Theology 101: I just won’t take “Christian nationalists” seriously until they start insisting on actual Christlike leaders not only in government but also in their churches and ministries.

Growing up means transitioning from being disappointed when you got socks for Christmas to being disappointed when you didn’t.

Theology 101: Like much of the diabolical rhetoric from some extremists who keep getting the attention they crave, the recent criticism of so-called “inter-racial marriage” by these sycophants of Satan is from the pits of hell. This is the only response such a position deserves.

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Theology 101: Christians need to stop puffing the immature, the untaught, the untried, the unqualified, and the imbecilic. They are damaging to the body of Christ. Don’t engage them. It’s what they crave.

Theology 101: To struggle against sin is the gift of God.

Theology 101: The powerful, the political, and the petulant may temporarily conquer the earth. But the meek will permanently inherit it.

Theology 101: Doing ministry for your own glory is spiritual embezzlement from the Kingdom of God.

Theology 101: Grace that justifies but doesn't sanctify is not biblical grace.

Theology 101: Fallen humanity's godless attempts at ascending out of darkness inevitably result in descending deeper into the abyss.

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Theology 101: Remember—For every rich and famous celebrity Christian leader who has a public moral fall, there are hundreds of in-the-trenches, over-worked, under-paid Christian pastors, missionaries, and teachers, faithful to the end, whose names you'll never know.

Theology 101: For many, it’s a tough pill to swallow, but God doesn’t care about our opinions.

Theology 101: “Convenience” and “expediency” have ascended to the pantheon of modern gods. Everything must now be sacrificed to them, especially “discipline” and “prudence.” Wisdom and patience were offered up long ago.

Theology 101: The horrible cacophony of the fallen creation cries out for the harmonious chorus of the renewed creation.

Theology 101: One day, tombstones will topple, graves will be emptied, and death will be banished forever. Until that day, we ambassadors of the future must strive for life, peace, truth, and justice, against this present darkness—both in the spiritual and physical realms.

Theology 101: Christ alone holds the key to unlock the human heart chained by unbelief, immorality, injustice, prejudice, wickedness, deceit, and despair.

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Theology 101: The Christian life is a marathon of faith, a pilgrimage of hope, and a mission of love.

Theology 101: "The most of men have a disposition unstable and heedless, like the nature of storms." (Clement of Alexandria)

Theology 101: "Instructed by the sacrament of the Scriptures, we are divinely fed from within." (Radbertus)

Theology 101: Wait...hold on...let me check—yup, God’s still on his throne.

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Theology 101: "We always use holy Scripture as the canon and rule of all our doctrine. So we must necessarily look towards this standard and accept only that which is congruent with the sense of the writings." (Gregory of Nyssa)

Theology 101: The priesthood of all believers primarily means we are each other's priests—"By that priesthood we are worthy to appear before God, to pray for others, and to teach one another mutually the things which are of God. For these are the duties of priests." (Luther)

Theology 101: “So then the Father is Lord and the Son is Lord, and the Father is God and the Son is God; for that which is begotten of God is God.” (Irenaeus, c. 180)

Theology 101: Christians, stop selling out to corrupt political power. Just stop.

Theology 101: “I know a man who was caught up into paradise and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter, unless he has a lucrative book contract and a movie deal, then he can tell everything and then some,” said Paul never.

Theology 101: “You may more easily find a man born without brains, like Marcion, than without a body, like Marcion’s Christ.” (Tertullian, dropping some serious bars)

Theology 101: “Peter, feed my sheep. Oh, and make sure you have sweeter food than the other disciples’ food so their sheep will leave their flocks and join your flock and you’ll have a ginormous super-flock that can’t even fit in one pen,” said Jesus never.

Theology 101: The history of the Church glomming onto the State for aid in advancing their religious or moral ideals is a history of paltry short-term gains at the cost of disastrous long-term losses.

Theology 101: “Taking from our bodies one of like nature, because all were under penalty of the corruption of death He gave it over to death in the stead of all, and offered it to the Father.” (Athanasius)

Theology 101: I suspect many confuse their own unteachable spirit for the teaching work of the Holy Spirit.

Theology 101: Forgiveness > Bitterness Mercy > Judgment Love > Hate

Theology 101: “We live in a world, in the real world…that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power….These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” This kind of thinking doesn’t end well in God’s economy (Dan 11:38-39; Rev 13:4).

Theology 101: More Christians (including me) must embrace the virtue of just saying “I don’t know” and humbly admitting that we’re all seeing through a glass dimly.

Theology 101: Beware the morality of “it’s right when I do it but wrong when you do it under the same conditions.”

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Theology 101: Though most of us are loathe to believe it, I fear the world may be more bizarre and wicked than we realize and that the truly upright and heroic are few and far between.

Theology 101: The thought of being part of a theological system that has to spend all its time explaining how the Bible doesn't actually mean what it says just exhausts me. I just don't know how people do it.

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Theology 101: “He who made the sky, and the earth, and the salt seas, decreed to give us back again ourselves in a golden age.” (Commodian, Instructions 29)

Theology 101: "If we please him in this present age, we will receive also that which is to come, just as he promised us, to raise us from the dead, and that if we conduct our lives in a manner worthy of him, we will also reign with him, if indeed we have faith.” (Polycarp, To the Philippians 5.2)

Theology 101: More often than not, you have to do for others what others should have done for you but didn’t.

Theology 301: The “times of refreshing” in Acts 3:19 is not a reference to revival in the church. It’s a reference to the restoration of creation at the second coming of Christ. fathersonthefuture.com/__static/84b...

Theology 101: The Body of Christ is much bigger than—but no smaller than—your local church.

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Theology 102: If you say there’s no rapture in the Bible, you better read this first, then stop repeating falsehoods. You can deny a pre-trib, mid-trib, or pre-wrath rapture, fine, but you can’t deny the rapture event itself. fathersonthefuture.com/__static/284...

Theology 101: Me, making sure the rapture is still in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 after someone on social media insists it’s not in the Bible:

Theology 101: Me, searching the Bible in vain for the terms “spiritual Israel” and “true Israel” in Hebrew or Greek to see what they actually refer to in their contexts: