of all the parts" (WCF/2LBCF 1.5) is right there on the page.
David Hacker, Sufficientist retweeted
"Prots have to cherry-pick!!"
OH? And does your church do EVERYTHING Hippolytus described here as Apostolic Tradition? If not, you're also cherry-picking. You've rejected that tradition.
Protestants can’t claim the Church Fathers so they have to cherry-pick and take them out of context to make arguments that the Fathers themselves rejected.
If you read St John Chrysostom’s other works you’ll quickly find he affirmed images of the saints, and was far from an iconoclast like Mr White here. But Mr White won’t be reading those other works to you, because they don’t affirm his theology.
He only wants to find the narrow examples where the wording aligns just enough with his view to pass it off identical to his own, and then ignore everything else.
It’s dishonest, really. I don’t think you should allow someone who lies like this to be an important influence on your spiritual life.
This app sucks @X since you started auto updating the timeline everytime the app is opened. I'm trying to look at something and boom it's just gone.... – at Ashdown, AR
David Hacker, Sufficientist retweeted
He was saved by faith alone and he also wasn’t baptized, so the baptism doesn’t save the faith does.
The thief on the cross might be my favorite salvation story in the whole Bible.
• Never tithed
• Never believed in “once saved always saved”
• Showed Scriptures to be obsolete
• Confessed to the only priest available
• Submitted to Christ’s Kingship
• Rebuked the other Criminal
• Defended Jesus against the mob
• Zero personal relationship with Jesus
• On the spot promise to Abraham’s Bosom, then heaven in 40 days.
That man was saved by Gods grace through works.
David Hacker, Sufficientist retweeted
I’m not exaggerating when I say this book changed my life. Though it seems like a niche topic, it revealed how manipulative methods from the Second Great Awakening planted seeds of today’s issues in the church of false conversions, emotionalism, & traditions treated as doctrine.
#OTD 1555
English reformers Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer are burned at the stake under the government of Queen Mary.
#OTD 1009
(the 24th or 25th of Safar 400; by some calculations, October 18th). Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, hacking out the church’s foundations down to bedrock.
#NotaPeacefulReligion
I noticed when searching for a book that the G3 store is still up ... So who exactly gets the proceeds 🤷🏻♂️ – at Ashdown, AR
David Hacker, Sufficientist retweeted
Here is Richard Baxter’s experience of an early modern calorie restriction diet:
“I remember myself that when I first set upon the use of Cornaro’s and Lessius’ diet (as it is called) (which I did for a time for some special reasons), it seemed a little hard for two or three days; but within a week it became a pleasure, and another sort or more was not desirable. And I think almost all that use one dish only and a small quantity do find that more is a trouble and not a temptation to them: so great a matter is use (unless it be with very strong and laboring persons).”
From our Guide to Gluttony
Forthcoming soon, D.V.
David Hacker, Sufficientist retweeted
The same Aquinas who said this?
“Although God may know the number of individuals, yet the number of oxen and gnats and other similar things was not preordained by him” (ST, I, Q. 23, Art. 7)”
#OTD 1518
Martin Luther and Cardinal Cajetan meet in Augsburg over the following three days to discuss Luther’s 95 Theses. Cajetan tells Luther he must recant unconditionally.
#OTD 1492
Columbus reaches an island in what will become known as the West Indies. His writings show he intended to bring the gospel as well as pursue his secular ends.