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So Good Men Differ … so what?
One of the perennial comments one hears is that if either A or B were correct “it is doubtful that so many Bible-believing, godly evangelical Christians would have wound up on each side.” This flawed position assumes that “godly evangelical Christians” always tend to end up agreeing with correct positions. That’s a flawed assumption. In…
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Grammar Lesson for ChristianTruthHammer
This is a response to ChristianTruthHammer and his “simple grammar lesson for James White and his followers.” In this response I respectfully suggest four grammatical-exegetical points that our critic should have thought of before he posted his video. 1) “Active” is a voice, not a tense; 2) The verb to know is not a “being”…
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Calvin and Limited Atonement – Impetration Argument
Calvin never heard of the acronym “TULIP” and never argued with an Arminian. The Arminian controversy and the “five points of Calvinism” that were presented by the Reformed folks against the Arminians came after Calvin’s death. After (and perhaps because of) the Arminian controversy, there arose a smaller controversy between the Calvinists and the Amyraldians.…
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Psalms 58:3 vs Kerrigan Skelly
The following is a two-part video response to Kerrigan Skelly on Original Sin and Psalm 58:3. Mr. Skelly challenges Calvinists to exegete this passage, but when we do so we discover that, contrary to Mr. Skelly’s assertions, the text does support the doctrine of original sin. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kUoHQ3Fks&hl=en&fs=1] To God be the Glory!
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The Potter or the Carpenter
God is the potter and we are the clay. He sovereignly determines who to form as vessels of wrath and whom to form as vessels of mercy. Both in some sense show forth the love of God: while the former show his patience and longsuffering, the latter show the forth the full richness of his…
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Springboarding off of Hays Against Molinism
Background:Steve Hays (Calvinist) wrote: God’s freedom is sui generis. It doesn’t fall into either model of human agent theory, whether libertarian or determinist. GodIsMyJudge (Molinist) wrote: Determinate and indeterminate seem like mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories. Are you suggesting there is some third category we don’t know about or perhaps this is a logical paradox?…
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Response to Prophecy Channel
The video below is a response to Prophecy Channel’s (PC’s) response to Dr. James White. There three main sections to the video, and consequently three main sections to the response: 1. Does Dr. White think only Calvinists are Christians? No. Dr. White acknowledges that there are non-Calvinist Christians. On the other hand, Dr. White recognizes…
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Calvi-minians – Fatalism, Luck, and Superstition
I’ve pointed out before that most people accept a number of Calvinistic principles in their everyday life. Young men intuitively know that wooing young ladies works and that the decisions young women make about how they will spend their time (particularly with whom) can be influenced. Young women too know that they can influence the…
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Misunderstanding Calvin’s Legacy
I was disappointed to discover the linked article (link) in which the “Reformed leader” (so called in the article) identified wheat he saw as three important aspects of Calvin’s legacy: 1. Ecumenism 2. Social Justice 3. The Environment Now, I should point out that the “Reformed leader” did recognize that (for example), John Calvin could…
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Response to Challenge to Calvinists
Jamsco at The Responsible Puppet has a challenge for Calvinists: “Show me any passage in the bible [sic] that says that God allowed or permitted something to happen.” (source) Answer: Two immediately come to mind. Job 1: God permitted Satan to variously hurt Job in his possessions, servants, and children but without touching Job himself.…