Tag Archives: Objection
- July 19, 2008
- Boyd’s Discussion on Violence and the Old Testament– also tagged Christian Groups, Christians, Depiction, Different Ways, Evil God, Genocide, Genocides, God In The New Testament, Greg Boyd, House Of Cards, Isolated Case, Israelites, Jesus Christ, Men Women, Old Testament, Osama Bin Laden, Resurrection, Rsquo, Slaughter
A few days ago I linked to a an article that addressed the “evil” god found in the Old Testament. Throughout history different Christians have dealt with the sanctioned genocides and murder of infants etcetera in a variety of different ways. Some people say God can kill anyone he wants and have anyone kill anyone [...]
- 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, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Kingdom Of God, Luke Records, Obedience, 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 16, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 3 of 5– also tagged American Evangelicalism, Begining, Calvinist, Casey, Cousin, Evangelism, Fearing God, First Encounter, Glory Of God, Human Pride, Jesus Christ, Matter Of Fact, Objections, Prayer, Steam, Theology, Unconditional Election, Verse Of The Day, What Is The Point Of Life
I am moving ahead full steam in my series on “Objections to Calvinism.” The next three posts in this series will deal with objections that I have personally encountered, mostly at Theology for the Masses. In my previous post, I examined the objection that election is a source for pride. I argued that a person [...]
- July 12, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 2 of 5– also tagged 1 Corinthians 1, Adverse Effect, Arrogance, Calvinist, Doctrines Of Grace, God Man, Marvel, Missing The Point, Objections, Passages, Pedestal, Pride, Reprobate, Romans 9, Scripture, Soteriology, Unconditional Election, Website Help
The first objection that I want to tackle in my series on “Objections to Calvinism” is that of Election and Pride. Now this is not an objection that has personally been raised to me. No one has actually said to me, “I am not a Calvinist because it makes you prideful and arrogant.” But I [...]
- July 11, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 1 of 5– also tagged Apparent Failure, Belief, Calvinism, Calvinist, Doctrines Of Grace, Holiness, Hyper, Infancy, Monergism, Natural Man, 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 [...]