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Repenting for Our Fathers’ Sins – Part 3/6
We can also see repentance for the sins of the fathers in two prayers of Jeremiah. Here is a first example: Jeremiah 14:19-22 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and…
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Repenting for Our Fathers' Sins – Part 2/6
There is also an example of repenting of the sins of our fathers to be found in the final chapter of Lamentations. There, Jeremiah offers a prayer to God in which he expresses contrition for the sins of the fathers. In this case, it is explicit that the fathers have died. Lamentations 5:1-22 (the whole…
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Repenting for Our Fathers’ Sins – Part 2/6
There is also an example of repenting of the sins of our fathers to be found in the final chapter of Lamentations. There, Jeremiah offers a prayer to God in which he expresses contrition for the sins of the fathers. In this case, it is explicit that the fathers have died. Lamentations 5:1-22 (the whole…
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Repenting for Our Fathers' Sins – Part 1/6
Daniel prayed a prayer of confession to the Lord. His prayer is interesting in that it involves confession and repentance not only for individual sins, but also for collective sins of Israel, and the sins of their fathers as well. Daniel 9:4-19 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and…
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Repenting for Our Fathers’ Sins – Part 1/6
Daniel prayed a prayer of confession to the Lord. His prayer is interesting in that it involves confession and repentance not only for individual sins, but also for collective sins of Israel, and the sins of their fathers as well. Daniel 9:4-19 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and…
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Pelagianism Examined by William Cunningham
A friend of mine (who will remain anonymous), recently brought to my attention the following excerpt from William Cunningham, Historical Theology, vol. 1, Sec. III.—Conversion—Sovereign and Efficacious Grace (all that follows is Cunningham, not me) The controversy between Augustine and his opponents turned, as we have said, to a large extent, upon the nature and…
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Nicaea Was Local Council, Arianism Not Settled Controversy, Implies Shea
I admit that I’ve never had a high view of Mark Shea’s scholarship, yet a mixture of surprise and amusement washed over me as I took in Shea’s breathtakingly ignorant response to a reader’s question regarding Augustine and Sola Scriptura. A reader had pointed out to Shea that Augustine, in responding to the Arian heretic…
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Amaziah vs. Jehu – Sample Rebuttal of the "Intrusion Ethic" Idea
There is a remarkable contrast to be found between Amaziah and Jehu, and one that is significant in undermining a faulty “intrusion ethic” view of the Old Testament era. I. Jehu First consider Jehu: 2 Kings 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in…
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Amaziah vs. Jehu – Sample Rebuttal of the "Intrusion Ethic" Idea
There is a remarkable contrast to be found between Amaziah and Jehu, and one that is significant in undermining a faulty “intrusion ethic” view of the Old Testament era. I. Jehu First consider Jehu: 2 Kings 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in…
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Baal vs. Golden Calves – Part 3
In two previous posts (post 1 – post 2) I have advocated for the idea that the golden calves represent a deficient worship of the LORD (one that like Roman worship purports to worship the living God through dead images) not Baal worship or the worship of an equivalent non-existent pagan deity. There’s at least…