In a recent conversation on Google Buzz a brother in Christ told me: Douglas K. Adu-Boahen - What I mean is that this discussion has been barren from any deep discussion of the only real factor that matters – the Bible, which is God’s Word. All this talk of philosophical concepts is boring, boring, boring – [...]
Why is abortion always treated as a Catholic issue? I get highly annoyed when people speak of issues such as abortion as if they were purely the invention of the religious right and devoid of any other supporters than “the crazy Christians”. So to help put things in perspective, here are several secular sources who, like [...]
Some ex-scripts from an article by my friend Jeff Henning on being a Christian soldier in God’s army: “Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.” – 2 Timothy 2:3 .. Paul equated the life of a soldier with the life of a Christian. A Christian needed to have the civilian individualism taken out by [...]
I recently came across the draft of a paper written by Ken Keathley on Molinism titled “A Molinist View of Election Or How to Be a Consistent Infralapsarian”. The full PDF version is avaliable here. The final version is included in the book Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue. On supralapsarianism and historical Calvinism Keathly writes: [...]
A brother of mine recently wrote the following by way of advocating the position that “all Christians ought to be socialists”: Acts 2:44-45 “All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need’ Acts 4;32b, 34-35 “..neither said any of them that ought [...]
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In a recent conversation via Google Buzz between a couple of Reformed brethren and myself I was told the following: Nathan White – Wes- I don’t see Calvinism starting with philosophy because it starts with what scripture explicitly says, that we were chosen, predestined, and even that God created vessels of wrath and mercy for His [...]
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I was recently sent the following challenging response to a previous post regarding the deconversion of those who once claimed to be Christians: Apply your reasoning to any other area of life, and no one can ever stop believing something that they really believed in. True belief PRECLUDES assimilating newly discovered evidence which causes re-evaluation [...]
From a conversation via Google Buzz1: I can’t help but coming to the conclusion that, outside of open theism where God has no clue what the future holds, God is always in some way ‘responsible’ for sin and evil in the world. I say that with reverence and a few qualifications, of course. But God [...]
The anabaptists often get a bum rap in Church history classes. Especially among the reformed crowd who would preferr to paint them as anarchists who despised order and expoused heresies. A lawless mob. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, though, since the anabaptists were routienely persecuted by both the Roman Catholic Church as well as [...]
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I ran across a recent Tweet via Google Buzz that read: Would we be more pious than Jesus? – “I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given Me” – Jn 17:9 During the course of our conversation on the implications of the thought expressed above I come up with the [...]
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