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You've never seen mental gymnastics until you've posted a video calling #maga sheep fake #christian for not liking the new #pope for being too #woke.

He pretty much just supports helping people, and following what Christ would support.

But as MAGA is super racist, nationalist, hateful and stupid, they don't want to admit their own hypocrisy.

They do a lot of preaching, and very little practice.

Also shout-out to the person who doesn't know Catholics are Christians.

Johann Albrecht Bengel was a #Lutheran pastor who published a Greek New Testament. Here he comments on the Second Greatest Commandment (Matt 22:39). He speaks of a three way relationship between the reader, God, and himself. The mutual love of God to neighbor reinforces and sets an example for love between neighbors. It eliminates selfishness.

Try reading this aloud quickly.

How can you view a neighbor as truly loved?

Robert Bolton, Puritan minister, instructs on spiritual self-examination. Some will rob the poor by not giving alms, then try to corrupt God by offering up a share of the spoil. Don’t give to the church if you’ve stolen from the poor by not giving them aid.

Would we object to the idea that the poor have so firm a right to our charity that it’s robbery when aid withheld?

How can you not ask God to take part in robbed goods?

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I don't care if someone worships a "Flying Spaghetti Monster" because to debate who's supernatural beliefs are valid is both irrational and unjust.

My only concern is when such people who commonly identify as Christian, attempt to coerce others to conform to their professed beliefs by finding ways to insinuate them into law.

The moment that I demand another accept as fact what I may have chosen to believe by faith, I deny them the same liberty, the freedom to believe or not, I would claim for myself.
#Christian #ChristianNationalism #Theocracy

John Dod, Puritan minister, gives instructions for spiritual examination. Justice should also be examined (Isaiah 1:17-19). Give up cruelty, practice mercy. Stop oppressing; be known for relieving the oppressed.

Now today, wouuld anyone sit still for a pastor alleging that anyone in font of them, had ever been in the practice of oppressing the poor, that by small, hypothetical chance?

How can you seek judgement and praise it accordingly?
#christian #newlife #biblebelt #bibletruth #thepuritans