Ep. 38 - Abolitionism & The Art of the Deal, Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, Alisgema

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Tune in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about Abolitionism and the art of the deal. Then he plugs The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, and ties things off with a talk about the Greek word “Alisgema”. Happy Plodding! Show Notes: Abolitionism & The Art of the Deal: How can we draw a lesson from the left when it comes from political engagement on the pro-life issue one of the things the left does very well is that they don’t apologize for the activists on the extreme edges of their movement if someone fighting for the same cause is doing something that is ill advised, it is really important for incrementalists to not apologize for the abolitionists don’t spend your time fighting the abolitionists, spend your time fighting the pro abortionists The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination: written by Loraine Boettner has a lot of wonderful textual citations in the Bible that show how God governs everything if anyone is interested in a good introduction to the reformed doctrine of predestination it is a wonderful book Alisgema: this is the word for pollution, and is used once (Acts 15:20) the Gentiles needed to abstain from certain basic things, among them the pollutions of idols the end result of all forms of idolatry is always pollution, usually sexual we need to be wary of nature worship, (going green)

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never
0:16.0	welcome to plodcast episode 38 it's been a long variegated trip thank you for coming along with me. It's good to have you here. Thanks for listening.
0:26.0	I want to talk a little bit in this podcast about abolitionism, speaking in this instance about pro-life abolitionism, abolitionism, and the art of the
0:38.8	deal.
0:39.8	And I want to encourage Christians to take a page from the
0:45.0	a page from the playbook of
0:47.8	leftist and progressives.
0:50.6	Well, not the whole page.
0:52.0	There are some things that they do, not fearing God that we can't do.
0:56.0	But there are certain things that they do effectively and well, and we need to learn to imitate them in this.
1:06.8	The Lord Jesus said that the children of this age
1:10.5	are oftentimes shrewder than the children of light.
1:14.3	So how can we draw a lesson from the left when it comes to political engagement on the pro-life issue.
1:26.3	So there's a debate in pro-life circles between the incrementalists and the abolitionists, the abolitionists movement and the abolitionists
1:35.0	the abolitionist movement and the abolitionists
1:37.4	We don't want to settle for anything. They don't want to split the difference
1:41.2	They're not interested in doing anything gradually.
1:46.5	They want to introduce bills that outlaw abortion. They want to just keep it simple, cut and
1:51.8	dried.
1:53.2	There you go.
1:54.2	So that's the abolitionist position.
1:57.3	Now, there are incrementalists who want to fight the battle so slowly that they sometimes forget that they're fighting a
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