PhD Student | Executive Editor @CredoMagazine | Apologetics teacher | Husband | Father | Tweets are my own | Peace if possible, Truth at all costs
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Creeds we should all affirm:
1. Apostle's
2. Nicene
3. Chalcedonian
4. Athanasian
5. Higher by Creed
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If an American man willingly calls our Lord "Yeshua" instead of Jesus, you're about to hear some crazy theological takes
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*tries to start car*
*please open your Authenticator app for 2-factor authentication*
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What a heartless thing to say to a parent. I can't believe someone who dedicated their entire lives to the health of children would say something so disgusting
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Don't be obnoxiously Reformed or Puritan or Calvinist and then be this wrong on such a basic Trinitarian issue
There are three wills ontologically in the Trinity.
They are three thinkers / choosers.
There is one will by unity of agreement in all things.
The oneness of the Trinity is a oneness of being/essence/definition & intellectual unity & covenantal unity.
There is one shared divinity, in agreement in all things, and with different roles by covenant.
The threeness of the Trinity is threeness of personhood.
Three thinkers who each will all that happens.
The agreement in all things and the agreement about what to do as a subset and the covenanting of roles to perform is the oneness of will.
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Reformed Theology: "The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge"
Biblicism: "The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all knowledge"
These are not the same.
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I believe the Lord can use those if he wishes and in parts of the world like the Middle East, there are many stories to that claim. I think so much of the Prosperity gospel and unhealthy Pentecostal movements have damaged our perception of those gifts, even if they aren't normative
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A big change in my life. I would be grateful for you to read it.
The Lord saw fit in his good providence for this life-long Baptist to get halfway through his PhD at an SBC seminary and become Anglican. -@Connor_Shack
Connor Shackelford shares why he is now Anglican. credomag.com/2025/10/becomin… NEW article!
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If you separate yourself from apostates, you are not schismatics.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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When Calipari was hired at Arkansas I was excited at first. But then I thought to myself "what's his record against opponents when trailing by 16+ points at halftime?"
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I just saw an account called "Reformed Dispensationalism" and I think I finally know how R Scott Clark feels
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What is my only comfort in life and in death?
That I am not my own, but belong, both body and soul, to my precious Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Provisionism is not a serious theological position. It exists only on the internet and to attack Calvinism.
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The best Father's Day gift I could ever ask for. Theodore (Teddy) Knox Shackelford.
Truly he is a gift from God.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
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When y'all Presbyterians can stop fracturing into a million denominations with 100 members each, we will then fear you
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The point being made is not that Jesus is not Jewish. Of course he is. He is the long awaited Messiah. The quip being made is that those who insist on only using a Jewish version of him name (which is Greek in the NT) usually are some form of hardcore dispensationalism, Hebrew roots, or some other form of the old Judaizers heresy.
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A person is not a mind. A person has a mind.
The persons of the Trinity differ only in their eternal relations of origin (unbegotten, begotten, spirited) not their will.
This is basic Trinitarian stuff.
The flurry of activity about the Trinity and the incarnation has people calling me a Tri-theist and a monothelite.
Tri-theism is when you assert multiple essences in God.
In other words, multiple definitions of divinity - think polytheistic religions (different Gods with different powers and who disagree).
The three persons of the Trinity share one divinity but are truly three persons.
An essence is a definition.
A person is a mind.
Monothelitism denies that Christ has a divine will and human will.
Christ has a divine will and a human will.
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I was confident in credobaptism but then a 2nd year MDiv student on the internet made a meme about how I'm wrong so now I don't know what to believe
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This is an argument for paedocommunion not paedobaptism
Yesterday, another reformed baptist at our church became a paedobaptist.
He had studied the debates for years. What finally pushed him over the edge?
At @kingswayarizona, we have the Lord’s Supper every Sunday. Everyone who is baptized walks up to the table—men, women, and children (even toddlers).
This man saw his family divided as he, his wife, and two oldest sons came to the table, but his five other children were left in their chairs (some of them much older than the young kids partaking around them).
He saw how this weekly moment communicates to his unbaptized children, “This is for us and not for you,” “Christ is our God and not yours,” “We are in the covenant, and you are not,” and “We are inside, and you are outside.”
He finally saw how credobaptism had sowed individualism, doubt, and division in his own family. At that moment, they were not one family in covenant with God; they were a conglomerate of individuals, some in and some out, based on their own “choice.”
It broke his heart and he finally understood covenant for his home and the church.
We’re baptizing his children this week.
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My father passed away when I was 3 years old. I can't really remember him at all. I'm sure we had mornings spent like this. And though Teddy will never remember these moments, I'm grateful to God, my heavenly Father, it's my turn now.
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If only there was a member of the fellowship whose entire storyline was to demonstrate why keeping the ring to conquer evil was a bad idea
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"Christ lived a perfect life on your behalf."
Dispensationalist: first of all, how dare you
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"Jesus never says 'I am the way, the truth, and the indispensable presupposition of all intelligent human predication.'"
I'm thankful for @KMathison1967's honest but sharp assessment of Van Til's thought, specifically on his theory of knowledge. Truly a needed book.
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Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none. The LORD is king forever and ever
Psalm 10:15-16
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Such a beautiful baptismal service today at our church. I love the liturgy! Especially the words of the Prayer for the Candidates:
Wash and sanctify them through your Holy Spirit, that they may be delivered from destruction and received into the Ark of Christ’s Church; and being steadfast in faith, joyful through hope, and rooted in love, they may
pass through the turbulent floods of this troublesome world and come into the land of everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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The difference between believing heresy and being a heretic is how one responds to correction
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Reformed theology is hard not because it's confusing but because it confronts our deepest idol, which is ourselves
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Family worship from the BCP is such a joy.
"In your light shall we see light" Psalm 36:9
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Does EFS really imply three separate wills in the Godhead?
Yes.
But does this actually imply tritheism?
Also yes.
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This is your daily reminder to ignore any Twitter account which says it exists "to disprove Calvinism/Reformed Theology."
Such an existence is both arrogant and quarrelsome, and not to mention normally filled with error.
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The sentence "God isn't limited to a system" is usually followed up by some of the most unhinged theology you'll ever hear
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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions
2 Timothy 4:3
Joe Carter is not to be listened to
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Psalm 75:8
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup
with foaming wine, well mixed,
and he pours out from it,
and all the wicked of the earth
shall drain it down to the dregs.
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"the doctrine is not supported by any New Testament Scripture which states explicitly that the believer’s justification is in any way grounded in Jesus’ keeping of the Law"
This is a long post that can be summed up as "I just committed the word-concept fallacy"
This past Sunday night, I addressed the resurgence in the Reformed and Reformed-adjacent world of the doctrine of the “imputation of the active obedience of Christ,” and the aggressive push some are making to have the embrace of this doctrine serve as a supposed litmus test of Christian orthodoxy. You can find my full message on active obedience here:
piped.video/gCDcVwOe7_E?si=ymTU…
I’ve read Machen’s catchy quote. I’m aware of what various creeds and confessions say. I know that certain Reformers held to the doctrine. I understand the theological underpinnings of the doctrine in a so-called “covenant of works.”
But the reality is the doctrine is not supported by any New Testament Scripture which states explicitly that the believer’s justification is in any way grounded in Jesus’ keeping of the Law.
Rather, the Scriptures testify to our salvation being found in the Savior’s blood, and our hope being in the cross.
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our transgressions, according to the riches of His grace.” Ephesians 1:7
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Grateful and happy for my friend and mentor @MattMBarrett
May the Lord do great things through this next chapter of his career!
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Barrett as Research Professor of Theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary, strengthening our commitment to theological formation in the Anglican tradition and its expanding church-based formation efforts. shorturl.at/rgyk2
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Nothing wins the hearts of Baptists more than a cage-stagey Presby argument that starts with an argument from silence from someone only 1 year into their new belief system
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Latter-day saints deny the Trinitarian theology of Catholicism and Christianity at large, so no, they are not Christians.
- Latter-day Saints are Christians
- Mormonism is not the western Islam
- the belief about endless intercourse as far as I know, is no where found in any of their books
This has been a message from your local neighborhood (soon to be) Catholic
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Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14
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Proposition 1: Free-will is totally denied
Proposition 2: your specific definition of free-will is denied
The Reformed asserts proposition 2 while being accused of asserting proposition 1.
This is the Reformed vs Provisionist debate in a nutshell.
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Being a dad is amazing. 10/10 would recommend it.
Praise God the Father for the gift of fatherhood.
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If Arkansas was being crushed under a car and only Texas was there to save them, Arkansas would root for the car
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If I had to guess, former Baptists who become paedobaptists who then also advocate for paedocommunion, aren't reading a baptist hermeneutic into the sacraments. Rather they are trying to consistently apply the new hermeneutic that convinced them of paedobaptism in the first place
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Gollum committed his life and based his entire personality on the Ring and things turned out fine for him!
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No one noticed the irony of claiming retrieving classical theology undermines the Reformation but dispensationalism doesn't?
Go read the Reformers and Reformed Scholastics and tell me how much dispensationalism you find vs classical theology
I'm really looking forward to being at the Shepherds 360 Conference at @stseminary in two weeks!
I'll be presenting three breakout sessions at this year's conference.
The titles and topics of the sessions are:
1. "Ploughboys Need Not Apply: How Today’s Emphasis on Retrieval of the “Great Tradition” Threatens Reformational Ideals"
2. "No Seat at the Table: The Unfortunate Exclusion of Dispensational Perspectives from Studies in Systematic Theology"
3. "Jesus' Blood and Righteousness?: A Biblical-Historical Evaluation of the Reformed Doctrine of the Imputation of the Active Obedience of Christ"
Looking forward to sitting under excellent teaching from several other men, while enjoying fellowship with like-minded pastors and church leaders from around the world!
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It will be disorienting to LSU seeing a sea of various, clashing shades of red. 4D chess move from Arkansas.
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So the one who gets things done is the Protestant and the two who are just acting are EO and RC? A bit harsh coming from your own camp, don't you think?
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This is like if Samwise took dirt from Mordor and spread that around the Shire instead of the soil from Lothlórien
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49ers: *false start*
Cris Collingsworth: you know, no offense in the league is more ready to go than the 49ers. They are always prepared to fly and it shows there. AMAZING JOB on Shanahan's part
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I just discovered that the book I started uses endnotes.
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord - James 5:7
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Excited to say that my paper, “A Metaphysical Image of God and the Possibility of Natural Theology” has been accepted for ETS 2024.
This paper is a first dive into my dissertation topic, and Lord willing, will be of benefit to the church and academia.
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