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1/20 A TALE OF TWO AMICUS BRIEFS

You need to know about two very important amicus briefs filed in the #DobbsvJackson case before #SCOTUS. When contrasted they are worth their weight in gold for a Presidential vote at #SBC2022. Let's consider: (1) @ERLC's and (2) Abolitionists'.
2/20 Let us contrast each brief on three points: (1) Filers or amici curiae (friends of the court); (2) List of authorities; and, (3) aims. Ask yourself, "Which amicus speaks for me?" For clarity, let's call them the RC/ERLC and FAA briefs.
3/20 RC/ERLC FILERS: The @ERLC did not write their own amicus, but signed onto one written and submitted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Filers include three other Roman Catholic orgs, Lutherans, and Nat'l Assoc of Evang. Who's NAE? supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1… ImageImagePg 155 from Book of Reports...
4/20 The National Association of Evangelicals is a progressive group pushing LGBTQ+ agendas. @DennyBurk rightly exposed their "Fairness for All" campaign: "This is a disaster. . . . I will do everything I can to oppose NAE and CCCU in this." Read his 🧵.
5/20 FAA FILERS: Abolitionists signed onto an amicus brief written by Baptist attorney, @bradleywpierce, for the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, @AbolitionistFAA. faa.life/dobbs-brief on behalf of many abolitionist orgs all affirming sola Scriptura. ImageImageImage
6/20 RC/ERLC Authorities: Nowhere is God’s Word referenced. You'll find Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, & Vatican II but Scripture is absent. @ERLC calls upon papists and progressives to represent Southern Baptists instead of God’s Word?? Thus, why we call it the RC/ERLC brief.
7/20 FAA Authorities: The first authority of the abolitionist argument against Roe v. Wade is the Holy Bible (2 Cor 10:4-5). God’s Word was brought before the Supreme Court as the Abolitionist Movement declared to the justices the higher court before Whom they must bow. Image
8/20 Should the SBC be led by the Roman Catholic Church in this battle, or should the @ERLC lead the SBC to respond biblically instead of depending on the Roman Catholic Church and progressive NAE for its talking points and strategy?
9/20 RC/ERLC AIMS: “The Mississippi legislation should be upheld.” What, you may ask, does the Mississippi legislation determine? Their answer: “Except in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality, a person shall not intentionally or knowingly perform...
10/20 induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion of an unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being has been determined to be greater than fifteen (15) weeks.” The RC/ERLC brief argues for regulating abortion as healthcare after 15 weeks..
11/20 meaning: (1) innocent children from the age of fertilization to 14 weeks 6 days are passed over with no protection under the law, and (2) homicide of all children is not included in the homicide codes for all born children. The RC/ERLC letter promotes partiality that...
12/20 God calls an “abomination” (Proverbs 17:15; 18:5). Over and against the RC/ERLC brief God demands, “You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. . . . Justice, and only justice, you shall follow” (Deuteronomy 16:19-20).
13/20 The RC/ERLC brief also requests that the court not treat abortion as a Constitutional issue: “If it continues to treat abortion as a constitutional issue, this Court will face yet more questions downstream about what sorts of abortion regulations are permissible.” This...
14/20 argument is based on the assertion that the Constitution is silent on abortion, which assumes that preborn children are not “people.” If the preborn child is a person, then abortion would be outlawed by the fifth amendment, which states...
15/20 “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The RC/ERLC brief does not recognize or assert personhood from fertilization. BFM2K states, "Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord."
16/20 FAA AIMS: “Above all, the purpose of filing the brief was to glorify God. We aim in the brief to be respectful of the constitutional institution of the Court, yet strong and in earnest. God’s image is being slain with impunity and His law is being trampled underfoot....
17/20 "Children are dying and so is our country unless something seriously changes.” Also, “The brief was an opportunity...to leave a historical record of standing for life and justice against tyranny.”

Which amicus brief speaks for you? Does the RC/ERLC speak for you?
18/20 The @ERLC has lost its way. Sadly, instead of principally & powerfully representing Southern Baptists & our Lord according to His Word, they have veiled the Truth, veered from the BF&M2K, & swerved from the heart of and call from the messengers. sbc.net/resource-libra…
20/20 @tomascol has steadfast endurance & hardy resilience due to his settled confidence: "We have a Book!" "Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men, lauding them for their courage."
This is the kind of resolution that should be a no brainer for the @ERLC and SBC. "Resolution on Equal Protection of the Laws for Preborn" Read and sign! Childrenhttps://forms.gle/sR71x5jHLaQPA8QH9

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Feb 3
12 Brief Notes on the @RollingStone article.

1. I’ve cut my own hair since I was a junior in high school. Thanks for the compliment. Also, my jackets are not tailored. Maybe someday.

2. Unsurprisingly, you missed the distinction I made on “firewalls” between the church and state, and what it means that civil servants, through just law and enforcement “terrorize evildoers.” You wrote that I am a “...hardcore Christian nationalist who believes the government should ‘terrorize evildoers.’” and that, “I don’t see any firewalls that are provided to me by the scriptures.”

In that discussion and here, I articulate the Christian position that there is a distinction between the roles and tools of the church and those of the state.

The church bears the “sword of the Spirit,” namely, the Word of God (Eph 6:17) for conversion of heart, construction of holy living, and correction of sin.

Civil servants bear the sword of justice to protect innocent people’s God-given rights to life, liberty, and property, and inflict “God’s wrath upon wrongdoers.” In this way just law and punishment terrorize evildoers. This is simply Romans 13:1-4.

“For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer” (Rom 13:3-4)

While there is a distinction between the roles and tools of the church and state, there is no firewall between God’s rule over the church and His rule over the state, because Christ is King over all by His essential rule as God and His mediatorial rule as God-Man.

All things were created by, for, and through Christ and He rules over all things “in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities” (Col 1:16).

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3. “Surveying American society, Deevers does not see a religious sphere and a secular sphere...” This is good. Thank you for including. As reported, “In Deevers’ view, civil society, apart from the influence of overt Christian doctrine, is not a neutral middle ground, but rather the realm of the devil, or what he calls ‘a serpentine theocracy.’”

4. “Deevers is operating in the open.” Yes. Like Jesus said, “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matt 5:16)

5. You’re wrong here. Our message is not “woe be to any nonbelievers,” but come to Christ and know forgiveness of sins, eternal life in the fullness of joy. Also, Christians are offering to protect all people’s God-given rights with equal weights and measures for all. “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan” (Prov 29:2).

6. “elder millennial vibes” Sounds cool.

7. Our nation is not a “democracy.” Never has been. We are “a republic, if we can keep it,” to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin.
8. Yes. In love for God and others, I do want “to steer society away from the ‘judgment that we deserve.’”

Come to Christ so you will not “suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed” (2 Thes 1:9-10)Image
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Jul 21, 2023
An IVF/ART 🧵

The IVF and ART industry engages in overtly wicked practices. As reproductive technology moves further from God’s naturally provided means for creating life, we trudge deeper into morally murky waters after having passed through the piranha infestation.
🧵 As a society exchanges the ways of God for their own, they become “inventors of evil” and there are always consequences (Romans 1:30).

Here are a few:
(1) Discarding supernumerary embryos:

🧵 (2) Discarding low morphologically graded embryos and embryos who fail Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT) which has an 85% false positive rate for genetic abnormalities.

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Jun 27, 2023
Vocation: A Lost Doctrine Desperate for Recovery

Where the Puritans were so vibrant, we have been inadequate.

Vocation answers questions about your life, its meaning, mission, and calling during this age as we extend the mediatorial rule of King Jesus.

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Vocation/work is: the particular application of God’s providence in each person’s station in life.

In His ordinary providence, God works in the world, by His grace thru the Holy Spirit, thru human means, to glorify Himself, in extending the mediatorial rule of Christ...

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...by calling to and gifting each person for a vocation with particular roles and tasks, to perform in the home, church, marketplace, and civil sphere through loving and serving our neighbors in our good works.

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May 22, 2023
Listen to this episode as soon as you’re able.

Too often, guys w/ charisma and rhetorical talent are positioned above their character & leadership qualifications resulting in incompetent leaders who utilize noticeable manipulator tactics.

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Over-ranked, low-character, low-leadership quotient leaders are emasculate & manipulate w/:

1. Blame-projection/guilt-casting w/o specific evidence or actionables. You need to own your “failures” even if they cannot define them. “You know what you did and I won’t tell you.”

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2. Emotional appeals to cause shame to arise in their subjects. You hurt their feelings, and they have to use their feelings to lead and manipulate, so you are the cause of their poor leadership. Be ashamed.

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May 19, 2023
"Few Americans are willing to admit that there can be defect in our system of government or serious danger to its perpetuity. We glory in our Constitution and history, and enter with zest into the celebration of our national holiday. 1/8
"Let us not, however, be blinded by smoke nor defeaned by noise. A nation's safety is neither in its Constitution nor in its history, nor in the enthusiasm with which its people celebrate its anniversary. 2/8
"National permanence and greatness depend on national morality; using the word in a wide sense, for obedience to God's law. 'Happy is that people whose God is the Lord'...

Every Christian should be an active power in society and the State. 3/8
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Nov 16, 2022
1/5 Before the 1960s, “fertilization” and “conception” were synonymous terms defining the beginning of pregnancy. Fertilization occurs at the moment of egg-sperm membrane fusion and the formation of the one-celled embryo (zygote). From that moment and thereafter, the embryo…
2/5 …formed exhibits all the characteristics of a new, genetically distinct human organism.

Biologically and biblically speaking, life begins at fertilization/conception.
3/5 However, in the 1960s, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) defied biology and Scripture and divorced the two terms, and redefined “conception” to be “the completion of implantation,” after the embryo travels down the fallopian tube and attaches…
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