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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Just now catching up on the day's events. Did Garth Brooks really show up in boots at someone's black tie affair?

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

Did God really say women can’t function in pastoral ways over men in the church? 🧵

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

Did God really say women can’t function in pastoral ways over men in the church? Yes. He did. Get behind us, Satan.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

Last night after church a man asked to speak to me. He had visited church for several weeks. He said, "I came at first b/c my girlfriend dragged me. Once I came, I realized she wasn't the one dragging me. It was God." I shared the gospel again. He believed. Praise God!

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Kyle Claunch

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2 years

Disfellowshipping a church over nonconformity to BFM is not a violation of autonomy. Nor is it forcing BFM on a church. It is a matter of recognizing that denominational cooperation is based on shared theological conviction. No shared conviction, no denominational cooperation.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

The question of the Son's ignorance in Mk 13:32 is fascinating with respect to history of interpretation. A 🧵 1. Late 4th Century, Nazianzen explains it by partitive exegesis (PE) - the Son is ignorant according to his human nature, not according to his deity (Oration 30.15).

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

The reason the church confesses that God is neither male nor female is the VERY SAME REASON the church has always used masculine pronouns for God and referred to the first and second persons of the Trinity by masculine names: divine revelation regulates theological language! A 🧵

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

I am not sad Trump is no longer president. I am also not happy about the new administration. Decorum is important. But it can mask darkness. We mustn't forget the platform this administration is built upon. The antithesis with the ethics of the kingdom of God is quite pronounced.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

11 months

In 1859, Basil Manly, Jr. penned the "Abstract of Principles," establishing @SBTS as a confessional institution. Today, I became the 279th professor to add my name (w/out hesitation or mental reservation) to the original copy. Deeply grateful for our confessional heritage.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

Those who would advocate for women in the office of elder/overseer and those who would advocate for women fulfilling the function of that office (even without the title) are, wittingly or unwittingly, peddling the same old message as the serpent in the garden.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

The reason Paul prohibits women from teaching and having authority over men in 1 Tim 2:12-15 is because such a function upends the ordered pattern of creation by placing a woman in a position of authority to shepherd men.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

The office of Elder/Overseer is for men only precisely because the principal function of that office in Scripture is one of exercising authority over God’s people by means of teaching Scripture. In a word, elders/overseers shepherd the flock of God (Acts 20:28).

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

The serpent seeks to turn this whole order upside down. As a beast of the field, he seeks to exercise dominion over mankind. He does not approach the man in his office as head. He approaches the woman to offer liberation from the shackles of authority.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

After prohibiting the shepherding function to women, Paul appeals to Gen 2-3 as if to say, “We’ve seen what happens when we ignore God’s design for the created order as it pertains to gender roles.”

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

Eve listens to the serpent instead of her husband, who presumably told her God’s command. The man, who is present, stands idly by and lets the serpent deceive his wife. He should’ve grabbed the serpent by the throat and crushed its head, but alas, we await another Adam for that!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Students first introduced to divine processions (eternal generation, spiration) often fear that “relations of origin” undermine true deity of Son and Spirit. To help, I offer these clarifications, hoping to divest processions of any notion of creaturely limitation. A Thread.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

In this battleground text, Paul does not address office directly, but function. In other places (next chapter), the office itself is clearly reserved for men only. The point is that the office is prohibited to women precisely because the function of shepherding men is prohibited.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

@Neilioo The quotation of the serpent is intentional. Read the whole thread. 😉

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

Today was @SBTS faculty lunch. Dr. Bruce Ware was honored for 25 years of service. Dr. Mohler described Bruce and Jodi as embodying "maximized kindness." Indeed. Ware is a man to whom I owe much. Even in theol. difference, it is he who enabled me to assess his views critically.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

The whole temptation in the garden is an undermining of the divinely designed ordered pattern of creation, which culminates in the direct disobedience to Gods command, a rejection of God as King.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

In 1 Tim 2:12-15, Paul is exhorting the church to be the kind of people who celebrate the goodness of God’s design, not the kind of people who repudiate it like our first parents did. The church surrenders to Christ as King, we don’t look for ways to cast away his cords from us!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Required reading for my Doctrine of the Trinity residential MDiv Elective @SBTS Cannot wait to contemplate the triune God with a room full of bright, virtuous student disciples!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

In Gen 2-3, God establishes a clearly ordered relationship between mankind and the rest of creation (including beasts of the field). He establishes a further order (albeit of a different kind) between two types of image bearers, head and helper, man and woman, respectively.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Pride is a grievous sin in its own right. This is compounded when the object of pride is explicit rebellion against what God says is good and celebration of what God says is evil. There is no real debate among God-fearing Christians about whether "pride" month is a good thing.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

7 months

From Augustine, Sermon 184. Note: Aug insists (rightly) that the Son continued, unabated & immutable, as eternal divine Son who rules the world, even while he assumed our nature with all its limitations. Hallelujah! So-called *extra-calvinisticum* over 1k years before Calvin.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

3 months

At every @SBTS commencement, @albertmohler gives two addresses: (1) a brief exposition of Scripture addressed to graduates; (2) a proclamation of the gospel addressed to the audience on behalf of the graduates, calling on all to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ! I love SBTS!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

7 months

Some nonsense about the Son’s confessed ignorance in Mk 13:32 is making the rounds again. Reposting this little bit on history of interpretation by Nazianzen, Aug, Aquinas, Owen, Turretin. Spoiler: none argued that the Son could be ignorant qua deity. Heresy lies that way.

Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

The question of the Son's ignorance in Mk 13:32 is fascinating with respect to history of interpretation. A 🧵 1. Late 4th Century, Nazianzen explains it by partitive exegesis (PE) - the Son is ignorant according to his human nature, not according to his deity (Oration 30.15).

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 month

Days ahead will prove that the defeat of the Law Amendment was the result of successful egalitarian subterfuge. The 29% will wake up, and, I pray, the Law Amendment’s equivalent will pass in years to come. 3/3

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

11. So how does the divine Son not know the day or hour of his own return? "The passage is saying that he does know as God but that, as man, he does not... We interpret this ignorance in the most truly religious way by ascribing it not to the divine but to the human" (Nazianzen).

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

I'm often asked, (1) Can you prove the existence of God by reason on basis of natural revelation? This is different than, (2) Can you convince a lost person of the existence of God by reason on basis of natural revelation? Answer to (1) is YES. Answer to (2) is NO. Rom 1:18-32

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

Let's get real honest and admit that conservative evangelicals are aware of a radical covenantal shift that takes place with the coming of Christ, which dramatically affects our application of OT law to our ethical lives. It is not arbitrary selection of favored ethical codes.

Jonathan Merritt

@JonathanMerritt

5 years

Can we all get real honest and admit there is no Xian who follows ALL the Bible. No one is stoning their disrespectful children or sending escaped sex trafficking victims back to their masters. This is a way of framing debates that conservatives use to shame and silence. 💫

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 month

Over 90% voted on Tuesday morning to unseat messengers of FBC, Alexandria, VA. for women pastors. Only 61% voted for Law Amendment. This tells me that the rank and file in the SBC are solidly complementarian. However, 1/

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

Just as a predominately patriarchal culture does not have the right to confess God to be male, so a predominately feministic or LGBTQ culture does not have the right to rename Father as Mother, Son as Daughter, or him as her. God reveals his nature, his names, and his pronouns.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

God reveals himself with masculine names and masc pronouns. Since naming is a privilege associated with authority (Adam names animals; parents, children), creatures do not have the privilege of naming God. God names himself; we call on him by his revealed name(s) and pronouns.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

What Lord's Supper bread to use? "The round wafers of the papists cannot be allowed..." Reasons: 1. Not real bread 2. Can't be broken/distributed 3. Tastes bad (Right!?) 4. Not nourishing, and so not a fit sign of spiritual nourishment. - John Gill, Body of Practical Divinity

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 months

The sitting President of the United States is a true enemy of the true, the good, and the beautiful. As such, he is an enemy of the flourishing of the nation. For no nation can stand against what is true, good, and beautiful and thrive. May his reign of evil be short-lived!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

It was an overwhelming honor to preach the word in the place that has so deeply shaped my handling of the word. Surreal. I trust now that the word will do its work in the hearers.

Southern Seminary

@SBTS

5 years

Trust his unfailing promises. @kdclaunch #SBTSChapel

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Kyle Claunch

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1 year

@mbird12 @mbird12 Respectfully, who is insisting that God is male as though he is embodied? The dust up is over a push to neutralize revealed gendered names and pronouns. Is anyone who argues for masculine names and pronouns basing that on belief in a literal male God? I know none.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

5. NONE of these respected teachers dared entertain the notion that the Son was ignorant in his divine nature. Unitarianism or Arianism lies that way. The analogia fide forbade that understanding on account of the clear teaching of Scripture regarding the full deity of the Son.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

3 years

Very thankful to be presenting at ETS this year. Rejected two years in a row, so this message was a joy to receive!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 month

Multiple major media outlets now declaring victory for women pastors in the SBC. For all those concerned about how the Law Amendment might make us appear to a watching world, are you satisfied? Our public persona now looks more like the world than it has in a long time.

Denny Burk

@DennyBurk

1 month

Baptist Women in Ministry: “Baptist Women in Ministry offers appreciation to all the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) who voted against the Law amendment BECAUSE of their commitment to support and affirm women serving as pastors of all kinds in the SBC.”

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

3 years

- Lecturing on Divine Immutability = Good. - Leading discussion of Augustine DE TRINITATE, Books II and III = Better. - Holding my son after it all = BEST!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

Categorizing eschatology into "optimistic" (i.e., postmil) and "pessimistic" (not postmil) is a great example of attractive rhetoric forged from the materials of weak argument. One who expects the blessed hope of the future appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ is no pessimist!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

I'm beyond excited to be teaching the Trinity elective for @SBTS again in the Spring of 2023. Come join us!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

God reveals himself to be an infinite and eternal spirit, invisible and incorporeal. Since male and female are, by definition, determined biologically and describe embodied creatures only, Christians are compelled to confess that God is not male or female.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

Twenty years ago today, I married the most precious gem of a lovely and godly wife! Here we are, 20 years, 6 kids, and countless memories later. I am the most blessed of men. The Lord is kind!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

3 years

I wish @DrJimHamilton had been given an extra hour to preach in @SBTS chapel this morning! It was 🔥 🔥 🔥 in all the rich, worshipful, and Christ-exalting ways it should have been!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

San Antonio, here we come! Would love to see you there.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

7 months

Right. Many are confused in this way. Truths of each nature are predicated of the one person. This must be the case if the whole witness of Scripture regarding the Triune God and the Person of Christ is true. This is the testimony of Nicaea/Chalcedon.

Mitchell Wygant

@MWMDCLXXVII

7 months

🧵 The two natures united in the Person of the Son. I believe James White misunderstands our position regarding Matthew 24:36. I am not aware of anyone who believes the human nature of Jesus spoke, rather the Son spoke according to his human nature.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

A church that has complied with gov't orders not to host a regular service on the largest worship day of the calendar year and instead are assembling cars, spaced out properly, limited to single family units per vehicle, should not be targeted by a police force like criminals. 2/

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 months

Is it exegetically legit to understand a “covenant” between God and Adam in which Adam represented all humanity, a covenant Adam failed to keep, plummeting all his posterity into corruption and guilt, even though the word “covenant” is not used in Gen. 1-3? Short Answer: YES!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

The theology of eternal processions often strikes people as unnecessarily dense and perilously removed from the plain language of Scripture. Nothing could be farther from the truth! 1/

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

Overturning Beshear's veto of SB 150 in KY leg. is good news for humanity. All humanity. Like all objectively good news, it will be smeared by some as evil (Is 5:20). But it is GOOD for creatures to affirm the wisdom of the Creator. "Male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27)

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

11 days

Some trust in elephants, some in donkeys, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

I was expecting the news to drop about Roe. But it still shook me. I cried when I heard it - tears of joy. I'm 41-YO and have never known a nation without abortion on demand as a federally mandated right. Much work to be done, but this decision is monumentally good news!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

The most unbelievable thing is that this kind of system (communism) has been tested. Repeatedly. On a massive scale. It never. Ever. Worked.

Kamala Harris

@KamalaHarris

4 years

There’s a big difference between equality and equity.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 month

Very sad to me. The need for clarity the amendment would have provided will be evident again at some point. I hope we see something aimed at the same purpose as the Law amendment on the ballot again in the future. Meanwhile, God is sovereign and works all things for good.

Denny Burk

@DennyBurk

1 month

Well, we did our best. Sixty-one percent of the messengers voted in favor of the Law Amendment, but that falls short of the 66% supermajority that was required. “The Lord reigns. Let the whole earth rejoice.” -Psalm 97:1 #SBC24

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Today is my 2nd-born son's 15th birthday. He is a true delight, loved by all who know him. His first words this morning as I woke him up: "It's been the best 15 years of my life."

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Born with hands of flesh was He, The everlasting God, That from those hands of flesh might bleed His ever-saving blood. Merry Christmas!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

"Seeking to understand types and patterns, then, extends to broader contexts something we intuitively do with immediate contexts. The study of typology amounts to active reflection on one passage in light of others." @DrJimHamilton

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Divine revelation is anthropomorphic. God is not a male. BUT the language of divine revelation is God's prerogative, not ours. And knowledge of God is according to his revelation, not my imagination. Otherwise, idolatry. God has preferred pronouns. We are wise to pay attention.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

3 years

So excited to have Fred Sanders lecturing at SBTS! Students, make plans to attend. It will be a biblical and theological feast!

Southern Seminary

@SBTS

3 years

We're thrilled to announce next month's Norton Lectures. Mark your calendars for February 9-10 and plan to join us as we hear from @FredFredSanders . #SouthernSeminary

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Thankful that the Spirit intercedes with groans when Derek does not know how to pray as he ought. #morebaptists #oops

Derek Rishmawy

@DZRishmawy

4 years

Praying for all Christians to become Presbyterian today. No need to thank me. Just love lifting up my brothers and sisters to the Lord.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

To be clear, my view of Scripture as the word of God written IS the “historical-Christian view of Scripture.” Wish I could persuade you to embrace the view. Whether you like it or not, the fact remains. This is how believers viewed Scripture since its first texts were penned.

Jeffrey Davis

@penland365

2 months

Always interesting to me that fundamentalist Christian intellectuals reject a historical-Christian view of Scripture to embrace a Salafi/Wahhabist (fundamentalist Islam) view. (Pedantically: God did not say women can't function as pastors, humans did and the Bible recorded it.)

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

8 months

My work as a theology prof @SBTS is joy-filled and satisfying. I see in bright faces, hear in thoughtful questions, and read in hard-wrought papers a growing maturity in the faith once delivered to the saints as revealed in Scripture and confessed by the church through the ages.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

Pre-Christian pagan idolatry: "They worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator" Post-Christian pagan idolatry: "They worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator." Nothing new under the sun.

Union Seminary

@UnionSeminary

5 years

Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Today, when people say Jesus did miracles by the Spirit, they have in mind some kind of kenotic theory of the incarnation and/or social theory of Trinity. When John Owen says Jesus did miracles by the Spirit, he draws from the deep wells of Nicene and Chalcedonian orthodoxy. 🧵

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Kyle Claunch

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1 year

4. In the period of high orthodoxy (late 17th C), Reformed theologians like John Owen and Francis Turretin argued for a human, not divine, ignorance of the Son by way of PE, rejecting the Augustinian and Thomistic interpretation for various exegetical and theological reasons.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

-Inevitability of illegal abortions. -Difficulty of enforcement. -Social challenges of more crisis pregnancies going full term. Are these concerns really reason to continue legitimizing the intentional slaughter of human life on a grand scale? Answer: NO! Heaven help us!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Of course narrative texts must speak for themselves. But this statement misses the very hermeneutical question at issue. Does the narrative text typify Christ with the figure of David? If Jesus fulfills David typology, does the type text itself anticipate fulfillment? I say YES!

sᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴀɴɪᴏʟ

@ScottAniol

2 years

David isn't you. David isn't Jesus. David is David. The story of David and Goliath certainly has personal and Messianic implications, but let the narrative speak for itself.

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Kyle Claunch

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1 year

6. All four theologians mentioned affirmed the necessity of PE for a right reading of Scripture concerning the person of the Son. Some things are spoken of him according to his deity ("form of God") and other things are spoken of him according to humanity ("form of servant").

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

This is massive overreach. No, Mr. Governor! and No, Mr. Mayor. This is not ok... Recommend/plead against it. But do not marshall a police state against churches (exclusively) who are sacrificing much in an effort to comply with orders and love their neighbors as themselves. 3/

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Right before this, Gill argues that whether the bread is leavened or unleavened is a matter of no great consequence. So long as it is: real bread, breakable, not gross, and nourishing. Conclusion: use bread, not styrofoam substitutes! 😂🤓

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Enjoyed spending the week discussing the one and triune God with a bright group of @SBTS_PhD student scholars.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Our church decided against a "drive-in" parking lot service long before the governor of KY and mayor of Louisville banned it and swore to marshall the police to take down license plates from those who don't comply in order to force a 14-day quarantine. However... 1/

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Filming lectures for a new Systematic Theology 1 class @SBTS - Join me in the Fall. Start the application process now! Thankful for the excellent work of @jonathanahlgren and @sbtsonline to make this happen!

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Kyle Claunch

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2. Early 5th Century, Augustine has a different explanation, arguing that the saying, "The Son... does not know" refers to the fact that he does not intend to make it known. "Know" means "make known" in the passage.

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Kyle Claunch

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10. I find the use of PE to be most satisfying here and thus prefer the interpretations of Nazianzen, Owen, and Turretin over those of Augustine and Aquinas on this text.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

Just some practical theology. Teaching my son to triumph over the serpent (In a biblical-theological, intra-canonical sort of way, not a spurious reading of Mark 16 sort of way).

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Amen. Please read the whole FB post by Michael Haykin.

Denny Burk

@DennyBurk

4 years

“Great saints can and do commit sins, and so they can still be models to imitate (see Hebrews 13:7 and Hebrews 11), without us whitewashing their sins.” -Michael Haykin

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Kyle Claunch

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5 years

Prayers greatly appreciated as I preach in chapel @SBTS this morning at 10am EST. "All That the LORD Says: The Curious Case of Balaam the Prophet." (Numbers 22-24)

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

6 months

The real angle in this piece: to value biblical sexual purity and to believe the biblical teaching about headship and submission in the home inevitably leads to abuse and repression. This is a serpentine message. Did God really say?

Elisabeth Elliot, Flawed Queen of Purity Culture, and Her Disturbing Third Marriage — The Revealer

Was the famous evangelical woman in a manipulative marriage?

therevealer.org

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

Most Protestants are going to say F on the assumption that Tradition is a set of objective truths independent of Scripture. But if Tradition is the method of transmitting (traditio) truth of Scripture, then it must be T or you actually undermine sola Scriptura.

Richard Barcellos

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2 years

T or F: Tradition is the method by which the Holy Spirit causes the truth of Scripture to pass into the consciousness and life of the church.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

1. In incarnation, the divine Son took on human nature, humbling himself to experience the limitations and sufferings of a creaturely mode of existence. All the while, he continued as God in his divine mode of existence as the Son. He did not relinquish deity. He assumed humanity

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

This is surprising bc the explanation comes in the midst of Augustine's beautiful exposition of the "form of God" and "form of servant" rules for PE (De Trin, Bk 2). In any case, Augustine argues that the son did, in fact, know the day and the hour, according to both natures.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Isn't it ironic how this pandemic has masked our faces while unmasking our hearts?

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

3 years

In Acts 6, it didn't take a Hellenist to understand injustice to Hellenists. The "full number of the disciples" (Heb and Hel) was gathered to address the issue. No standpoint epistemology here. The whole church understood an injustice to a particular group in the church. 1/2

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 month

29% of the rank and file SBC complementarians bought the line that our past actions regarding the removal of churches (Saddleback, Fern Creek, and now Alexandria) prove the LA is not necessary. 2/

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

7 months

Wow. I came to @SBTS in 2005 as a student. Hard to state all the ways Dr. Mohler’s tenure has shaped my life and ministry. Most of it is not through direct interaction but through the faculty and confessional fidelity of the seminary as a whole, which he built. Grateful.

Southern Seminary

@SBTS

7 months

HISTORICAL MOMENT: As of today, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. has officially become the longest-tenured President of #SBTS and longest-serving leader of any #SBC entity. Would you join us in thanking God for his and Mrs. Mohler's ministry so far at #SouthernSeminary and beyond? 🎉

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

John Owen on Son's obedience (re: Phil 2:6-8): "This person 'took on him the form of a servant,'—that is, the nature of man in the condition of a servant... And this person became obedient. It was in the human nature, in the form of a servant, wherein he was obedient" (1:233).

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

4 years

Praise God for this edifying conversation with @DrJimHamilton that clarifies the faithful exegetical and theological work and teaching of @Dom_S_Hernandez I am thankful to call both of these brothers colleagues @SBTS . #Trustedfortruth

Albert Mohler

@albertmohler

4 years

Scholarship, truth, and conviction combined--and a great conversation between @DrJimHamilton and @Dom_S_Hernandez . Very thankful for this conversation, a superb model of how Christian scholars should speak to and about one another. #TrustedForTruth @SBTS

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

6 months

Here I stand.

𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐨

@MichaelCarlino

6 months

Biggest takeaway from the first @KenwoodBC Institute class today on Reformed theology from @kdclaunch : Baptists are to Reformed theology what Reformed theology was/is to Protestantism, and what Protestantism was/is to Catholicity. #semperreformanda

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

This thread is complementarianism as I have always understood it and practiced it. I greatly appreciate the simple conviction, charity, and clarity with which Tom has made his case. As unpopular as this understanding has become (even among complementarians!) I remain convinced.

Tom Schreiner

@DrTomSchreiner

5 years

I am going to do a thread relating to women in ministry with some random thoughts. Let me say in advance that I wish I had time to engage on twitter with comments and responses. But I don't have time to do that. Sorry!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 months

Grateful to be preaching God’s word this morning to the servants of Christ in the @SBTS_PhD program who are gathered this week for seminars. Chapel is at 11am in Broadus Chapel on campus @SBTS Prayers appreciated!

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

9 months

Here I stand.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

5 years

Both teaching @SBTS and preaching @HPFBC stir up in me a hunger for more insight and a closer proximity to the Triune God. Like John weeping about the scroll, I find myself desperate for more. Like John beholding the Lion and the Lamb, I find myself satisfied with Christ alone.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

9 months

Now @LaurensPruis is putting that training to use on his side of the ocean. He's leading a church plant to establish a healthy, Reformed, and Baptist church in the Netherlands for the glory of God and the spread of the gospel. Stories like his make me overjoyed to teach @SBTS

Laurens H. E. Pruis

@LaurensPruis

9 months

Wholeheartedly agree with @albertmohler . I was one of those who “crossed the ocean” to study at SBTS. And it was more than worth it. If you can, make an effort to go residential. Be there in person, join a local church & be shaped for life. I would do it all again, if I could.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

2 years

4. A divine procession is not reproduction; it is essential unity. For human father to beget a son means that son is also human. But son has a distinct essence from father; thus, two humans. Not so for God. Begetter and Begotten are same essence (homoousios); thus, only one God.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

"Complicated" is actually the right answer. Trustworthy sources who affirm a classical understanding of the doctrine of God don't use the term "attributes" (lat. idiomata) monolithically. If "attribute" is used as synonymous with a "perfection," the answer is no. BUT...

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

1 year

Unity is the consequence of truth, not the criterion for truth. See John 17:11-17 Compromising biblical truth in the interests of unity does not serve the end for which Jesus prayed.

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Kyle Claunch

@kdclaunch

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Also, Turretin explicitly argues, contra Thomas, that the Son did not have the beatific vision in his human soul during the humiliation, which I find to be more compelling than Thomas's account.

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