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Could Christ Have Sinned: Understanding temptation
Before we can get into the issue of answering whether Christ could sin or not, we need to do some groundwork. Specifically, we need to talk about temptation. Let me start out by saying this: I think most Christians would … Continue reading
Tagged Temptation, Theology, Writing
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Divinity and Temptation: Could Christ have sinned?
For the past several months, members of our church have been meeting on Sunday evenings to work our way through the Second London Baptist Confession. The format is pretty informal, with two of the elders leading the discussion and keeping … Continue reading
Tagged Theology, Writing
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Bittersweet musings on free will
Over at Bittersweet Life, Ariel, who claims he was just thinking out loud, has churned out a quality post on free will, determinism, and prevenient grace. You should go read it. Right now. Are you still reading this? Sheesh…
A question about the scriptural basis for free will
Free will can be defined in a number of different ways, but lately the definition that I hear most often goes something like this: Free will is the ability of a man (or woman) to choose what he will do … Continue reading
Hitchens and Wilson: Answering a fool according to his folly
If you haven’t heard, Douglas Wilson (a Christian) and Christopher Hitchens (an atheist) are debating the question “Is Christianity Good for the World?“. I’d be grossly under-exaggerating if I didn’t say that Wilson is destroying his opponent. Over the last … Continue reading
Tagged Atheism, News, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Skepticism, Theology
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Questions about Prevenient Grace
I don’t know a whole lot about Wesleyan Theology. I do know a little bit about the concept of Prevenient Grace, but I have some questions. If anyone out there is a Methodist (or a follower of any of the … Continue reading
Tagged God, Grace, Responsibility, Salvation, Theology
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Analogous Grace: Why God chooses to bless certain things
In my last article on grace, I wrote about Prescriptive Grace and the way that grace is always applied specifically according to God’s desires. In this post, I want to talk about grace in a slightly different way, but first … Continue reading
Soulwinning, Methodology, and Going in unto Hagar
Abraham had a problem. God had made a promise to him, and to the best of Abraham’s understanding, God had not delivered. Plus, the way things looked, God was not planning on delivering any time soon. And it was starting … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Church, Evangelism, Faith, God, History, Holy Scripture, Jehovah, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture, Sin, Theology, Witnessing
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Al Mohler, Ann Coulter, John Edwards, and the word “faggot”
Apparently Ann Coulter recently called John Edwards a faggot and Al Mohler has written a piece distancing himself from her actions. And while I agree with Mohler in general, here’s where I start to lose the thread of his argument: … Continue reading
Tagged Faith, God, Language, Obedience, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Responsibility, Theology
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The First Type of Evangelism, part III
In the part one of this ongoing series, we talked about the Shema Yisrael and its connection to what Jesus Christ calls the first and greatest commandment. In part two, we discussed evangelism in general and the dangers of over-simplifying … Continue reading