Essential Doctrines - Gabriel Hughes - WWUTT.com

This meme purports to tell us essential doctrines needed for salvation. None of this is referenced with the Bible, however.

Logical Fallacies - Churchwatch Central

 Found here. A helpful list, though a bit ironic. The website where this is found engages in some of the fallacies quite often. We shall make a post about that here. 

Seven Common Misconceptions about the King James Bible - by Timothy Berg

Found here. An interesting article.

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The most widely read English Bible translation has sprouted a series of fictions about it. It’s time to prune them.

Finding praise for the 1611 King James Bible (KJB) is not hard. It is “the single most influential book in the English language and arguably the greatest work ever completed by a committee” according to Hannibal Hamlin and Norman Jones in their edited book marking the 400th anniversary of the KJB. Showing just how influential it has been on our language, renowned linguist David Crystal traces hundreds of expressions it cemented into the English mind while Angelica Duran, English professor at Purdue, has edited a book arguing that the KJB transcends English, rising to the level of a key text in world literature and achieving a global impact.

All this praise is warranted. But when a book blossoms into such a literary lotus, myths also begin to sprout. Grains of truth rendering them plausible grow into weeds of fiction. Blocking the light of contrary facts and pilfering life-giving nuance, truth eventually withers. The following are seven myths about the KJB that now need pruning.

Myth 1: The KJB isn’t copyrighted

Did Jesus satisfy our legal obligation? Did He pay our debt?

Recently we've been reconsidering many of the things we thought we understood regarding doctrine and faith. We have begun to question certain beliefs, church structures, and practices of the western church. Too often we have discovered unbiblical doctrines and activities. This causes us concern. We have deemed this our “Rethink.”

Our questions include, how did we arrive at our doctrines? Does the Bible really teach what we think it teaches? Why do churches do what they do? What is the biblical basis of church leadership structure? Why do certain traditions get entrenched?

It's easy to be spoon fed the conventional wisdom, but it's an entirely separate thing to search these things out for one's self. In the past we have read the Bible with these unexamined understandings and interpreted what we read through those lenses. We were lazy about our Bible study, assuming that pastors and theologians were telling us the truth, but we rarely checked it out for ourselves.

Therefore, these Rethinks are our attempt to remedy the situation.

We should note that we are not Bible scholars, but we believe that one doesn't need to be in order to understand the Word of God.

40 Years of the Reagan Revolution's Libertarian Experiment Have Brought Us Crisis & Chaos - By Thom Hartmann

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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As the reader will discover, Mr. Hartmann has no idea what libertarians believe. He doesn't understand the Reagan phenomena. He doesn't know anything about what motivates his ideological opponents.

Libertarianism as a group has little influence on government. They're numerically small. And, libertarianism is not a governmental system, it is a philosophy regarding the exercise of power as it relates to personal liberty. 

Also, almost none of the people he mentions are libertarian. We haven't had a libertarian government for 150 years. Nowhere in the world are there enough libertarians in elected office to affect the possesses of any government. So to blame our present problems on a philosophy that does not wield the reigns of power in this country is puerile.

It's people like him who hold the power in our government. The Bidens, Pelosis, Schumers, and AOCs of government are the ones who are responsible for our current state. They are in the majority, and with brief exceptions, have been in the majority for the last hundred years.

They are to blame, not libertarians. They have made the decisions, cast the votes, and spent the money. They are the ones who emptied the nation's coffers, created unrest, fomented discontent, and pushed people into groups that are then pitted against one another.

Not libertarians.

But the real problem here is that Mr. Hartmann is a doctrinaire leftist, using all the agitprop techniques he has at his disposal. His article is not written to inform, but rather to further the leftist agenda. That is his only goal, to manipulate opinion, to sway the minds of the uninformed, and to repeat the same bumper sticker slogans day after day.

Once we understand this, it all begins to make sense. With the blizzard of assertions and factoids, the average person simply cannot keep up with and refute each one. And tomorrow will be a new day, with the exact same blizzard of falsities and invented history repeated as if they're documented fact. 

So refuting people like him is a waste of time, because he'll wake up tomorrow morning, sit down at his computer, open up his copy of Leftist Talking Points and dutifully type them into his word processor, just like he did today and yesterday and the day before.

So, we will rebut Mr. Hartmann for as long as we are able to hold up against the rhetorical onslaught.

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Regeneration: A glorious rear-view-mirror doctrine - teddmathisdotcom

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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We find it strange how the reformationists use terminology. Apparently phraseology like "born again" or "new life in Christ" are, what, too ordinary? So they glom onto the term "regeneration" as if it's more biblical. But we think the term is not only cumbersome, but also less useful. 

What does regeneration mean to the average person? Well, nothing. It obscures the meaning of Christ's sacrificial death and resurrection behind a two dollar word. 

The Greek word paliggenesia is found only twice in the NT, Mt. 19:28 and Tit. 3:5. 

paliggenesia ("renewal, rebirth") is used twice in the NT referring to: a) the re-birth of physical creation at Christ's return (Advent), which inaugurates His millennial kingdom (Mt 19:28; cf. Ro 8:18-25); and b) the re-birth all believers experience at conversion (Tit 3:5). https://biblehub.com/greek/3824.htm

The first occurrence:

Mt. 19:28 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

The other text:

Tit. 3:5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit... (ESV)

So it turns out this one verse is where reformationists get their terminology. They will use other, more plainly stated verses at times, but nevertheless insist in describing the new creation as regeneration. Some of these other verses not mentioned by Mr. Mathis: 

Ac. 5:20 “Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people the full message of this new life.”

Ro. 6:4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

2Co. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Ga. 6:15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. 

Ep. 4:22-24 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Col. 3:9-10 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

With all this in mind, let's consider the author's presentation.

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Garbage Music by Passion City Church, Stop Pretending This Glorifies God - By REFORMATION CHARLOTTE

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Today Reformation Charlotte hyperventilates over the lyrics to a worship song. While it is certainly true that the song is not particularly deep, it also is not heretical. 

The unnamed author asks some truly ignorant questions, which we shall answer with Scripture.

Lastly, the author manages to quote most of the song, but conspicuously leaves out the chorus. We wonder why that might be? Perhaps because it impedes his narrative? Here is the chorus:

There’s nothing that our God can’t do
There’s not a mountain that He can’t move
Oh praise the name
That makes a way
There’s nothing that our God can’t do

The chorus clarifies the statements of the verses. Again, we are not claiming this song adequately expresses these concepts. We simply desire to note that it is not in any way false or heretical.

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Resisting the Sovereign God

Recently we've been reconsidering many of the things we thought we understood regarding doctrine and faith. We have begun to question certain beliefs, church structures, and practices of the western church. Too often we have discovered unbiblical doctrines and activities. This causes us concern. We have deemed this our “Rethink.”

Our questions include, how did we arrive at our doctrines? Does the Bible really teach what we think it teaches? Why do churches do what they do? What is the biblical basis of church leadership structure? Why do certain traditions get entrenched?

It's easy to be spoon fed the conventional wisdom, but it's an entirely separate thing to search these things out for one's self. In the past we have read the Bible with these unexamined understandings and interpreted what we read through those lenses. We were lazy about our Bible study, assuming that pastors and theologians were telling us the truth, but we rarely checked it out for ourselves.

Therefore, these Rethinks are our attempt to remedy the situation.

We should note that we are not Bible scholars, but we believe that one doesn't need to be in order to understand the Word of God.

Anti-Chinese propaganda, Christian nationalism, & the foundations for a right-wing terror campaign - By Rainer Shea

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Marxist rhetoric rolls of the author's word processor so easily. This ease betrays the author, as he pieces agitprop slogans together as if the resultant sentences contain meaning. But there is no meaning. The actual intent, however, is to flick emotional triggers to the "on" position. 

"Agitprop" is an old term, a combination of the words "agitate" and "propaganda." It is a technique long used by Marxists to stir up resentment and discontent. Those are required for Marxism to succeed, for if the average person is content, fulfilled, happy, and making a good life for him and his family, the Marxist is defeated.

So the author spews his emotionally-triggering words in pursuit of the Marxist agenda, to stir up the proletariat against the bourgeois. However, in this case it comes across as meaningless nonsense.

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Go Ahead and Hate Your Neighbor! - Annual NAR Dominionist Leadership Roundtable - By Anthony Wade, leftist

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Rev. Wade doesn't even pretend anymore. He's a leftist agitator, a spreader of leftist propaganda, a religious pretender who represents himself as a truth-teller. 

There is nothing in the long screed that even comes close to being a Bible teaching. It is instead an anti-capitalist, anti-Republican, anti-trucker-protest, anti-God polemic. 

Rev. Wade has reduced himself down to a purveyor of agitprop. And, he doesn't even lie very well.

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Steven Furtick Says God Blesses Your Sins and No Man Can Curse It - By REFORMATION CHARLOTTE

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Reformation Charlotte combines with Protestia once again as the Undynamic Duo to hyperventilate over Steve Furtick. Now, we're no fan of Furtick. He probably has said some controversial things in the past. So we do not intend to defend him. Our purpose is to discuss the Undynamic Duo to ascertain if their complaint is legitimate.

More often than not we find that their complaints are either not legitimate, or they are the product of misunderstanding, selective quoting, or they come from the inability to understand a different way of communicating a concept.

This last one is the case today. Furtick says, So it seems to me if we believe Genesis 1:26 that I was made from a mess in the image of my maker, that there is no mess in my life right now that I cannot bring to my maker and expect him to say “I’ll bless it anyway.” So the Undynamic Duo make two presumptions about this:

1. Furtick is talking about sin
2. Furtick is saying God will bless your sin

Neither claim is warranted by the excerpt. First, a mess is not sin. The Undynamic Duo jumps to that conclusion without evidence or justification. However, it seems clear Furtick is referring to the troubles of life, when things aren't going well. This is not sin. We can still come to God with expectation in those circumstances.

Second, the Undynamic Duo presumes Furtick was referring to the mess, when it is more likely he was talking about "my life." But in either case, since the mess is not sin, there is no error in claiming God can bless your life despite its messes; or, God can bless the mess.

Lastly, we note that the Undynamic Duo cannot bring themselves to quote the verse. We shall do so:

Ge. 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

We can now begin to understand Furtick's thrust. Our take on the matter is this: If we are made in God's image, God's grace still abounds to us no matter our life circumstances. 

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Discernment Isn’t Spiritual ESP - DEBBIELYNNE KESPERT

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Ms. Kespert will not make an argument from the Bible. She will not discuss or quote any Scripture dealing with discernment. In fact, she will manage to quote only one Scripture, and that one does not speak to discernment at all.

She will instead cite anecdotal experiences and draw her conclusions from them.

Since Ms. Kespert seems not to be up to the task of discussing this topic from the Bible, we shall undertake to educate the reader. Before we begin, we should note that Ms. Kespert's entire presumption about what discernment is is based on this verse:

He. 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

She does not quote the verse, but it is clear that the training in Bible knowledge she values for the purpose of discernment is based on this verse. And this sort of training is of course valuable. We should definitely grow in faith and knowledge so that we can more readily distinguish good from evil.

The word distinguish is diakrisis, which is distinguishing; hence: deciding, passing sentence on; the act of judgment, discernment. It is the evaluation of things [in this case, good vs. evil] in order to decide or judge. In the context of He. 5:14, this judgment is honed by constant use of discernment.

The same word is used here:

Ro. 14:1 Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.

So discernment is used for important matters, not for nit-picking minor things. The word is also found here:

1Co. 12:7-10 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits...

Distinguishing between Spirits. So, contrary to Ms. Kespert's claims, we find that this judgment or decision-making is employed in spiritual matters as well. 

Manifestation is phanerósis, which is a manifestation, disclosure. Every spiritual gifts is a disclosure or showing forth of a spiritual ability. 

Paul opens this chapter [12] with 

1Co. 12:1 Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

Spiritual gifts is pneumatikos, which means relating to the realm of spirit. The word gift is implied here, but is not part of the Greek word. We find the idea of gifts here:

Ro. 12:6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.

"Gifts" is charisma, [which] divinely empowers a believer to share God's work with others, i.e. Spirit-empowered service to the Church to carry out His plan for His people.

Let's put all this together for Ms. Kespert's edification. A spiritual gift [pneumatikos charisma] is a showing forth [phanerósis] of the Holy Spirit by his His divine endowment of spiritual power. All charisma is a Spirit empowerment, whether it is prophecy, serving, teaching, encouraging, generosity, or showing mercy [Ro 12:6-7]; faith, healing, miraculous powers, distinguishing between spirits, tongues, or interpretation [1Co. 12:9-10]. 

Every spiritual gift is a empowerment, not a natural ability. Every spiritual gift is relating to the realm of the Spirit. That empowerment should be honed and perfected through constant use [He. 5:14], but the supernatural ability is given by the Holy Spirit.

Which of course means that discernment is not simply learning doctrine and studying the Bible so that one might be able to find false teachers. It is specifically a spiritual empowerment relating to the spiritual realm.

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Dances with Wolves: Recognizing False Teachers - by Clint Archer

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Mr. Archer is going to try his best to stretch the book of Jude into a condemnation of false teachers. However, Jude does not mention false teachers. Jude tells us about "certain men," and it's quite a list. But there's nothing in the list about false teachers. These men  

• have secretly slipped in
• are godless
• are immoral
• deny Jesus as Lord
• are dreamers who pollute their own bodies
• reject authority
• slander celestial beings
• speak abusively
• are unreasoning
• have taken the way of Cain
• have rushed for profit into Balaam's error
• have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion
• are blemishes at love feasts
• are shepherds who feed only themselves
• are clouds without rain
• are trees without fruit, and uprooted
• are wild waves foaming up shame
• are wandering stars
• are boasters and flatterers
• are scoffers who follow ungodly desires
• are divisive
• follow natural instincts
• do not have the Holy Spirit

The closest Jude comes is to describe these infiltrators as teachers is when he describes them as shepherds who feed only themselves. However,  a shepherd is a tender of the flock, an elder or overseer:

1Pe. 5:1-3 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow-elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings and one who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, serving as overseers — not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

Teachers are not shepherds are not prophets:

Ep. 4:11 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers...

Mr. Archer really wants this to be about false teachers. Badly. Though it is possible these men may have been teaching, Jude does not tell us this. It was not what Jude was condemning.

As an aside, we wonder if Mr. Archer is reading the same material as we are reading. He makes many assertions about what Jude writes, but very few of them are true.

Are Female Bloggers Violating Scripture by “Teaching” Men? - by Michelle Lesley

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Almost 1200 words without a single Scripture. Not one. 

Ms. Lesley continues expounding on the unquoted 1 Timothy 2:12, a topic upon which she has spent considerable time in the past. Those previous articles have twisted and turned this verse into something unrecognizable. 

Today she compounds the problem. She trips all over herself explaining even more limitations and conditions that are simply not found in the text, ultimately contradicting herself.

This is a hopeless mess. Ms. Lesley thinks she is a teacher of women, but she shouldn't be a teacher of anyone.

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Discipleship

Introduction

One of my passions is building up the Body of Christ and its ministries, especially and particularly in our church. Anything that builds up the saints into their calling, I'm in favor of it. Maturity of faith as it operates within the house of God is a broad umbrella, including Holy Spirit-led worship, Holy Spirit-informed prayer, Holy Spirit-filled preaching, Holy Spirit-directed ministry to the lost and hurting, and Holy Spirit-connection between the saints. 

It's all about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. 

If we are to be the grown ups He wants us to be, if we are going to be the men and women of faith He calling us to, if we are going to be the church He wants to make us, we need Holy Spirit.

This call to maturity of faith weighs heavily upon me personally and for our church. So much of (C)hurch is ritual, habit, superficiality, routine, and status quo. So many Christians simply do their duty. Year after year, they show up on Sunday, sit quietly and attentively, sing some songs, write their tithe checks, and go home. 

Now I'm not saying that's automatically bad, since any sort of church is better than no church at all. But sadly, that's all a lot of church people expect, that's all that's expected of them, and for too many that's all it means to be a Christian.  

Not for me. Church ought to be all about people getting saved, getting filled, getting healed, getting free, getting trained, and getting released into Holy Spirit ministry according to their spiritual gifts. The job of Christians is to become, and do the Jesus stuff. The job of the church is to make sure that happens. And the job of church leaders is to make sure the church is doing its job. 

When I think of maturity, some words come to mind:

• Stable
• Trustworthy
• Confident
• Unwavering
• Reliable
• Secure
• Deeply rooted

You'll notice that I did not say anything about miracles or spiritual gifts or spectacular sermon delivery. Your gifts are not related to your maturity. So if this list speaks to personal maturity, what about the maturity of a church? A mature church is

• Life-giving
• Powerful
• Enduring
• Worthy of someone's commitment
• A place to belong
• A place where God can be found
• A place where worship, prayer, service, and preaching break new ground

Called to Disciple

Which brings me to my topic, discipleship. Because of the ministry of the Holy Spirit, we've become a church where fellowship has arisen as one of our gifts. 

Here is the key point for today: I believe Holy Spirit wants this gift of fellowship to grow into discipleship. I could stop right here by just telling you to get going on both being discipled and being disciplers.

But of course I won't.

What is discipleship, what does it mean to be a disciple, what is a dicipler, and why would we would want to be disciples and disciplers? Now, we are all disciples in the sense that we follow Jesus. Some of the things we do as disciples of Jesus:

• We study the Scriptures
• We pray with faith
• We devote ourselves to faith and obedience
• We serve one another
• We give and bless
• We received and get blessed

All for the pleasure of our Savior. This is what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.

But there's more to discipleship than this. As I mentioned, one my passions is the ministry of the Body. Discipleship is or ought to be a primary ministry of the Body. Those bullet points I just mentioned are carried out in the context of the church.

Discipling is a church ministry... with a view to becoming a better Jesus disciple.

There are four kinds of discipleship that comes out of the local church. Each one develops out of the one before. So think of the first as being the basis for the second, which needs to exist in order for the third to come out, and so on. From the ministry of the Holy Spirit come four areas from where discipleship develops:

1. The Ministry of the Leadership 
2. The Ministry of the Body 
3. The Ministry of Peer Relationships 
4. the Ministry of Individual Discipleship

Each of these is crucial, each should be done, and each has its own strengths. Understandably, the hardest one to do is the most effective, and that's the one I want to spend the most time on. But first, let's look at

The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome, approx. 215 CE

Found here.

What we found interesting about this is how close the doctrines in this document are, as compared to contemporary standards, so near to the first century church is it is. Also interesting is the nascent forms of what would be come the Roman Catholic church. It's a curious mix.

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The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome was composed in approximately 215 in Rome. It apparently preserved older second century practices which were in danger of falling to disuse or innovation. Hippolytus, a presbyter of the Roman Church at the time, was so distraught over the innovating practices of his former friends, the Pope Zephyrinus and his successor Callistus, that he set himself up as history's first antipope! He continued in this role through the rules of Callistus successors, Urban and Pontius, and in the time of Pope Pontianus, both he and Pontianus were exiled to Sardinia, from all accounts an extraordinarily unhealthy place, where they were forced to work the mines. Shortly afterward, in 235, both died there. Sometime before his death, Hippolytus was reconciled to the Roman Bishop. The two were martyrs, and their bodies were both brought back to Rome, where they were honorably buried. 

Sadly most of Hippolytus' works are lost to us. The Apostolic Tradition itself is partly preserved in a Latin palmpsest, and in several oriental versions. The Greek original is wholly lost, but for fragments in the heavily edited excerpts in The Apostolic Constitutions. 

My translation here is based on the work of Bernard Botte (La Tradition Apostolique. Sources Chretiennes, 11 bis. Paris, Editions du Cerf, 1984) and of Gregory Dix (The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus of Rome, Bishop and Martyr. London: Alban Press, 1992). My version (which it certainly is) is intended as a simplified one for ease of reading, directed primarily towards the non-expert. It's a simple kindness, and I hope that you, dear reader, will enjoy it. 

NAR Dominionist Claims God Rose up Tinpot Dictators and the Freedom Truckers - By Anthony Wade

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Rev. Wade spews endless drivel in today's "devotional."  He writes things down as if they were absolute truth, but never tells us why they are true or references where he gets his information. It seems it is sufficient for him to make the claim, but do nothing else.

He is a political leftist and does not like the political Right. At all. Rev. Wade never misses an opportunity to attack conservatives and Republicans, but has never issued a single word of criticism of the Left.

Seriously. 

Even when he brings up moral reprobate Bill Clinton, his criticism is leveled only at the Republicans: Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, and Dennis Hastert.

Which of course means that when the political right protests (the truckers in Canada), he has withering criticism for them and them alone. They are the epitome of evil, disputing the scientifically accurate government, blocking goods from flowing, flying Confederate flags - - Oh, the humanity!

But did Rev. Wade ever issue commentary against the summer BLM/Antifa riots, the burning of peoples' homes and businesses, or the takeover of several city blocks in Seattle? Nope.

Apparently sensing the need to give himself a bit of political cover, he writes, "The point is when you prop up man, any man, of any party, they will never be righteous. All are evil and have turned away from God." We might agree with Rev. Wade on this point, except the only evil he bothers to mention, document, or criticize is when Republicans do it.

Today's target Jim Garlow. Is he NAR? Is he a dominionist? Is he wrong to claim that God raises up world leaders or has a hand in human events and activities? Those are the four accusations leveled by Rev. Wade in his title. He will never discuss or document any of these accusations.

Lastly, in the past we have made much about Rev. Wade's allergy to the Bible. He usually quotes a Scripture at the beginning, ostensibly being the subject Scripture of the "devotional." But he never actually delivers a devotional, he always blasts away at some "heretic" with the "devotional" being the vehicle.

Today he omits the opening Scripture. Which means no Bible quotes. He uses the word "Bible" and "biblical" a total of five times in the 2464 words he expends (minus quoted material), but never quotes, references, summarizes, or explains any Bible principle or Bible verse. Zero. Zilch. 

What this means is that Rev. Wade's "devotionals" are simply the vehicles he uses to target those who offend him. They are not for explaining the Bible.

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SJW ATTACK SURVIVAL GUIDE

Found here. A lot of useful information here.

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This survival guide is intended for the use of the individual who finds himself under attack by Social Justice Warriors for standing up against them and their ever-mutating Narrative. It may be freely distributed so long as it is correctly credited to SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police by Vox Day. The eight stages of the SJW attack sequence are as follows: 

1. Locate or Create a Violation of the Narrative. 

2. Point and Shriek. 

3. Isolate and Swarm. 

4. Reject and Transform. 

5. Press for Surrender. 

6. Appeal to Amenable Authority. 

7. Show Trial. 

8. Victory Parade. 

Affordable housing is suicide prevention - FB meme

 A leftist FB friend posted this:

What can we say? Giving people free stuff makes them happy and prevents suicide. That's all it takes. Suicidal people don't need meaning for their lives, belonging, hope, or purpose. Nope. Just make sure they get whatever issue de jour subsidy or entitlement they need, and they will stop killing themselves.

Stupid.

THE APPEARANCE OF GODLINESS, BUT DENYING ITS POWER - By Rick Becker

 Found here. Our comments in bold.

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It wasn't long ago that Mr. Becker appeared in another of our posts. He did not acquit himself particularly well there, nor does he improve his performance in today's post. 

Mr. Becker seems to have difficulty with the difference between the biblical case for his beliefs vs. contemporary charismatic practices and what might be wrong with them. He goes back and forth between explaining his view on Bible passages and attacking those with whom he disagrees.

He doesn't do a very good job doing either. We find this strange given the substantial opportunity (nearly 5000 words) to explain and document his position. Also, it is very nearly amazing how little Scripture Mr. Becker quotes.

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