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Thibodaux’s Cooked Goose

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J.C. Thibodaux has responded to an article I wrote against his view of aseity. https://arminianperspectives.wordpress.com/2019/07/26/calvinisms-inconsistencies-on-gods-attributes/ The first of his objections involves people ‘explaining’ God. Van Til thinks of aseity as God being self-contained. Nothing can further explain God other than himself but on Thibodaux scheme, God being is explained by creatures. But how can a being that is a se or self-explained be further explained by created things(people and their choice)? It isn’t really clear what he’s asking. If he’s talking about how we define God, He most certainly is, in some ways, defined by His creation. “God, furthermore, said … Continue reading Thibodaux’s Cooked Goose

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The Real Slim Shady

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Here’s your problem Vincent: You’re not able to distinguish between the nature of a person, let’s say Jesus, the [hu]man, and the identity of a person, like, again, Jesus ‘the Word’ of God, the ‘son of God’, the “name” (notice a name is an identifier telling us who, not what) “that is above all names.” Once you do, all of your citations fall right into place. No need to posit non-Christian philosophical solutions like, of a sudden, we’re to suppose man now has two natures? Once again, the presupposition you hold to is showing (Classic Theism/Scholasticism), which you bring to … Continue reading The Real Slim Shady

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Misogamists and Misandrists

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But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 1 Timothy 2:12 You would think this passage is as simple to a third grader to able to read and understand… What part of “I do not allow a woman to teach…” do many do not understand? It is perhaps one of the most controversial verses (next to verses that say homosexuality is a sin) that many refuse to take for what it says. Instead, many continue to tap dance around this verse and say Paul the Apostle didn’t mean what … Continue reading Misogamists and Misandrists

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Kenotic Christology

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6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to exploit 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, … Continue reading Kenotic Christology

Arminianism, Doctrine of God, Freewill, Metaphysics, Problem of EvilLeave a comment

Arminianism and Aseity

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I’ll be looking at another article from the Arminian perspectives website. Aseity is defined as, “existence originating from and having no source other than itself.” God, according to all branches of orthodox Christian theology, is the only Being who is self-existent. The issue at hand, briefly, is that if God has endowed His creations with a measure of free will, then the creatures’ own actions come from themselves (i.e. from their own self-determination) and hence the transcendent God’s knowledge of what they will do apparently is also rooted in that self-determination. Determinists such as Mr. Prussic contend that God’s knowledge … Continue reading Arminianism and Aseity