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Joseph Boot
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Patriotic Britains thank J D Vance and Trump administration for putting pressure on the UK government on freedom of speech & conscience which have been eroding here for over a decade.

Joseph Boot
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Brilliant article from Suella on the importance of British identity & the meaning of being English. She correctly makes nuanced distinction between national identity, citizenship & ethnic heritage re: the need for honest evaluation of today’s crisis.
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Joseph Boot
@DrJoeBoot
What's at the religious root of the problems of the West?

"Look well what thou art doing when thou goest into God's house; present thyself there in a spirit of obedience. Obedience is far better than the sacrifice made by fools, that are guilty of unwitting sacrilege" (Ecclesiastes 4:17)

The church must address its apostasy from the Word of God in numerous areas. Let's start by putting faithful men into the pulpit and eldership of the church who will teachttps://fiec.org.uk/resources/the-quiet-revival-growth-in-the-uk-churchh the Word of God in faithfulness and apply it to all of life.

I think Mr Boot is being too pessimistic.  While many of the larger denominations are collapsing, Bible-believing churches are growing rapidly, including my own.
Have a read of this: https://fiec.org.uk/resources/the-quiet-revival-growth-in-the-uk-church 

No one has preached the Gospel unless he has urged his listeners to repent and believe (Mark 1:15).  'And with many other words [Peter] testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation"' (Acts 2:40; cf. also 2 Timothy 4:1-2).
A mere recital of facts may serve at a lecture in a theological seminary where everyone is presumed to be saved, but it is not the Gospel.

It is natural for someone to suppose that he has believed of his own free will, and in a way that is true.  But the fact is that God the Holy Spirit has opened his heart to believe.  Without such a work on the heart, men simply will not accept the Gospel (1 Corinthians 2:14).
I think human pride may also come into it.  The idea that I have nothing to do to earn my salvation is a very humbling one.  The human mind is more amenable to the attitude of the Pharisee than that of the tax collector.

More and more baptists are treating their children as covenant offspring and training them up according to God‘s covenant promises with the assumption that they belong to Him.

I cannot see this as anything remotely positive, though I'm aware of it happening.
The great problem of paedobaptism, it seems to me, is Presumptive Regeneration.  Parents assume that their children are regenerate, not because they see any signs of it, but because their infants have been splashed with water.  They therefore do not tell the little ones to repent and trust in Jesus, but to live like Christians and do good deeds.  The result of this is that such children grow up, get confirmed, go to college and even end up in Christian ministry without ever having been born anew.  At some point their unregenerate nature will lead them into sin as we see all too often in Church circles.
Joel Beeke has said that he would rather be a Baptist than believe in Presumptive Regeneration.
However, Baptists are sometimes as bad as Presbyterians.  They can't wait to get the children to mouth some words that might be taken as an expression of faith and then get them dunked in the mistaken impression that the water will save them.

Paedobaptists, on the other hand, recognize the baptist-emphasized truth of intentional, voluntary discipleship, and convey to their covenant children the need for personal appropriation of the Faith, and not the assumption that he or she will simply carry on their inherited Faith.

I sincerely hope this is true.

The violent protests on British streets were indeed appalling; they were also foolish and misjudged.
They have managed to do what I would have thought impossible; they have made Keir Starmer appear dynamic and forthright.  And now, yes, anyone who speaks out against illegal immigration can be smeared with the accusation of being 'far right.'  But the fault for that lies with the idiots who started the violence.
The larger percentage of immigrants to Britain are not illegal, but legal.  They have been invited to come and work in our care homes and hospitals.  The reason for this is that the UK population is rapidly ageing and there are not enough younger people to do these menial jobs.  Why?  Because we have killed off more than 10 million unborn children by abortion and our birthrate (in common with many other countries) is far too low.  So we have suddenly got hundreds of people from the Commonwealth, mostly African, arriving in our cities.
But in my experience, these Africans are lovely people; they have come to work hard for low wages and many of them are Christian and have given new life to many of our churches.  In my own church, we have people from Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe and the church is the richer for them
The problem is with those who come across the Channel in boats or smuggle themselves in on lorries.  We have no idea who these people are because they jettison their passports and other documentation before they arrive.  But how to stop them is a problem that defeated the last government and the current lot seem to have no clue.
But the last thing we need is to attempt to impose the Jewish judicial law on an unbelieving people.  It failed in 1662 and it won't work now.  What we need is to preach the Gospel, and while the liberal churches in Britain are falling off a cliff, many independent, Bible-believing churches are seeing rapid growth, including my own which has tripled in size since Lockdown.  The Gospel is God's way of salvation, and we may be sure that nothing else will work

According to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the main reason for Rome's demise was a declining birthrate. Abortion is a sign of a degenerate, atheistic society. Let the West beware!

Joseph Boot
@DrJoeBoot
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Jul 16
When rapists get sentenced to the “hospital” rather than to death, as scripture requires, as was true for most of modern British history, this is the result. We need a restoration of biblical law.
No. The seduction of an unmarried woman bore the obligation of marriage if that is what she and her family wanted, genuine **** of any woman carried the death penalty.Judges 19-21; Gen 34 deal with community vengeance against ****. The case law doesn't deal with every variation of ****. Deuteronomy 22 deals with two distinct cases which are worth studying in terms of the uses of the Hebrew terms. The preponderance of evidence is that violent force of a woman warrants the death penalty...period...that is the general equity of the law. In the case I cited, the threat of death with knives against the women was also involved. This alone, in the case of this man who is a serial offender, requires the death penalty (Deut. 21:18-21)

Tax on your income, property, savings, goods, fuel, capital gains, inheritance and now even the state pension you paid for in “national insurance.” When you make the state your saviour in socialism it will rob you & your children from cradle to grave.

Dr. Boot is clearly not a follower of the WCF or 2LCF.  2LCF 19:4.  To them (the Israelites){God] gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that institution, their general equity only being of modern use   John 8:1-11 and Hebrews 8:13 seem to me to say that the Old Covenant judicial laws have expired.  We are to be no longer stoning adulterers to death, but preaching Christ to them and telling them. "Go and sin no more."

That is very interesting.
When you have time, I will be interested to hear what your pastor's arguments were.