Tim Keller’s Twitter account is full of riddles, but at the beginning of every year, this liberal Protestant pastor has a tradition of Tweeting against pharisaism that is a barb aimed at people in the church who believe in obedience. In the tweet, Tim Keller falsely asserts that obedience to God’s law is often a strategy for rebellion against God.
The 2022 edition is as follows.
It's a shocking message: careful obedience to God's law may actually serve as a strategy for rebelling against God.
— Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) January 9, 2023
Turns out he’s Tweeted this almost every year.
Tim Keller thinks he’s being like Jesus when He critiques the Pharisees, but the Pharisees were, at times, publicly obedient, but privately disobedient. This key distinction would mean that the pharisaical are actually disobedient to god’s law. But this is lost on Keller.
Careful obedience to God's Law is how we show love to God, according to His Word -John 14:15-24; 1 John 5:3; Romans 8:7; Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 30:15-16, 30:19-20; Psalm 119; etc.
— 🏴☠️ beginrescueend 🏴☠️ (@beginrescueend) January 11, 2023
Repent and believe the Gospel -Mark 1:15; Acts 17:30-31, 20:20-21; John 3:1-21, 35; Luke 13:1-5
Perhaps shocking, but not Biblical.
— Campus Preacher (@campusevangel) January 9, 2023
Two different things.
And some memes emerged as well.
Really! 🤦♀️ Study👇
— Agnes Mina,CLS,MT,MD (@agnesisaiah4110) January 10, 2023
“Now, if you will be careful to obey the LORD your God and follow all his commands that I tell you today, the your God and follow all his commands that I tell you today, the LORD your God will put you high above all the nations on earth….(Deuteronomy 28:1-9) pic.twitter.com/Kh6pyX2gjm
The point that obedience to God is loving God is to be driven home. Tim Keller thinks he’s sounding smart here but he’s entirely a midwit.
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Yes Keller’s error is right up there with the woke nonsense that one can be a racist and not know it. This is confusion and we know where that comes from.
Jesus didn’t say don’t wash the cup, He said to keep the inside clean as well (well that cleaning the inside would make the outside clean).
“I’d rather be in a democracy than a state in which the government is officially Christian.” -Tim Keller
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pastor-timothy-keller-speaks-to-the-head-and-the-heart-11662136046
He has chosen his god (Moloch)
I saw that quote yesterday. He’s gonna hate Christ’s return.