Author: TheSire

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Divine conceptualism is Univocism?

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Some very great men that I admire think that Divine conceptualism employs univocal reasoning. Dr. James Anderson and Dr. Greg Welty have responses to such a charge. Mainly in responses to Nate Shannon. “Nevertheless, one might worry that identifying propositions with divine thoughts breaches the Creator-creation distinction. Do we really want to say that God himself is the propositional content of all our human thoughts? Doesn’t that in some sense bring God “down to our level”? If that’s the concern, I think there’s a relatively straightforward solution to it. We can say that one part of the creation is a … Continue reading Divine conceptualism is Univocism?

Ethics, Original Sin, Presuppositionalism, theologyLeave a comment

Original sin is unjust?

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Steve Hays in his “I’m glad you asked” blog series deals with common objections to the Christian faith. Here’s his response to those who attack original sin. http://triablogue.blogspot.com.br/2004/04/im-glad-you-asked-7.html?m=1 “Original Sin I suppose most folks have an intuitive resistance to original sin. It seems unfair. Yet what, exactly, is it that prompts this instinctive reaction? There is a difference between being blamed for doing some I didn’t do, and being blamed for something I didn’t do. The former is unjust because it is untrue. But the latter is subtler. When men rankle under the dogma of original sin, I doubt that … Continue reading Original sin is unjust?

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Original sin (Inherited guilt)

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The first claim usually is that original sin was invented by Augustine. I think those claims are false, but that isn’t what I wish to get into here. I’ll reference these two videos for that objection: My goal is to survey the biblical evidence for the view from both testaments. I wish to look at OT evidence for the concept of Original Sin. Some say that God only punishes us for our own sins that are done in our own lives. I wish to show that is a false assumption. It is true that we are punished for our sins, … Continue reading Original sin (Inherited guilt)

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Timeless foreknowledge?

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Dr. Paul Helm wrote this in his work ‘Eternal God: A study of God without Time, Second edition’. Pages 98-100 What is it that the timeless foreknowledge is before? It cannot be before anything for the timeless knower, for him there is no temporal before or after, since he occupies no position in time. Thus for a timeless foreknower the statement: (a) I foreknow that A Where A is some event or action in a temporal ‘stream’, is necessarily false, since for it to be true A would have to stand in some temporal relation to the foreknower, which is … Continue reading Timeless foreknowledge?

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Pluralism?

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Jimmy Stephens has taken a stab at the pluralist objection to TAG. “1.) All worldviews which hold to two contradictory propositions are irrational. 2.) Pluralism holds that an infinite set of worldviews are necessarily possibly true. 3.) All infinite sets of worldviews contain worldviews which contradict Pluralism. 4.) Pluralism holds to two contradictory propositions: [a] that pluralism is necessarily true and [b] that pluralism is not necessarily true. 6.) Therefore, Pluralism is irrational.” Continue reading Pluralism?

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Faith alone implies Christ alone

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It’s been said that I reject Grace alone and faith alone by Christian Anarchist and his friends. This is another false charge of “Spiritually Dishonest Ministries”. Anarchist has had a problem with me and now wishes to move from attacking my character to that of attacking my doctrine. Just not on an issue of mere simple doctrine , but on the heart of the Gospel. In leveling these charges he attacks my place before God. Which is something I take seriously. While he supports sodomy he condemns me as unorthodox. I think he needs to read up. The questions now … Continue reading Faith alone implies Christ alone