# SC Episodes **URL:** https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/sc-episodes/10.md?page=1 [Latest](https://omnifora.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://omnifora.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://omnifora.com/tags.md) **Page:** 2 --- ## [On Human Race: Racism](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-racism/261)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-racism/261 "2023-03-08T20:00:00Z")
Racism is not a sin. The modern-day 'sin' of racism was invented in the 19th century and then imported into the churches from the decadent and decaying culture. If you think that racism is a sin, then you have been misle… --- ## [Against the Antichrist](https://omnifora.com/t/against-the-antichrist/260)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/against-the-antichrist/260 "2023-03-15T19:00:00Z")
Matthew Harrison is head of the largest (supposedly) Confessional Lutheran body in the Western world — the LCMS. During his tenure, he has overseen the greatest decline in membership in the history of the LCMS, the closu… --- ## [Scripture and Slavery](https://omnifora.com/t/scripture-and-slavery/259)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/scripture-and-slavery/259 "2023-03-22T19:00:00Z")
The modern world contends that slavery is incompatible with Christianity and that Christians must oppose slavery. Is this what Scripture teaches? The Christian must always turn to Scripture, not to the Enlightenment or t… --- ## [On Women: Scripture and Ontology](https://omnifora.com/t/on-women-scripture-and-ontology/258)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-women-scripture-and-ontology/258 "2023-03-29T19:00:00Z")
God assuredly knows the purposes for which He made His creatures, the proper ends toward which their lives should be oriented. We can order our lives according to God's Word and God's design, and He will bless us, or we … --- ## [On Women: Feminism](https://omnifora.com/t/on-women-feminism/257)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-women-feminism/257 "2023-04-05T19:00:00Z")
… Show Notes Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants Wider die Mordischen und Reubischen Rotten der Bawren As it turns out, I don't have a copyright-free version of this essay from Luther in English. If any… --- ## [All Sins Are Not Equal](https://omnifora.com/t/all-sins-are-not-equal/256)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/all-sins-are-not-equal/256 "2023-04-12T19:00:00Z")
You have undoubtedly heard the phrase 'all sins are equal' at some point in your life, but you have just as assuredly not found it in Scripture — it is not there. The Word of God does not teach that all sins are equal; i… --- ## [Judge (Not)](https://omnifora.com/t/judge-not/255)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/judge-not/255 "2023-04-19T19:00:00Z")
The Law is God's eternal, unchanging, unchangeable will and all men are required to order their lives according to it — including Christians. Although Christians are no longer under the curse of the Law, this does not me… --- ## [The Fear of the Lord](https://omnifora.com/t/the-fear-of-the-lord/254)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-fear-of-the-lord/254 "2023-04-26T19:00:00Z")
Thou shalt have no other gods. What does this mean? We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things. In our modern context, we often gloss over the first word in that list: fear. We know that we should love… --- ## [Listener Feedback 001](https://omnifora.com/t/listener-feedback-001/253)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/listener-feedback-001/253 "2023-05-03T19:00:00Z")
Our first listener feedback episode. It took us only six months — please calibrate your expectations accordingly. If you have more questions, submit them now to make it into the next listener feedback episode. Show Note… --- ## [Sweat the Small Stuff](https://omnifora.com/t/sweat-the-small-stuff/252)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/sweat-the-small-stuff/252 "2023-05-10T19:00:00Z")
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Too many despair of finding solutions to the problems we face because they focus on the wrong things. We face grand problems, certainly, but those are largely n… --- ## [The Generational Divide](https://omnifora.com/t/the-generational-divide/251)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-generational-divide/251 "2023-05-17T19:00:00Z")
Curses and blessings are not always — or even usually — individual affairs. The sins of the fathers do, in fact, fall to their sons. A wicked generation can doom all those who follow, but a righteous generation can besto… --- ## [Against the Clockwork Universe](https://omnifora.com/t/against-the-clockwork-universe/250)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/against-the-clockwork-universe/250 "2023-05-24T19:00:00Z")
God is both transcendent — above all things — and immanent — pervading and sustaining all things. From the grand scale of galaxies down to the microscope scale of cells, molecules, and atoms, God is involved in everythin… --- ## [The Timeline of Recriminations](https://omnifora.com/t/the-timeline-of-recriminations/249)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-timeline-of-recriminations/249 "2023-05-31T19:00:00Z")
In this episode, we go through the timeline of what has transpired since the LCMS — largely at the behest of Matthew Harrison — published the so-called “Annotated Large Catechism”. The behavior of Synod has been anything… --- ## [Michael ‘Martin Luther’ King: Arch-Heretic](https://omnifora.com/t/michael-martin-luther-king-arch-heretic/248)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/michael-martin-luther-king-arch-heretic/248 "2023-06-07T19:00:00Z")
Michael "Martin Luther" King, Jr., is one of the 'saints' of the modern world's religion. We are told — constantly — that he was a devout Christian. Does this narrative hold up to scrutiny? With many men, there is little… --- ## [Michael ‘Martin Luther’ King: Marxist Agitator](https://omnifora.com/t/michael-martin-luther-king-marxist-agitator/247)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/michael-martin-luther-king-marxist-agitator/247 "2023-06-14T19:00:00Z")
Last week, we explored the ‘theology’ of Michael ‘Martin Luther’ King; this week, we explore his politics, with a focus on the men and women with whom he surrounded himself. Birds of a feather flock together, and Michael… --- ## [Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews](https://omnifora.com/t/hebrews-israelites-and-jews/246)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/hebrews-israelites-and-jews/246 "2023-06-21T19:00:00Z")
The terms “Hebrew”, “Israelite”, and “Jew” are often conflated and they do, indeed, have overlapping meanings, but they are also distinct terms that sometimes reference diametrically opposed things. A “Jew” can be one wh… --- ## [Lies, Betrayal, and Murder — the Fruits of Another Spirit](https://omnifora.com/t/lies-betrayal-and-murder-the-fruits-of-another-spirit/245)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/lies-betrayal-and-murder-the-fruits-of-another-spirit/245 "2023-06-28T19:00:00Z")
For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speak… --- ## [The Revolutionary Spirit](https://omnifora.com/t/the-revolutionary-spirit/244)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-revolutionary-spirit/244 "2023-07-05T19:00:00Z")
Christians must be ready — in season and out of season — to speak the truth. We are not Christians only some of the time, and Christianity, unlike Islam, has no provision for dissimulation — you may not feign to be somet… --- ## [The Big Lie](https://omnifora.com/t/the-big-lie/243)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-big-lie/243 "2023-07-26T19:00:00Z")
The truth does not fear examination. That which is true will hold up under scrutiny. As Christians, we are beholden to believe the truth — no matter how unpopular or unpleasant. Today, we examine one of the foundational… --- ## [Conspiracy Theories and Truth](https://omnifora.com/t/conspiracy-theories-and-truth/242)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/conspiracy-theories-and-truth/242 "2023-08-02T19:00:00Z")
The existence of one conspiracy theory is not necessarily proof of the existence of any other conspiracy theories. That we have been lied to about a great many things, does not necessarily prove that we have been lied to… --- ## [Persuasiveness Matters](https://omnifora.com/t/persuasiveness-matters/241)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/persuasiveness-matters/241 "2023-08-09T19:00:00Z")
Whether the topic is religion, politics, or something else, a persuasive argument will always be more effective than a merely correct argument. Of course, we must make the truth our goal, but simply having the right conc… --- ## [Dietrich Bonhoeffer: False Teacher, Traitor, Damned](https://omnifora.com/t/dietrich-bonhoeffer-false-teacher-traitor-damned/240)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/dietrich-bonhoeffer-false-teacher-traitor-damned/240 "2023-08-16T19:00:00Z")
Like MLK, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a false teacher. Also like MLK, Dietrich Bonhoeffer studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Unlike MLK, Bonhoeffer is a deeply dangerous theologian, because where MLK lac… --- ## [6000 Years and Counting](https://omnifora.com/t/6000-years-and-counting/239)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/6000-years-and-counting/239 "2023-08-23T19:00:00Z")
The ‘scientific’ consensus is that the Earth is some billions of years old (on the order of four-and-a-half billion years old) and that the Universe is some fourteen or so billion years old. But Scripture paints a differ… --- ## [The Left Hand of Christ](https://omnifora.com/t/the-left-hand-of-christ/238)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-left-hand-of-christ/238 "2023-08-30T19:00:00Z")
The State is the left hand of Christ; it is that final prepositional phrase — that imports so much of the meaning — that is often ignored. As Christians, the 'political' realm is not a realm of indifference or adiaphora … --- ## [A Young Man’s Life](https://omnifora.com/t/a-young-man-s-life/237)
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The modern world presents many challenges for and to the young man, particularly the young man who would be a Christian. Often men, and particularly young men, may feel that they have been forgotten or written off by soc… --- ## [You Are Forgiven](https://omnifora.com/t/you-are-forgiven/236)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/you-are-forgiven/236 "2023-09-13T19:00:00Z")
If you are in Christ, then your sins are forgiven. Yes, Christ paid the price for all sins on the Cross, but it is only those who are in Christ — those who have faith — who benefit from this forgiveness. And this forgive… --- ## [Baptism Now Saves You](https://omnifora.com/t/baptism-now-saves-you/235)
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The Sacraments are a key — a central — part of the Christian life. And yet there are disagreements about the nature of the Sacraments — what they are and what they do. As Christians, when disagreements about doctrine, do… --- ## [Normalcy Bias](https://omnifora.com/t/normalcy-bias/234)
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Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Much less so is tomorrow guaranteed to be the same as yesterday. And yet we, as human beings, have a tendency to think of the world as a sort of constant or given — we do not by nature adequat… --- ## [Listener Feedback 002](https://omnifora.com/t/listener-feedback-002/233)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/listener-feedback-002/233 "2023-10-04T19:00:00Z")
Our second listener feedback episode. It took us only five months this time (the last one took six). If you have more questions, submit them now to make it into the next listener feedback episode. Show Notes Myth of th… --- ## [The Sword of Christ by Giles Corey](https://omnifora.com/t/the-sword-of-christ-by-giles-corey/232)
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Modern churches, by and large, have been subverted — we all know this. Is the subversion of the churches an argument against Christianity? Of course not. The Church fought for decades against the very sort of infiltratio… [Previous page](https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/sc-episodes/10.md) [Next page](https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/sc-episodes/10.md?page=2)