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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

Inviting feedback from the easy grace camp and dispensationalists. 🧵

This, like some passages in Isaiah and Psalms, is taken as a key *Christian* prophecy (and I agree, it certainly is):
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Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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Note what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t say, “I will give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you, and you will prosper.” Nor “…and you will believe fervently.” Nor “…and you will be free of the law.” No, it says, “…and cause you to walk in my statutes”.

James says as much; Paul does as well. Jesus certainly does, indeed it’s one of his main themes. The Gospel *is* the coming of the healing Spirit who fills us with faith indeed, but that leads to a faithful walk.

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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

This from Elon Musk could explain why I am throttled on X.com.

But I humbly submit that my case shows the short-sightedness of the rule. Yes, it’s quite plausible that my account was blocked and muted a lot, because I do rub certain lovers of the Establishment the wrong way, let’s just say. But perhaps it’s mainly because I block and mute a lot.

In any case, what’s short-sighted is Musk’s failure to see that important voices can be blocked widely by one camp but highly valued by another. Musk’s policy treats the entire user base as a whole unified community, which of course it is not.
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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

Today we celebrate an event of cosmic proportions: when the long-prophesied once-and-forever King of Israel finally arrived in the world. The King was called the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ. The secret kept by the creator of the universe himself was that he would come to earth as this long-prophesied Christ, incarnate in human flesh, to be raised by humble and poor parents. Later, he would reveal himself, at first by signs and wonders and at last by words, that he was indeed both the King of Israel and Son of God. But the worldly leaders of the Israelites, with few exceptions, rejected both claims and, by putting him to death, made their king “the Lamb of God.” He died and rose again, as only the Incarnate God could do, for all of our sins. He rose again on the third day and instructed his disciples to preach to the entire world, not just their fellow Jews, the good news that God came to earth in human flesh to heal us all from the deadly effects of our own sins. Praise God!
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