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God Forces His Will?
One of my readers recently commented to the effect that (paraphrased), “Some people reject the gospel preached and others accept the gospel preached. This is how they are elected or not elected. Election is not some random forcing of God’s will on people. Only murderers and rapists force their wills upon others.” I answer: This…
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Response to Hitchens’ Complaint about Human Suffering
http://www.youtube.com/v/7gH88r14pVg&rel=1 In the video above, Dr. James White addresses atheist Christopher Hitchens’ complaint that man was suffering for a long time, while God was just watching. What is the answer? Hitchens has not addressed Christianity. Christianity asserts that God has had a plan from the very beginning and that nothing comes to pass that is…
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Calvin was not a Federal Visionist
In case it was ever in doubt, here are some helpful passages to make up one’s mind (part 1) (part 2), thanks to Machaira. To God be the Glory!
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Thoughts on Free Will
Dear Non-Calvinist Reader, As you think about your views on free will, here is something to consider: There is a future, one future, and only one future. What that future is, is already known to God and to those to whom God has revealed it. Their knowledge of the future cannot (present tense) be otherwise,…
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Response to a General Challenge on Calvinism
One rather aggressive non-Calvinist (even to the point of being an anti-Calvinist) recently (maybe two years ago, by now) sent a challenge (shown below). The challenge generally focuses on an exegesis of the parable of the sower. This is a classic repost. The challenge and response originally occupied twenty-one posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5,…
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Response to Atonement Challenge from Non-Calvinist
One Non-Calvinist challenged me with a number of verses that he claimed prove that Christ died for each and every human being (except, presumably, for Christ himself) (This is a repost of several “classic” posts from a while back. The original pages will perish in due time, but here are the links for now 1…
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Whosoever Will
Whosoever Will Recently (i.e. about the beginning of May, 2007), an Anonymous commenter on this blog asked about the Bible’s “Whosoever Will” verses. These are the verses that, in the KJV, use the phrase: “whosoever will.” They generally fall into two main categories (categories 1 and 3) while a few fall in a hybrid category…
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What the other Hodge and I believe about the Atonement
In a previous post (link), I identified what Charles Hodge and I believe about the atonement, as taken from Hodge’s Systematic Theology. There’s a great deal more that Hodge said that is relevant to the issue: the relevant chapters of his Systematic Theology stretch over 100 pages. I thought I’d switch over, for a post,…
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Cheerful Stroll Down the Broad Road
It was disappointing to read this recent blog post (link) by Alvin Kimel (a Roman Catholic priest) who had led us to believe that he had given up blogging (link and link). He presents the post as though he is not afraid of death and hell, as though he is whistling along the path, and…
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Empty Mansions Theology
Jesus said: John 14:1-31Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come…