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I think I've formulated a new apologetics argument that should prove fun and (hopefully) fruitful when talking with Protestants. Basically, the way Protestants view the Sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist is similar to how Paul describes the reason for Head Coverings in 1 Corinthians 11. The result of this line of thinking would not only force Protestants to make Baptism indistinguishable from Eucharist, but also to 'raise' Head Coverings up to the level of a new Sacrament in itself. Let's see where this goes.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Why Head Coverings blind Protestants.
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Labels: 2 Tim 3:16, Apologetics, Eucharist, Interesting, Justification, Liturgy, Papacy, Protestantism, Reformed, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Tradition
Monday, June 6, 2016
As (Not So) Often As You Do This - another round of the crushing Protestant liturgical dilemma
Though I haven't had much time to blog recently, I wanted to show people a beautiful real-life example of the crushing effectiveness of the Ultimate Catholic Apologetics Argument (UCAA) against Protestants (which I posted about previously).
A "Reformed Baptist" pastor named Ken at the Protestant apologetics site Beggars All had a post focused on criticizing Catholics for following "traditions of men" rather than the Bible, which turned out to be highly ironic shortly after I brought up the UCAA in the combox. There's no need to read the post or most of the comments, but if you're interested just see the last ten comments or so for how effortlessly the UCAA can take down the most committed "Bible Christian" (see THIS link to take you straight to the last few comments).
The key post is when I responded to Ken saying,
As you can see, Ken was pretty trapped here, because while the Bible does indicate the Eucharist is the essential part of the liturgy, and thus is done "often" (1 Cor 11:26), both Ken and most Evangelicals do not do this that often. And as I also point out, to compound the dilemma they are in, that line of thinking means there is nothing actually essential to the Christian Liturgy, which is ridiculous, and results in the Protestant being able to leave out anything they want on any given Sunday.[Pastor Ken said]: None of what you say really carries any weight with me, since you are right in the sense that that an order of worship is not laid out word for word, but the general idea is for us to worship God by Scripture, prayer, singing, teaching, etc. and we can arrange the order however we want to and that is not a big deal to me.
[Nick's response]: The main problem I have here is that you haven't actually given any Scriptural verses that say what the "general idea" is for Christian Liturgy. The closest thing you've listed is the Lord's Supper, which you say you only do once a month. I don't even think you've given a verse that says singing is supposed to be done during liturgy.
As for your admission that you only celebrated the Lord's Supper once a month, this is astonishing because either it is part of liturgy or it isn't. If it is part of liturgy, you have no right to only do it 25% of the time. This suggests a person can celebrate the Lord's Supper as rarely as they feel like it, and by extension they can leave out Scripture, prayer, etc, as often as they feel like it. All this reduces down to a liturgical relativism, which really isn't liturgy at all, but more and more a man-made event according to personal taste.
Now, it's important to note that while this massive problem didn't bother Ken nor will it trouble most other Protestants, the fact is it should, and I believe that it eventually will bother them. For now, it's great that some seeds were planted. I strongly believe that if more Catholics would start using the UCAA, I swear that this will be the downfall of Westminster Seminary in a few short years.
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Monday, April 25, 2016
The ultimate and most effective Catholic apologetics argument against Protestantism.
I have come to the conclusion that the most powerful apologetics argument that a Catholic can make against Protestantism is that their Sunday Liturgy is actually man-made and thus blatant idolatry. Let me explain this more.
The most important duty a human has, regardless even of whether they are a Christian or not, is to worship God. This should be - without a doubt - an obvious truth that everyone can agree upon. Given this, a person must not only worship God, they must do so properly, i.e., they must worship as God has instructed them to do. This means that Liturgy requires divine revelation, because otherwise the person is "worshiping" God based on what sounds good to their human mind...but there is a word for worshiping according to what sounds good to you: it's called idolatry. So the only way to escape idolatry is to worship according to how God has divinely revealed it. Which leads us to the key problem which all Protestants face.
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Friday, March 11, 2016
A powerful OT foreshadowing of the Papacy.
A friend of mine pointed out an amazing Old Testament foreshadowing of the Papacy that I'd like to share (and I think it's as important as Isaiah 22:22-23). The passage comes from the conclusion of Genesis, where the Patriarch Jacob (later renamed "Israel," Gen 32:28) was on his deathbed and giving each of his 12 sons (the Twelve Tribes of Israel) a specific blessing. When it came to his son Judah (Genesis 49:8-12), this is part of what Israel said to him:
Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your father's sons shall bow down before you. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Here Jacob (Father Israel) predicts that the Tribe of Judah would one day come to lead the Twelve Tribes of Israel. As you can probably guess, a Catholic should see a parallel here for the Papal Office, with Peter being one of the Twelve Apostles being selected to be the leader of the other Apostles.
Some might object that if an OT image is not explicitly called out in the New Testament, then the OT image cannot really be said to be a prefigurment/prophecy. But this "rule" simply isn't valid, for the Early Church Fathers were steeped in OT typology, and even though texts such as Genesis 3:15 are never directly quoted in the New Testament, nobody would deny this text is the Proto-Evangelium (i.e. First Gospel). And given that the Twelve Apostles are most certainly premised on the prefigurement of the Twelve Tribes (Matt 19:28; Rev 21:12-14), the notion that there would be other prefigurments is not at all a stretch.
Some might object that if an OT image is not explicitly called out in the New Testament, then the OT image cannot really be said to be a prefigurment/prophecy. But this "rule" simply isn't valid, for the Early Church Fathers were steeped in OT typology, and even though texts such as Genesis 3:15 are never directly quoted in the New Testament, nobody would deny this text is the Proto-Evangelium (i.e. First Gospel). And given that the Twelve Apostles are most certainly premised on the prefigurement of the Twelve Tribes (Matt 19:28; Rev 21:12-14), the notion that there would be other prefigurments is not at all a stretch.
Another parallel to note is that even after the united 12 Tribes later fell into sin, idolatry, and broke into two kingdoms (the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah), it was clear that God's favor and chosen kingly lineage still remained with Judah (Micah 5:2; Rev 5:5). From this analogy we can gather that even if a Pope were to fall into sin, this in no way entails the Papacy somehow loses it's authority or that schism is ever justified. It was no accident that Saint Paul told the Holy Roman Church, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." (Rom 16:20; cf Gen 3:15)
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Is sinfulness what prevents "Works" from saving us?
I'm glad to say this blog is not dead. I did take a break, but mostly because I was busy with life and didn't have anything new/original to share. I never wanted this blog to be about posting for the sake of posting, so I deliberately limited my number of posts and only would post when I felt I had something worthwhile to share that wasn't the same old apologetics you read anywhere else.
For this post I want to discuss an interesting twist on the "not saved by works" discussions a Catholic will typically get into with a Protestant. First, the Catholic must understand that, in the Protestant mind, man is absolutely saved by his own works apart from faith and God's grace, but because of sin man is now unable to save himself and must have Jesus do those works for man in man's place. Human works alone (apart from faith and grace) are still what save us in the Protestant mind, the only thing that changes is that now Jesus does that work in man's place. This is completely contrary to the Catholic understanding of salvation, in which man can only be saved by faith and grace, never by his own works no matter how good those works are. I discuss this more HERE.
This leads me to the main focus of this post: Did Paul say that the reason why "works" cannot save us is because those works are 'tainted by sin'? That's certainly the typical Protestant answer, but as you will see, that's not the 'plain teaching' of Paul at all. For this post I will look at some of Paul's key salvation 'apart from works' texts.
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Saturday, April 4, 2015
Penal Substitution is the key to understanding Protestant Evangelicalism.
Over at the CCC Blog I recently posted "Understanding Christ's Cry of Abandonment" and I began by 'predicting' that by Good Friday we'd see a flood of posts from well-educated Protestants (mostly Calvinist/Reformed) who were going to completely botch the meaning of "My God, Why have you abandoned me?" And it turned out, a number of Protestant outlets posted on precisely this.
As you read the following quotes, take note of how the Protestant understanding of the Cross (Penal Substitution), in which they openly speak of "Christ being damned to hell in our place," is directly linked to Justification by Faith Alone and is the heart of the Gospel as Protestants understand it. So if you want to improve your apologetics and dialogue with Protestants, you should be ready to talk about this issue. Even the average Evangelical you run into believes this stuff, they just don't realize this is what they're espousing with their "Just say the Sinner's Prayer" theology.
As you read the following quotes, take note of how the Protestant understanding of the Cross (Penal Substitution), in which they openly speak of "Christ being damned to hell in our place," is directly linked to Justification by Faith Alone and is the heart of the Gospel as Protestants understand it. So if you want to improve your apologetics and dialogue with Protestants, you should be ready to talk about this issue. Even the average Evangelical you run into believes this stuff, they just don't realize this is what they're espousing with their "Just say the Sinner's Prayer" theology.
And now the quotes from famous conservative Protestant ministry blogs (with my highlights). Since it's about 2.5 pages of quotes, I have trimmed them only to cut down on size:
How much did prayer cost God?
March 30, 2015 by Justin Taylor [The Gospel Coalition blog network],
March 30, 2015 by Justin Taylor [The Gospel Coalition blog network],
[Quoting Reformed Pastor Tim Keller:] The only time in all the gospels that Jesus Christ prays to God and doesn't call him Father is on the cross, when he says, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus lost his relationship with the Father so that we could have a relationship with God as father. Jesus Christ bore all the eternal punishment that our sins deserve. That is the cost of prayer. Jesus paid the price so God could be our father.
"My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"This is a beautiful summary of the Protestant understanding of the Gospel. Jesus died in our place, we accept this by Faith Alone, and we can never lose our salvation.
Mar 30, 2015 by Dr. Pastor Joel Beeke [Ligonier Ministries],
Mar 30, 2015 by Dr. Pastor Joel Beeke [Ligonier Ministries],
Experiencing the full brunt of His Father's wrath, Jesus cannot stay silent. He cries out: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Here Jesus descends into the essence of hell, the most extreme suffering ever experienced. It is a time so compacted, so infinite, so horrendous as to be incomprehensible and, seemingly, unsustainable. All the sins of the elect, and the hell that they deserve for eternity, are laid upon Him. With Jesus as our substitute, God's wrath is satisfied and God can justify those who believe in Jesus (Rom. 3:26). You are immune to condemnation (Rom. 8:1) and to God's anathema (Gal. 3:13) because Christ bore it for you in that outer darkness.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Two new posts at CCC: Problems with the Reformed view of Federal Headship and problems with the Reformed view of Liturgy.
I have two new posts up at Creed Code Cult. The first deals with the Reformed doctrine of "Federal Headship" and the problems with seeing salvation strictly in terms of Imputation (from a perspective most people don't think about), and the second is an article that explores the problems with the Reformed approach to Liturgy (and how Sola Scriptura is to blame).
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Labels: Apologetics, Imputation, Justification, Liturgy, Protestantism, Reformed, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Tradition
Monday, February 2, 2015
Biblical proof that being "Clothed in Christ" has nothing to do with Protestant Imputation.
HERE is my latest post at Creed Code Cult where I show St Paul certainly did not have the Protestant dogma of "Christ's Imputed Righteousness" (by faith alone) in mind when he said we are "Clothed in Christ."
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Saturday, January 24, 2015
Traditionalism is the 'right wing' of AmChurch
The "American Catholic Church" (or "AmChurch" as some call it) refers to the Catholic experience in America of practicing the Faith with a "don't tell me what to believe" type attitude that is characteristic of Protestantism. The term is typically used by Traditionalists when speaking of "Liberal Catholics" in America, but the problem is much more serious because the Tradosphere is actually founded upon essentially the same erroneous (Liberal) principles as the AmChurch's 'left wing'.
Long ago Rome saw these dangers creeping in, and so Pope Leo XIII issued an Encyclical against "Americanism" in which he singled out three big dangers we face:
These dangers are: (1) the confounding of license with liberty; (2) the passion for discussing and pouring contempt upon any possible subject; (3) the assumed right to hold whatever opinions one pleases and to set them forth in print to the world. (Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae)
The first error is the chief characteristic of Liberalism, which states that man is not bound to any law beyond himself, including not bound to Natural Law. The result is that "Liberty" becomes defined as "the right to do or say whatever you want" - which is not true Liberty at all, since it lacks restraints.
Building on the first error, the second and third AmChurch errors listed above immediately find their justification. They now think they have the right to discuss, criticize, pour out contempt upon, and especially publish anything he pleases. This "assumed right" states that one can even smear the reputation of another, protected under the guise of "free speech" (another Liberal error).
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Labels: Catholic Social Teaching, Traditionalism
Monday, November 17, 2014
A clear prophecy of the Catholic Church in the Old Testament?
Over at the Creed Code Cult blog is an Article on how the Old Testament Prophet Daniel gave an unmistakable prophecy of the Catholic Church as a universal, visible, and everlasting entity on earth. This prophecy doesn't fit with the Protestant understanding of Christ's Church (ecclesiology), which is that of an invisible body and which fell into full apostasy prior to Luther (else there would have been no reason for Luther to break away if there was a faithful remnant already).
I firmly believe this is an awesome and effective apologetics argument to use against Evangelicals.
I firmly believe this is an awesome and effective apologetics argument to use against Evangelicals.
Update 11-19-14: I have found online an article called "Interpretations of the Kingdom of God in Daneil 2:44" by Gerhard Pfandl (1996). He gives a good summary of the patristic data. The following Patristic sources he cites I was able to find online and verify the quotes:
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Is Imputation taught in 2 Corinthians 5:21?
Protestants consider 2 Corinthians 5:21 to be one of the chief Biblical proof texts for for their doctrine of the Imputed Righteousness of Christ. In fact, they put so much emphasis on this verse that a lot of their credibility hangs on it. Given this, I want to provide Catholics with some key information on what to say when speaking with a Protestant on this crucial text, because if you can stop them in their tracks here, you'll have gone a long way towards causing them to rethink everything about their own position and what Catholicism has to offer them.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Is the Imputed Righteousness of Christ the only hope for a person to become right with God?
Over at the Creed, Code, Cult blog there is a new post addressing this question.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
The difference between Catholics and Protestants
Over at Creed, Code, Cult, there is a new post (LINK) briefly discussing the core differences between Catholics and Protestants. People on each side of the fence need to know both their own position as well as the position of those on the other side, otherwise dialogue will never go anywhere. When each side defines key terms very differently, it does no good to simply quote verses, since each side is reading them with their own lens.
There is also an good discussion going on in the comments between me ("Nick") and "Eric," as well as a few others. The other comments are not really on topic, so if you don't have the time, just skim over them (e.g. the person posting by the name "Faith" is going off on his own tangents).
There is also an good discussion going on in the comments between me ("Nick") and "Eric," as well as a few others. The other comments are not really on topic, so if you don't have the time, just skim over them (e.g. the person posting by the name "Faith" is going off on his own tangents).
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Does Infant Baptism contradict Calvinism?
I wrote an article for Jason Stellman's blog on why I believe Infant Baptism is incompatible with Reformed Theology. Since the Reformed tradition adamantly teaches Infant Baptism is a necessary and orthodox Christian teaching, if Infant Baptism is incompatible with other points of Reformed Theology, it means the Calvinist system is self-refuting and thus false.
The key question is: Does Baptism actually produce a change in the infant? For example, does the act of Baptizing, by the very act, induct an infant into the New Covenant? The answer is either Yes or No.
If the answer to that question is Yes, then on what basis do the Reformed really have for opposing the Catholic notion of Baptismal Regeneration? None that I can see. Since no text of Scripture limits the effects of Baptism to merely inducting one into the New Covenant, it would naturally imply that if Baptism does something 'automatically' to the infant, then all baptized infants receive the same gifts that the Bible says Baptism bestows. So a Yes answer is obviously unacceptable.
But if the answer to that question is No, then it means Baptism doesn't do anything to the infant, and instead is an external sign of an already existing reality. For example, throwing a birthday party is an outward sign that someone is a year older, but it doesn't make the person one year older. The problem here is that it would mean children of believing parents are automatically part of the New Covenant in virtue of their natural conception or natural birth, which seems blasphemous since basically makes Baptism superfluous and it reduces New Covenant membership to a matter of biology. This would mean a No answer is also obviously unacceptable
If both options are unacceptable, then it means Infant Baptism contradicts Reformed Theology, despite being a part of Reformed Theology, making the system inconsistent and thus self-refuting.
From my study on this matter, I think the problem is even worse, since it seems that the Reformed have equated baptism with circumcision, rather than drawing a parallel between them. And if that's the case, I see it as a variation of the Judaizer heresy, conflating life under the Mosaic Law with life in the Church. I address this more in the article linked above.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Reformed Professor Matthew Barrett and the shallowness of the Protestant grasp of Scripture
I'm not writing this brief article to make fun of anyone, but simply as an example of the sad situation Protestantism finds itself in when it comes to interpreting Scripture. I really want to emphasize this because for a long time and even still to this day Protestants are under a serious delusion that Catholics are too dumb to really know the plain teaching of Scripture. In this post I want to give a brief look at what a Reformed Seminary Professor posted on his blog.
Matthew Barrett has a PhD in systematic theology, is editor of a major Reformed magazine (Credo), and is a professor at a Reformed college. Just yesterday he posted on the Credo Magazine blog a post titled "It is finished: A reflection on John 19:30." Just by the title, you'd think that Dr Barrett is going to exegete this verse, and in fact I was drawn to read this post precisely because I know this verse is important for the Calvinist view of the Atonement. But when you read the brief "reflection," there's no actual exegesis of the text at all. He merely quotes the text in passing a few times, which is simply how most Protestants approach this verse.
Matthew Barrett has a PhD in systematic theology, is editor of a major Reformed magazine (Credo), and is a professor at a Reformed college. Just yesterday he posted on the Credo Magazine blog a post titled "It is finished: A reflection on John 19:30." Just by the title, you'd think that Dr Barrett is going to exegete this verse, and in fact I was drawn to read this post precisely because I know this verse is important for the Calvinist view of the Atonement. But when you read the brief "reflection," there's no actual exegesis of the text at all. He merely quotes the text in passing a few times, which is simply how most Protestants approach this verse.
These two concluding paragraphs form the heart of his post, so that's all I'll quote and comment upon:
When we come to the cross and we see the enormous amount of suffering Jesus underwent, we tend to focus solely on his physical suffering: the crown of thorns, the nails, and the crucifix. But as important as all of this is, we cannot miss the main thing: the most excruciating thing about the suffering servant's cross is that he bore the very wrath of God that was ours. The Lord laid upon Christ our iniquities and Christ took the due penalty for those iniquities. We see this and we hear it when Christ cries out, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me" (Mark 15:34). And then come three beautiful words, "It is finished" (John 19:30).
What is finished? Christ, as he says in the garden of Gethsamani, has drunk the cup of God's wrath in full (Matt. 26:39), and by doing so, as Hebrews 1:3 reminds us, Christ "made purification for sins." As our high priest Christ "entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption" (Heb. 9:11-12; cf. 9:13, 25-26). Indeed, this is good news.
Again, this man has a PhD in systematic theology, so he should know how to exegete Scripture and know how things fit together. And yet these handful of sentences show the most embarrassing level of interpretive skill and grasp of theology. But really, this is par for the course for the highest levels of orthodox Reformed Protestant scholarship.
Dr Barrett starts off by making the standard Protestant claim that Christ's physical sufferings at the hands of men, as dreadful as they were, were in fact nothing compared to the spiritual suffering of enduring the Father's Divine Wrath. Such statements are so obviously outrageous that I'd expect others to be speaking up against it. Dr Barrett both trivializes the physical sufferings of Our Lord and introduces a completely foreign concept of God's Wrath being poured out on Christ. Sadly, as I noted earlier, this is in fact the best Protestantism has to offer. It's not that they do this on purpose, but they have serious 'blinders' on that prevent them from thinking clearly. Such is the reality of sin, and such is the position one is put in when they're outside the Catholic Church. Trivializing the physical sufferings of Christ is equivalent to denying the Crucifixion, and God help me if I or any Catholic trivializes the heart of our salvation like that.
I'm not going to beat a dead horse on the "My God, why have you forsaken me?" comments, because I've covered that many times before. I just want people, Protestant and Catholic, to just stop and look at how shallow Reformed theology is and the liberties and desperation it takes with the Sacred Text. It's truly an abuse of God's Word if there ever was one. And to follow this up, Dr Barrett brings up the main text in question, "It is finished," as if he had actually exegeted and proved his thesis. He is oblivious to the fact "It is finished" has it's own context in John, and he's oblivious to the fact John (and Luke) never mention the "forsaken me" quote, despite Dr Barrett's insistence that this "forsaken me" text is the heart of the true understanding of the Cross. He has the audacity to ask "What is finished?" without even looking at the context. And he concludes by quoting all these texts from Hebrews, not realizing the absolute silence in Hebrews about any reference to God's Wrath (or Active Obedience). What's going on folks? And to think this is the enlightened 'wisdom' of men who don't want you to be Catholic? Give me a break.
Once you have the right glasses on, you have a hard time taking Protestantism seriously. To get the right glasses on, you just have to realize that Protestants don't really follow the Bible at all, but rather they follow a completely unbiblical "tradition of men" called Sola Fide, and they accept this as a starting premise and from there proceed to make Scripture fit. The Reformation wasn't about Sola Scriptura, it was about Sola Fide, specifically the agenda of presuming its truth and forcing the Scripture's to agree (resulting in numerous other "traditions of men" they are forced to embrace).
I guess what's really hard about reading this kind of stuff is that I really hoped for better, and I truly believe Protestants owe us Catholics better. But it's almost as if God's Word has a built in safety feature, where the moment someone starts to tamper with it, absurdities surface. That's precisely what happens with Protestant scholarship, and Reformed theology in particular. If the Reformed blogosphere isn't going to call out such embarrassing statements which the Reformed PhD's routinely make, then how can we really take them seriously?
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Can Protestants drink from Christ's Cup and Carry their Cross in obedience to Jesus? I don't think so.
Today on John Piper's Desiring God Blog a guest writer named Steven Lee wrote a post titled "The Cup Consumed for Us." The post is a brief reflection on Matthew 20:20-28 where the apostles James and John are asked by Jesus "Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" Lee interprets this verse in the way many Calvinists do, claiming that this cup Jesus is going to drink is "the cup of God's wrath." But is this true? And wouldn't such a claim make nonsense of Our Lord's words? That's what I'll address in this post.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Does the Catholic view of Christ's Atonement permit the Reformed view of "Penal Substitution"?
Some Reformed Protestants have commented to me that the Catholic Church doesn't have an official view of the Atonement and that the Catholic Church even permits the Reformed view of "Penal Substitution". The problem with these kinds of claims is that they don't understand what the Catholic Church means when the Church uses terms like "atonement" and "sacrifice" (and similar terms), so these Protestants end up reading foreign ideas into Catholic teaching. The fact of the matter is, the Catholic Church doesn't have to condemn every single error that comes up in history, especially if those errors are already condemned in other forms. So while you won't find any Church teaching that says "Penal Substitution is heresy," you will find the Church teaching things directly contrary to what Penal Substitution espouses. Typically, the Church lays out parameters for orthodoxy, and while one is free to work within those parameters, one is not free to transgress those parameters. For this post I'll be giving some examples of Catholic teaching that go against the concept of Penal Substitution, showing that a Catholic cannot embrace that view of the Cross and be within the parameters of orthodoxy and Catholic thought.
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Protestant apologetics site GotQuestions? says Jesus "spiritually died" on the Cross.
Sorry to annoy you dear readers, but I'm going to have to post a third post this week, after finding yet another big name Protestant apologist making it clear that God the Father damned His Son Jesus in place of damning us. This time it's the website GotQuestions?, a popular online source where Protestants can get their theological questions answered from a conservative Protestant viewpoint. I'll try to make this brief since I mostly just want it to be a "for the record" type post.
The following quotes about what kind of suffering Jesus endured come from various Question & Answer posts on the GotQuestions? website, so I'll quote and provide the link to each (quotes are trimmed down for brevity).
- A physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. Spiritual death, which is of greater significance, is the separation of the soul from God. When Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord, they "hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God." The fellowship had been broken. They were spiritually dead. When Jesus was hanging on the cross, He paid the price for us by dying on our behalf. Even though He is God, He still had to suffer the agony of a temporary separation from the Father due to the sin of the world He was carrying on the cross. After three hours of supernatural darkness, He cried, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Mark 15:33-34). This spiritual separation from the Father was the result of the Son's taking our sins upon Himself. That's the impact of sin. Sin is the exact opposite of God, and God had to turn away from His own Son at that point in time. (Question: "What is spiritual death?")
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Reformed apologist Joe Mizzi says Jesus was "forgotten" by the Father while on the Cross.
Just last week I wrote about how Calvinist John Piper explicitly said Jesus was "damned in our place," and today another Calvinist apologist named Joe Mizzi wrote on his blog a similar article. The article is titled "Why have you forsaken me?" (3-26-14), which briefly deals with Jesus' words on the Cross and what these words mean. Included in the reflection was the following claims by Joe Mizzi:
But the next time he opened his mouth, Jesus uttered these mysterious words, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Many centuries before, the Psalmist had declared: "I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken" (Psalms 37:25). But on the cross the Righteous One was forgotten by God – He who never committed the least sin, who unfailingly obeyed the whole will of God, and in whom the Father was well-pleased. In that dark hour the Father left the Son on his own.
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
John Piper says Jesus was "damned in our place" - Do Calvinists realize what they're saying?
A few days ago I was skimming over John Piper's blog (he's a popular Calvinist author, pastor, and writer) and I noticed his post for March 18, 2014 contained an outrageous comment regarding Our Lord's Passion and Death. I didn't read the whole post since it was an odd mixture of thoughts, but his conclusion caught my eye just because it was so outrageous:
When Jesus cried, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" it was the scream of the damned — damned in our place (Isaiah 53:5–6; Romans 8:3; Galatians 3:14). If we will repent and trust him, no Esau, no lesbian, no president, no pastor, no person will be condemned. Our sight and our reason will return to us.
This isn't the first time Piper has said such things about Jesus being "damned in our place," as I've recorded such comments of his in prior articles, but I wanted to post on this just for the record that he's still saying this stuff even today. And Calvinists really don't mind, because they agree that what he's saying is what the Protestant understanding of the Cross is all about: Jesus enduring the hellfire damnation that we deserved to endure, substituting himself to be punished in our place, also known as Penal Substitution.
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Looks like Nashville charter school prospect STRIVE Collegiate Academy is pushing the Metro Nashville School Board to reconsider their rejected charter application, which if rejected again, could become the first test case of the new charter authorizer law. This would allow STRIVE to bypass the local Board of Education and appeal directly to the state in order to
grab the money open a new charter school using public funds.
It's the Great Hearts charter school dilemma Part II, and Jesse Register, the Director of Schools, is on the hot seat, along with the rest of the BOE. It's pretty much damned if they do and damned if they don't.
From the Nashville Scene:
Register said that he asked STRIVE, which was developed in conjunction with the Nashville-based Tennessee Charter School Center, to delay its application for a year but STRIVE wanted to appeal. If the board rejects STRIVE again, they can appeal to the state board of education under the newly passed charter authorizer law. This would be the first test case.
In 2012, Great Hearts appealed to the state, which ordered the Metro School Board to reconsider its rejection of the Arizona-based charter operator. The board rejected it again, and Gov. Bill Haslam's administration withheld more than $3 million in funding for Nashville schools.
In a tense exchange with board members, Register refused to say whether he was recommending the STRIVE appeal be approved, only that the committee's recommendation be considered.
Charter Aproved on Appeal 5-3
From the
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The Metro school board reversed course and voted 5-3 to approve the application of STRIVE Collegiate Academy, a proposed charter middle school in the McGavock cluster on the east side of Nashville, during a contentious special meeting on Thursday.
And this:
The main question centered around a resolution passed in November, where the board almost unanimously directed MNPS and charter operators to focus efforts into the high-growth Overton and Glencliff clusters of schools, many of which will have capacities exceeding 120 percent by 2017. Would the board adhere to its own stated policy, or approve a charter school that applied in defiance of them?
Jesse Register, the Director of Schools, recommended that the BOE ignore the policy and vote to approve the charter.
Register, who took a beating, responded to barbs leveled at him.
"I don't agree with some of the criticism I received," he said, noting that his final recommendation was for the board to ignore their policy and vote yes. "I think the charter school can add value. There are children that will benefit from that service. I prefer that the charters be approved locally."
This is fascinating, as it
This is fascinating, as it reveals the two-pronged approach of the charterizers:
1. Target 'low-performing public schools'
2. Recruit members of the African-American community to lead 'charterization' efforts.
LaKendra Butler, a 31-year-old former teacher from Dallas and Atlanta schools, is one of eight educators who formally submitted applications before the Tuesday deadline for new charters seeking entry in 2015. For months, she's planned a middle school, STRIVE Collegiate Academy, for the Donelson-Hermitage neighborhood that would serve students in the McGavock High School cluster.
"I just think it's important to have another option for families in the community," Butler said in an interview at the Tennessee Charter School Center's Cummins Station offices, where she's mapped out her school for more than a year after Tennessee's wave of education reforms attracted her here.
In November, though, the school board approved a resolution that outlined two types of charters it would consider: those that seek to take over chronically low-performing public schools and those proposing elementary schools in South Nashville to ease overcrowding there.
2. Recruit members of the
2. Recruit members of the African-American community to lead 'charterization' efforts.
It increases their stakeholders, in light of the fact that it a lot of commonsense conservatives haven't bought in to the whole gimmick.
Plus, it makes the elite feel like they are doing something for the disadvantaged.
A sham.
Reality Check
(in reply to KC)
"Common sense conservatives" (whatever that might mean) will continue to vote for fools who push for charters and vouchers. Perhaps Absher has an article on this topic.
As for support from the black community, it boils down to frustration with our continuing failure to deliver educational equity and their seeing charters as a potential way to alleviate historical discrimination. [link] I would also note that this support is dropping quickly in locations in which charters have spread, such as Chicago, Newark, etc.
The other sham is the appeals
The other sham is the appeals process. If the TN DOE was an "impartial jury" so to speak, that would be different. However, it is crystal clear that they have been poisoned by the big money connections to public school privatization efforts. I expect them to approve any charter that makes it that far. Kudos to the Metro BOE for holding off this long. Ours just rolled over and let the bully (Kevin Huffman) gets his way. Of course the state made it so that the local systems would have more control if they just went ahead and approved charter schools. Otherwise there would be no incentive to have them over using those funds to better existing schools. Charter schools rarely offer any magic other than lower class size, more arts, and stronger discipline. All things public school teachers have requested and been denied for years.
You're right...
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Charter schools are offering nothing new, but they will get anything they ask for. Shiny new building, smaller classrooms and more resources and a lot of money in the pocket of the middle man.
In the meantime, the public schools get less and continue to be slated as failures. It's a huge sham and the fact that this board went ahead and gave the "ok" to this charter school despite them not meeting the requirements set by the very board members themselves indicates they have been bought or simply do not care what happens in our school systems. What a disgrace.
Reality Check Two
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lower class size, more arts, and stronger discipline
Lower class size? Yes. More arts? No. Stronger discipline in the charter world usually means the soul, creativity, and critical thinking killing "no excuses" model [see KIPP]. Students who can't cope are shuffled out. How or why that would be desirable for traditional public schools is questionable at best... that is unless you're into the school to prison pipeline.
There IS a way to have better
There IS a way to have better discipline in public schools that would not turn them into souless buildings. You would need two things. Better support from administrators in dealing with disruptive situations and the time for teachers to teach social skills, empathy and resposibility. Time which is currently non-existent in the "race to the test" culture. When kindergartners don't learn how to help others,wait their turn and cooperate,those gaps don't just magically disappear. We HAVE to realize that the mission of public schools cannot be just to create skilled employees, but to create good,thoughtful citizens as well.
Roger that... My point was
(in reply to TNchickadee)
Roger that... My point was that charter "discipline" is not desirable or commendable.
Neoliberal restructuring - Lather/Rinse/Repeat
Create a doxa in which for-profit ideology is infused into political, social, and cultural institutions. Operate a for-profit, ever increasingly consolidated journalism system in which advertising revenue is critical and labor costs must be cut, remove labor beats. Say "free market". Exacerbate the fiscal crisis of the state by fomenting psychopathic ideological hatred of taxes and the common good. Use fiscal crisis to increase class size. Force standardized tests from private firms that show those schools are failures. De-fund public schools. Blame teacher unions for low test scores and underperforming public schools. Weaken teachers unions destroying their collective bargaining along with public sector unions, together the largest remaining in the United States. Promote and create adverse, disempowering working conditions which lead to highly "flexible" labor markets in various sectors like education. Promote and fund think tanks that "promote freedom" such as nonunion, profit-oriented charter schools/vouchers and other policies and legislation as solutions. Say best practice. Globalize for-profit education networks outside of states. Take advantage of new market tax credits to build for-profit schools, maximize profits and shelter taxes. Don't mention, downplay connections between SES and educational attainment, say nothing of structural racism and poverty, revisit and attempt to normalize poverty as good. Schools to prison pipeline. Use profits to funnel back into politicians where political spending is a free speech right alongside corporate personhood.
+1 hall of fame post
(in reply to Mike Knapp)
And finally, discredit and demonize anyone who would characterize such a massive coordinated effort as a "conspiracy."
Thanks Randy
(in reply to R. Neal)
Been working on that one in between kids, school and the vagaries of east TN life. Am I correct to assume there's a beverage attached to that HOF status?
Name calling and feigned SHOCK at the language...
(in reply to R. Neal)
...doesn't change reality. The billionair boys club has been writing about The Master Plan publicly for years. Knox County taxpayers still do not have a clear understanding of the strategic plan.
A Master Plan to eliminate urban public school districts was clearly outlined by the Fordham Institute's Andy Smarick in "Wave of the Future" (Winter 2008):
First, commit to drastically increasing the charter market share in a few select communities until it is the dominant system and the district is reduced to a secondary provider. The target should be 75 percent.
Second, choose the target communities wisely. Each should begin with a solid charter base (at least 5 percent market share), a policy environment that will enable growth (fair funding, nondistrict authorizers, and no legislated caps), and a favorable political environment (friendly elected officials and editorial boards, a positive experience with charters to date, and unorganized opposition). [Smarick's suggests the "potentially fertile districts" of Albany, Buffalo, Denver, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Oakland, and Washington, D.C.]
Third, secure proven operators to open new schools. To the greatest extent possible, growth should be driven by replicating successful local charters and recruiting high-performing operators from other areas.
Fourth, engage key allies like Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools, and national and local foundation to ensure the effort has the human and financial capital needed.
Last, commit to rigorously assessing charter performance in each community and working with authorizers to close the charters that fail to significantly improve student achievement.
Smarick's article contains a chart listing the strongest providers at that time (Figure 2: "Replicating Charter Success"). Just two years later, we now know that his #2 and #4 ranked charter managers, White Hat Management and Imagine Schools, Inc., have been embroiled in lawsuits and scandal. The #1 ranked EMO (Edison Schools) ended up failing. It folded and re-emerged with a new name and plan (EdisonLearning). So much for a fine and upstanding history of charter school "success."
there you have it
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there you have it
(in reply to Mike Knapp)
I guess I know what I'mm doing tonight. I hope I can read fast enough to digest all this.
(in reply to fischbobber)
I absolutely love the ability to hyperlink copy to expansive articles as well as constantly buttressing and saving a bookmark list that is approaching 20 years old. That power cube site is legit.
Bonus - note the reference to former UTK sociology professor John Gaventa.
(in reply to Mike Knapp)
What you said and linked.
That said, the complexity is staggering.
the complexity is staggering.
(in reply to Average Guy)
You have just hit the nail on a big old head. It seems every time I think I have a handle on things, another unconsidered factor flies in the information. What things really boil down to are this, all kids are unique individuals with unique needs and teaching can be as much an art as a studied profession. Trying to standardize this or meet a rubric within the confines of reality is, by definition, impossible. Great students and teachers are both born and trained. As with many things within the human condition, absolutes are vaporous.
The long and short,
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can be found in the information header box on this Wiki page; (link...)
Revenue for FY 2011 - $229 million
There's one simple question parents can ask themselves. "Should my local education tax dollars be the source of a private corporation's revenue?"
And whether that corporation calls itself nonprofit or not, doesn't change the fact those at the top of it are bringing down some big bucks; (link...)
somewhat off-topic, but related
What made white businessmen from Dallas' segregated northern enclaves, who typically donate to their children's private academies, start caring about the plight of a low-income district?
Tax credits in Arizona
In other news on the private school/public funding front - Arizona companies are able to take direct tax credits for any money they contribute to education savings accounts that can be used for private schools. Look up Lexie's law.
Looks like a back door way to siphon off tax dollars for private schools.
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A man and a woman, who were visiting friends at the Raglan Kopua Holiday Park, were told to leave after an argument broke out.
Senior Sergeant Gael Mockford said the woman was "extremely angry" on leaving the campground and when she came across the female tourists, from France and Australia, "she took her anger out on them".
The woman allegedly punched the French woman in the jaw causing her to fall to the ground, and punched the Australian woman in the nose causing it to bleed.
Both women were taken to the Raglan Medical Centre for assessment.
"The French tourist was dazed and has also received bruising," Mockford said.
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Witnesses provided police with a detailed description of the alleged offender's vehicle, and a 23-year-old Whatawhata woman was arrested soon after.
She is charged with two counts of assault and is scheduled to appear in the Hamilton District Court on January 29.
Mockford said the two victims were not targeted because they were tourists, they just happened to be in the area when "a very angry female stormed past them".
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UK: Anti-gay Catholic Archbishop Vincent Nichols: Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI
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If I believed in curses I would curse them all.
Archbishop, why don't you pray to get love and respect for people because up to this point you show nothing but hatred and vile for anyone who thinks differently than you and your fellow molesters….stop the hurt to young children…just hope the pope lives long in suffering…
What?? Pray that whatever it is he's resigning over doesn't leak to the press??
Not a chance.
Sillyfman. Doesn't he realise prayers go unanswered or ignored as we saw last Tuesday in the House of Commons, 400-175 for equal marriage. More catholic MPs voted for than against. They just don't get it do they?
They have become enthralled with the magnitude of the lies and half-truths of their religion.
Giving an inch to reality corresponds to heresy for them.
WHY would we want to pray for that vile, bigoted, misogynistic nasty little man??!?
Once he has resigned, and is no longer a head of 'state' I hope and pray that the International Criminal Court in The Hague prosecutes the vermin for his crimes against humanity.
No, Archbishop but what I am prepared to do is to send some bad karma your way.
He asks people "to keep Pope Benedict in their prayers" but there's a ridiculous assertion there, Vince, old matey!
Namely, that praying is actually heard and understood by some Great Pixie in the Sky.
And, secondly, that some Great Pixie in the Sky having supposedly heard the mutterings below will actually DO something in response!
Vince thinks he's showing kindness, but he's really only showing that he's deluded, i.e. mentally ill.
Should be receiving treatment.
Nichols, like Ratzinger, is an evil, old man.
I have been praying since they elected him. And today my prayers were answered.
Hopefully, you really meant to say that you've just been hoping, rather than wasting time in the futile activity of praying? :-)
Please pray for the child molesters, the bigots, the Christian Brothers, the homophobes, the Hitler Youth Pope, the cover ups, the Magdalen laundries, the vast amassed wealth in spite of world poverty. Yes. Let us pray. Amen.
Oh, I forgot; the subjugation of anyone with an opposing view too. Add to my list to have your own prayers answered. I do miracles in the form of expressive dance.
He's not in the running at all as he is not a cardinal and the retired homophobic cardinal murthy o Connor can't vote either – so there is some justice !!
…and O'Brien can hardly walk. He'll probably need that thing they've been using to wheel Ratzinger about.
He isn't in the running he's not a cardinal
The only decent thing Pope Benedict did was NOT to make this creep a Cardinal. How he must be seething that he can't take place in the conclave despite enforcing the anti-gay agenda to the lettter in England and Wales. Dreadful toad of a man!
mmmm… have a prayer that the mark-up on miniature dolls of ben16 dressed as a cloistered nun hits 400% by easter.
No, shan't. Not that prayer is a real thing anyway.
Will he become the Holy Grandfather once his successor is chosen? I wonder.
NO he'sll be the pope who rules over satan.
"Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI"
I have been – why do you think he's going! :D
Don't let the door trap your Guccu on the way out, and please, please, take that clown Nichols with you. :)
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Bring on the next homophobic idiot – won't make any difference, the whole Vatican is like the Titanic – doomed.
Sure I'll pray for him…but first I need to saddle up my unicorn and go take some photos of a night rainbow.
Pray for what? "Forgiveness"?
The shame and suffering his silence brought on victims of abuse.
An end to hateful vitriolic rhetoric used against people seeking human rights and equality.
His legacy will be an embarrassment! to many current and former believers.
Fewer truer words will be spoken than these:
"Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: "He has played a major role in reducing the Catholic Church's popularity and its authority."
"Catholics have deserted the Church at an increasing rate, repelled by the inhumanity of [his] unbending adherence to what are perceived as cruel doctrines."
Pray that he douses himself with gasoline and some gay person gets to toss a lighted cigarette on that POSh
perhaps this is God punishing him for his evil ways by striking him down with illness?
I've never understood this kind of exhortation – I mean, if the pope is supposed to be God's chosen representative on earth, why should he be in need of further random prayers to God? Is it suggested that God has changed his mind with regard to Ratzi (in which case God might be said to be having a belated attack of good sense)?
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This weekend sees the launch of the Russian International Wine & Spirits Fair, during a period of anticipation for the wine market, which continues to grow at 20-30% per annum. However, chaos still characterises the spirits sector, as the government and private business – in particular SPI - fight on for the ownership of the country's most powerful brands. It is a situation that has been given an added edge by the arrest earlier this month of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO of Russian oil company Yukos.
In terms of PR, the arrest has been an unmitigated disaster for a country desperately trying to convince the foreign business world to direct investment its way.
President Putin's opponents fear that the arrest may set a precedent as the government moves for greater control over business and the economy – an accusation that has been levelled at the administration by SPI for some time now.
However in an interview this week on the business website cantos.com, Christopher Granville, the chief strategist with United Financial Group, the Russian investment bank, tried to allay those fears.
"This is a prosecution against certain individuals. It will not develop into a campaign against business, either Yukos as a company, as opposed to the prosecution of its individual major shareholders, let alone against business more widely in Russia."
Worryingly though, he did admit that there were elements in the Putin administration which have an "agenda which goes well beyond the President's declared agenda. That more radical agenda does seem to involve an idea that the privatisations of the '90s need to be reversed." That said, he implied these elements were under control and that "the line of the President is holding".
That line, according to Granville, includes doubling GDP in the next ten years, which depends on the investment culture. "It depends on strong investment, especially from foreigners, and therefore he wants to welcome in foreign investors," he said.
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Let me start off by saying that I do not like to read at all. I rarely start books and even more rarely finish them. With this book however I read it from cover to cover in three days! A very fun book for the coffee hobbyist or anyone who would like to learn more about coffee and home coffee roasting. Not only is this book packed with history (in a fun way) it is also a wealth of reference information regarding home roasting and the overall coffee process, from plant to cup!
This book is laid out in a very easy to read format. The chapters can be long but everything is broken down into small 1-4 page sections. Kenneth Davids has a real grasp on the fundamentals of coffee production and lays out a lot of information in an easy to follow entertaining way. The book reads very well from cover to cover.
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I could not put this fascinating book down . I am sorry that some readers have have found references to anti-semitism & black people offensive ( I too was taken aback st times by some of the diarists comments ) , but as I've said in my title , this is history that has not been airbrushed .
There are many parallells with modern life , such as crime , poor conditions in hospitals , etc .
I would strongly recommend this book to all those with an interest in social history & it is as well to remember that times & attitudes do change . That was then then , this is now . Not to read this this book because of offensive comments will result in missing out on an excellent selection of how ordinary people lived & thought then .
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So if ur baby isn't ready to come out yet, you'll force her out not for medical reasons but so a certain person can deliver her before her vacation? Wow...sad.
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She said "if all looks well" meaning if her body and baby are progressing already on their own...at least thats how I interpretted her op. Im sure if the time comes and her cervix isn't effaced at all the dr probably won't go through with the induction...at least thats how my dr looks at inductions....
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:( that's not a very good reason for an induction. Your risk of a csection sky rockets when you get induced early and baby may not be ready......I hope you will reconsider.
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Stop being so ridiculous. Its her baby and her body therefore its her decision.
She was excited to share the news of having a set date.
OP I know what you mean, I got my c-section date (which heaven forbid is 7 days before my due date) and it all seem so real now...like I time is running out!!!
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