Archive for September, 2006
Poll Results: Babies and Sin
Baby had committed no sin and therefore would go to heaven.: 46%
Though all are born with original sin, God chooses to save all who die in infancy.: 38%
Baby is tainted by original sin and goes to hell: 8%
God might have chosen for the baby to receive grace: 8%
God might have chosen the baby not [...]
bono, lead worshipper
Check out my ‘piggy-back’ entry on the metaphors of worship leading from U2’s Vertigo Tour DVD. I’ve reprinted it here for your ‘edification.’
Dusting off an oldie, at least in internet time…
Steve Taylor of emergingkiwi.org.nz and resident New Zealand emerging church guru, pastor and author wrote a masterful entry entitled, “7 things I learnt from [...]
141st Christian Carnival
The 141st Christian Carnival is up at A Penitent Blogger. Check it out!
My Good Friend, Jeremiah of Anothoth
In my Prophetic Lit. class we are on our second day of Jeremiah tonight. I have read Jeremiah 1-25 and I am quite taken by this prophet”s ministry and message. Last night I read Jeremiah 8:17-25:38, okay I read 8:17-19:15 but that”s pretty much eleven chapters with a Greek quiz to study for [...]
Humor in Google.
Masstheology gets a lot of good, quality searches. I like looking through the search logs and seeing people come to the site with honest questions and seeing honest debate about these important topics. Sometimes, however, there are searches that strike one as odd. Here are a few of those searches:
what does it [...]
dikaiosune
I have two questions for the authors of this site:
1.) What is the Biblical definition of righteousness?
2.) Does this mean that whatever God does is automatically righteous?
This Is Terrible
I am a huge VeggieTale’s fan. Dr. Mohler has written a blog on what NBC is doing to my favorite cartoon of all time. Check it out.
Augustine and the Trinity
Augustine wrote On the Trinity around 419 C.E.. This was after the Church had established the doctrine of the Trinity and now people were trying to defend the doctrine against heretical formulations. Besides the common charge of tri-theism, the greatest challenge came from the formulation of the trinity as presented by Arius. This Arianism, not [...]
Reading the Text Rightly
Every time someone wants to debate my soteriological views with me, they always go to two verses, 1 Timothy 2:4 and 2 Peter 3:9. While I might concede 1 Timothy, most people fail to actually read 2 Peter 3:9. In that verse, Peter states,
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as [...]
Christian Carnival CXL Plug
The latest Christian Carnival is up at Lux Venit: Christian Carnival CXL
The Christian Carnival is a weekly selection of postings from Christian bloggers. The submissions are open to Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant faiths.
Check ‘em out.
God and the Devil
Purely speculative question of the day:
Does God love Satan?
Poll question
There should be a one more question.
Question 2a: Though all are born with original sin, God chooses to save all who die in infancy. I would choose that..
Original sin/substitutianary atonement defined
Romans 5:12-21
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned - 13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, [...]
Past Poll Results and Theme options
We have run three polls so far and I want to share the results:
You are a…
Arminian.
Calvinist
Is immersion baptism essential?
Yes, for salvation
A form of baptism is needed for obedience, but not salvation.
Yes for obedience, but not salvation.
A form of baptism is needed for salvation.
No for either.
You are a…
Pre-Trib
Post-Trib
A-Trib
Be [...]
more escapism
Part deux of some funny stuff to help us decompress from the heated exchanges over the last few weeks.
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