The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

The Gospel comes to us as a command. (I John 3:23, Acts 17:30) In order to avoid sinning, you must obey God by exhaustively, meticulously, & perfectly loving Him first, then all others, then yourself in that order in order. Ergo, to obey the command to repent of your works righteousness at its root & believe (1) you must comply with (2) or else.. You have sinned so that righteousness may abound (Romans 6:1) Sin is, by definition, Works Righteousness, insofar as it’s a never ending struggle to merit God’s grace & goodness (Romans 7) Ergo, if you don’t comply with 2 in order to repent of your rooted works righteousness, then you are refusing to lay down your works righteousness while trying to repent. That’s why regeneration precedes faith (Romans 8:5 - 11)  So when you put it all together, God must restrain us from failing to exhaustively, meticulously, & perfectly love Him first &tc when it comes to this issue or else we would never be able to exercise saving fa...

Romans 1 exposited correctly avoids Is - Ought reasoning, Vicious Circularity, Overspecification, Category Errors, Special Pleading, & Straw Manning what God says about the purpose of the created order without substituting visible human, animal, & botanical images for God’s invisible attributes & authority.   Reading “natural” as “heteronormative” or “hegemonic male headship” or “Protestant” or “White” or “like me” & “unnatural” as “anything that varies with the (alleged) created order results in up to 6 logical, exegetical, & epistemic fallacies. 1.   Is - Ought/Naturalistic Fallacy :   Deducing L) abstract moral principles by way of the state of the created order.  2. Vicious Circularity : Substituting the (alleged) pattern of creation as a sufficient epistemic warrant for ethical reasoning in lieu of the existence, attributes, & authority of God replaces the one thing that can provide the necessary truth conditions to know, understand, ...

  Shema & Historical Prologue  1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, He withdrew from Galilee and came to the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan.  2 And great crowds followed Him, and He healed them there. General Stipulations   3 And Pharisees came to Him, testing Him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?” 4 And answering He said, “Have you not read that the  One  having created from  the  beginning ‘made them male and female,  5 and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will become into one flesh’? —-  6 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God united together,  let  man not separate.” Specific Stipulations  7 They say to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He says to them, “In view of your hardness of heart, Moses allowed...

 

Adam  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement  Noah  - Historical Prologue  Abraham  - General Stipulations Moses  - Specific Stipulations  Samuel  - Document Clause  John the Baptist  - Witnesses  “ David ”  - Covenant Renewal  Yeshua  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement                     — OR — Edenic  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement  Adam / Antediluvian  -  Historical Prologue  Noah/Aegis  - General Stipulations Abraham / Patriarch - Specific Stipulations  Moses/Sinaitic  - Document Clause  Samuel/Monarchial  - Witnesses John the Baptist/Reformational   - Covenant Renewal  David/New Monarchial - Victory Statement  Yeshua/Messianic  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement