Two words:

"Presidential pardon"

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...so can't the President just pardon him?

And they don't need to steal your keys to make their bitcoin more scarce--just delete the key holder...

Absolutely. It can be a very unsettling and even vulnerable time. "How much do I need to unlearn?" Thankfully truth is internally consistent, so getting the first principles aligned eventually "trickles down" and--eventually--realigns everything else.

So true...it can be like speaking in a foreign language.

Friend, this discusssion will resolve into one: is Scripture (i.e., the New Testament) inspired or not? All other questions, and answers, will flow from that.

If the Qu'ran has not been corrupted because God preserved it, and if the Qu'ran includes the OT and the NT as also God's word, why did he not also preserve the NT?

So true! Riddlebarger's two books were a godsend to me personally.

See also David F. Wells, [The Courage to Be Protestant: Reformation Faith in Today's World](https://amzn.to/48809I7), wherein he makes a case for abandoning the term 'evangelical' since it has largely come to be equated with a voting block or a marketing audience.

Agreed! By reading Jones and Lindsay one is way ahead of the curve sniffing this stuff out.

Right on. Great book.

Great book:

D. G. Hart, [Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham](https://amzn.to/3TbFA9z) - hardcover only $10

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr #bookstr

Always nice to find common cause with others! 🤙🏼

Regarding Christ, I will ask, though:

- Can a prophet of God lie?

- For what crime (according to the Jews) was he crucified?

>I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

C. S. Lewis, *Mere Christianity*

There's also the very helpful Jeremy Hammond, [The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination](https://www.amazon.com/Rejection-Palestinian-Self-Determination-Jeremy-Hammond/dp/0557095697/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hammond+self-determination&s=books&sr=1-1) (political)

If you were looking more for doctrinal sources, let me know.

Dr. Peter Jones, [Wokism: The New Pagan Morality](https://truthxchange.com/resource-library/articles/wokism-the-new-pagan-morality/)

Dr. Peter Jones, [The Marxist Origin of Wokism: The Hideous Face of Revolution](https://truthxchange.com/2023/11/the-marxist-origin-of-wokism/)

#marxism #liberty

Articles:

Murray Rothbard, [War Guilt in the Middle East](https://mises.org/library/war-guilt-middle-east)

Steven Sizer, [The Road to Balfour: The History of Christian Zionism](https://balfourproject.org/the-road-to-balfour-the-history-of-christian-zionism-by-stephen-sizer-2/)

Whitney Webb, [The Untold Story of Christian Zionism's Rise to Power in the United States](https://www.mintpressnews.com/untold-story-christian-zionists-power-united-states-israel/260532/) (I believe this is part of a series)

Books:

Riddlebarger, A Case for Amillennialism (doctrinal)

Vern Poythress, [Understanding Dispensationalists](https://frame-poythress.org/ebooks/understanding-dispensationalists/) (doctrinal)

Robert McKenzie, [Identifying the Seed: An Examination and Evaluation of the Differences between Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology

](https://www.amazon.com/Identifying-Seed-Examination-Differences-Dispensationalism/dp/1721124209/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1) (doctrinal)

O. Palmer Robertson, The Israel of God (doctrinal)

Lilianthal, [What Price Israel?](https://www.amazon.com/What-Price-Israel-Anniversary-1953-2003/dp/0741419270/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=what+price+israel&sr=8-1) (political)

Mearsheimer, [The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501/ref=m_crc_dp_lf_d_t1_d_sccl_2_2/134-5632872-4678761?pd_rd_i=0374531501&psc=1) (political)

Arthur Koestler, The 13th Tribe

Stephen Kinzer, [All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror](https://www.amazon.com/All-Shahs-Men-American-Middle/dp/047018549X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=all+the+shah%27s+men&s=books&sr=1-1) (political)

Bacevich, [America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History](https://www.amazon.com/Americas-War-Greater-Middle-East/dp/0553393952/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1) (political)

"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind."

Mark Noll, [The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind](https://amzn.to/3RhyX2Y).

#facts #dispensationalism

Study the doctrinal origins of (100-yr-old) dispensationalism.

Study the founders of the Zionist movement like Theodore Hertzl and Menachem Begin.

Let the scales drop from your eyes.

There is true evil in the world.

Don't fall for it.

"Prove all things; hold fast [only] to that which is good."

#discernment

It is truly astounding what evil has precipitated from the false teaching of dispensationalism.

Wars were fought over gold.

Wars were fought over oil.

...and we think wars will not be fought over #bitcoin?

I worship a Jewish man, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God incarnate.

I believe "salvation is of the Jews," as he said.

And I am anti-zionist.

Bad theology, bad politics.

Zionism is racist.

Read Galatians.

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