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It’s good to see that you reformed finally admit to your legalism. So much for sola scriptura, so much for faith alone. I guess sending my kid to public education is a ticket to hell but blaspheming the body and blood of Christ with federal visionists, theonomist, and hyper-patriarchs is okay.

I guess sending my kid to public education is a ticket to hell ...

Usually, most of the time, and as a rule, this is a precise statement of the facts -- at least, for the children. The vast majority of evangelical kids jump ship and abandon the faith as soon as they can. OTOH, children of home-school families either "agree with" or, more often, "STRONGLY agree with" the faith of their parents 95% of the time.

Imagine two doors

Go through Door A, and 95% of the time, your kids will grow up to walk with God.
- See the HSLDA article, Home Schooling Grows Up
- See the NHERI article, Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits.
Go through Door B, and 80-90% of the time, your kids will grow up to walk away from God.
- See this link for statistical corroboration.
- See the The Exodus Mandate Project: Let My Children Go.
80+% of American parents choose Door B.

I can see why there is such a market for the prophecy pimps. They justify an abnormal state of affairs, rather than summoning God's people to practical repentance. If we are, after all, losing our own children, then we know, bone-deep, that we are forfeiting the future.

Your post suggests a shocking indifference to the facts of the Christian faith, as well as to the eternal welfare of the children of believers.

It’s good to see that you reformed finally admit to your legalism. So much for sola scriptura, so much for faith alone. I guess sending my kid to public education is a ticket to hell but blaspheming the body and blood of Christ with federal visionists, theonomist, and hyper-patriarchs is okay.

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Since Feb 5, 2011

I guess sending my kid to public education is a ticket to hell...

In today's age, it is surely prima facie evidence of child abuse. I think RJR has taken it to the next logical level of res ipsa loquitur and to which must come the question "What should a loving parent do?"

"...but blaspheming the body and blood of Christ with federal visionists, theonomist, and hyper-patriarchs is okay."

Fortunately I haven't fallen into that particular sin; nevertheless I don't think those teachings have earned the title "blasphemy" - that is usually reserved for gross irreverence of the things of God. Traditionally the test for this would be "Is this worth killing someone over?"

So before you irreverently toss around the term "blasphemy", ask, "Is the best way to deal with a federal visionist a proper stoning?"