Slavery can function as — and has functioned as — a tool of evangelism.
Some are in Heaven today who would have been in Hell without slavery.
Slavery can function as — and has functioned as — a tool of evangelism.
Some are in Heaven today who would have been in Hell without slavery.
There exists among men a natural aristocracy; the degree to which the State conforms to this aristocracy is the degree to which such government both is legitimate and will be effective.
People make consent far too complicated; it’s quite simple:
Your father negotiates a price with her father and then you’re married in the church.
Marriage is a sacrament, but it is not a Sacrament. The act that completes marriage is consummation; absent consummation, there is no marriage.
European history for the last five centuries is a forever war waged in or against the Name of Christ.
This begun in earnest with the Thirty Years’ War.
The Confessions do not permit deviation, and this is on pain of going against conscience and forsaking the faith. Those ‘Lutherans’ who abandon the Confessions are oathbreakers and traitors — beneath even contempt.
Martin Luther was an explicit (German) Nationalist. Those who reject or denigrate Nationalism cannot be his progeny.
Everyone who affirms the Athanasian Creed (i.e., every Christian) is compelled by the Creed’s anathemata to hold that the Eastern ‘Orthodox’, insofar as they believe what they teach, are unsaved.
COVID was (and is) a test of faith (and other things) — most supposed Christians have already failed the test.
The nature of God is immutable. That which transgresses the Law in the OT, transgresses the Law in the NT. The Moral Law does not change.