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Akemi
@Akemi180
Reformed Christian
Aug 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“I infer that, Popery is by no means Christianity... I say the same about Greek Orthodoxy, which also itself is such a great deviation from Christianity that no man today may truly be a Christian and Greek Orthodox [at the same time].” 1/4 - Theodore Beza, Questionum et Responsionum Christianarum, pars Altera, Quae est de Sacramentis (1577)

Now this is not to say that no Papist/EO can be saved, there's more nuance to this which I could not fit into a 280 character tweet; Turretin distinguishes between the 2/4
Jun 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“Why, then, should we hesitate to say what Scripture does not shrink from declaring? Why shall the truth of faith hesitate in that wherein the authority of Scripture has never hesitated? For, behold, Hosea the prophet says in the person of the Father: 'I will not now save them by bow, nor by horses, nor by horsemen; but I will save them by the Lord their God.' (Hosea 1:7) If God says that He saves by God, still God does not save except by Christ. Why, then, should man hesitate to call Christ God, when he observes that He is declared to be God by the
Mar 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
John Owen on the “Canon Conundrum”

This is the old lurry, — the Scripture cannot be
known, believed, understood, but by the church; the church cannot be proved to have being, constitution, or authority but by the Scripture: and then, if you doubt of the authority of that proof Image of the church, you must return to the church again; and so on, till all faith and reason vanish, or men make shipwreck of their faith, and become brutish in their understanding, pretending to believe they know neither what nor why.
Feb 22, 2022 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
1 like = 1 unpopular opinion

Let's go "Ignatius of Antioch" did not exist.
Feb 22, 2022 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
SEVEN REASONS TO REJECT THE EPISTLES OF "IGNATIUS" AS SPURIOUS

(1) They are not mentioned in the Epistle of Polycarp as: (a) the Ignatius of Polycarp was part of a group of martyrs, not a solo travelling procession to Rome, “concerning Ignatius himself, and those who are with him, if, ye have any sure tidings, certify us.”. (b) The Ignatius of Polycarp was not from Syria, but was from Philippi, “I exhort you all, therefore, to be obedient unto the word of righteousness, and to practise all endurance, which also ye saw with your own eyes in the blessed
Feb 6, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Why the “Canon Conundrum” fails.

(1) It is circular, in order to show the Roman Catholic magisterium to have the authority to set the canon the RC must first appeal to Christ's promises of infallibility to the church (Matt. 16, etc.) which presupposes a knowledge of the canon. Thus making the church superfluous. (2) It's self-defeating, if the RC is correct that the Protestant is not justified in believing the canon of Scripture as they arrived at it through fallible means then, in the same way, the RC is not justified in trusting their magisterium,
Feb 4, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Why the Protestant canon of 66 books is true.🧵

The Scriptures were given to the Jews (Rom. 3:2) and the Jews rejected the apocrypha as is attested by Josephus and Philo. Neither Christ, nor any Apostle, ever rebuked the Jews for what would have been the greatest of sins, i.e. tearing apart the canon of Scripture, had such books had been inspired. And as St. Jerome says: “We must have recourse to the Hebrews, from whose text both the Lord speaks, and his disciples choose their examples.”
Jan 22, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Firstly, what is the Protestant view of the Spirit's preservation of the church and how does it differ from the Socinians? I will refer you to Father Ockham the Wise of England who taught that even a single baptized infant keeping the faith is enough to satisfy Matt. 28:20. The catholic church is the body of Christ, invisible, and composed of all true believers. This can NOT cease to exist, as the Socinians believed, as this would nullify the promises of Christ to his church. God always preserves his people, even in cases of widespread idolatry.
Jan 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a falling rock. Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment;
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“The punishment of the non-elect was not the ultimate end of their creation, but the glory of God. It is frequently objected to us that, according to our view of predestination, ‘God makes some persons on purpose to damn them,’ but this we never advanced; nay, we utterly reject Image it as equally unworthy of God to do and of a rational being to suppose. The grand, principal end, proposed by God in His formation of all things, and of mankind in particular, was the manifestation and display of His own glorious attributes. His ultimate scope in the creation