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I love the fact that our pastor sets aside time to attend Sunday School with us and interact. The man of God is never too busy to learn, even from a lowly teacher like me, about seeing Christ in Leviticus.

An argument for the single sense of Scripture… From the Nature of Meaning: Premise 1: Any statement that bears a determinate meaning bears exactly one meaning. Premise 2: Scripture bears determinate meaning — its words communicate the mind of God with precision and authority. Conclusion: Therefore, Scripture bears exactly one meaning per passage — the sense of Scripture is singular. The first premise is a logical axiom — the precondition of meaning as such. Fourfold meaning is the functional abolition of meaning dressed in the language of richness. As Tolkien’s Bilbo Baggins discovered when a cheerful good morning was made to mean wish, observation, self-report, and moral prescription simultaneously — “all of them at once” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966], 17–18) — the result is not enriched communication but whimsical indeterminacy. The quadriga applied to the text of Scripture produces precisely this result. What was a perfectly clear and determinate communication has become, under the pressure of fourfold meaning, a statement that can no longer be received as meaning any one thing in particular.

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#OTD 1632 John Owen graduates BA from Oxford University. He becomes one of the leading non-conformist preachers of his day and the author of many theological works. A Calvinist, he will strongly oppose Arminian views.

Social media is filled with the righteous indignation of the Mormons---who claim to be the only true Church, all other churches are corrupt, their creeds an abomination, their ministers the hirelings of Satan---that they, the Mormons, are not really Christians. It's just a tad ironic, but it does play on the ignorance of most LDS, and non-LDS, about LDS history and teachings. Their current modus operandi is to use the phrase "creedal Christians" and try to make the issue post-biblical. Here's the problem. The fundamental distinction between Christianity and Mormonism goes back to about 1400 BC, not 400 AD. Here is the foundational contrast: Before the mountains were born, Or Your brought forth the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. (Psalm 90:2) ...for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see. Joseph Smith, 1844 Now, two quick things: 1) Psalm 90 is a song of Moses, hence the early date. 2) The King Follett Funeral Discourse is not LDS Scripture. But it is the most often cited sermon of Joseph Smith by the leaders of the LDS Church itself, and is one of two foundational sermons preached within the last months of his life. Hence, the issue is stark and clear. Monotheism vs. polytheism, one transcendent Creator God vs. an exalted man from another planet. Just a reminder from Brigham Young as to how Smith's words were interpreted by those who heard him initially: “Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another earth, and were enabled to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and will be to all eternity.” Brigham Young, JD 7:333, August 28, 1859.

The idea that there is "no harm, no foul" in just letting Mormons be Mormons is a direct neglect of the Great Commission to go into all the world and make disciples by teaching them about the true Christ of Scripture.

Ferris Bueller took his "Day Off" 41 years ago today. June 5th 1985. Happy Ferris Bueller Day #80s

But there is no wrath like that which arises from mercy abused and rejected. Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 2 (Banner of Truth Trust, 1974), 205.

God loves some men in all ways and all men in some ways—J. I. Packer

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#OTD 1905 Death of Hudson Taylor, English missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission.

Psalm 8:10 (LHI) 10 יְהוָ֥ה אֲדֹנֵ֑ינוּ מָֽה־אַדִּ֥יר שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ בְּכָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

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