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Tautologicality and Christian Conceptualism

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I’ll respond to this because I think it is a good example of how people don’t understand the issue of when presuppositionalist discuss logic. This is some atheist named Barry on the internet responding to Hays’ about logic on the article “From Whence Does Logic Come? (And why you can’t use it to prove God)”. Steve Hays replied to the “first principles” part and said: “But necessary truths of logic can’t derive from contingent truths of the physical world. In many respects, the physical world might have been different. Causation is a weaker principle than logical entailment.” Well first, Hays is … Continue reading Tautologicality and Christian Conceptualism

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Guardians of the Gay

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Some have bought the lines thrown out by those who argue the Bible is compatible with homosexuality. Robert Rowe was throwing some of those liberal arguments out there in an article he wrote. https://www.sentinelapologetics.org/single-post/2018/04/09/Homosexuality-Why-Christians-Should-Not-Use-Leviticus-1822 Certain schools of theology will have you learn artificial systematic ways in which we can organize these laws, placing them into ceremonial, civil, etc. Unfortunately no one in the ANE (including Moses) would even understand our artificial musings. Rowe’s mistakes are that it will take an actual argument to demonstrate these claims. The claim that distinctions in the Law are artificial would just be the claim … Continue reading Guardians of the Gay

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Rowe’s Dilemma

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Robert Rowe has been in some recent dialogues about his interpretation of the Genesis. I think he walks the accommodationist and concordist tight wire to make his interpretations. He finds the Bible to be the product of outdated ideas and sees these as God accommodating to his Ancient Near Eastern people. He finds that atheist objections are foolish because they are trying to read science back on to a mythological text. He, for example, thinks the Bible teaches that the universe fits this model: On the other hand, he is a scientist. He loves to see his ideas correspond with an exterior reality. … Continue reading Rowe’s Dilemma

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Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)

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Many who deny the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ (Arianism in all its forms for example) have attempted to make the historical case that early Christians prior to the Council of Nicea didn’t believe in such things as the idea that Christ, in addition to His human nature, possesses fully the Divine nature in the same way that God the Father and God the Spirit do. While the orthodox Christian may respond with an appeal to a plethora of early documents such as Ignatius’ (A.D. 30-107) statements that demonstrate a high Christology in the Ante-Nicene period, and rightly so, … Continue reading Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)

Atheism, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, Dr. Greg Welty, philosophy, PresuppositionalismLeave a comment

The Battle of the Brute Facts

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It has been a constant objection in presuppositionalist conversations and it should be. When engaging in epistemology these questions pop up. The topic of brute facts has even been brought up to Dr. Greg Bahnsen: Question from the Bahnsen-Stein debate: Why is it necessary for the abstract universal laws to be decided from the transcendental nature of God, or derived from the transcendental of God.  Why not assume the transcendental nature of logic? Dr. Bahnsen’s response: Somebody who wrote the question is good in that you’ve studied some of these philosophical issues.  The answer may not be meaningful to everybody in the audience, … Continue reading The Battle of the Brute Facts

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Infinite Punishment for Finite Sins?

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Many atheists and annihilationist believe that nobody deserves Hell. That infinite punishment is never merited by any amount of finite sin. God must punish people in proportion to the crime. That seems intuitive but intuitions are person and culture relative. I think it is intuitive that God punishes plenty of people eternally for their crimes on earth. Man’s deeds deserve the repercussions that God places on them. Many(actually all) cases in Human history testify to the deservedness of eternal damnation. How confident are you in the intuition that finite sins cannot merit eternal damnation? Would a history lesson make you … Continue reading Infinite Punishment for Finite Sins?

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Wagner on Calvinism

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I recently had an exchange with Dr. Brian Wagner. He is a Professor of Theology, Church History, and Biblical Languages at Virginia Baptist College. TheSire: “reformed theology has God decreeing the fall as necessary before creation of Adam… how does that make Adam at fault for it? Not logical.” That is a philosophical objection and not an exegetical objection. Your objection is based on your intuition but who granted that intuition is the arbiter of ethical affairs? Plus your position just begs the question. It assumes what it needs to prove: That being that Determinism is incompatible with moral culpability. … Continue reading Wagner on Calvinism

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Is the Holy Spirit female?

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I recently had an exchange with a rather strange person that thinks the Holy Spirit is a woman that had relations with the Father to produce Jesus (Mary being their daycare). I will not be providing the original conversation, but an edited version that takes any ambiguousness out of what I’m saying. Tommy Hall: So when Mark 10:8 says that when a man leaves his parents and becomes “one flesh” with his wife, does that mean that he is now transgender? No, it means they have formed one substance. Two people; one substance. It’s beautiful, not grotesque as you make … Continue reading Is the Holy Spirit female?

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Flowers on Ephesians 1

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Recently, I was kicked from the Soteriology 101 anti-Calvinist bash because Leighton was offended by something in my article. He stated that he was offended and what I said was childish. I informed him that it wasn’t childish and that he was begging the question. So, in honor of that, I have decided to write another Leighton Flowers article. I am not a big fan of his and you’ll see why. ——————————————–QUOTE—————————————————– 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace and peace to you from … Continue reading Flowers on Ephesians 1