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Loraine Boettner: "Roman Catholicism"
Here are some quick thoughts on Loraine Boettner’s famous book, Roman Catholicism. They are just a few considerations that come to mind about the book. First, the book is obviously a top seller. You can still buy it new (link) and versions (pirated or not, I do not know) appear for free on the Internet.…
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William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris Debate "Does Good Come From God?"
William Lane Craig recently handily defeated Sam Harris in a debate titled, “Does Good Come From God?” (link to debate) Mr. Harris provided a very limited attempt to ground an atheistic morality in his opening speech. After that, virtually all of his arguments were simply either anti-theistic or simply anti-Christian. Those arguments were pretty clearly…
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Don't Mention God's Law, Because It's About the Gospel!
True antinomians would simply deny that God’s law has any force. Homiletic antinomians would make a comment like the title of this post. Those who have been influenced by a Lutheran division between “Law” and “Gospel” may even go so far as to suggest that preaching God’s law is actually detrimental to preaching the gospel.…
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Carl Trueman's "Reasons … For Moving Romeward"
No, Carl Trueman isn’t moving Romeward, but he has post listing reasons that he thinks people give for leaving (link to post). But the reasons given for leaving was not exactly the question posed to him. The question posed to him was the reasons that people leave for Rome. Trueman listed a lot of salient…
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Thanks to My Two Hundred "Followers"
I noticed that the number of folks who have “Followed” this blog using the Google “Follow” option has finally hit 200. Thanks very much to my readers! I hope that the blog serves your edification. May God receive all the glory. -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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Biblical "Contradictions" – Does God Repent?
Skeptics love to allege that there are contradictions between the gospels when the gospels say different things. If one gospel describes God one way, and another gospel describe him another way, this is sometimes alleged to illustrate a contradiction. One way to handle these claims is, of course, to address the particular alleged contradiction. Another…
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Response to "Why One Should Read Before Writing" by R. Scott Clark
R. Scott Clark kindly responded to my previous post (link) with a post of his own (link). I write to correct a few errors in his post. 1. My State of Mind as to UnderstandingAfter a brief tangent about my pseudonymity, Prof. Clark characterizes my comments as being that I didn’t “understand how [Prof. Clark]…
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David's Two Visits to Achish
Skeptics love to try to find fault with the gospels because there are sometimes accounts that seem to be similar in some ways, but have differences. They are fond of suggesting that these differences are contradictions. In this post, I examine two accounts that have some similarities, but enough differences that if they were in…
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David's Two Escapes from Saul
Skeptics who wish to allege contradictions between the gospels love to claim that if there are differences between two similar accounts, this means that the two accounts contradict each other. In this post, I’ll examine a pair of accounts that are similar enough that one might think they were contradictory accounts of the same event,…
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Examining Stellman's Pragmatic Objection to the Reformed View of the Two Kingdoms
My attention was recently directed to a 2007 blog post from Jason Stellman (who is frying bigger fish at the moment, and that’s a good thing). I don’t know whether he still holds to the opinions expressed in that post. Nevertheless, since my friend pointed it out to me, I thought I’d briefly respond. Pastor…