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danborvan

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5 years

Unpopular Opinion Alert: "Imagine" by John Lennon is the dumbest song ever written.

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Baptists: Where's the verse in the New Testament that says to baptize babies? Reformed: Let me start with Abraham . . .

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4 years

Anybody still Postmill?

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8 years

Why hasn't Prince's death sparked an outcry regarding prescription drug addiction, which kills more than 15,000 Americans every year?

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2 years

PSA: There is no office of Pastor's Wife in the New Testament. She is not called to ministry. There is no "we" and "our" with regard to the ministry. She's a church member, just like everyone else, and should have no more knowledge of confidential matters than any other member

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When Martin Luther died, Philip Melanchthon announced, "The charioteer of Israel has fallen." This week, another charioteer has fallen. Rod Rosenbladt was a giant of the faith who always pointed to Christ.

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3 years

The sacraments are gospel, not law. Don't transform God's vow to you into your vow to God and miss the gospel in the sacraments.

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6 months

Breaking News: Harvard President Claudine Gay claims to have written the Book of Hebrews

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2 years

Nope. Politicians of every stripe need to quit co-opting Scripture for their own purposes. Violation of the Third Commandment.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸

@patriottakes

2 years

During rally for JD Vance, Ron DeSantis quoted a Bible verse about putting on the full armor of God, but replaced “evil one” / devil with “left.”

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8 years

Guy: Do people speak in tongues at your church? Me: Yes, we have people from 6 continents G: I meant the heavenly language M: Koine Greek?

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5 years

Can we trade Portland for Hong Kong?

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5 years

“A Boy Named Sue” by Johnny Cash has no meaning in 2019.

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3 years

Calvin: You denied the Trinity Servetus: That was 4 days ago, 5 days ago.

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2 years

Proposal: Instead of altering the Lord’s Day, the real holiday, to fit in with your plans to open presents (e.g., canceling services), open presents on Saturday and keep the Lord’s Day holy.

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5 years

I want my tax dollars to go to Chick-fil-A training all government employees in customer service.

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4 years

A better question for some of you: Anybody know how to recognize a joke? Stereotype: "Reformed people are humorless." Reformed People: "Ackchyually . . ."

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5 years

Rules for Dating My Daughter: 1. I make the rules. 2. You don't make the rules. 3. She doesn't make the rules until she is an adult. 4. If you don't follow my rules, I have many ways that I can hurt you. - Toxically Masculine Father

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6 months

I’ll never understand Presbyterian and Reformed people using Presbyterian and Reformed resources to plant non-Presbyterian and Reformed churches.

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4 years

FYI, non-Californians: Many CA churches were holding in-person worship long before MacArthur's church did.

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5 years

Parents with Munchausen syndrome by proxy who transition their three-year-olds to the opposite sex will be very lonely when these children grow up and resent their parents for disfiguring their bodies in order that the narcissistic parents could virtue-signal on social media.

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5 years

Elizabeth Mae Borvan (Daughter #2 ) has arrived - 9.2lbs.

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2 years

Is expecting Reformed Churches to avoid Second Commandment violations in their Easter material a bar too high? (See WLC Q&A 109; HC 97)

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6 years

"The more you talk, the less people will listen." - @jockowillink

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6 years

I was unaware of @CalvinistBatman until he was doxxed. Now, I'm a fan. Sometimes, hit-pieces backfire.

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@danborvan

6 years

If you told this to Martin Luther, you would have to dodge a beer stein thrown at your head.

Diana Butler Bass

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6 years

The Protestant Reformation was built on two spiritual insights: 1) Gifts are free (grace alone) and 2) Follow your heart (freedom of the Christian). Grace and freedom. Abundance and liberation. A reformation of gratitude. We need it still. #ReformationDay #reformation501

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10 months

I’m petitioning the city of Geneva to add Robert Godfrey to the Reformation Wall. It’s time.

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5 years

I wish that @realDonaldTrump would tweet against the Orthodox Presbyterian Church so that all of the media would automatically react with overwhelming support.

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4 years

Trust the experts. Science!

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4 years

J. Gresham Machen was labeled “temperamentally deficient” for opposing Protestant Liberalism and the Social Gospel. We can’t be surprised when proponents of the Social Gospel 2.0 malign their opponents.

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6 years

A presbyterian at The Gospel Coalition when someone mentions paedobaptism favorably.

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7 years

Driscoll and Tullian are the Freddy and Jason of Evangelicalism. Just when you think their reign of terror has ceased, they rise again.

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5 years

Candidate #1 : I pledge to kill more babies! Candidate #2 : I’ll kill more babies than you! Candidate #3 : I’ll kill all the babies! #DNCDebate

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2 years

Any pastor who expects more of his wife than any other church member is burdening her with responsibilities that she is not called to bear. It's the opposite of loving.

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3 years

Me: What should we name baby brother? The Kid #1 (3.5 years): Johnny Cash Elvis Borvan The Kid #2 (1.5 years): Boots Watermelon

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3 years

Dispys right now trying to get their End Times books to market

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3 years

Can we send American Commies to Cuba in exchange for freedom-loving Cubans?

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danborvan

@danborvan

4 years

Celebrating Elvis’s birthday by shooting out my tv and karate kicking everything.

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2 years

The worst president in the history of the United States was a presbyterian elder, Woodrow Wilson. The best president was a Deist, Thomas Jefferson. I'll take a hard pass on Christian Nationalism.

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@danborvan

2 years

Breaking: Elon Musk is buying Princeton Theological Seminary and posthumously promoting J. Gresham Machen to the chair of apologetics.

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3 years

Christianity Today helped create the Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill phenomenon. Now, they're giving a critical postmortem.

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5 months

Any subject. Literally, anything. Reformed: You have to understand, in the 16th century . . .

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4 years

I-had-a-Meredith-Kline-joke.

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3 years

"Even if the use of images contained nothing evil, it still has no value for teaching." - Calvin, Institutes, I.xi.12

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3 years

Question: Why does the Bible call us sheep? Answer:

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4 years

Guys, all serious theological issues and church discipline cases should be settled on social media and blogs, not in church courts.

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@danborvan

6 years

Tell the Reformed Protestants in France getting slaughtered during the Wars of Religion that they didn't have the 'full gospel' because they didn't pursue social justice as a 21st century American 1%er ($34,000+ per year) defines it.

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6 years

“Your group identity is not your cardinal feature. That’s the great discovery of the west. That’s why the west is right. And I mean that unconditionally. The west is the only place in the world that has ever figured out that the individual is sovereign." - Jordan Peterson

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4 years

I retract every bad thing I've ever said about Baptists.

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5 years

Biden should answer in Latin, the official language of the Senate when he first took office.

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4 years

The next time that magistrate tries to shutdown the church, I'm just going to tell them that we're protesting. We are, after all, Protestants.

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@danborvan

2 years

These Dutchmen laugh at your skinny jeans.

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@danborvan

4 years

Meredith Kline is the most important Reformed theologian of the last 100 years. Come at me, bro.

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4 months

“To my conversion, I don’t bring my decision to receive Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. What I bring to my conversion is my sin.” -Rod Rosenbladt

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@danborvan

9 months

Installation service at Christ Reformed Church Anaheim, Friday, September 29 at 7:30 pm:

Pastor Daniel Borvan - Installation Service, September 29, 2023 — Christ Reformed Church

The members of the Council of Christ Reformed Church invite you to share with us in the joy of welcoming Pastor Daniel Borvan as the Pastor of Preaching here at Christ Reformed church. Pastor...

www.christreformed.org

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4 years

We're about two weeks out from every guy having a shaved head.

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2 years

Our tech guys are working on recreating this backdrop for the Public Reading of the Law on Sunday. I'm practicing my double fist-shake. Should be powerful.

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@danborvan

7 years

John Piper is an okay Gateway Drug of Calvinism, but you must hook up to the harder stuff of Reformed Confessionalism. (HT @theocast_org )

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4 years

Please read Meredith Kline before you start flirting with theonomy. Thank you for listening to my T-E-D talk. (If you don't know why it's hyphenated, you didn't read Kline)

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@danborvan

2 years

Presbybus after a stop at Taco Bell on the way to GA. @presbycast

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3 years

With no Facebook, where am I going to learn all my theology?

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3 years

All politicians need to stop quoting Scripture.

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1 year

A great day of worship with the saints in Bucharest.

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4 years

The only thing Marxists ever built was a mountain of bodies.

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4 years

“The vaccine contains a tracking device!!!” - sent from my smartphone, an actual tracking device

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4 years

J. Gresham Machen fought for the truth despite immense opposition. He died at age 55. Charles Erdman was a great compromiser and was well-liked by many. He died at age 94. Erdman doesn't have Warrior Children; Machen does. Be like Machen.

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danborvan

@danborvan

3 years

Me: In N Out could not possibly get any better. In N Out: Hold my double-double.

Newsweek

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3 years

"We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government," a spokesperson for the fast-food chain said.

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1 year

Clark: "I want no funeral or memorial. If people want to have a private gathering to tell jokes at my expense, more power to them." Save the date. When Clark graduates to heaven, I will organize a roast that will make Dean Martin jealous. Start writing your jokes now.

Heidelblog

@Heidelblog01

1 year

Saturday Psalm Series: The Psalm I Want Sung At My Graveside | The Heidelblog #reformed #theology #reformedtheology #theologymatters

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4 years

Me with my dispensational charts after I became an amillennialist

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@danborvan

4 years

White Shirt: Federal Vision Black Jacket: Every NAPARC Study Committee Report

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@fabiangib

4 years

You mess with the bull, you get the horns. 👋🏻😵

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2 years

For this I must consult the Gospel and listen to the Gospel, which does not teach me what I should do—for that is the proper function of the law—but what someone else has done for me, namely that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has suffered and died to deliver me from sin and death

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4 years

I don’t trust people who think everything is a conspiracy. I also don’t trust people who think nothing is a conspiracy.

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3 years

“What a dreadfully erroneous thing it is to say merely that the Bible contains the Word of God. No, it is the Word of God. It is the Word of God when it records facts. It is the Word of God when it tells us what we must do.” - Machen

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1 year

Full Preterism = Full Heresy

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2 years

Reformed churchmen conduct ecclesiastical business face to face and through church courts, not social media.

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4 years

Dispensationalist: "Unlike you, I interpret the Bible literally." Also Dispensationalist: "The Day of the Lord is 1,007 years long."

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5 years

I’m on a first-name basis with one of her sons, who happens to be a prince, although we have only communicated via email. So, I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

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9 months

The greatest non-inspired paragraph ever written is Westminster Larger Catechism, Q. 70. What is justification?

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4 years

Confession: I have to remind myself every Lord’s Day during the pastoral prayer not to call it “the ‘Rona.”

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danborvan

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6 years

Coming soon: Critical Theory Study Bible - Tired of Jesus's first-century teaching that's so outdated in a White Supremacist, Hetero-Normative, Cis-Gendered, Misogynistic society? Critical Theory Study Bible includes race and justice updates to all the teachings of Jesus.

Timothy Isaiah Cho

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6 years

"What if we applied [Matthew 23] to race and justice? What if we exercised a little creativity and thought about what Jesus might say to the church in America when it comes to race and justice? What if Matthew 23 were to read:

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5 years

Bernie: “Our campaign is about redoubling our efforts to end racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry and all forms of discrimination.” Is he running for Messiah?

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danborvan

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5 months

It baffles me that some of the most well-known Arminians (Calvary Chapel, BIOLA, et al) reside in Southern California. How can you drive on California freeways and not believe in total depravity?

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danborvan

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6 years

A key factor that I haven't seen mentioned in the SJW talk is that European Reformed Protestants (often lumped into the "white church" - as if it were monolithic) were not part of the dominant culture in most territories during the Reformation era (ca. 1517-1650).

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7 months

If you’re more concerned about the Satanic statue in the Iowa State Capitol than the Second Commandment Violation in your own church, you need to get your house in order.

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3 years

@presbycast CREC

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4 years

Cancel Culture is more puritanical than actual Puritan culture.

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7 years

The Wife has had The Kid.

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4 months

I chuckle when Bible scholars speak confidently about what is and is not in Q.

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4 years

Considering that Greta is an expert on literally everything, can someone ask her who wrote Hebrews, infra- or supra-, and where to find Q? Thanks.

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7 years

"Truth cannot be clearly stated at all without being set over against error." - J. Gresham Machen

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2 years

Pro-Tip: If you address your prayer to the Father, do not conclude saying, "In your name we pray." We pray to the Father in the name of the Son. If you're confused, read the Athanasian Creed.

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danborvan

@danborvan

5 months

Same for DMins and PhDs.

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Seems right

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5 years

‘Gospel’ as adjective is the most overused construction in the English language. Now we have gospel friendships? What does that even mean? Can I have gospel acquaintances? Gospel business relationships?

Kevin DeYoung

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5 years

May our strongest relationships be with those who lead us to Christ, not with those who draw us away from Christ. May our deepest friendships be gospel friendships.

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danborvan

@danborvan

9 months

John Piper says that we can’t have coffee in the pew. How about in the pulpit? (It’s a joke. I would never take coffee into the pulpit. I would take a cigar, though. I just need a pulpit with an ashtray.)

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6 years

Lutherans and Presbys Together

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@danborvan

7 years

“Country music today is just bad rock music with a fiddle.” - Tom Petty

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danborvan

@danborvan

7 months

Someone would have to pay me at least $1,000 to sit through that, and I might need a souvenir air sickness bag.

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7 months

I'm going to keep beating this drum. These conferences are too expensive. You may like these guys, but if a couple wanted to see them, they'd have to put down 500 dollars in this economy. If they brought their 11 year old that's another 125 dollars? That's rough.

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6 years

Keller fails to make the distinction between the institutional church and individual Christians. Individual Christians can engage in various social causes and political movements as they seek to love their neighbors. The institutional church has one mission: Word and Sacrament.

Tim Keller Wisdom

@DailyKeller

6 years

“How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t.” The historical Christian positions on social issues don’t match up with contemporary political alignments. By Timothy Keller

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5 years

Attention folks in LA County whose churches are closed on 12/29: Grace URC in Torrance will be having regular Lord's Day services! All are welcome.

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2 years

There are two types of people in the world: 1. Those who want to teach small children about sex. 2. Those who want people who teach small children about sex thrown in jail.

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6 months

Imagine telling a theologian in the sixteenth century that his polemics should be more winsome. He would laugh in your face then call you a name that would get him banned from twenty-first century social media.

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