It is sometimes claimed that the idea that God created the world with apparent age makes God deceptive. He creates a Young earth and yet gives it the appearance of a world that appears as if the world is billions … Continue reading Creation and Deception
A while back some indeterminist proponents were using this verse to defend libertarian freedom. The problem with that is they maintain that libertarian freedom is the necessary condition of moral culpability. That means that an agent without that ability would be innocent for any deed he does. If they believe this way of escape that is provided by God is libertarian freedom, then the passage only gives that freedom to believers in God. God doesn’t provide a way of escape for everyone. So, the libertarian would have to maintain all nonbelievers are innocent. Other stuff: Steve Hays: Molinism and 1 … Continue reading 1 Cor. 10:13
This will be a collection of resources on the topic of Justification by faith alone. This is the witness of the New Testament that men are justified by faith alone and saved by grace alone. This is the position of the Christian faith: Clement (80-140 A.D.): So all of them received honor and greatness, not through themselves or their own deeds or the right things they did, but through his will. And we, therefore, who by his will have been called in Jesus Christ, are not justified of ourselves or by our wisdom or insight of religious devotion or the … Continue reading Sola Fide
This will be another group of articles on the topic in the title. That is whether lying is always sinful or not. I’ll try to provide resources both pros and cons. Dr. Vern Poythress: Why Lying Is Always Wrong: The Uniqueness of Verbal Deceit Dr. Wayne Grudem: Why It Is Never Right To Lie: An Example of John Frame’s Influence on My Approach to Ethics Dr. John Frame: Must We Always Tell the Truth? Steve Hays: Too hot to handle-1 Tactful lies Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? Lying and dying Liars and deceivers Lies … Continue reading Biblical Debates: Lying?
Here is a random collection of articles on the topic of Genesis 1-3. Steve Hays: Introduction to Genesis Is Genesis preexilic? From first day to fourth day Very good East of Eden The Fall Cain & Abel Change in the … Continue reading The Creation Account
I was watching a conversation between a Clarkian and a Classical apologist arguing with one another. The conversation turned to the Clarkian buffoonery of rejecting metaphysics. he admitted openly that he is an Idealist and the moderator agreed with that position appealing to Eastern Orthodox view of panentheism( with his appeal to the essence/energy distinction). It reminded me of when I was flirting with those ideas. Those are incompatible. If idealism is true, then physical death is an illusion, the Incarnation is an illusion, the Resurrection is an illusion, &c. If, moreover, God is timeless, and God is the source of … Continue reading Passing thoughts
Here are a few links presenting the position that Genesis 1 is teaching creation from nothing. Dr. Vern Poythress: Genesis 1 Triablogue: Does Gen 1 teach creation ex nihilo? The days of creation Vocalization and Genesis 1:1 Continue reading Creation Ex Nihilo and Genesis 1
It is sometimes stated that Determinism entails skepticism. That is presented by certain libertarians to undermine one’s confidence in Calvinism. It seems that they have a problem with accidental beliefs. Here was the response of Hays to Spencer Toy on this problem: Spencer Toy said: As William Lane Craig has stated, once a person embraces determinism of any sort a strange vertigo sets in. One very well may believe true things, but only because they’ve already been determined to believe those things just as much as their opponents have been determined to believe false things. In such a system, nothing can be … Continue reading Determinism and Skepticism
Steve Hays once said: “Most atheists are physicalists. The brain generates the mind. So morality is located in the brain. … Although psychos have abnormal brains, they don’t have defective brains, since–according to naturalism–there’s no way the brain is supposed to be. And psychopaths can be highly functional. On this view, morality is arbitrary. Morality is an artifact of brain structures. If you change the wiring, you change morality. In theory, evolution might have made psychopathic brains normal rather than abnormal. The majority might have psychopathic brains. Empathetic humans would be abnormal. From a naturalistic perspective, that’s all there is … Continue reading Psychopaths and Morality
This is not a full-blown model of the Trinity, but it will allow a simplistic articulation of the orthodox doctrine. The Trinity is a very complicated debate and I don’t have the brainpower to say anything remarkable about it. The only thing I will attempt is to explain or formulate a decent trinitarian doctrine. We will start with Biblical monotheism and move from there. In Christian theology, we know that only one God exists, Yahweh. This is foundational to a Biblical worldview(Deut 6:4, Psalm 86:10, Isa 40-48, John 1:1-3,17:3, 1Cor 8:4-6, Gal. 4:8-9). This also puts us in a strange … Continue reading A simplistic discussion on the Trinity
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