THE AWFUL FALL AND THE AWESOME RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST – A little thread on Genesis 3:21

O how gruesome was the Fall! Into what hellish depths did Adam and we in him not falter? Our father was created in glory to participate in the divine life. In a paradise was he made formed.. by God yet by His mercy we were told to cooperate and till the earth. The most wonderful creatures did God make yet He allowed Adam to name them. Yet the greatest crown of creation was given to Adam and especially Eva, as they were given the gift of authoring life as God, even...

A profound misconception of sacrifice and prayer – a thread🧵

Since this argument has become somewhat popular in the online sphere, I thought it beneficial to offer a critique.
Rome posits that in the celebration of the Eucharist a real propitiatory sacrifice is offered to...

https://twitter.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1768406687072063515

God by the priest. They see in this act the high-point of worship, its panicle, compared to which other religious expression of worship stand as lesser and fail to fully encapsulate the fullness of religious adoration found in the climatic sacrificial act of the offering of the..

Watched the @Trent_Horn vs James White @HwsEleutheroi debate today.

Here's a few thoughts - a thread 🧵

First of all I think the debate went OK'ish for both debaters. They did an alright job but I wasn't able to really appreciate it. Here's why... Trent is quick witted and came across, though a bit too eager at times, as authentic and humble. He is well-versed in the material and especially in the scholarship, but that is his major issue IMO.

His view of Scripture comes across as objectionably low...

The unprecedented collapse of Roman Catholicism in the Americas is wildly under-reported story.

Why do so few people discuss this?

These countries were practically >98% Catholic until the 1950s, but are moving toward Protestant plurality...

Honduras, now plurality Protestant



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1, Why I embraced Confessional Lutheranism after exploring both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism

A thread🧵

With a little surprise hidden!

https://twitter.com/langluigi_/status/1750929343277375539

2, Patristic Continuity: Confessional Lutheranism faithfully preserves early Church Fathers' teachings, ensuring a seamless connection to the profound theological insights of the past.

An example of an ancient invocation of Mary? - a small thread examining the Ryland Papyrus 470 🧵 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝙿𝚊𝚙𝚢𝚛𝚞𝚜 𝙸𝙸𝙸 𝟺𝟽𝟶: 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠
Pictured below is the Ryland Greek Papyrus III 470 (abbr.: P.Ryl. 470), containing an early Greek version of the Marian hymn "Sub tuum praesidium":....

Christmas is the quintessential Lutheran holiday for so many reasons - a small thread 🧵

There are all the exterior and obvious things. Like how pastor Wichern, a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg, made the first Advent Wreath in 1839, or how blessed Luther himself, if not inventing... then as the first championed and spread the wonderful and now ubiquitous tradition of the Christmas Tree, a historic fact from this great Reformer's life and a tradition first recorded among German and Baltic Lutherans in the 16th century. Or the widespread usage of vernacular...

YOUR FAVOURITE PROTESTANT POP-UP AD PROVING SOLA SCRIPTURA - a playful thread 🧵

I used to be a Roman Catholic monk and believed all the dogmas promulgated by the church. But 7 years ago I began a journey that would inevitably lead me into PROTESTANTISM. After the Pope approved my installation as doctor of theology at the University of Wittenberg I began reading the church fathers and was SHOCKED to see how they taught the LUTHERAN idea of Sola Scriptura. I had grown up believing that divine revelation was found in both Holy Scripture and Holy...

THREAD ON LUTHER AND THE BURNING OF THE PAPAL BULL 🧵

December 10th marks one of the immortal dates of Christendom

Here, finally, the false pretense of Papism was shrugged off by faithful sons of God and servants of Scripture.

Martin Luther, having received a most confused... condemnation of his theology and of Scriptural truths tested the papal bull by fire and found it wanting, for purged by flames of all its lies and falsehood nothing was left but ashes

This infamous papal known by its introductory words, "Arise O Lord", is a fascinating read

HOW LUTHER'S DEFEAT OF THE PAPACY

led to the end of Roman doctrinal unity and its monopoly of truth

- A special October Thread🧵!

We’ll be covering a lot of ground here, taking a short look at the Western Schism, the Hussite proto-Reformers and Rome’s growing cracks at the... Union of Brest, 1595, and at the de Auxiliis Controversy culmination in 1607, these two being watershed moments in Rome’s history.
In short, how did Rome go from calling down the institutional power of the inquisition against those who deviated from the true faith by minute...

St. Paul was married but many don't know this! - a little thread 🧵

Both St. Paul himself in the New Testament and the earliest apostolic tradition is clear that St. Paul was married. Yet many are unware of this as the later tradition, championed by zealos ascetic monks buried.. this earlier Scriptural and apostolic tradition. Apart from the fact that Jewish men following divine precepts married so as to raise up sons and multiple St. Paul himself also indicates his marital status at least twice in the NT. First, 1 Corinthians 9:3 he defends himself...

When refuting Roman Catholic and EO practices and doctrines as unscriptural and novel innovations of the late patristic era, last refuge is often sought against this criticism - namely an appeal to apostolic tradition and the "consensus of church" but is that valid?

a thread 🧵 The argument often runs something like this, X is unscriptural and has zero support among the early fathers, indeed father Y and Z argues contrary to it, hence no pious Christian can hold to it.
*RC/EO* But even if this were true, which I am unwilling to grant, it would result

The Protestant Reformation had many different causes. The proximate cause of course being God's instrumental working through Martin Luther.

But some other pivotal events, some rather forgotten, were central to the eventful 16th century - a thread 🧵 I’ll pinpoint two. First, the scandal of the Great Western Schism, 1378-1417, broke the grandeur of the High Medieval papacy.During its zenith in the 13th century Boniface VIII had claimed the authority to depose the King of France from his throne by papal degree,basing this on..

One of the best and clearest foreshadowings and types of the holy eucharist are the Show-bread of the Levitical priesthood 🧵Here's why... The theme of the heavenly banquet is a theme running through-out the Old Testament. It prefigures, through certain theophanies, how God choses to intimately commune with His people. At the meal nourishment and sustenance is shared, peace is declared and community is confessed

Thread on Cyrpian, Augustine&the papacy 🧵

Though the theory of development of doctrine has come to aide many of Rome's quite excessive historical claims then it doesn't seem quite able to help the papacy

Rome claims that St Peter received, immediately from Christ, an office... of stewardship over the entire church. This office was the principle of unity, that is to say, communion and union with St Peter constitutes communion with the church. In this office supreme jurisdiction over the whole church, in total and in all constituent parts, was conferred

WHETHER MUSLIMS WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD? – A long thread 🧵

As my recent post, condemning the opinion that Muslims worship the true God, caused a debate on the topic I thought a follow-up could be edifying.
Some objectors were brought forth too, which deserve a response. For on account of Islam’s confession of monotheism and belief in an almighty, perfect creator of the word some concede that Muslims indeed do worship and seek to serve the one, true God, albeit their worship is imperfect and their adherence to Him hindered by the errors...

THE PROTESTANT VIEW OF THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE - VINDICATED - a thread 🧵

As one of the central principles of the Protestant reformation of the church was sola scripture, an object of major criticism has been the Protestant Canon of Scripture. It is accused of being a novel rupture with Church Tradition, the result of a violent and unprecedented move of Luther, who singlehandedly ripped out 7 books of the Bible because they refuted his new doctrines.

This resulted, critics say, in Protestants having a maimed Bible, handicapped and amputated, and

A short thread 🧵

I've seen this horrible argument made multiple times against Protestantism. Going something like

"Le Prots have ugly churches. Unlike the True Church™ of Rome, which is godly æsthetics incarnate on earth"

This is a horrible argument and demonstrably false This is Saint Rita's Church, Belgium, build 1963.

SOLA SCRIPTURA DEFENDED – A threaded 🧵 reply concerning the canon

It is rightfully said that the principle of Sola Scriptura, i.e. by Scriptura alone, is foundational to Protestantism. Though having different formulations Sola Scriptura never means less than that Scriptura alone is the sole infallible authority of faith and morals in the church. It is the sole principle guiding binding revelation in the church and the source of all doctrines and articles of faith.
YET THE ADVERSARIES SCOFF asking, if that is so, then where is the canon of Holy

On justification by faith alone and vindication by works 🧵🧵

Many people misread the epistle of James - even going so far as taking him to contradict the apostle the Paul. But away with this misguided view and let the truth be vindicated by the plain words of scripture Saint Paul teaches with abundant clarity that man is justified by faith alone apart from works of the law, as Saint Augustine affirms,

A thread on the 30.000 denominations of Protestantism against the one, Roman church 🧵

Generally speaking I think this is one of the weakest and most useless of the pop-Roman apologist arguments. First of all because the numbers are horribly off, the study... which made the exaggerated number of Prot. denom. also counted the Roman Church itself to be at least 3 or 4 different (!) denominations.

Secondly, because, regardless of the number (which in reality is today no higher than it was at the time of the Reformation, namely 4 ...