Virtus In Medio Stat

In reaction to:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUvYCV_y6bo Francis Chan is still in ecclesiological limbo, huh? I made a video that I streamed over for FrontlineTV about 4 or 5 years ago now about my thoughts on Francis Chan on the Eucharist. Not sure what he's still stuck on but he's clearly in the feels category. I think the Catholics around him need to focus more on the feels than the thinks, because the thinks have obviously not done the job. As for Gavin, I know it sounds so true to think well, there are true believers in all ecclesial flavors of Christianity, and that's because true believers exist in spite of ecclesial affiliation. That's the Protestant ecclesiology, or the underlying practical experience. Of course there are stricter flavors that are concerned with adherence to doctrinal confessions. For those folks, membership in the church has to do with intellectual assent to doctrinal propositions and not ecclesial affiliation. But Gavin "knows" ...

In response to:  https://www.facebook.com/tuckercarlsonTCN/videos/1118802183510925  Tucker Carlson the Catholic view on the elect and reprobate, is a balance of both predestination (Rom 9:22) and free will (1 Cor 10:13), as both are true and Biblical. God knows who is elect and who is reprobate (but we don't), as he has positively chosen the elect (Rom 8:30), and he has not chosen the reprobate. That is a nuanced distinction from the Calvinist view that God also positively chose or predestined the reprobate to hell. That's why the heresy, according to the Catholic Church, is called "double predestination" or predestinarianism. The Jewish people were the chosen people of the Old Covenant (Deut 7:6); however, with the advent and death of Jesus, the covenant with the Jews was revoked and superseded by the new covenant (Heb 8:13), and the identity of the chosen people was shifted from the Jews to the new covenant church (Rom 11:11-31), which is the Catholic Church. Salv...