Author: TheSire
Bahnsen Debates
Here are the Bahnsen debates that I could find on the internet for free: R.C. Sproul vs Bahnsen: http://www.philvaz.com/SproulBahnsenDebate.mp3 Dr. Bahnsen vs Dr. Stein: Bahnsen vs Smith: Bahnsen Lectures at Westminster: Part 1: http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/gb201_podcast.mp3 Part 2: http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/gb202_copyright.mp3 Part 3: http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/gb203_copyright.mp3 Part 4: http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/gb204_copyright.mp3 Worldviews in Conflict: Part 1: http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/gb101-copyright.mp3 Part 2: http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/gb102-copyright.mp3 Continue reading Bahnsen Debates
Tyler Vela’s response to Tony Vance’s article
The original article: https://hillbillylogicblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/why-romans-9-doesnt-teach-individual-election/ A couple initial thoughts: 1. You jump all over the place for translations (several of which aren’t really appropriate for exegetical arguments from the text). This has the appearance of “lemme choose a translation that words it ambiguously enough for me to get the point that I want out of it.” Who are you –Rick Warren? 2. You are doing an overview, which is fine, but it is precisely some of the line by line argumentation that is precisely part of the argument for the Reformed view and against your Corporate (almost Neo-Barthian) view. 3. Anyone who … Continue reading Tyler Vela’s response to Tony Vance’s article
The Archetypal Image in Colossians 1:15: Theological Implications
The Right to Bear Arms
Democrats are certain that you have no rights to have an ultra super death bringing semi-automatic weapons. The Democrats have been on full alert to make sure we end the sales of the boom-boom sticks and stop the real terrorist groups like the NRA. Here are articles defending the 2nd amendment from the silly democratic(Communist) attacks: Epistleofdude: Gun control papers The Council: Shapiro on Gun Control Guns or Cops? Triablogue: Nikolas Cruz Did Australia’s Ban on Semiauto Firearms Really Reduce Violence? A Critique of the Chapman et al. (2016) Study Should churchgoers be armed? Mad Max Dream act When seconds count, … Continue reading The Right to Bear Arms
Van Til and Common Grace
A very important insight of Van Til is his notion of Common Grace. Here is William Dennison’s words on Van Til’s notion: Readers of Plato’s dialogues must be sensitive to what literary critical scholars refer to as the “Socratic problem,” that is, the task of separating which concepts belong to Socrates (470/ 469– 399 BC) and which concepts belong to Plato. Although a number of ideas continue to be subject to speculative analysis, many scholars follow Aristotle’s (384– 322 BC) lead, maintaining that the doctrine of Forms that appear in the middle and later dialogues belongs to Plato. 137 For … Continue reading Van Til and Common Grace
Why is Jesus called the Word?
The Council: Attributes of God – Knowledge
Van Til- Starting Points
Stroud and Van Til
My friends Jimmy and Békefi Bálint had a conversation on the issue of his paper: Bosserman on Stroud’s Objection https://philarchive.org/archive/BKEVTV Necessitarian-discord-tact-convo Modest TAG argument: Modest is Hottest: A Brief Response to Bálint Békefi’s “Van Til versus Stroud: Is the Transcendental Argument for Christian Theism Viable?” Is TAG viable? Continue reading Stroud and Van Til
The Council 
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