Note: This article is not for the faint of heart. It is highly technical and will be lengthy. It involves a discussion between a proponent of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) and someone who denies it in favor of some form … Continue reading Bahnsen or Spicy?: Essays on Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Ancapistan Press
The God of Hope: An Explanation from a Covenantal Ontology by Jimmy Stephens: Classical theism: God is by nature timeless and it contradicts His nature to be in any sense temporal whatsoever. Open theism: Temporal properties possessed by God exclude … Continue reading The God of Hope: An Explanation from a Covenantal Ontology
By Jimmy Stephens John 12:37-41 37 But though He had performed so many signs in their sight, they still were not believing in Him. 38 This happened so that the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke would be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed our report? And … Continue reading Flowers and the Debate on Divine Hardening: A Calvinist Critique
Dr. John Peckham said: Some thoughts on indeterminism and Ephesians 1:11 (from pages 168 and 125 of my book Divine Attributes, Baker Academic, 2021). Note the explanation on page 125 that the term often translated “predestined” or “destined” simply means … Continue reading Divine Purpose Unraveled: Unpacking God’s Unfulfilled Desires in a Deterministic World
I’d like to offer some thoughts on Jonathan Mclatchie’s review of “Canon Revisited – Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books, by Michael J. Kruger.” I’ve touched on his perspective briefly before, and I believe this is … Continue reading Unpacking Epistemological Assumptions: A Review of Mclatchie’s Framework
Jimmy Stephens: A necessary condition of being a person is knowing God. Computers cannot possess knowledge – full stop. So computers cannot be persons. Isaiah: What would be the necessary condition for knowing God? Jimmy Stephens: The definite article “the” … Continue reading Computers and Knowledge
A while ago, I asked Jimmy to review Seraphim Hamilton’s debate with TurretinFan on Sola Fide. Here are some of his responses: This is the silliest move So big alarm bells right off the bat He defines justification in terms … Continue reading Untangling the Sola Fide Debate: Jimmy Stephens’ Insights on Seraphim Hamilton vs. TurretinFan
Braxton Hunter and Jonathan Pritchett had Warren McGrew on their show to discuss whether he is a heretic. This led to a series of friendly discussion but unclear and unpersuasive conclusions. I posed two inquiries regarding Warren McGrew’s perspective: I … Continue reading Does Idol Killer think God has a Body?
This is Jimmy Stephens thoughts about human Conceptualism: We have to give him credit for avoiding saying abstracta are just labels. At least he’s only as stupid as to say universals are the map of them, instead of saying universals … Continue reading Conceptualism: A Problematic Tale
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