I have Pentecostal extended family on my wife's side. If there's anything they think they know about Calvin/Calvinism, it's not a positive attribution. I think mostly they lack knowledge about it though. Pentecostals know even very little about their own tradition.
Side-note: instant cure for Pentecostalism is studying church history
I'll make sure to check that out now. I've consulted the book here and there, likewise,, but was guided through its scope and major points by the Reformed Forum podcast (thank you OPC) discussion with Lane G. Tipton, et al.
You've got me beat! But that's a nice collection. 👌
In retrospect I should've waited for the single-volume of Vos' systematic to be cost-effective in completing it.
A few years ago I stopped stacking books and started stacking sats. My URCNA church has a nice church library too, and we members often lend each other good books when asked.
Even the way we sin, and what we were made for before sin corrupted our ability to accomplish our purpose.
Vos has good biblical theology reflections here
There is a wealth of psychological insight to be gained on the nature of man from diving into the creation narrative with fresh eyes.
Yo nostr:npub1ak5kewf6anwkrt0qc8ua907ljkn7wm83e2ycyrpcumjvaf2upszs8r0gwg, I think we share a Psalter hymnal
I don't know if it's an error or not but it actually stopped giving sats to me, so I stopped using it 🤷♂️
I catechize my children with the Catechism for Young Children based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism and heard this as I read your note:
What is God?
God is a Spirit,
and has not a body like men.
God bless moms
Okay, I'll bite. Who is Saratoshi Nagamoto?
Buckle up, mini history on the New Testament canon and how it compares to Bitcoin ahead. 🎓⚡
Michael Kruger https://www.michaeljkruger.com/ New Testament scholar and professor at Reformed Theological Seminary wrote a book called 'Canon Revisited' which re-conveyed the historic Protesant view that the New Testament scriptures were received and recognized by the church independently separately from one another, and later clarified together as each individual church in each community communicated with one another by letter and visitor bringing news and resources (think Bitcoin nodes confirming transactions!!). Some false writings (Gospel of Peter, etc.) did not receive approval by the churches when they were compared to the rest of established canon and other trustworthy and verified NT writings. Shockingly, there was very little initial disagreement in the living generation, because the scriptures previously written were effective verification tools (like a full blockchain download vetting new transactions). The Apostle Paul praises the Bereans for searching the scriptures to verify if what he says is true (Acts 17:11) rather than by accepting it by his own credentials. Luke's gospel for example challenges listeners to verify what he wrote by consulting living witnesses, providing their names and addresses (communities) whenever possible, though sometimes refraining when anonymity was required to keep the witness safe. (Decentralization)
This is in total juxtaposition to the Roman Catholic model that posits that the scriptures were verified by the central authorities of the church. (Centralization)
As Protestants, we affirm the scriptures formed and validate the legitimacy of the churches, not that the institutional hierarchical and centralized church (of Rome) validates the scriptures.
Yes- submission to authority is inescapable for life, relationships, and all knowledge. You can know nothing apart from trust or reference to prior knowledge - what you learned from what you learned before and from whom! Also, how can you trust yourself without purification, also polluted by sin without cure?
In a world of unworthy authority figures, imperfect and marred by sin, let us surrender first to the one who is holy, perfect, and blameless. This is childlike faith, without guile or pretense.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
Centralization is really only a problem when the central authority is affected by sin - which is universal in our epoch. Decentralization may seem like a moral good in all times and places from this vantage point, especially if you're in this nostr/Bitcoin space, BUT authority is supposed to be good, actually. Consider a model marriage and family to get a microcosm of this (Eph. 5)
Sovereign individualism is not the destiny of this world - its final destiny is total redemption and restoration under an almighty and just king and the end of every sin, tear, and sorrow. (Rev. 21)
I hear you, and yet I still dream of layer 2 with the same fundamentals of layer 1
It was such a drag to see behind the wizard of Oz's curtain, and subsequently realize that worldwide lightning liquidity depends on just a few mega-nodes. Layer 2 improvements are such a necessary thing for further adoption, but I also understand many devs are thinking outside the box and hard at work on this. I appreciate what they do.
He is a national military operative, and if his book in any way was bad optics or revealed an unsavoury criticism of the American military establishment, they needed only tug on his leash and he would have to come home. So he did. He need not say more, nor is he allowed too. I'm sure he's disappointed, but a military man has a chain of command.