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I certainly could. This was just for ease of use.

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We've been doing pretty well lately, too.

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Oh hey Erin! What a small world. How have you and Liam been?

Jeremy ⚓ @the-thin-place.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

That's weird. Why are so many elderly interested in this course do you think?

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Jeremy ⚓ @the-thin-place.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What a glorious thing that would be. Anecdotally it looks like the "Christian" part takes a backseat more often.

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laudable Practice @laudablepractice.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Jeremy Taylor in 'The Worthy Communicant': "it must be infinitely certain, that great spiritual blessings are consequent to the worthy receiving of this divine sacrament: because it is not at all received but by a spiritual hand: for it is either to be understood in a carnal 1/3

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Jeremy ⚓ @the-thin-place.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Bruton Parish is absolutely gorgeous. There are several beautiful parishes around this area. St Johns in Hampton, Galilee in VA Beach (based on Bruton), and more.

Jeremy ⚓ @the-thin-place.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am happy to report another wonderful experience at Grace Episcopal Church (established 1697). The Rector even wears the Anglican traditional choir dress as officiant at the Rite I Eucharist! So splendid to see in a colonial parish. ⚓

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Jeremy ⚓ @the-thin-place.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

How many Ecumenical Councils are traditionally recognized by Anglicans? 4 only, with a special distain for Nicea II. ⚓

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I'd imagine that's a very common churchmanship in TEC.

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Yes, I often choose Jeremy Taylor or Katherine Sonderegger (because I value her theological work today) but I'd rather choose Cranmer or Jewel.

I have considered making a revision but I just don't know how. Some of the ones like representative personalities absolutely needs new options.

Excellent results. Before I started getting PB Low, I was getting Old High.

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Day 7: This book was a splendid defense of the Church of England and it's Confession, the Articles of Religion. John Jewel's Apology is an absolute must read for any serious Anglican Christian.

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I don't believe St Paul's teachings can contradict Jesus' because St Paul wrote what was inspired by the Spirit of Christ. But this is getting us deeper into a possible disagreement on the nature of revelation and inspiration.

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I'm not sure, in the spirit of Divine Simplicity, that these things are or can be seperate. But that's getting into doctrine of God weeds that were not ultimately my point.

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However, scripture teaches that God uses creation, including creatures, as the instruments of his vengeance.

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The standard of scripture. Genesis 9:6.

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The standard for capital punishment is murder.

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So my belief that the Bible teaches that it is just to execute a murder necessitates that innocent people also get executed? That's absurd.

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How does that **at all** follow?

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The death penalty has never required a just society, as there has never been a just society. The hypothetical is about the properness of executing a murderer, not how well we go about convictions. I acknowledged the flawed nature of our system.

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No it's not. Also antiquity did have prisons. Lots of prisons. St Paul was in them quite often.

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Killing is not objectively, universally, always, a sin. Murder is.

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Killing is not an objective evil. Murder is. Your contextualizing is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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Sure, feel free. I don't hate DBH for what it's worth. I just think he's an asshole lol. I thank is book That All Shall Be Saved for opening me up to Reformed theology. It was a great treatise on the nature of the Will and choice.

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To reiterate, I acknowledged the flawed system and specified the issue as *per se*. The death penalty as it is capable of being implemented right now, in America, may be incapable of proper use but Capital punishment isn't, in essence, evil.

No civilization has ever had a perfectly just system and yet the author of Genesis and Paul both felt quite comfortable teaching under the inspiration of the Spirit that execution was acceptable. And the justification was exactly that one who kills an Image Bearer has committed so grievous a sin.

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And in Romans 13:4, Paul speaks quite frankly that the Magistrate is the servant of God who wields the sword as an avenger. This is executioner, capital punishment language. Does this mean the State system for it is not flawed? No. But it, of itself, isn't evil.

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