Matt Marino
@RefClassicalist
Pastor of Grace ARP | Professor at New Aberdeen College | Theology ☩ Philosophy ☩ Ethics ☩ Old Books | “Let your reasonableness be known to everyone” (Phi. 4:5)
File under: State of war detected. If you are not an American, you have no 5th amendment rights. “But Matt, how do they know …” or “Who gets to …?” Ah, I see your mind has been shaped my modern liberalism. No state of war detected.
Guy entering America refuses to answer any Border Patrol questions.
This is a parable. It teaches a pattern. The parable will end the same way the pattern always does. And there is more going on in the parable than the absence of executive function. The hearers of the parable are also in the parable, and they too have a pattern of failure to deal…
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says Barack Hussein Obama is guilty of treason. Holy crap. "The leader of the gang: Barack HUSSEIN Obama, have you heard of him?... HE'S GUILTY! It's there! He's guilty, this was TREASON. This was every word you can think of." "We have all of the…
Some thoughts for now. One day I'll expand on these thoughts. reformedclassicalist.com/home/realist-r…
Turretin is still the benchmark.
Volume 1 if I can only pick one.
I feel an article coming on called Realist Retrieval. It occurs to me that no one (to my knowledge) has adequately explained the various reasons that we do retrieval, some interdependent, some value in their own right, some the value of which will be less apparent if we are only…
Bullinger’s fourfold argument for fully punishing violent criminals, from: 1. unavenged injury, 2. deterrence, 3. moral improvement, and 4. the multiplication of violence. First, “But if the blood of the guilty be not shed ... and by letting them go hath left the innocent…
Bullinger answers the pacifist misuse of Matthew 26:52. “My answer to this is: that throughout all the scripture private revengement is utterly forbidden; but that that is done openly by authority of the public magistrate is never found fault withal. But that was private and…
Bullinger on the magistrate’s duty to use the sword. “For the sword is God’s vengeance, or instrument, wherewith he strikes the stroke to revenge himself upon his enemies for the injury done unto him; and is in the scripture generally taken for vengeance and punishment … But…
This morning's sermon. A Word Between the Living and the Dead — Genesis 40:1-23 youtu.be/f5qKly0tumE?si… via @YouTube
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Protestants advanced “two kingdoms” theology against the Pope’s claim of jurisdiction over civil matters not as an excuse to flip burgers behind a picket fence while the country falls to paganism if you’re 2K, then you must fight, because Christ rules both, & you’re his soldier
Sunday school this morning. Calvin's Little Book of the Christian Life youtu.be/CM5FhMo5hvA?si… via @YouTube
“As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation, so there is no sin so great that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent.” Westminster Confession of Faith, XV.4
Adam has entered the chat.
Because you have listened to the voice of your wife ... Genesis 3:17
State of war (actual meaning of post-constitutional) detected. Let the reader understand.
No one owes a burglar a fair fight.
Ok @grok, time for your first theological method test. Can you define biblicism, and can you offer a few examples of it being committed?
Hey @grok do I have to have a blue check or some other exalted status to ask you things?
One of my two first book projects (the other one being my dissertation) for the next year, Lord willing, will be on the subject of biblicism. The title idea (Against Biblicism) is polemical in tone, but the goal will be to sketch out what this really is. Anyway, I’d be interested…
Violent enemies in the act of ultimate violence are to be disarmed rather than defunded. Here is my fundamental beef with populism in a nutshell. It either breeds unseriousness, or it at least channels that inability to think seriously that was created by the good times of the…
Now that PBS, NPR and USAID are defunded, what are we defunding next?
The Bible – as God commanded the magistrate to place himself wholly under. He will have enough Aristotle, Cicero, Rutherford, Burke, and so on, in his curriculum. But he must meditate upon the Scriptures daily. “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for…