"the duel remains a barbarous remnant of the middle ages, without even a shadow of an argument in its favor"
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“Heresies are real but they’re WEAKSAUCE compared to the gospel.”
my pastor smacking down retarded Mormonism this morning
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Thomas E Peck approves
This is what we build. Little cities on a hill, a small oasis in a desert, a golden age in the home. The Christian family.
Then we multiply it through the local church all across this nation.
If our government is to care for the good of it’s people, this is what it protects, fosters, and helps enable.
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“well he begins with a doctrine of psychology in practical philosophy because it ties into ethics and civics naturally, hence ‘practical’ philosophy. yeah brother just get through book 1. book 2 on the will is really good. he also cooks Chalmers’ a bit on church and state lol.”
“you’re tied up in the infra supra thing? yeah idk man dabney said the distinction should have never been made so i don’t worry about it. uhhhh check discussions vol 1 but its definitely in the ST”
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“you’re tied up in the infra supra thing? yeah idk man dabney said the distinction should have never been made so i don’t worry about it. uhhhh check discussions vol 1 but its definitely in the ST”
“yea RLD wasn’t as sacramental as Thornwell mainly bc Thornwell pulled from Calvin more I guess, but people don’t realize dabney held regeneration was the usual result of baptism when parental duties are followed up upon. yeah crazy look at the last section of ch 41 on the ebook”
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“yea RLD wasn’t as sacramental as Thornwell mainly bc Thornwell pulled from Calvin more I guess, but people don’t realize dabney held regeneration was the usual result of baptism when parental duties are followed up upon. yeah crazy look at the last section of ch 41 on the ebook”
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True faith is obediential: it involves the will: it has moral quality: but its receptive nature is what fits it to be the organ of our justification. Hence it does not follow that we introduce justification by our own moral merit.
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But now, what will be the character of the children reared under such a domestic organization as this? If human experience has established anything at all … God in ordaining a permanent marriage tie between one man and one woman was “that He might seek a godly seed.”
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The violet would wither in that full glare of midsummer in which the sunflower thrives: this does not argue that the violet is the meaner flower.
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.@valaratomics don’t let usace permitting / endangered species / phase 1 / environmental regs stop the train.
I know a guy that fixes that (me)
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“Civil government, with its pains and penalties, is designed and fitted to restrain certain forms of sin, but not all forms of sin.”
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“We argue again that we are justified by this general fact, that no creatures have moral judgments except those which have the faculty of reason.”
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“Even the pagan Greek gave us a wiser definition when he said: ‘Happiness is virtuous energy.’ […] Our highest happiness means this, this only: that our souls be so conditioned as to put forth from within their noblest energies.”
—RLD
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