Calvinist pastor prays for God to smite the people of Minneapolis
A professor at John Piper’s Bethlehem Seminary prayed on Sunday not for God to protect the terrified people of Minneapolis, but for God to protect ICE from the violent people of Minneapolis.
“I’m a pastor in Minnesota. Here’s how I prayed for ICE yesterday, Please protect the ICE officers from wicked men and women who are violent lawbreakers,” prayed Andy Naselli, lead pastor of Christ the King Church in Stillwater, Minn., and professor of systematic theology and New Testament at Bethlehem.
In the introduction to his prayer, Naselli lamented Minnesota magistrates “acting unjustly … as anti-ICE protesters swarm into Minneapolis.”
Then he prayed: “Father, please enable the government authorities who work for ICE to accomplish their lawful and moral mission: to ‘protect America through criminal investigations and enforcing immigration laws to preserve national security and public safety.’”
Naselli described the ICE officials as brave and honorable, while calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey “wicked,” and accused them of “inciting lawbreaking.”
Then Naselli gave five examples of Walz’s and Frey’s “sin”:
●“They have empowered people to murder babies in the wombs of their mothers.”
●“They have enforced policies that encourage transgenderism and that punish those who respect your good design for men and women.”
●“They have granted sanctuary to citizens of other countries who are trespassing, and they have stolen billions of tax dollars from hardworking citizens.”
●“They have encouraged protesters to obstruct the good and responsible work of law enforcement and to riot when they don’t get their way.”
●“They have used rhetoric and empowered policies that endanger honorable law enforcement, such as our fellow member who serves as an officer.”
His prayer concluded by asking for God’s mercy and grace, by praying the ICE officers would be skilled and just faithful servants who could be “a terror to bad conduct” and “righteous avengers who carry out your wrath on wrongdoers.”
https://baptistnews.com/article/calvinis...nneapolis/
A professor at John Piper’s Bethlehem Seminary prayed on Sunday not for God to protect the terrified people of Minneapolis, but for God to protect ICE from the violent people of Minneapolis.
“I’m a pastor in Minnesota. Here’s how I prayed for ICE yesterday, Please protect the ICE officers from wicked men and women who are violent lawbreakers,” prayed Andy Naselli, lead pastor of Christ the King Church in Stillwater, Minn., and professor of systematic theology and New Testament at Bethlehem.
In the introduction to his prayer, Naselli lamented Minnesota magistrates “acting unjustly … as anti-ICE protesters swarm into Minneapolis.”
Then he prayed: “Father, please enable the government authorities who work for ICE to accomplish their lawful and moral mission: to ‘protect America through criminal investigations and enforcing immigration laws to preserve national security and public safety.’”
Naselli described the ICE officials as brave and honorable, while calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey “wicked,” and accused them of “inciting lawbreaking.”
Then Naselli gave five examples of Walz’s and Frey’s “sin”:
●“They have empowered people to murder babies in the wombs of their mothers.”
●“They have enforced policies that encourage transgenderism and that punish those who respect your good design for men and women.”
●“They have granted sanctuary to citizens of other countries who are trespassing, and they have stolen billions of tax dollars from hardworking citizens.”
●“They have encouraged protesters to obstruct the good and responsible work of law enforcement and to riot when they don’t get their way.”
●“They have used rhetoric and empowered policies that endanger honorable law enforcement, such as our fellow member who serves as an officer.”
His prayer concluded by asking for God’s mercy and grace, by praying the ICE officers would be skilled and just faithful servants who could be “a terror to bad conduct” and “righteous avengers who carry out your wrath on wrongdoers.”
https://baptistnews.com/article/calvinis...nneapolis/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
