#calvinists

[an-unanonymous-messenger]

Spotted the false church yet? How about false believers? False leaders? False everything from the above in one place? Are you able to? Well, no worries, there is a way of getting it prepared. The Bibke was given to us for a reason, and that is to get to know God, His Will, the reality of this world, the way of Christ, and how to get to the Truth. It is the foundation of the church and true teachings. If the "Christian" community doesn't have any of those, get out of there right away, before they get you into their deceits. Trust me, they aren't easy to spot at once, so the Word of God is the best way to learn how to battle false doctrines. Now let us look upon ourselves. Are we better any different? If not, then something must be done about it, and that is turning to our Physician Jesus Christ, Who gave His life and blood for our salvation. If anyone can help us become true believers, it is Him. So let us repent of our dead works of sin, in order to be more like Jesus, Who never erred in His life. Even though we cannot reach that standard, we still ought to follow His Word, and not man's. Man can err, but not God. So let us follow the Right Example into eternal life! Bless you all in the Name of Jesus! Amen.

[battleforgodstruth]

Whether Our Good Works Will Add to Our Degree of Future Glory? - Augustus M. Toplady

Whether Our Good Works Will Add to Our Degree of Future Glory? – Augustus M. Toplady Augustus Montague Toplady (4 November 1740 – 11 August 1778) was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn “Rock of Ages”.Background and early life, 1740–55 Augustus Toplady was born in Farnham, Surrey, England in…

[scleroticstatue]

Basic requirements to be a Christian:

You believe Jesus was a real person

You believe Jesus died for your sins, thus becoming the anointed Messiah/Christ

You act like it, or at least try to act like it

You base your moral code off the Bible, not transient modernist theories (i.e., the Bible informs your political and social positions, not the other way around)

If I have to see any more discourse about if Catholics are Christian, I swear

[beardedmrbean]

So this is Calvinism, I feel like I've been mislead over the decades.

[snarp]

I keep seeing people call astrology and fortune-telling in general "bioessentialist," and just now I saw someone call "being born in the US" "winning the genetic lottery".

These things are unrelated to biology and genetics. Eugenicists are fucking up human language again.

[thisbibliomaniac]

[fictionadventurer]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reviews I've seen fixate on the story's discussion of whether humans are inherently good or inherently evil as if one side or the other is the correct answer. Meanwhile the story itself is showing that individual choice in every action--choosing to act out of either love or self-interest--is what truly matters in shaping society. A free and stable society requires that people be taught to make selfless choices rather than act out of fear. Instead of oppressing people into fearful order, citizens need to have the freedom to choose the good, and be educated with the values that teach them what good is.

[hiveswap]

No because. If the ineffable plan included preventing the apocalypse exactly as it happened, then it means that Crowley came preinstalled with the need to question and act on his free will. Made to fall. Doomed to be punished for the nature he was created with by the narrative AND God.

[millionsknives]

forever grateful for my wonderful church that gives me religious experiences i didn’t know were possible

[battleforgodstruth]

John Knox, The Scottish Covenanters & The Westminster Assembly - Dr. C. Gregg Singer / Lecture 1/3

▶️TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RichMoo50267219 John Knox, The Scottish Covenanters & The Westminster Assembly – Dr. C. Gregg Singer / Lecture 1/3 ▶️John Knox (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzOwqed_gET2ZjuzjcBM7eghsnGYdV6p- ▶️Puritans (Playlist):https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL147B764889A13CCA ▶️SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/stack45ny▶️After subscribing,…

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

me @ Calvinists: nooo don't have such a narrow view of free will and determinism you're too sexy haha

[moghedien]

this is definitely coming from the bias of not having any like actual trauma stemming directly from the church and coming out of believing by basically just studying theology and history enough to realize what actually makes sense in that regard (with like the side effect of being a leftist lesbian and being very aware of how the people within the church actually felt about that sorta thing and having no motivation to stay there)

but as someone who grew up catholic and no longer believes in most of catholisicm or religion in general, every thing I learn about how evanglincal protestants were taught and what they believe makes me more and more grateful of being raised catholic instead of THAT

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

JK Rowling's religion, part 1

This is just a small observation I just had that I may expand into a longer post but,

I've just realized that: we know (or if you didn't, now you do) that JK Rowling is, and has been since writing Potter, if not before, a member of a church that believes in predestination. That is, that every person is born either Good or Bad and that all of their actions through life can't change their eventual fate, but just are predestined to have always been that way.

So that's her core belief religion-wise.

With that in mind... it's actually entirely unsurprising for her to oppose (and likely to have always opposed, or at the very best, tolerated while looking down on) trans people, because she believes that fundamentally ANY person's nature cannot be changed at all in any way - thus any attempt to 'alter' what she believes to be the natural order of things is essentially challenging her god and her fundamental beliefs, or in her eyes, playing at being as good as a god.

On the plus side, this means that her bigotry isn't necessarily specifically directed at trans people (although, every time she does attack trans people it harms the overall cause of trans people's equality and being respected) - they are rather just the most visible targets that she can't resist attacking because she perceives their very existence to be a personal attack on her religion. (which, yknow, obviously isn't true, but we're dealing with a narcissist religious nut here, people)

On the minus side - how many other of her fans does she secretly look down on and believe to be evil people? One of the tenets of her church belief is that only a small percentage of people are truly Good and worthy of Heaven. (naturally she includes herself in this, which is why she believes she can behave as she likes, because her seat to eternity is already booked - talk about twisting the fundamentals of Christianity!) And I mean a miniscule percentage, 1% or thereabouts. The rest of us are essentially NPCs to her mind, which probably isn't helped by the fact she lives in a literal castle and mostly communicates through her Twitter proclamations and spats.

She's been very good at hiding this religious belief (which, for any international readers, is very uncommon within her native UK, over 50% of which is atheist with a further 25% being only culturally religious) when she was younger and more worried about keeping her bag. But now she's older and established within society - and much less likely to follow the advice of her publicist and team - will she still be able to keep it under her witch's hat when she gets asked to start promotional touring the new HBO adaptation?

[foursaints]

rosekiller but evan is the antisocial son of a pastor who is only known to interact with his twin sister. brainwashedly pious and celibate until human roadkill barty crouch is sent to the local church to "get better" (he ends up corrupting evan in many unsavoury ways)

[marking this ask with a comically large red stamp that says ‘EROTIC’] this is really hot. co-signed.

maybe this is cancellable but some of my favorite rosekiller dynamics are those where barty takes a more predatory role. he’s weak & taking it out on someone weaker… especially in religious aus i think evan is particularly susceptible to these attentions because there is always something ineffable about him that is just visibly Wrong.

no matter how quiet & well behaved & generally bland and plain and unassuming evan rosier is (in his beige hand-me-downs two sizes too big) there is something about his face that says: i skin squirrels in the woods & if you pinch me i won’t scream

[liketwoswansinbalance]

RIP Rafal, you would've loved Calvinism (if applied to the Storian, if you had lived).

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