I could not find a good portrait of a Baptist from the 1600's. hence why there is no representative pic of the guys who made the 1689LBC. Modern search sucks.
Such of the elect that are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers pleasures, God in their effectual calling gives them repentance to life.1 1. Titus 3:2–5
Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin,2 and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation.3 2. Eccles. 7:20 3. Luke 22:31–32
This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self–abhorrancy,5 praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavor, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well–pleasing in all things.6 4. Zech. 12:10; Acts 11:18 5. Ezek. 36:31; 2 Cor. 7:11 6. Ps. 119:6,128
As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so it is every man’s duty to repent of his particular known sins particularly.7 7. Luke 19:8; 1 Tim. 1:13,15
Such is the provision which God has made through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers unto salvation, that although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation,8 yet there is no sin so great that it shall bring damnation to them that repent,9 which makes the constant preaching of repentance necessary. 8. Rom. 6:23 9. Isa. 1:16–18, 55:7 - 1689 London Baptist Confession the1689confession.com
@BowsacNoodle I get your point about optics. Look, my issue is not that people hate lolis and lolicons who are no where near being the evil pedo faggots. I am actually a-ok if somebody hates loli art. I can understand why someone won't like it.
The issue comes when that hatred is expressed irrationally and constantly in spaces shared heavily by those who don't necessarily think lolis are the big bad pedophilia from Japan or those who even think non-erotic loli stuff is cute and funny. The loli haters waste so much energy huffing and puffing at a midwestern adult woman playing a small shark girl at a major league baseball game, when there are genuine evils, more worthy of that wrath like that Australian pedo Judge demanding that fags be allowed to rape kids, and all that is left in the wake of that irrational, ignorant, and unduly hateful wrath is ruined online spaces, where the good kind of dissident politics and ideology can grow.
Loli optics are bad. The anti-loli/anti-anime optics are growing worse. I don't want a repeat of what happened to 8chan on the Fediverse.
I'm going in circles already in this thread. :bocchibreakdown:
@bobbala@SKracket@hellhammer666 In normal circumstances, you are correct. The question is useful though for those you are trying to evangelize, if they seem to think that they have a vague Christian worldview and need to know their stance, or if there are those who claim to be Christian but don't exhibit fruits of being one whatsoever. The latter case is why I am asking the question.
I do try to share the Gospel frequently on the Fediverse, including a very brief version just now if you scroll my profile.
@SKracket@hellhammer666 All of you anti-loli niggers on NCD are missing the point by repeating how much you dislike loli.
We know already. Stop repeating the same damn posts we have seen on the Fediverse for years. You painfully made your opinions clear over and over. It's a fucking and sinful waste of time. The point of this thread and pointing at the news in Australia is to point out you are all objectively wrong about the automatic lolicon equals pedophile connection. I don't expect any of you to admit that you were wrong. Humility is not a practiced virtue in dissident right circles.
Oh well! Anything to drive a wedge between others and you larpers, especially the "Christian" Idenitarian fags on NCD who lead others to hell!
Just like that hellthread last month where the Windows shills were soon shamed by the Crowdstrike disaster and the Secure Boot vulnerability, mere days later, we have the Lord's providence shaming anti-loli faggots with the anti-loli, anti-anime Australian now saying you should now fuck little kids. But no Uzaki for you. That's evil.
Just admit that you guys were and are wrong about vtubers, anime, and the loli niche. It's not that hard.
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