Dec 20, 2016

#AskRC Live Twitter Event: December 2016

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Answering theological questions from his students has been a continual commitment throughout Dr. R.C. Sproul's ministry. Originally called "gabfests" by his early students and later, "Ask R.C.," these sessions continue to take place at our conferences, on Renewing Your Mind, and online.

Today, with the help of his staff, Dr. Sproul used Twitter to answer your questions. Thank you to everyone who participated in this special event. You can follow the conversation below or see the Moment on Twitter:

@Ligonier I'm delighted to be here. Thank you to everyone for giving their time for this event.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@DanielOlushola @Ligonier We are actively working on this and will have more to share in the next few months.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@DanielOlushola @Ligonier In the past year we've sent 1,000 study Bibles to Africa. Nigeria will be an area of focus.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@michaeltolosa Reformed theologians agree that children of the elect go to heaven. Any child that goes to heaven enters by grace.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@JimCurtis_ @Ligonier To preach biblically by exposition. To pray diligently for the congregation. And to center focus on corporate worship.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@SamuelBrewer42 @Ligonier I think the Grinch who stole Christmas was an evangelical.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@rcollins11 Those passages have universal application.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@SethBass83 Dispensationalism by @KeithAMathison.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@SethBass83 I like what John Fesko has begun working on in The Trinity and the Covenant of Redemption.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@greetandtweet @Ligonier No.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@CalebLKelly @Ligonier This is an ongoing debate. I tend towards Traducianism, but I do not know.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@CalebLKelly @Ligonier Creation is not staccato, but legato. God's creative power continues to sustain what He has created.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@DanielSAutos @Ligonier Never heard the argument and can't see any value to it.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@lukelemberg As a general rule I don't read books on preaching.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@TomRose1996 From the earliest days, the Christian community celebrated the Lord's Day on Sunday.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Myers_Kirby His divine nature was omniscient, His human nature was not.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@thejgravitt The Bible, Calvin's Institutes, and Edwards' Freedom of the Will.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@rdub116 @Ligonier Silent Night. O Holy Night. Angles We Have Heard on High.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@MVMCCU The gradual process by which our fallen nature is being put to death by the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@greetandtweet Absolutely not.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@KyleBeckrich I am opposed to full preterism but embrace limited partial preterism.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@PreachFerg @Ligonier The only two views which I fully reject are full preterism and dispensationalism.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@edwardjlarow @Ligonier The greater problem is the church not preaching the whole counsel of God which would include election.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@KyleBeckrich I think it does.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@ahernandezlugo Yes.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@ahernandezlugo But this is a longer discussion than we can have on Twitter.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@liliesparrow @RCSproul_ God never provided a mediator for them.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@TravHearne That its chief fallacy rests on Hegelian philosophical presuppositions.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@liliesparrow @RCSproul_ To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Jim_Thomas_ Yes and yes.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@carlos_stjohn His divine nature is omnipresent. His human nature is not. We cannot separate His two natures, but must distinguish them.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@BakerWilliam13 Yes.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@SSeedah Ultimately no death is premature.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Ryan_Chambers10 @Ligonier I support all five of them fully.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Ryan_Chambers10 @Ligonier As set up by the Canons of Dort.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Death_Unto_Life There's no mandate for it in Scripture.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@SSeedah I would not rest my case for tithing on that text.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@ThomasCoutouzis Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, Jeremiah Burroughs, and Thomas Watson.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@bengiselbach That presumes that they were monolithic in their view and they were not.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@MoisesGomez Yes, with the necessary caveats.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@KendallCruse Charles Spurgeon.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@REL4077 To question the validity of their conversion.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@donald_john This is a continual debate.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@donald_john This is a continual debate.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@airfitz21 A good critic of 19th century liberalism who didn't criticize it enough.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@JustWaring Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Edwards.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Ligonier Thankful. Highlights include The Christology Statement, distributing resources at the Olympics, and @RefTrust's new book on Luther

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016

@Ligonier Thanks. We're just trying to make Twitter great again.

— R.C. Sproul (@RCSproul) December 20, 2016