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We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 3
With irony as it relates to the United States, Edward Gibbon published in 1776 the first volume of his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, finishing his sixth and final volume in 1789, the year the U. S. Constitution was ratified. In this massive work, Gibbon offers an explanation […]
Arctic Ice Sheets Melting, So Ocean Level Rising (Snicker)
I’ll be coming back with more in my series on culture, but there’s something that has my attention. You all love the truth, don’t you? You enjoy the scientific method, right? Well, let’s think about something together, OK? Haven’t you read that the Arctic ice sheets are melting? The Northern Hemispheric Arctic ice cap is […]
We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 2
Evangelical leaders know something is terribly wrong today. They know it relates to the culture. You just have to read them to understand. David Wells has become well known for his four book series that exposes the problem (No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of […]
We’re Getting our Comeuppance for the Church’s Compromise in the Culture Wars pt. 1
In 1918 Booth Tarkington wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Magnificent Ambersons. In 1942, Orson Welles made the book into a film that was nominated for four Academy Awards. The book begins: MAJOR AMBERSON had “made a fortune” in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. […]
Standard Conversation Between Multiple Versionist with Perfect Preservationist
So that I don’t reinvent the wheel, here is a very typical argumentation from an eclectic text person or non-preservation person (to whom I’ll refer as NP, Non-Preservation Person). I’m Kent. Kent: God preserved all His Words in the language in which they were written and they were generally accessible to every generation of believers. […]
“On Spiritual Worship,” Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)
Most of Puritan Stephen Charnock’s works were transcribed after his death, the most well-known of these, The Existence and Attributes of God. The fourth chapter (Discourse IV) is entitled “On Spiritual Worship.” Seventeenth century Christianity had not had the kind of corruption in worship that we see today. However, Charnock had thought deeply in Scripture […]
Serious Griping
Paul in Philippians 2:14 wrote: “Do all things without murmurings and disputings.” In modern vernacular, “Don’t gripe.” Murmuring and disputing are both types of griping. You murmur when you gripe about what you’re doing. You dispute when you gripe about having to do it. In both cases, you don’t like what you’re doing, so you […]
Phil Johnson: Tertiary Doctrines Dovetailing with the King James Version Issue
Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You, and owner/operator of the popular evangelical blog, Pyromaniacs, appeared on the Way of the Master radio program, hosted by Todd Friel. On the show, Johnson answered questions that were sent in by listeners. The first question dealt with eschatology, one about the future of Israel. Johnson is […]
Shark Versus Octopus: Surprising
I don’t want to upstage my canonicity post with this one, but this one might win the interest category. An aquarium decided to put octopus and shark in the same tank. See what happens.
If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation part 2
To get a doctrine of Bibliology, we go to the Bible. Since we get God’s instruction from His Word, we look to His Word even about His Word. Part of Bibliology is canonicity. Canonicity is a sub-doctrine to the doctrine of Scripture. We look to the Bible to tell us how we decide on what […]
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