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Dr. James White, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Sola ScripturaLeave a comment

White vs Williams

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This debate that was supposed to be a debate about indulgences turned into a debate about Church Authority and Protestant canon. Peter lives in the modern time where epistemology is done without any regard for metaphysics, but that hasn’t been the narrative throughout history. Williams only challenges to White in this debate was about his way of coming to a knowledge of the canon. James White gave a near externalist account of it where canon causes a positive doxastic attitude towards a proposition. The debate almost reminds you of the problem of the criterion. Do you start with particular examples … Continue reading White vs Williams

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Present Sufferings

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Isaiah 65:20 “No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, Or an old man who does not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of one hundred And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred Will be thought accursed. This is sometimes thought to be referring to the Millenium reign of Christ. That is at least what Post-mil and Pre-mil proponents advocate. A sort of in-between period between the age and the age to come. The issue with those interpretations is that the text is about the “new heavens and new earth”. … Continue reading Present Sufferings

Atheism, Doctrine of God, Ethics, Jimmy Stephens, philosophy, theologyLeave a comment

Is God good?

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The Euthyphro Dilemma sets theist with a Dilemma. Is God’s will good because he wills it, or because it appeals to an outside standard of goodness? The Christian takes this to be that Goodness is grounded in God’s being or nature. The issue that arises from that is that people push the issue to another problem: What does it mean to say God is good? Does that mean God is God? Does goodness lose all meaning? The way Christians get around this issue is that when we say “God is good” we are saying not that “God is God” but … Continue reading Is God good?

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Robert Rowe on Sensus Plenior

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I was reading an exchange between Dr. Bowen and Robert Rowe and found the exchange was missing the real issue. I won’t reproduce the whole exchange that occurred, but I will provide a link. Rowe was defending Hugh Ross’s concordism by using Matthew quoting Hosea. The issue is that Robert’s case seems to misses the real issue or rather the right solution: I still think this form of concordism is misunderstood. I keep repeating that I don’t nullify the clear ANE context of these passages. But neither do I ignore the sensus plenior nature of the text (that the entire … Continue reading Robert Rowe on Sensus Plenior

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One String Banjos

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Dr. Leighton Flowers is a familiar name to anyone that regularly reads this website. So, to those 3 people, I don’t have to say much about this. He plays the anti-Calvinist banjo as his career song. That is fine and glad he has found a career that involves saying very little new things. I think the obligation of keeping Leighton in check is that of his followers. Instead, they blindly follow him as his personal internet heretic cult. That is why his followers are made up of Pelagians and Open Theists. I listened to a couple of his recent podcasts to see if … Continue reading One String Banjos

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Guide for responding to a Pervert Apologist

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The issue of what the Bible says about sexual ethics has been challenged and in modern times have been twisted to teach false doctrines and other things. This will just be a resource article on various sexual issues that crop up from time to time. Pervert Apologist come in many forms fake Christians, Atheist, etc. 1. Homosexuality: The issues of how the Bible looks at these kinds of relationships are being misinterpreted by “Gay Christian” proponents like Matthew Vines, James Brownson, and others. The questions here are twofold in Christian circles: Is homosexuality condemned and how should we live knowing … Continue reading Guide for responding to a Pervert Apologist