Jacob Hansen responded to me with the following argument: P1: If you truly love someone and have the power to save them, you will choose to save them.P2: In Calvinism, God has the power to save everyone but chooses to … Continue reading Does Divine Love Entail Universal Salvation? A Response to Jacob Hansen
This is Jimmy Stephens review of this article: AmazingThis article deigns not only to shoot at a straw man, but to do so with nerf darts. (1) The argument for foreknowledge as selective love is not merely one of citing … Continue reading Cottrell on Rom 8
——–The Dilemma of Oriental Orthodox Christology I was recently engaged in a dialogue concerning Oriental Orthodox Christology. I argued that Oriental Orthodoxy is, in many respects, functionally similar to Eastern Orthodoxy, but someone challenged that claim by appealing to their … Continue reading Created and Uncreated
36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. 37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table … Continue reading The Sinful Woman and Forgiveness
I asked Jimmy Stephens a question regarding our friend’s involvement in a documentary against Christianity: TheSire: I want your thought on this: Cooper: Paul says we are justified apart from works of the law, and Paul also says that love … Continue reading Love, the Fulfillment of the Law, and Faith
On Twitter, Bethany McGrew expressed interest in debating me on original sin, and perhaps a few related issues as well. In response, I sent her my video on the topic: Here was her response to my argument: Yes, I understand … Continue reading By Nature Children of Wrath
The issue isn’t whether God knows everything. Everyone in the debate can affirm divine omniscience. The real question is whether God’s election is unconditional or conditional—whether God chooses people for salvation because of something in them (foreseen faith, sacramental response, … Continue reading Before Any Had Done Anything: Romans 9 and the Logic of Grace
Dan’s framing: “Christianity has always maintained some kind of opposition to abortion, it has never been directly based on the Bible. It has always been socially contingent and it has only become the highly salient central identity marker of conservative … Continue reading Breath, Birth, and Abortion
——Against the Claim That Personhood Begins at First Breath I recently engaged in a dialogue with someone over when a human being becomes a person. He holds that the Bible teaches a person comes into existence at first breath, and … Continue reading From the Womb: Luke 1 and Prenatal Personhood
Often in conversations about the papacy and sola scriptura, you’ll hear the reassurance: “We’re not charismatics. Bishops don’t receive new prophecy. We can’t just invent doctrine—we only clarify what was already contained in the apostolic deposit.” It’s meant to dissolve … Continue reading The Tertium Quid Church
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