This is my defense of beauty as a transcendental according to Thomistic metaphysics mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/10/120…

The homo affirming churches are a terrible gospel witness to men like Sean.

Those who are justified by faith do not have their sins taken into account by the Lord (Romans 4:8).

I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way & that I shall not fall into any error or delusion. - Martin Luther

People only recoil at the idea of Christ saving us *from God* because their ultimate assumption is that they're the good guys—so they take "We're saved from God's wrath" as a statement that God is the bad guy. It never occurs to sinners that God opposing them means they're bad.

Alien: *crying* Me: “so that was Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair at WrestleMania 24”

Yes, can dead faith save the needy? No. Can dead faith save us from the chastisement of God and a negative judgement when we stand before Christ to be judged for our service in the church? No.

"This, also, I am ever urging, and shall not cease to urge, that you give attention, not only to the words spoken, but that also, when at home in your house, you exercise yourselves constantly in reading the Divine Scriptures." St. John Chryzostom, Homily 3 on Lazarus, 1.

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What Lordshippers call "easy believism" is typically easy workism. And the only thing worse than that is hard workism (Lordship).

The Triune God works according to the way that He is: The Father acts through the Son and the Spirit. The Son acts from the Father and through the Spirit. The Spirit acts from the Father and the Son. All of God’s works proceed *from* the Father, *through* the Son, and *in* the Spirit because God is the Father begetting the Son and, with the Son, breathing the Spirit. *See Duby, Jesus and the God of Classical Theism, p. 219.

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Feser on Geisler: ‘It's not only an honour to be invited to speak here at Southern Evangelical Seminary, but it's also personally gratifying insofar as professor Norman Geisler played an important role in my becoming a philosopher. First time I ever witnessed a high level exchange of philosophical and theological ideas was in a debate between professor Geisler... Classical Theism is represented by such thinkers as Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas, a trio that I well remember professor Geisler citing prominently at that debate back in the 1980s.’ —Edward Feser, SES Lecture, April 19, 2018 (Distinguishing Classical Theism from Theistic Personalism)

It’s wild to me that so many authors continue asserting that knowledge is justified true belief. Some even acknowledge the Gettier problems, and then continue as if they don’t exist.

Dude Richard Hooker in Book V of the Laws literally says salvation is union with God via participation in the deified humanity of Christ through the Holy Spirit. This is not some uniquely EO idea.

Sproul said that Van Til's entire thesis effectively channels and appropriates Kantianism. That's wild (and, I'm convinced Sproul was right).

Faith Healer “Laying Hands” On a Person Who Needs Healing

Get your life cleaned up and your mind cleared up, and you're dangerous. Live a godly life, but think godly thoughts.

The AIDS crisis is one of the most effective spin jobs in history. Gays successfully depicted themselves as hapless victims of an alien disease that fell out of the sky and randomly started slaughtering them while they were minding their own business, when in reality gays were actually killing each other with a disease that could have been curbed if they had been willing to refrain from devoting themselves to physically destructive sexual acts. But they weren't willing. They loved their lust more than the lives of their friends and neighbors. So when you see children's programs celebrate Pride Month, let this be a reminder of how effective the spin job was. So many in our world are still pretending that "homophobia" is the most murderous threat gay men face when homosexual acts was the actual culprit the entire time. As always, sinful man would rather watch his neighbors die than mortify his own flesh.