Do you know what time it is?

"There is no precept more seriously given and commanded, then to know the time. Yea Christian men for that they hear how grievously GOD complains, and threatens in the Scriptures them which will not know the time of his visitations ...(Luke 19.44).

After our Savior Christ had prophesied with weeping tears of the destruction of Jerusalem at the last he putteth the cause: For that thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

Plutarch and Plato both rejected the common practice of pederasty. Plato called men to rise above it to pure contemplation of the beautiful. Plutarch called them to get married and pursue joint virtue through familial action and conviviality.

https://twitter.com/Wedgetweets/status/1682392412776194049

In the ancient world, men were terrified of the longhouse. They believed that if they failed to subdue the women, the women would subdue them in various ways. Pederasty was though to be a fellowship of men, even a way for the older to initiate the younger.

I see that Fox settled their lawsuit by paying out a huge sum of money. Certainly suggests an acknowledgement of wrong.

Which reminds me that when Sidney Powell first made her insane accusations, a few high profile Christian commentators said that she should be trusted. One wrote a post basically saying that he'd stake his credibility on her being trustworthy. Was that ever a legit claim? Was he duped too? Hard to know.

But this zany and/or flatly dishonest element has been a steady feature of Trumpism.

The Orthodox should admit that stuff like this is actually just liberal Protestantism. Been there. Done that.

antiochian.org/regulararticle… "Anselm's teaching crept back into the Eastern Church. Anselm's hypothesis says that the "Original" sin (from Adam and Eve) insulted God a great deal and brought His anger against mankind.

What distinguished Puritans was not their strictness, rigor, or critical attitude.

It was their view of dissent. Puritans wanted to change governmental structure and fixed liturgy.

The main debate was over authority.

My latest for World Opinions @WNGdotorg -- The Future of Anglicanism is Confessional

wng.org/opinions/the-f… "The Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches [is] a group representing more than 50 million Anglicans in more than 25 nations... [they] issued a statement declaring that the Church of England had 'departed from the historic faith.'"

The Presbyterian system usually results in lay governance of the church. There are more ruling elders than teaching elders, and they feel a natural solidarity as laymen. There's also a recent history of the elders serving as a bulwark against the pastors. This does not seem to be Calvin's conception of things. He has the ministers with a special task of spiritual government and the elders, who he calls seniors or senators, assist in the hearing and carrying out of discipline in the broader community.

There are over 30 instances of witness bearing or its opposite false accusations in the first 8 chapters of John's gospel. Clearly the testimony about Jesus is *central* to His gospel, but so too the very concept of testimony.

John also has many narratives with Jesus and women. John has Jesus and His mother (chapt 2), Jesus and the woman at the well (chapter 4), Jesus and Mary, sister of Martha (chapt. 11, 12), and then the empty tomb scene with Jesus and Mary Magdalane portrayred with Adam and Eve and also Song of Solomon imagery.

I moved from PCA to ADLW mostly for non-ideologoical reasons (instead, practical), but I have really come to love 1662 BCP. It has been a pretty perfect fit.

But I also still appreciate the PCA and remain convinced that it's a healthy denomination headed in the right direction. I have always been a broad Reformation guy, and so everywhere I've been has been an ok but not quite perfect fit.

Click on a Twitter handle that your friends follow, even just once, and boom it immediately goes into the "For you" list. I liked the vibes, but I am really not sure Twitter has gotten better since Elon took over.

Thinking more about the Gary DeMar controversy, we can identify a few different issues:

1) His preterism and interpretation of various verses
2) His overall uncertainty and unwillingness to consider hyper-preterists to be heretics
3) His peculiar view of the resurrection 1 & 2 can be problematic, concerning, etc, but they don't immediately mean that DeMar is heretical. There's no list of "the right way to interpret" this or that text, & laypeople do not have to, or get to, make standards of "heresy" in regards to their various churches.

But 3...