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What Is He Thinking?!

From Military Times … The office will also align and issue policies on religious affairs for the secretary; represent him on all religious affairs matters in engagements with Congress, religious endorsing organizations, and external governmental departments; and realign the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and its executive director under the office’s authority for chaplain advisement. Notice that the office is intended to align & issue policies on religious affairs **for the secretary** & represent him (if **the secretary**) on all religious affairs matters in engagements with Congress. 1. The Director’s first priority is to represent GOD —-not the secretary — as to both his or her relationship & duties and in relation to Congress, particularly if the Director is a member of the ecclesiastical class.  2. As to the issuance of policies, if what MT’s description of the Director’s duties & responsibilities is accurate, then that means Pete Hegseth is the one from whom pol...
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On “A Christian Defense of Real Marriage”

The Christian Post article is here .  In the view of mainstream culture today, there is no such thing as a principled case for the Christian view of marriage that limits it to one man and one woman. Opposition to same-sex marriage, in this view, can only spring from bigotry, hate, or fear.    It can also spring from recognition that the defenders of traditional marriage do so on shaky biblical grounds, insofar as their defense of the traditional view of marriage proceeds from poor biblical hermeneutics & unsound reasoning principles.     For example, Robert Gagnon writes: By “against nature” Paul meant that the evidence from the material structures of creation—here the complementary embodied character of maleness and femaleness—gives clear evidence of God’s will for human sexual pairing. Some have argued that this could not have been what Paul intended by his nature argument, despite Paul’s clear statement in Rom 1:19-20 that such matters are “transpare...
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Can Evangelicals Be / Vote For Democrats?

Let’s take a look .   The Bible says we Evangelicals should have a life that is worthy of the good news (Philippians 1:27). That includes a vote that is worthy of the good news. Meaning, we cannot vote for Kamala Harris.       Therefore, if you vote for Kamala Harris, you are not an Evangelical.   By way of reply, that’s a viciously circular argument insofar as it assumes what it needs to prove, namely that the Bible defines “Evangelical” someone whose life is worthy of the good news,” that voting Republican &/or otherwise supporting the Republican National Agenda adorns the Body of Christ, & that what the Bible, correctly exegeted, exposited, understood, & applied is congruent with American Conservatism. One wonders if Mr. Sey understands the term “Evangelical,” & how close he is to, like Greg Locke, & Landon Schott, coming to denying the sum & substance of the Gospel.     The term “Evangelical,” isn’t a term that aut...
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Covenant Theology In Outline Form (Part 3)

Continuing from Part 2 John 7:53 - 8:11  Preamble  Historical Prologue  General Stipulations Specific Stipulations  Renewal, Document Clause  Witnesses  Preamble/Shema They went each to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Yeshua is also a cipher for God atop His holy mountain (Sinai) Historical Prologue  We enter text into a specific time & place,    both on Earth & in Heaven this the sort of thing Yeshua did.    Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.  As the sun continued to rise over the new covenant administration, Yeshua, now in heaven & the literal theanthropic Redeemer-Mediator, continued His 3fold ministry of Prophet, Priest, & King. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adu...
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