Socialized Health Care?
Remember when the United States tried socialized hearth care? Continue reading Socialized Health Care?
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The Wills of God
1 Thessalonians 4:3-4: “ For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,” This verses above are used to show God has a second will that fails to save the reprobate. The distinction in wills has historical routes in the Reformed faith but it is more a confusing linguistical tradition than anything else. I asked Steve Hays thoughts and he said this: I doubt 1 Thes 4:3 is using God’s “will” in the rather recondite, specialized sense required … Continue reading The Wills of God
Divine conceptualism is Univocism?
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?
Original sin is unjust?
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?
Original sin (Inherited guilt)
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)
The Council of Google Plus : Episode 9
The fetal position podcast
Here’s a good podcast on the issue of abortion. http://thefetalposition.com/ Continue reading The fetal position podcast
Introduction to Revelational Epistemology
A couple of articles on baptists
An interesting article on what makes a reformed baptist distinct from other baptists and presbies: http://founders.org/2017/03/30/what-is-a-reformed-baptist/ A chapter on the law of God: http://www.thecalvinist.net/post/1689-Baptist-Confession-Chapter-19:-Of-The-Law-Of-God-Commentary/1038#Introduction Continue reading A couple of articles on baptists
Timeless foreknowledge?
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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