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1 John 3:16 "love of God" or just "love"?
As Dr. White mentioned in his radio program yesterday, the Authorized version (KJV) has “love of God,” in 1 John 3:16, where most other versions do not, and where (apparently) few Greek texts have the words. The most popular versions of the KJV place the words “of God” in italics, which is usually used to…
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Athanasius – "Homily of the Papyrus of Turin" – Pseudographic?
I’ve noticed that several Roman Catholic apologists have relied on a writing identified by them as “Homily of the Papyrus of Turin” and attributed to Athanasius. I wonder whether this is spuria or genuine. The name of the document is not itself frightfully reassuring. It suggests attribution to Athanasius based on a single copy (probably…
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Response to Armstrong's Historical Revisionism
In a post today, Dave Armstrong claims: “And Protestants continue to argue that folks can disagree on the “secondary” issues and still have unity. Nuh-uh. That ain’t a biblical view. The original Protestants didn’t argue this way at all. They felt that they had spiritual and theological truth and fought for it. It’s only when…
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Grinding the Grain: Responding to the Substance of Trey Austin's Arguments
Having disposed of the chaff in an earlier post (link), we may now turn to the grain portion of Trey’s recent post responding to questions I had posed as to the view of my theological opponents (or are they?) regarding the atonement. I was a little disappointed to see that Trey decided to answer only…
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The Real Turretin on: The Definition of "Catholic"
Catholicity, in the absolute sense of the word, as Turrettin remarks, can be predicated only of that society that includes the Church triumphant in heaven, as well as militant on earth, that society that comprehends all the elect, reaching back to the days of Abel, and onward to the last trumpet. Institutio Theologiae Elencticae, Francisco…
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Warfield's Famous Chart on the Plan of Salvation
Since the topic of Supralapsarianism, Infralapsarianism, Amyraldianism, and Arminianism have come up repeatedly on this blog, I think it may be helpful for my readers to have a chance to those different views arranged in textbook fashion by B. B. Warfield: Please note that you will probably have to click on the image to be…
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Innocent from Man's Perspective or God's?
A poster at Steve Gregg’s forum, using the handle “Suzana” made an interesting argument in favor of the supposed innocence of young children. I’ve presented here basic argument below, followed by my response. Suzana’s basic argument is based on Psalm 106:37-38 Psalm 106:37-3837Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38And shed innocent…
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Further Response regarding the Sufficiency of Christ's Death
GodIsMyJudge (Dan) has provided a further response (link) to my previous two posts (first) (second). Dan believes I have been inconsistent. Dan insists that if a reprobate person turned from their sins and repented, Christ’s blood would not save them under a consistent Calvinist model. Dan’s reason for this is that Christ did not offer…
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Dr. White's Most Recent Debate – Audio Posted
The recent James White and David Wood debates on Islam have been posted (apparently in their entireties) to the web. I have posted these without listening to them first, so I may update this page, once I have listened to them, for caveats etc. Is Muhammed a Prophet? Debate between David Wood and Jalal Abualrub(April…