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The concept of Ātman is fundamentally opposed to what the Bible teaches about the soul, sin, salvation, and the nature of God.

You're putting Hindu ideas into Christ's teaching. At least give Him the courtesy of interpreting His words through His own culture and religion.

Moreover, this heresy completely misses the point of "Emmanuel", God *with* us, not God *is* us. What do you think I AM means?

Note that no Christian can agree with this, though any Hindu or other syncretic religion that cherry-picks and misinterprets as it pleases, can.

From this greatness and immensity of God also your soul must reverently stay all its busy, bold inquiries, and know that God is to us, and to every creature, incomprehensible. If you could fathom or measure him, and know his greatness by a comprehensive knowledge, he were not God. A creature can comprehend nothing but a creature. You may know God, but not comprehend him; as your foot treads on the earth, but does not cover all the earth. The sea is not the sea, if you can hold it in a spoon.

-Richard Baxter

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#puritans

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Being blunt as your article is blunt.

You're off base. If you've been "bludgeoned" from the pulpit with a simplistic "obey govt" you need to find an actual Bible-believing church. There is a rich heritage of thought on this, as Christianity was illegal from the start. Your article is passionate but simplistic and uninformed, and not in line with the well-thought-out arguments developed over the centuries. Take a gander at Lex Rex, God and Govt (3 book series), and the books of Daniel and Jeremiah.

Summarizing your article for others (:. = thrfr):

ㅡQuotes R13, emphasizes: Rulers are not a cause for fear of good behavior. If you do good, rulers will praise you. If you do evil, rulers will punish you.

ㅡ3 examples of present-day rulers (PDR) making life difficult, 3 examples of PDR promoting/doing evil

ㅡ:. Paul isn't talking about PDR

You've committed the fallacies of False Dilemma and Begging the Question.

Out-of-Context Thursday

ㅡLe 11:16 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind…

ㅡDeut 14:15 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind…

ㅡJob 30:29 I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

ㅡJob 39:13 The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

ㅡIs 13:21 But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.

ㅡIs 34:13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

ㅡIs 43:20 The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people…

ㅡJe 50:39 Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.

ㅡMic 1:8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

ㅡLa 4:3 Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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Children Turn Out Badly Sometimes in Spite of Our Efforts:

What if some prove [wicked] that are well brought up? It is not the generality of them. Will you say that Noah’s family was no better than the drowned world, because there was one Ham in it; nor David’s, because there was one Absalom; nor Christ’s, because there was one Judas?

-Richard Baxter

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#children

#apostasy

#parenting

Genesis 9:18–25

2 Samuel 13:28–29; 15:1–12

Ezekiel 18:20

Use sin … as it will use you. Spare it not, for it will not spare you. It is your murderer, and the murderer of the world. Use it therefore as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you; and then, though it kill your bodies, it shall not be able to kill your souls; and though it bring you to the grave, as it did your head, it shall not be able to keep you there. If the thoughts of death, and the grave, and rottenness, are not pleasant to you, do not let the thoughts of sin be pleasant. Listen to every temptation to sin as you would listen to a temptation to self-murder, and as you would do if the devil brought you a knife and tempted you to cut your throat with it; so do when he offers you the bait of sin.

- Richard Baxter

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#puritans

#sin

#temptation

It is a most lamentable thing to see how most men do spend their care, their time, their pains, for known vanities, while God and glory are cast aside;

that He who is all should seem to them as nothing, and that which is nothing should seem to them as good as all; that God should set mankind in such a race where heaven or hell is their certain end, and that they should sit down, and loiter, or run after the childish toys of the world, and so much forget the prize that they should run for.

- Richard Baxter

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#foolishness

#christisall

The gaudiness of men’s religion is not the best sign that it is sincere. Simplicity is the ordinary attendant of sincerity.

-Richard Baxter

Happy Sunday! Worship well!

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#honesty

#worship

No. Light blimker here. Had a close one killed by a crazy driver. Police didn't do squat--actually, made things worse. Driving is dangerous. Stay safe out there.

We have greater work here to do than mere securing our own salvation. We are members of the world and church, and we must labor to do good to many. We are trusted with our Master’s talents for his service, in our places to do our best to propagate his truth, and grace, and church; and to bring home souls, and honor his cause, and edify his flock, and further the salvation of as many as we can. All this is to be done on earth, if we will secure the end of all in heaven.

-Richard Baxter

#Evangelism

#GoodWorks

#Mission

#Salvation

#Service

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It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but the well reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

-Richard Baxter

#education

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Happy Sunday! He is risen!

Over-value not the manner of your own worship, and over-vilify not other men’s of a different mode.

-Richard Baxter

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#worship

#grace

Whatever you learn from the word, labor to put it in practice. For to him that has shall be given. No wonder they get little insight into the Bible who make no conscience of practicing what they know. But while the stream runs into a holy life, the fountain will be the more free.

-Thomas Boston

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#christianpractice

That too lol

And who said these sisters were dull? You?

Pretty sure there is a verse about young women minding their own business

If the heart be directly and chiefly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it.

But to seek after affection directly and chiefly, to have the heart principally set upon that, is to place it in the room of God and his glory.

If it be sought, that others may take notice and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then abominable pride: if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

-David Brainerd

Some women being dull, or some men not understanding the concept, is not an argument against what the Bible says about submission.

Same goes for men loving their wives. Telling your wife to get blue streaks is the top of a slippery slope.

Unless they make them…normies are programmed to do almost anything to stay connected