Archive for June, 2007
Human Natures, Desires, and Calvinism: A Question
After reading the following from reading Brad’s post on predestination:
“According to Edwards, a human being is not only free to choose what he desires but he must choose what he desires to be able to choose at all. This means that every choice is free and every choice is determined. But determined does not mean [...]
Weaknesses in the Church Today
At my blog, I wrote a post entitled “Does the God in American Evangelicalism Produce Fear?” When we look around, we can see that our church is divided and weak. The Anglican Communion and the PCUSA have rejected the authority of the Bible as the sole authority for the church. The church won’t preach the [...]
What to do with the Millennial Kingdom?
Honestly, once I had shaken out of the bonds of Despensationalism, I no longer had a good basis in which to frame my views on the “end times.” One of my central questions centered around what to do with that Millennial Kingdom everyone keeps talking about.
Hank, over at his personal site, has [...]
Sunday Morning Drive and Particular Redemption
This morning as I drove to church, a conversation played out in my head of me articulating Particular Redemption and still not contradicting the universal texts (i.e. 1 Timothy 2:4; Hebrews 2:9; 2 Peter 3:9). See if this doesn’t deny these texts.
1.) Christ’s atonement bought the New Covenant (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25).
2.) The New [...]
Irresistable Grace
With Paul the calling is not mere sound, not a stentorian proclamation, not solely a polite and gracious invitation. It is God’s choice of His people with an invitation so revealingly personal, so sweetly insistent, and so cogently presented that the invited one gladly accepts it and comes to the feast…It is an act as [...]
Offense/Deffense
ricoblog :: Reading Multiple Translations is Good; or, Remembering that the Devil has No Power
This excerpt from Hermas also reminds me of a bit of a pet peeve of mine. Have you ever been in a Bible study where folks end up dwelling on “Satan” as if he is an omnipotent and omnipresent deity wreaking [...]
Calling all Reformed Readers
Challies wants to hear from those that have become Reformed in theology on the following issues:
As you began to understand Reformed principles, what were your greatest and most pressing questions about this system of theology?
What aspects of Reformed theology most troubled you and were the most difficult to reconcile in your [...]
Two Conversations from the SBC Convention
This past week was the Southern Baptist National Convention. Dr. Jerry Johnson of Criswell College in Dallas Texas held a discussion on Calvinism, with Dr. Danny Akin and Dr. Mark Coppenger, and on speaking in tongues, with Dr. Russell Moore and Pastor Dwight McKissic. They were very good. Calvinism was more like a discussion of [...]
What Eschatology Are You?
You scored as Amillenialist, Amillenialism believes that the 1000 year reign is not literal but figurative, and that Christ began to reign at his ascension. People take some prophetic scripture far too literally in your view.
Amillenialist
95%
Preterist
75%
Moltmannian Eschatology
50%
Postmillenialist
50%
Premillenialist
45%
Left Behind
10%
Dispensationalist
5%
What’s your eschatology?created with QuizFarm.com
Personally I prefer anitchiliast (which refers to believing in a non-literal millennium) because [...]
Top-10 of the Day
All matters of scriptural backing aside, this is really funny.
Men can’t be pastors.
10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent.
8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited [...]
Links without Error
…or rather: inerrant links. Following my post on Deep Dish (Chicago) Inerrancy, I have come across some links on the doctrine of inerrancy that I would like to share with you.
Chrisendom:: The inerrancy series – Chris Tilling argues against the Chicago statement on several fronts. This is actually a six part post series [...]
Breakup Theology.
This was classic:
Atheist: The burden of proof is on you to establish the existence of this so-called “god” but I believe that if there was any such divine entity “it” would not want us to continue dating.
Intelligent Design Theorist: Our relationship bears the marks of irreducible complexity making it too difficult to explain by way [...]
New Perspective on Paul
Theopedia.com has a really good page on the New Perspective on Paul with links to some writings by N.T. Wright, the more mainstream proponent of the movement, and some refutations of it. Very informative and very interesting reading.
Curiously, do you think Christianity has misunderstood Paul or has the NPP misunderstood Paul?
Christian Carnival CLXXV
The always good Christian Carnival 175 is now up at The Bible Archive. It features a theme that some of us will find to be quite cool: Star Trek. They break out the posts by their similarity to the traits of the various Star Trek species, very cool.
Our very own Hank [...]
Deep Dish (Chicago) Inerrancy
Synopsis: The Chicago Statement on Inerrancy goes too far and does not stand up to scrutiny. A better approach to inerrancy and infallibility is the Fuller model.
Terms:
Inerrancy: without error.
Infallability: incapable of error
Yesterday, I posted an open question about how our authors and readers view scripture. I replied that I did not hold to [...]