Tag Archives: Holiness
- June 12, 2008
- Too Skeptical for the Holy Spirit– also tagged Assurance, Chips, Empirical Method, Empirical Verification, Failure, Fingerprints Of God, Footstep, Hermeneutic, Holy Spirit, Inner Witness, Paul, Pessimism, Pneumatology, Politicians, Preachers, Promises, Spirit Of Christ, Struggle, Suspicion, Testimony, Theology, Truth, Whims
The other day I was speaking with a friend about the pessimism of our generation, how our Hermeneutic of Suspicion has so permeated every part of our lives that we are (at least I am) too skeptical even for the Holy Spirit. In an age when politicians have bombarded us with promises un-kept, when our [...]
- December 13, 2007
- An Installment on the Interaction of Intercourse and Economics– also tagged Bathsheba, Climax, Consumption, Credence, Devotion, Disregard, Economic Advancement, Half Brother, Infinite Wealth, Intercourse, Narrative, Objectification Of Women, Passages, Rape, Rapes, Sex Slaves, Solomon, Tamar, Torah
One of the more disconcerting passages in all the Bible is the rape of Tamar, David’s daughter, by her half-brother Amnon (2 Samuel 13). As the narrative goes, Tamar is “loved” by her brother because he was tormented by her beauty. He feigns an illness to be alone with Tamar. When she brings him [...]
- October 10, 2007
- Stop. It’s Quiz-time.– also tagged Current, Faith, Fundamentalist, God, Karl Barth, Liberal Theology, P T Forsyth, Pentecostal, Postmodern, Quiz Time, Revelation, Roman Catholic, Scepticism, The Bible, Trinity, Wesleyan, Worldview
Ok, so the play on early 90’s rap did not work so well. However, I think that on the surface, this quiz encapsulates my current ways of thinking about Christ, theology and the Bible.
You scored as Neo orthodox
You are neo-orthodox. You reject the human-centredness and scepticism of liberal theology, but neither do you [...]
- July 28, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 5 of 5– also tagged 1 Corinthians 1, 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Thessalonians 2, Arminianism, Glory And Honor, Hebrews 12, Human Pride, Irresistible Grace, Open Theism, Pelagianism, Philippians, Praise To God, Prayer Of Praise, Prayer To God, Predestination, Romans 9, Sinner, Triune God, Unconditional Election
This is probably not going to be the last post in this series, because I want to address the idea of “divine rape” in God’s effectual call and irresistible grace. This fifth post is going to be on Predestination and Prayer. In Part 4, I argued that Calvinism does not hinder prayer, but that God [...]
- July 21, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 4 of 5– also tagged 1 Corinthians 1, Arrogance, Bethsaida, Capernaum, Evangelism, Five Point Calvinism, Heaven And Earth, Heaven Earth, Holy Spirit, Kingdom Of God, Luke Records, Obedience, Objection, Prayer Of Jesus, Romans 9, Soteriology, Two Witnesses, Unbelief, Woes
Today I want to discuss the next objection on my list, Election and Evangelism. Let me review the series so far. In the first post, I tried to distinguish historic, five-point Calvinism from hyper-Calvinism. In the second post, I showed that election in a Reformed soteriology is not a source of pride and arrogance, but [...]
- July 11, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 1 of 5– also tagged Apparent Failure, Belief, Calvinism, Calvinist, Doctrines Of Grace, Hyper, Infancy, Monergism, Natural Man, Objection, Objections, Obstacles, Prayer Evangelism, Pride, Repentance And Faith, Sacraments, Scriptures, True Church, Visible Church
I want to begin a post series trying my best to answer some objections to the doctrines of Grace that I have encountered over the last two-plus years. The ones that I will attempt to answer are these: Election leads men to be proud and arrogant because they are “elect;” Why should I pray according [...]