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Equipping Christian men to become the worldview leaders their families and churches need. Learn to understand, apply, and defend your Christian faith.

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Christian men only: Do you like learning? In the Hammer & Anvil Society, you will get: 1. Biblical Worldview 2. Family Discipleship 3. Apologetics Foundations 4. Advanced Apologetics You'll also get weekly cohort calls with the brothers. Learn more:
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@Graham4GA Incorrect. Christianity is good; Satanism is bad.
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@servetus See this is not representative of biblical Christianity. This is a different religion.
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@CTmagazine "Throwing your kids into the lion enclosure at the zoo is like hunting training for your children."
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About 2,000 years ago, the Son of God conquered sin and death, saving the world, by dying for His people. Do you believe this?
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@xingtemplars We can comprehend this though.
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@Cobratate Repent and turn to Jesus Christ, and you will find that your mind clears up and your seared conscience will be restored.
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@JonnyRoot_ @Protestia John Wycliffe died a martyr's death to bring us the English Bible, so this woman could kick it at a man during a church worship service.
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@efox303 @MiddleearthMixr This meme presents one side good and the other evil.
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@servetus Again, this is a hard pill for Protestant Liberals to swallow, but nothing about this meme is based in actual biblical Christianity.
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@OnTheNewsBeat Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. —Romans 1:22–23
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@servetus You're using words that sound Christian, but that's not biblical Christianity. Protestant Liberalism is a different religion. It defines love completely differently than the Bible. And since "God is love" (1 John 4:8) that has ramifications for all of theology.
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@YoungAtheist0 "My sin is God's fault!" —You
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@CTmagazine "Sending your kids out to the enemy army while your city is beseiged can be great soldier training for them."
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Should Christians be pro-Bitcoin?
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Atheists may say “You’re only a Christian because your parents were. Listen, if your parents taught you the faith, that doesn’t mean Christianity is false. That just means you had good parents.
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@timkellernyc Romans 1-3 would like a word.
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Which way, Western man?
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@douglaswils This is a commentary on how, under our current godless regime, Jewish people are being banned from universities. He’s saying, however bad you think CN will make things, you probably don’t realize how bad it is right now. The thing you fear is already happening, now.
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@mikeCAburritos @servetus That's exactly right. Unnatural, inhuman and inhumane ideologies that seek to attach themselves to our children's backs must be dealt with by godly fathers and mothers. This is good parenting, not bullying.
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@gavinortlund Did God promise not to send any more local floods, on your view?
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@Key3Skeleton Within the Christian worldview, it's true that God is the Creator. Yet within that same worldview, God is not culpable for man's sinful actions or inclinations. There's no contradiction here, when you deal with Christianity on its own terms. Has anyone ever explained this to
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@Jayson_Carmona_ John the Baptist did not ordain Joseph Smith to a priesthood that had been abolished for nearly 1800 years.
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I’m going to start muting and blocking more atheists. I’m talking only about the rude, recalcitrantly ignorant kind. If you’re here for good-faith conversation, you have my respect. But if you’re just looking for a proxy battle with the God you hate, I have no time for you.
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@The_Hellenist Jesus already dethroned your puny gods and made them a laughingstock, triumphing over them by the cross.
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@TheMiddleborne "You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You." —Isaiah 26:3
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@MerikanBeowulf @LegoRacers2 Wow—even Egypt's landforms are sphinxes?
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@nakedpastor Without the verses, love is arbitrary and may be defined subjectively. Why do false teachers always seek to diminish the sufficiency of God's word?
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@ChurchofSatan @JennaEllisEsq Allah is a monad, not the Triune God of Scripture.
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@darwintojesus You have discovered the end game. Actually, this will be the penultimate step.
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@servetus @mikeCAburritos This isn't a quote from me.
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@BilltheCatGuy1 @GigaBasedDad None of that was Constantine's doing. The church grew soft, sullied and apostate over the next few hundred years. Similar to what we are seeing today in the West.
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@Protestia Eh, he's trying. Conveying compelling energy on camera is hard. Give him a break. This isn't heretical.
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@CharlesTMoran @realDonaldTrump According to what absolute standard of morality is this a win?
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@TheDeenShow When Jesus fasted for 40 days, it was when the Holy Spirit drove Him into the wilderness, immediately after the Father announced, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased." You believe Jesus fasted. Do you also believe He is the Son of God?
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@melindagates Will you be promoting the rights of the little unborn women in their mothers' wombs, or will you be funding an increase in their premature destruction?
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@CatholicSat And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 1 John 4:3
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@momanoms2 @Graham4GA If your political theory has you promoting literal Satanism, then it is broken, and you need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ.
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@nakedpastor "Earthly fathers and God Almighty are exactly the same and should be treated the same." —You
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@NashIsHereForIt How do the deaths of gun violence victims affect you? Same answer.
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@Wario64 The power of MANYYYYYY
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@markoftheD Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris (not a virgin) after Isis pieced Osiris back together. Horus had no virgin birth, never died, was never buried, and never resurrected. He didn't have 12 disciples. He has a bird head, not a lamb. Crucifixion wasn't a thing in 2,200 B.C.
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@ShooterMcGavin_ A true classic.
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@GigaBasedDad Knights, because they could write a sonnet while slaying the local dragon.
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@servetus Again, Mr. Welch, this is not Christianity. This is not what the Bible teaches, and it is not what Christians believe. The sexual binary is taught and affirmed throughout the Christian holy book, the Bible. The divine author of the Bible is God. If you deny the Bible's
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@geostylegeo There is more and better evidence that Jesus lived, died for our sins, was buried, and was raised to life on the third day than that you exist, Sir.
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@AdamPage85 "I don't know why you're quacking. I'm talking about you."
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@Graham4GA Do you believe Nazism likewise "has some good?" Nazism's head was Hitler, and Hitler, while evil, did not accomplish anywhere near the amount of evil as Satan. If you hate Nazism, you must hate Satanism much, much more.
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@JamesLucasIT This one is really mind-bending.
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@SuaSponte2020 @tulpapilled I think that was more of a coincidence, but it's cool to think about.
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@YoungAtheist0 In all seriousness, what is your argument here?
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@William_E_Wolfe Best line: "The Moral Majority is absolutely batting a 1000 on their warnings about the slippery slope of the moral degeneration of America."
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@PerfInjust Based on my interview with @Douglaswils , arguably the godfather of contemporary Classical Christian Ed, it's to form the whole person in a way that he grows up with an integrated competency in all areas of knowledge, all of which center around Christ at the hub.
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@JustinPetersMin "God does not intervene." • God promises to fight for Israel in Ex 14:14. • David says God mounted a cherub to rescue him in Ps 18 (cf. 2 Sa 22). • God preserved 3 men in the furnace in Da 3:25. • David asks God to "take hold of shield and buckler" and help him in Ps 35.
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@paulogia0 First, state what your absolute, objective standard of morality is, and justify why you hold to that standard, using only terms that are consistent with your own godless worldview. Until you do that, we all can and will disregard your opining as mere spleen-venting.
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@MikeWingerii That's silly. Now turn in your Bible to Psalms 2....
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@creation247 If so, then may the Lord launch a second Reformation.
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@lutherananswers Haha, this is gold. Some atheists reason at such a tragically shallow level that they can't imagine Christians (whom they deem as intellectually inferior to themselves) have already anticipated their arguments and rejected them for good reasons.
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@TheSkeptic4122 Christians are consistent on that. Accuracy in pronouns matters. What makes you think this is an own of Christians?
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@servetus @mikeCAburritos It sounds like you've been hurt by loved ones, and based on a combination of that experience and your desire to remain in unrepentant sin, you are seeking to redefine Christianity. It would be better to admit that you have yet to join Christianity and are in another religion.
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@djos24 "Replacement" should be fulfillment. The line should lead to Christ and continue as the church. To the left of Christ it should read, "Israel = unbelieving type + faithful remnant," and to the right of Christ it should read "Church"
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@nakedpastor "Scripture cannot be broken." --Actual Jesus
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When the kids and wife are asleep, that’s my chance to sneak out and do deadlifts. Final set: 5x230lbs. I have no idea if that’s good or not, but it’s the most I’ve done since I got back into lifting.
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@TheOutsiderHum1 @Key3Skeleton This is a good question, and God answers it in the Bible. "The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble" (Proverbs 16:4). God also raised up Pharaoh, the oppressor of His people, saying, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that
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@dlongenecker1 If the Bible doesn't teach your doctrine, that is in fact a "gotcha," and if you fail to recognize it as such, then that reveals something significant about you, but what it does not reveal is that it was not a "gotcha."
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@Mario_4411 @entropyrian @Cernovich "Murder children who might grow up poor." You're making the abolitionist case for us.
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What does God think of Bitcoin?
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@Breaking911 What a terrifying thing. May the Lord have mercy on these students and their families. "The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit" (Psalm 34:18).
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@TuckerCarlson Did you know Doug Wilson is also the man who brought back Classical Christian Education? He talked about it in this video a few years back:
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@Key3Skeleton Could you flesh this out? From your perspective, is this considered a good argument? And if so, why?
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@RecordsPaper911 @calvinrobinson @ccanadian1965 Ask her if she believes that Jesus Christ is Lord, the Second Person of the Trinity, who died for our sins and rose from the dead, and who is the only way to the Father. Then we'll find out if it's the same God.
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Is Right Wing Watch secretly a Christian organization, whose mission is to rAgE POsT ideas they secretly agree with to the Democrats who follow them? This is a serious question.
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What happens when you elect a Christian nationalist pastor like Dusty Deevers to a seat in the Oklahoma state Senate? You get lectured about how pornography is a tool of Satan and must therefore be outlawed so that people "can be set free" and give their lives to Jesus.
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@Eric_Conn Youth group can serve a good purpose, especially for homeschooled kids, providing friends, relevant answers to big questions, a Christ-centered cultural Overton Window, and robust theological and discipleship training. Yes it is often done wrongly, but it doesn't have to be.
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@TheOutsiderHum1 @Key3Skeleton Explain the contradiction please. What two specific teachings of biblical Christianity contradict each other?
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@Eric_Conn He looks cool. Say something encouraging.
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@derektheheretic Jesus: Repent and believe the Gospel. Do you obey this?
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Has the Bible been corrupted over time? Support your answer.
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@ToriatheistTori You're not God. Stop telling people what to do.
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@BonifaceOption @johnrich @TuckerCarlson To be fair though, Dispensational Eschatology is not the biggest psyop unleashed on the church. That honor goes to papism.
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@HunterAA6 I say this respectfully: Only to a fool.
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Lamb's blood is an antivenom that counteracts serpent's venom. I kid you not. God did that.
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@LesleyJWilliams @douglaswils They don't like the Gospel either, but that doesn't make it false.
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@BeatTheCult Even on your own worldview, you aren't the kind of being who gets to decide that.
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@DustyDeevers Porn defenders are gamma males. Ban porn.
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@servetus Your position here is not representative of biblical Christianity. Psalm 2, Matthew 28:18–20, and the entire book of Revelation are on Sproul's side. I urge you to repent and trust in the Biblical Jesus.
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@NeilShenvi @megbasham @KSPrior Despite Madam Prior's protestation to the contrary, it does appear to be moral equivocation, Neil.
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Jesus Christ is God. Worship Him.
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@vidIQ Yes; that's the whole reason I create shorts.
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The existence of God is obvious. Atheists assert that God is not obvious, so they bear the burden of proof. They’re making a claim. They need to back it up. It’s up to the atheist to prove that God is not there. #goodluck #randomchancebewithyou
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Here are some Christian podcasts that we recommend. What are we missing? The Theology Pugcast ( @crwiley1962 , Glenn Sunshine, Tom Price) The World and Everything In It ( @WNGdotorg ) The Briefing ( @albertmohler ) The Christian Optimist ( @raefchenery ) Gospel Tech (Nathan
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We need a separation of secular humanism and state.
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Remember when people used to think that evolutionists had the intellectual high ground? Hilarious!
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@BasedTorba @ostrachan You have jumped the shark. I see now that the anti-Jewish bile on your platform Gab is a feature not a bug. Gab is dead. Long live X.
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@mikepratt @Brian_Sauve Do you not hang out with your guys friends without your wife?
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Perhaps the greatest proof that the Bible is true is the vehemence with which those who hate God deny it. The only explanation for such obtuseness is sinful suppression of the truth—which is exactly what the Bible says would happen.
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Evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ: 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: 1.Tacitus (Annals) - A Roman historian who mentions Jesus in the context of His execution by Pontius Pilate during the reign of Emperor Tiberius. 2.Pliny the Younger (Letters) - A Roman governor who
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@BionicDance @darwintojesus Do you judge whether people have the right to live based on appearances? Y/N
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God has made evangelism easier by ensuring that every non-Christian religion would be self-refuting.
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@YoungAtheist0 Cosmological Argument: The universe had a beginning and requires a cause, which points to a transcendent Creator. Teleological Argument: The fine-tuning of the universe for life suggests intelligent design. Moral Argument: Objective moral values exist, indicating a moral
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@SecretFire79 The Roman Church brings a message impossible to understand. The Eastern Orthodox Church brings booze. And Protestants bring the Gospel to the RCs and EOs. Amen.
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@GigaBasedDad He gave them an extra life.
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Here's our X Circle. Interesting to see our interactions quantified like this. Lots of really great accounts here. Circle 1 1.  @darwintojesus 2.  @ApoloJedi_ 3.  @jmbushwrites 4.  @klingbomb 5.  @VikingLumberjak 6.  @ChrisHohnholz 7.  @AKofiCup 8.  @NotEvolution1 Circle 2 9.
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