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Is Hell Separation from God?
When I explain the gospel to someone, and I get to the penalty for sin, I talk about death and separation. I have long said that physical death is separation from the body, spiritual death is separation from God because of sin, and that eternal death is separation from God forever in Hell. This week […]
The Falsely So-Called Science, Yet Popular Psychobabble: “Daddy Issues”
Part One Falsely so-called science, and uniquely psychology, really psychobabble, proceeds from a requirement of meaninglessness. When I write, meaninglessness, I know there is meaning, of course, but the pseudo-scientists need a blank canvass for their own lust. They can assign their own meaning to any and every thing, like a rorschach ink blot, so […]
Goodbye Darwin: Three Prominent Scientists Bury Darwinism
Peter Robinson for the Hoover Institute interviews three scientists — David Berlinski, David Gelernter, and Stephen Meyer — and they talk about why Darwinism is false. Berlinski and Meyer have both written books (here, here, here, and here) and Gelernter just announced his own departure in an article in the Claremont Review of Books (here), which […]
The Falsely So-Called Science, Yet Popular Psychobabble: Introduction
“Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test.” “Scientists replicated 100 psychology studies, and fewer than half got the same results.” “An ambitious effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week — and the data look worrying. Results posted online on 24 April, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, suggest that key […]
Art: What Changes?
Part One — “Artists” Our church doesn’t use the following psalter, but it’s available at Psalters Online. I chose, The Book of Psalms in an English Metrical Version, founded on the basis of the Authorized Bible Translation and Compared with the Original Hebrew, by Richard Mant. Here is Psalm 106:11-22 from this psalter, a versification […]
“Artists”
The word “artist” is like the word “culture” — in common usage, its meaning has disappeared. People don’t know what they mean, when they are saying it. The knock-off entertainers sure aren’t artists, no matter how many times someone says they are. God is the prototypical Artist. Art proceeds from the Bible in definition like […]
The “Tabernacle of Witness” and Objective Aesthetic Meaning
In Stephen’s sermon to the Sanhedrin in Acts 7, his theme is that God speaks and Israel’s leadership and predominately Israel doesn’t listen. They “do always resist the Holy Ghost: as [their] fathers did, so do [they]” (7:51) and “they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom […]
The Seeds of Apostasy: A Personification of Heresy
Gaius wasn’t someone Diotrephes would tolerate, because Gaius was someone the Apostle John loved (3 John 1:1), who walked in the truth (1:3). When Gaius came along, he would not be accepted into the midst of the church to which John had written according to his third epistle (3 John 1:9a). Diotrephes in 3 John […]
Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life, by Ryan M. McGraw: A Review
Dr. Ryan M. McGraw has written a valuable book entitled Knowing the Trinity: Practical Thoughts for Daily Life (Lancaster, PA: Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 2017). (Amazon affiliate link.) I asked (and received) a review copy of the book and believe that it is a valuable book on the Christian’s fellowship with the Triune God. Too many […]
Who Is Semipelagian? Does Someone Need to Be a Calvinist Not to Be Semipelagian?
Church historians will say that a big part of the history of the church is a reaction to major heresies or at least strains of heresy that caused major problems in the church. The true church starts with the truth, and a heresy would be a deviation or detour off that path. A heresy would […]
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