Category: Tweets Archive

If a drug or a procedure is known to be or suspected of being an abortifacient, then Christians may not — in good conscience — make use of such drug or procedure until the contrary is proven.

Anthropogenic climate change is ridiculous nonsense, but pollution and environmental degradation are issues that Christians should take extremely seriously.

Imbeciles: ‘sEpArAtIoN oF cHuRcH aNd StAtE¡’

Lutherans:

‘Contemporary worship’ is not Lutheran.

Churches with ‘contemporary worship’ are not Lutheran.

Lutherans do not do ‘contemporary worship’.

The Lutheran Study Bible actually corrects the (mis)translation of the ESV and notes that ἀνδραποδιστής means ‘kidnapper’, not merely ‘enslaver’:

»1:10 enslavers. Kidnappers, involved in illegal slave trade.«

‘Manstealing’, ‘enslaving’, and ‘slave dealing’ are distinct concepts — part of why we have distinct words to represent them; ἀνδραποδιστής is not properly translated ‘enslaver’ or ‘slave dealer’, but ‘manstealer’.

Honestly, if I had been asked to guess, I probably would have been able to say that Satan would split the Western Church over slavery (and related issues), because he has always hated authority, hierarchy, and order — and his children follow him.

The ‘moral’ condemnation of slavery inevitably leads to Egalitarianism and thence to apostasy.

To function properly, all parts of a body must be well and act in concert. Non-liturgical services are a broken foot.

When it comes to the moral question of slavery, there are two kinds of people:

Abolitionists and Christians.