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Category: Response

  • Responding to Martini’s Answers to Objections

    Gabe Martini at The Franciscan Mafia has a post up (incidentally, while I believe Mr. Martini was previously associated with the Federal Vision group, it appears that he has now switched his allegiance to Eastern Orthodoxy)(link to post). The post is designed to answer an objection to the Eastern Orthodox. Here’s the objection: The Orthodox…

  • 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.…

  • Can We Say "God Bless You" To Roman Catholics?

    The subject question is one that is posed by Mr. William Albrecht’s latest video (link). The question is an interesting one. On the one hand, we certainly do wish and pray and act for the good of Roman Catholics. A substantial number of the posts on this blog of late have been directed toward Roman…

  • GreenBaggins on Theonomy – A Response

    Lane Keister at GreenBaggins has a post in which he argues that “Theonomy is Biblically-Theologically Wrong” (link). I can summarize it thus: “redemptive-historical theology removes the O.T. civil laws while natural law replaces them.” 1) Limited Agreement on the Church-State Distinction I agree that the church and state are not one and the same thing…

  • John of Damascus vs. An Allegedly Ecumenical Council

    This is a video response (as usual, audio only) to a post by Matthew Bellisario (link). Although Bellisario starts off his post by saying “Once again we see that Turretin Fan is clueless when it come to Biblical exegesis,” he fails to back it up, not identifying any exegetical errors or even providing any of…

  • Hebrews 1:8 – A Proof of Jesus’ Divinity

    This is a response to a video (link) that seems to suggest that we cannot use Hebrews 1:8 to establish the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. I respectfully but firmly disagree, for the reasons I set forth in more detail in video (sorry, audio only, plus a slideshow in case you must watch something).…

  • >Princes of this World?

    >An anonymous reader asked: In 1st Corinthians 2:7-8 who do you think are the “princes of this world”? and what is their goal? Thanks in advance. I answer: 1 Corinthians 2:6-86 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that…

  • >Response to Jay Dyer’s Audio Remarks

    >Mr. Dyer has provided an audio response (audio – corresponding page at Dyer’s blog) to several of the comments I have provided to his critique of Calvinism. For the bigger context, including my thirteen-part series defending Calvinism from his accusations, see my index of interactions with Mr. Dyer (link). I’ve broken up the response into…

  • Response to Nick Regarding Spiral Argument and Private Judgment

    Nick has provided a response to my rebuttal of Karl Keating’s “Spiral Argument” (link). Nick wrote: “I think you should distinguish between private judgment and a circular argument. Each of those terms correspond to different issues.” That’s true. They do often correspond to different issues. The come together, however, because the spiral argument employs private…

  • No Escape from Circularity for Karl Keating

    One common attack used by the apologists of Rome is to assert that a Protestant’s ultimate authority is private judgment or, as they sometimes pejoratively label as being “protestant personalism” or a person being his own “mini-pope.” Supposedly, this problem of private judgment is solved by referring to an infallible magisterium. In fact, however, the…