Standing up for truth and justice. Defending and supporting the bullied and abused. I believe in God AND science. Powered by caffeine. #CommonSense#Discernment
I have gone to the police w/ my concerns about James Macdonald. Thank you all for your advice and prayers! Harvest is a con! (Find a church with open books and Bible-based..)
Abusers pick and choose scripture all the time. They only believe in literal concrete interpretation when it suits their biases and benefits their power.
Since the scripture specifically says be silent, why are they permitted to sing? Speak at all once they enter the church building? If you are taking the scripture literally, then how do you end up with only "they can't teach from the pulpit?" Do you allow hymns written by women?
Classic example of concrete thinking. Pharisees did same thing. God gave us the ability to see the whole picture and think critically. Jesus modeled this many times. Evangelicals are the Pharisees of today. They’ve hijacked the country through political means, but it won’t last.
If we do not respect the text that prohibits a woman to teach men or exercise authority over them, then we do not need to respect any other texts. What is at stake is the authority of the Biblical text. It is not a man or woman issue.
And this is coming from a born and bred conservative republican. The party of Reagan is dead. It’s been replaced by a grotesque image of Christianity gone wrong.
“We need a vision of the gospel that includes implications for the love of neighbor and those that are different from ourselves, to teach it as an essential feature of the gospel of grace and not just an add-on or an appendage to more important matters.” ow.ly/vEqf30oC0m3
“It’s possible to teach people in the church about personal individual salvation in Jesus Christ and still fail to instruct them regarding the ethical implications of that faith.” ow.ly/vEqf30oC0m3
0.08% mortality from measles = 1 death / 1250 cases. Compare this to 1 serious complication in a million (0.0001%) doses of MMR vaccine. Death isn’t the only problem. 5-10% with measles develop life-threatening pneumonia. 1 in 1000 develop encephalitis. 1/x
Yes, Vitamin A is a recommended measles treatment. Immune reaction to measles is so strong that vit A is depleted and immune health depends upon supplementation. However, Vitamin A will not prevent infection and, because vitamin A is fat soluble, too much leads to toxicity. 6/x
Bottom line: trust your child’s doctor. They aren’t getting money or training from Big Pharma. They care about your kids and have dedicated their lives to keeping them well. 7/7
“There’s no such thing as “Biblical Femininity”.
That’s because the Bible doesn’t say we are created feminine and masculine; it says we are created male and female.” buff.ly/2Li5hnk@tim_fall
Is your church sending money to @ecfa to provide a sense of oversight and accountability? Surely, you can find a better use for those funds.
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Brothers don’t mischaracterize your message, falsely accuse you of mocking Jesus then suggest you are a criminal. As an aside, use of the word Trumpvangelical = priceless.
Brother Mark, Jesus was not something to make fun of. You know this is not true, but you mock him like those did 2000 years ago. Did you know Ruffalo means Barabas in Hebrew?